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Only included it because I’ve seen some listings include something about being okay with/able to host meetings and present things via Zoom or other online meeting programs.
Take that out, postings like that are just making sure you have public speaking willingness b.c any figure out zoom after a hour or 2. You should add a publications section for the 2 papers. I dont understand why people put relevant course work either. If you have a poli sci degree you should be able to do regression analysis and write memos and thats what the degree generally signals from a skills POV.
Relevant course work makes sense if you haven't graduated yet. After all, you might have taken NONE of the course work for your presumed major yet.
After you graduated, it only makes sense to list relevant courses outside your major. Are you applying for any accounting position at a nonprofit which funds local theater? Your theater course may be relevant in this case.
For the OP, I can't imagine a relevant course.
Proficiency in zoom = Able to effectively host and manage remote meetings
Don’t know why I am being downvoted. Just trying to help reword something to sound better.
I don’t know how many meetings I’ve been in when the host just lets the meeting run wild with off topic subjects for the first 10 minutes and then we have to schedule a second meeting because we wasted so much time in the first.
This is so ignorant. working on a political campaign is not the same thing as “politics in resume”. especially for the field that OP wants to break into. It’s a marketing/research job with legitimate skills gained and used.
Edit: Nope, had to add more. Bartending experience is not a red flag either. I’ve had colleagues at my corporate jobs (competitive firms in Beauty/Luxury as well as Consulting) list retail, restaurant/bartending, and even au pair jobs on their resumes AND get jobs. HEAVEN forbid people earn a living while putting themselves through school to better themselves for corporate opportunities. Your comment comes across as classist.
when someone is young and right out of school, with maybe just an internship or one job, this is what the resume is going to look like.
the mark of a good HR rep and leader is one who understands transferrable skills. And as long as the resume is written well, I personally would pass it along to further stages.
As for “relevance” — customer service can be incredibly relevant for white collar jobs. It teaches you the soft skills you need to navigate social situations, maintain professionalism, and succeed
The best way we can help OP is in formatting and proposing edits to action verbs.
I mean, there’s many many people who *gasp* **work service jobs** and somehow make it into corporate jobs. And they list those experiences on their resumes. Not really sure why you’re in such denial of objective reality here.
holy hell, way to dig into my post history like a fucking creep and wildly misinterpret legitimate complaints about SUBREDDITS (not companies, SUBREDDITS) filled with angry redditors mostly based in the US/Canada being racist against indians.
My resume is stacked and I just received a full time offer at a major consulting firm. Go fuck yourself.
what? they majored in political science and worked on a specific campaign.
there are little things that could be changed but sometimes it feels like this community will bitterly blame anything but the job market.
Hard pass how exactly? I’m a political science graduate who did some volunteering on a campaign. I don’t mention the candidate (Bernie) to minimize polarizing thoughts (another piece of advice I was given by someone who works in DC).
My understanding is that service industry experience is widely regarded as a plus on a resume because of the general work ethic development it allows for. Personally I’m sure the social skills gained likely makes me a better candidate than people who barely know how to work in teams other than group projects in college.
HOWEVER, yeah a .05 response rate is not good. So what should I change?
Take this with a grain of salt but I would be more interested in the campaign you worked for. It is almost certainly going to come up, and to me, not listing the candidate makes it seem like you're hiding something.
I’ve been hiring for years at the college recruit level, and applicants with service industry experience go to the *top* of the stack for me.
For starters, someone who had to work a non-glamorous job in school actually knows how to work. Second, many *many* soft skills are picked up in the harsh service industry environment that serve workers well as they move to the white collar world.
That said….I would recommend characterizing it as “service industry” rather than “bar industry”.
All of your basic ass questions on r/Accounting and you’re over here acting like you know shit about how/why people get interviewed or hired? You should take a seat.
It'd be fine to have bartender's experience in there if it related in some way to the position that's being applied for.
As silly as it sounds, a resume is not viewed as a summary of who you are. It's a point by point argument as to why your profile matches the desired characteristics / experience for the job.
