How to Make Your Resume Promotion-Worthy for 2019

Whether you feel stuck in your current position and need to move up, have heard about a position opening up that you have been watching for years, or you’re just toying with the idea of moving up the career ladder, it’s always a good idea to have your resume updated and ready to go.

For 2019, a resume refresh to get you that promotion should go above and beyond just updating the dates beside your current position. One way to impress the hiring manager and be more than just another piece of paper in a pile is to modernize your resume to get it noticed.

Use Visuals

Whether we like it or not, the internet has trained us all to take in bite-size chunks of information. And bright colors and graphics simply have a universal appeal that draws the eye. Your 12-point Times New Roman, paragraph-long description of your sales accomplishments might be perfectly written, but a bar graph that shows growth year after year will be more immediately impactful.

You can also use visual elements simply to call attention to your skill set or other information that is especially important for earning a promotion. Here, you see a resume with the applicant’s areas of expertise highlighted in brightly colored arrow visuals. Rather than being hidden among the blocks of text, the skills that could get…