Resumes and comfortable jumpers......

I had a request last week for a brief resume. It had been a few months since I had revised it, and updating it made me think; "who's this for?"

As I looked at it, I asked myself how much on it was what I wanted to say - a written ego trip - versus what the person receiving it really wanted to know.

Most resumes I see sit bang in the middle of the distribution curve. Well polished averageness, not a flaw in sight. Designed for the job spec. They say little about the real person.

Whatever your qualifications, there is somebody better qualified, but no-one else quite like you.

I think a great resume leaves an important unanswered question in the reader's mind. None of us are a specification - we are works in progress, and the entire point of a resume, as with any marketing material is to trigger a conversation.

Our resumes are a signature of who we are, and who we are becoming. It will be different tomorrow.

For me, the end result was a third of the length of the previous version. An experimen…