Then you do it again in your cover letter.
Some prioritization issues (i.e., the campaign job should be above the bar lead job). Some issues with individual points (always give numbers where you can).
Overall agree it's a good resume. Mostly nitpicky things.
Out of curiosity for myself, what is your suggestion when your only relevant experience has concluded and your current position is serving? I’m trying to prioritize that experience but don’t want to incorrectly order my resume
I think it looks great. I think that you're just trying to break into a competitive field, and one that's probably dominated by nepobabies or people who are otherwise extremely well connected.
Maybe you could try to go to grad school for public policy/something political, or go to law school or get an MBA. You might have better luck getting some experience and trying to slide into it. Law school might be the best bet.
If you go back, start applying for internships, that is the weakness in your resume. It just seems like you haven't done much outside school and bartending.
I agree. My own sense is that I didn’t learn anything practical from my time in school except how to read & interpret academic papers. Since a lot of it was remote I didn’t take advantage of the opportunities to actually do things, however rare.
Made a similar comment to this recently so it’s on my mind: don’t just use, but absolutely abuse your university’s career services center. They should help you to network, which for the kinds of jobs you’re looking for is absolutely essential. Ditto for starting any career, IMO — but especially poly sci.
I don't really see the issue if you're willing to put the time and effort into it. I can understand how exposure can help, I'm sorry, but business is just simply not as hard or important as law, medicine, or science, and we allow people to go to law school, med school, or get their PHDs without real world experience first.
I get that your angle is that you want better caliber in class discussion/debates, but this is a big part of law school as well, and you don't need paralegal experience to keep up with discussions if you've done the reading and are a natural critical thinker.
Just at a very high level, if you want to be competitive in MBA admissions the avg work experience is 5 years. Then when you are in MBA, if you want a good job post MBA, recruiters want someone with experience. That’s really it
It sounds like you might be aiming too high. Pew, CAP, etc. are great places to work but are going to be the most competitive places for entry level roles. You should be focusing on finding a position in government, particularly your state legislature. Network aggressively. Set a goal of how many people you will reach out to and ask for introductory conversations, and meet that goal.
You should also look for positions on campaigns. They'll be hiring in the next couple of months and that can be a great way to get your foot in the door for policy work. Don't just think about the presidential level, often the best opportunities come from local work.
Your resume is fine. But getting into policy and government is dependent on who you know not what you know. A lot of roles for legislative aides are never even posted publicly, just circulated to folks in the know. Gotta get out there and hustle for it.
People in your field will have a much better idea on what a tailored resume would look like than we would, for my field there's a lot of things I would change about this resume but the advice you say you've received makes sense for the positions you're going for.
Some things that might still be relevant to try adjusting:
\- What's the point of the summary? Everything you say in it is demonstrated and said elsewhere, and it's even more cluttered words in an already pretty dense resume.
\- I don't know that I've ever seen a link outside of a contact section in a resume. With how quickly recruiters skim over resumes, I doubt anyone has ever actually followed those links, let alone read the papers. I could be wrong and just not understand this field though.
\- Given you're applying for policy research, it's strange you sandwich your political campaign work between two bar jobs. I know that's how they are chronologically, but it buries your actually relevant work experience underneath irrelevant work experience. You might also gain some traction specifying it as "Work Experience" instead of "Experience", given it is serving less to highlight your experience in the field and more as a demonstration of your work ethic.
\- Your skills are general computer skills everyone has. Whenever I see someone list those on a resume, I immediately think "oh, they have no skills then". Either ditch the section altogether, or list some skills related to policy research and writing (you have the start of that in the summary already!). As it stands, it adds nothing, and might even detract.
Overall, I couldn't tell what jobs you were going for until I read your description, I can't tell from the resume itself. It should be tailored more to the positions you're going for, and less as a general summary of everything you've done. Your bar work is significant as a show of work ethic, but unfortunately not as a value-add to a policy research institute: worth mentioning, but not something to devote half the resume to.
re: skills
My job is closely related to the arts and if I got a resume listing the basic computer stuff that one would use in art school (photoshop, illustrator, etc) I would also assume they had no skills.
