What Your Resume Should Look Like in 2022

Are you one of the hundreds of thousands of job seekers making a career move in 2022? LinkedIn reports that more job seekers than ever are making a switch in search of more flexibility, higher pay, better benefits, and opportunities for growth. If you want better offers and higher pay, your resume needs to accurately capture who you are and what you can do.

Employers want to hire winners and your resume must show them how you’ve won.

Why You Should Care About How Your Executive Resume Looks

Before I get into what your resume should look like in 2022, I want to first address a question I often hear from executives I work with. They usually say, “I have over 30 years of work experience — why does it matter how my resume looks?”

And to some degree, they’re right.

What you include in your resume — from your relevant work experience and education to your expert-level skills and professional qualifications — should matter more than what it looks like. The good news is that those things are important.

However, with 250–500 resumes coming in per job posting, hiring managers often see the same traditional, bullet-list-only chronological resume. This tired format just regurgitates a candidate’s employment history.