What to include—and exclude—from your experience section

- [Andrew] I guess the next part of it is really your experience. And a lot of people, they struggle with the experience portion because even though it seems straightforward where you have to put all your roles, you put the dates that you were there, are there things that you should include, not include? What are best practices for the experience section? - [Ana] So, definitely the basic thing would be to keep that section as organized and readable as you can. So this is the section that is going to get a lot of attention, especially your most recent experience. You want to make sure that section is easy to read. So if you have 20 bullets, each one over three lines and all of that is jam packed together without any space in between, this is going to be a challenge. I mean, that's the number one thing that I always advise people to think about. Is this section readable? Is it easy to screen in a matter of a couple seconds, 'cause that's how long it's going to take a person to make that decision. And the other thing is the impact of each bullet that you have in terms of highlighting not just job functions or job tasks, but actual outcomes and results. That's crucial because if you don't share outcomes or the added value or the result, then your resume is going to look like 99% of other people. - [Andrew] Yeah, you can say that you are a salesperson and that you make sales, but how well do you make sales? And you could say, listen, on a $5 million goal that was set in Q3, I exceeded that by 25%. Those little differences are the ones that are really going to get you across the finish line. Right? - [Ana] 100% and another one that is super popular is when people talk about process improvements and there's like usually this general line, like implemented multiple process improvements to boost efficiency, and you're like, what does that even mean? (laughs) - [Andrew] Yeah. - [Ana] So you have to be more specific than that. It seems like a little thing, but that's what makes it more credible and more believable and more interesting for the hiring managers.