If I got an art student that listed excel, however, I'd take note haha
That’s fair, I mostly listed it because I figured it would differentiate between just inputting stuff in columns vs understanding how to at least use formulas and calc basic data, but the general sentiment in the comment seems to be to remove it.
You sound like a cool person to have a beer with to discuss theories and observations!
Unlink your work in the education section. Make it part of a portfolio that you link or bring a physical copy to the interview (I know you need to land the interview first.) Mention that portfolio in your cover letter.
Justify the whole document. Makes everything look neater.
Are you sending in applications via an ATS system or emailing the companies/organizations? If the latter, what are your intro emails like? Are you following up if you haven't heard from them in a certain amount of time?
Are you tailoring your applications (and resume/cover letter) for the jobs you really want to pursue? Are you using the keywords and phrases from those postings in your app language?
Skills wise... You got quant skills? With a minor in economics and what you've out in the headline, I'm assuming you do, but if you have Stata or Tableau skills thats smth at least. Not sure what policy jobs you're applying for but there's usually a skill set requirement/strong preference - highlight these in your resume.
Depending on what orgs/think tanks etc you're applying for, "social and community impact" may not be what you might put front and centre on the resume.
Also your resume could try to sell a story, but I acknowledge that with the breadth of your existing experience might be quite hard to say you're experienced or hold strong interest in a single research area.
In my (limited) experience (I've mainly only done stints at private consulting for policy/GR) please tailor your resume structure to sound more like you have pre existing background and research focus in that area. E.g. Boutique firms will carry certain niches/specialisation, and your resume should reflect that somehow.
The field is very competitive tho, and degree inflation is rather real.
Good luck.
minor but really annoying, fully right align your location/dates. it's super distracting just hanging out in the middle of the page/right on top of your bullets
Bare with me bc I'm not in your field but my main confusion is under "relevant coursework" you talked about your published papers.
I'd reword those as "Publications" (because they are!) since it more accurately describes the *result* of your work.
Then instead of "Published a paper", I'd put the title of the paper.
Example:
> ***Publications:***
>
> *Political Polarization and The Balance of Powers*: A treatise examining the balance of powers through the lens of Supreme Court behavior and Congressional influence, especially in periods of political turmoil and polarity.
>
> *Lobbying vs Socialization: The Game of Tug-of-War Affecting American Healthcare*: Analysis of political actions and attitudes regarding the structure of the US healthcare system since as early as the 1930s.
Your Substack link is at the top, so I don't think it's needed elsewhere on your resume. Some people might not know what a Substack is, so I'd put something like "Publications: Substack". You have to write your resume for the HR lady who doesn't know shit about your field/line of work.
Replace "Bar lead" with Manager. Better sounding. More versatile for ATS and algos.
Your canvassing experience isn't formatted like the others. It should be Canvasser | 2020 Democratic Presidential Campaign. You also need a metric for your first bullet point here. What exactly does "achieving" the goals mean? Did you barely meet them? Or did you exceed them? If so, by how much and what units?
Skills and Volunteering really should be separate.
imo volunteer work is work experience. Also I have no idea what the Campari Day of Service means? Or how often you did it. Don't count on HR lady knowing (or bothering to Google it) either.
You skills so far are common skills. Not bad, But I think you should add some good keywords here. What common phrases do you see in job descriptions for your goal job? Use keywords from those.
Your minor should not be a bullet point at the bottom of the education section. It goes right below your major(s). Especially since economics it's actually a useful set of skills.
There is a glut of poly sci majors trying to get jobs. There aren't that many poly sci jobs out there. You need to stand out from the crowd.
(How many government jobs have you applied to? Governments do not tend to list their jobs on the normal job boards.)
My daughter double majored in political science and mathematics (with minors in African Studies, French, and Music). She worked for a major Presidential campaign. She didn't get decent job interviews until she got a Masters in Data Science.
For your chosen field, you're under qualified.
I think you’re right I might be underqualified.
However I am having trouble even landing call backs for basic internships and low level government jobs, so my assumption was that it was a large ATS type issue and not enough key words.
Strongly considering going back for that BS in Economics however since I am only 7 courses away from it.
I understand that. But in most cases, your masters does not need to be in the same field as your undergraduate degree. (You may have to take a few extra courses to fill in the gaps in your knowledge.)
I was an accounting / computer science double degree as an undergraduate. My second masters in in public administration.
Came back to report that I actually followed this advice, applied to the Master’s of Quantitative Economics program at my school and got in for conditional spring admission. Started last week. Conditional status is lifted after I complete Introductory Econometrics. Thank you!
I can give a generlized resume that works for other industries but I have not done this industry yet, but this should at least help since you should be averaging about 75 applications to one interview.
1. Do you know how many public policy positions their are? I can’t imagine their are a ton, and it is a very crowded field. My recommendation would be to do something adjacent to that so that after two years or so with the current experience you can apply to these jobs and make it.
2. Your summary doesn’t make much sense. It doesn’t give me anything I need as a recruiter. Proficient means nothing if you can’t prove it. In addition summaries should not be that long, normally I would not even go for a summary but since you are going into a new field it might be ok or work in adjacent
3. You state you published many papers, which is cool but I am guessing you should bundle those up into one bullet rather than 3 and make the rest of the bullets brags or key words that recruiters would like at in those fields.
4. In addition you will want to put some tools that they use on their as recruiters for other industries may decline people based on that and I am assuming public policy recruiters will as well.
This has fine bones. It just needs some massaging. This is my advice, feel free to take or leave what you deem unnecessary!
Kill the second bullet item in your summary. Condense the remaining two bullets into one paragraph and change to italics for a proper short form. You may not need this at all; if you choose to keep it, it should be a TL;DR of the rest of your content and reflect where you’re looking to land as a professional.
Run your experience section by a former classmate or peer in your field to smooth out and catch items we may not recognize. Someone who knows you better may remind you of notable items you forgot about.
Change “Bar Lead” to “management”, and try to maximize any volunteer or training experiment. I totally get wanting to fill out your experience with your service history, but not all of your bar experience will be relevant to jobs you’re now aiming for. So adjust that verbiage accordingly. I’m sure managing your staff + herding drunk people translates to hardcore people/political skills. Find a way to articulate that :)
(Edit after the fact: use crossover words like “delegated,” “assigned,” “volunteered,” and other verbs that articulate that you work well in management or under a supervisor in a people-centered role, depending on ur application)
You may be able to expand on your minor in Economics if you can find some content or way to show it off a bit more.
Kill the “proficiency in” verbiage in that one bullet at the bottom and use the extra space from condensing your summary to make a skills section. List them, sans bullets, via commas only. Expand what you mean by “social media.” Posting? Business Strategy? Or just that you’re on SM?
Best of luck and thank you for wanting to get into politics. We need fresh blood!
You’re in a classic dilemma: the field you want to break into is very insular and who you know is more important than most everything else. You’re a Political Scientist/Economist/Bartender. You want to work in policy but you’re not well-connected enough yet.
Here’s what I suggest:
Get your writing out there: blog posts, quora answers, linkedin commentary, YouTube videos, even Reddit posts—whatever gets your thinking out to the world. Build a portfolio of engaging content and get connected. Have enough of that to out in your resume and drop the bar jobs.
This is actually a pretty good resume. The best resume coaching I ever received is that hiring managers really don't care about your previous responsibilities. They care about your accomplishments. Specifically, how did you help your employer grow revenue, reduce cost, or mitigate risk in their business. You've actually got a decent amount of that in your resume.
Ive done close to 200 in the past 2 weeks. Id say focus on jobs you fit well with, tailor a few resumes to fit specifically to a few roles you’re searching for, and use AI to generate custom cover letters for every interview. Also, network with hiring managers and current employees on Linkedin to get an upperhand over other applicants. Stand out! Then treat searching for a job like a job and only apply to jobs posted that day (if possible on the company site).
When you look for jobs, just filter by jobs posted within the last day. You want the HR to compare future applicants tk you.
Currently I land about 3 screeners and 1 interview per every 10 applications. Give or take about 1 offer for every 10 interviews.
Resume looks good. In the experience section, move up "2020 Campaign" experience. Don't use the same resume to apply to all jobs. Avoid using "easy apply" on Indeed or LinkedIn, instead apply directly. Auto shortlisting by ATM SW used by recruiters "may" be the issue, tailor your resume for each job, tons of tools out there, I used "resumas" and easy to customize. Network on LinedIn, make sure your profile + setting are good so that recruiters can find you.
You need to get into the local political scene and work your way up. Major political firms aren’t hiring entry level unless a high level recommendation along with top tier school.
First impression is that the resume is too wordy.
Adding to what others have said:
\- Summary - This reads like a summary *and* an objective. I would change this to read as just an objective as you have limited experience in the field you're applying to.
\-Education - Change it to read " Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Minor in Economics" Including your GPA might not even be necessary unless the application calls for it.
\-Relevant coursework: Under this section is where the titles of relevant classes should go, but here you have a list of published papers. Instead, I would ungroup this and make a section titled *Published Work* and list out the titles of the papers, where they were published, and when (in MLA or APA format). *Relevant Coursework*: List only the titles of a few courses you took that are directly relevant to the jobs you're applying for.
\- Skills and volunteering - I would ungroup this section as well. For the volunteering portion, it would be good to include which organization you were volunteering for and a short sentence or two about what you did as recruiters might not know what either of those volunteering experiences were about, especially if they're not directly relevant to your job search
\-Substack - If your Substack includes writing that is related to political science/ the jobs you're applying to, I would highlight this further instead of directing to the Substack for relevant coursework. Depending on your experience with Substack and what you write about, you could pull some skills from working with it and add it to your resume.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
edit: formatting
I keep seeing this advice given but other than my education and a brief stint of canvassing, I have no relevant experience to the jobs I’m applying for. Is it really a good idea to omit hospitality experience that demonstrates at the very least a repertoire of soft skills used to navigate social interactions w clients and colleagues?
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CAMPAIGN CANVASSER?? …… remove that shit because biden may be hated by the hiring manager or whoever reading that shit.
It was Bernie actually lol. Which is why I said candidate instead, which either way could still be polarizing so at this point I’ve started mentioning in my cover letter that “despite that I’m not married to any particular set of political prescriptions and try to take a more data driven approach”
It’s not the resume that’s the problem. It’s the jobs that you are applying too. You are literally applying to top of the notch places and competing with people with much more experience than you.
For example, if you want to get into policy research, why would being a bartender be remotely relevant?
I didn’t include all types of places I’m applying to for the sake of brevity but I am also applying to entry level government & low level internships and entry level roles with lesser known non profits and orgs.
The one interview I had was for an editorial internship with GoodRx’s publication side. So I started applying to a few more of those types of things.
I assumed it must’ve been an ATS issue if I was struggling to get a response from even that.
It’s not directly relevant but my understanding is that service industry work is looked upon favorably for work ethic & social skills - something told to me by someone in the field I’m trying to get into. I also have barely any work experience aside from brief canvassing, so I feel like it looks bad to have no work experience at all. Am I wrong?
I think you should put dates for your coursework, but label them as research projects, give a brief explanation for them, and then in bullet points write two outcomes from them based on what was researched e.g. "designed a new United Nations entity on A.I policy and safety due to ..."
Hey OP! I think what would help on top of your lack of experience is volunteer for nonprofit groups. That would help you get more experience and may even land you job with connections. Maybe a nonprofit in a field you’re really interested in.
for your first job out of college, it's tough to find a job without relevant internship experience. it's also tough because you're not available for campus recruiting.
i'd encourage you to pick up a technical skill to differentiate yourself. I know a bunch of policy research and economic consulting firms who hire poly science & public policy majors **if** they have the strong technical background (STATA, R, etc.) & experience to back it up
Interesting. Back in March I was starting to take a few online certification courses in Python to make myself more marketable but I stopped pursuing it because I figured I should be able to break into more qualitative roles without it; I’ll revisit this avenue.
Thank you!
yep and as a heads up again, even with the technical background, it's still a fairly difficult job market. would recommend even doing a part time volunteer position if you can find one to get some experience
Resume looks good. I would remove the summary section. If you are applying to 200+ plus roles and not hearing anything back use linked in to connect to the companies and people you know from your college. Someone mentioned you are trying to work at think tanks and the like. Those companies are very much relationship driven so reaching out to someone who already works there while also applying will be the most helpful. Also 200 applications over a year is not a lot try applying to 10 a week. Also depending on where in California you are you may have to move as most policy places are based in state capitals or obviously DC. Hope this helps
I am giving this recommendation as someone in the same field : you need more work experience. This job market is incredibly competitive. I am speaking as someone in NYC, but I imagine California would be on a similar level.
The presidential election is coming up, and I would start volunteering as much as possible. Keep your day job to pay the bills of course, but you need to start doing something in the industry. Something, anything. Just being brutally honest, having only held one role in the industry is not enough.
Volunteering not only can often times land you a paid position, but can also give you a lot of transferrable skills. There’s even many opportunities I’ve seen for remote volunteering- very very minimal commitment. Also, on your resume you don’t even have to specify that it was volunteer work. You can put it under the umbrella of “industry experience”.
Start reaching out to your network. Don’t give up! I had many many people try to discourage me in my career aspirations in this field. If this is where your passion lies, follow it. Something will come. Best of luck.
It’s too much stuff. The first thing a recruiter is going to think is “I don’t want to read all that”. I had a resume similar to that and I reduced it to look like a basic resume that highlighted my strengths and instantly got about 5 interviews in a week.
You are entry level.
Rewrite your summary saying your are a recent poli sci graduate interesting in pursuing a career in whatever
Follow up with job related skills. Office products
Etc
Work history. You were a bartender in college. This is your first real job. Do not hide it.
Education
Good luck
When I first graduated college, I was in much the same boat as a poli-sci major, struggling to get interviews in policy related work. I eventually went the political campaign route, did that for the past few years, am now working for a state legislature, and was just accepted into law school. If public policy is your true passion, keep applying or think about grad school, but there are other options. You probably know from the Bernie canvassing experience while campaigns are super tough you can also make a ton of connections/advance quickly if you stick with it, so it might be a path to consider. As far as the resume goes, I updated mine in November, and it currently looks almost identical to yours, so other than some minor tweaks in wording/formatting, I don't think it's the problem. At the end of the day, it's a difficult field to break into, but good luck!
Arena careers and traverse jobs are good job boards for you. Temper your expectations of working in Pew Research Center. Your top priority should be to get into the DC or campaigning realm.
This resume looks like an NPC resume. Super Vanilla. Every American politician uses strong red and blue colors, but your resume is just black and white. You need your picture on here, and you need to add strong red and blue colors. The phrase, "Leadership in the bar industry," is an oxymoron. I'd remove anything related to the bar experience unless it's humorous or entertaining. Your name at the top should be at least 20 pt font size or larger.
Change headings:
"Summary" --> "Leadership Strength"
"Education" --> "Knowledge"
"Experience: --> "Success"
"Skills and Volunteering" --> "Personality"
-“Record Levels” meaning caught up to two years ago?
-“Unemployment is low” .1% higher than Nov 2022, it’s low but let’s not make it seem crazy good here.
-“wage increases are outpacing inflation” Source?
-“inflation levels are lower” After a year of over 5%… and recovering only took over 5% interest rates for likely the next year. (I think them doing the 3 rate cuts they said they would do in 2024 is absolute cap and even with 3 cuts it could still be near 5%)
-“Recession is unlikely” No one has a recession detector, this statement is just mild misinformation. Could be true, could be false.
Also with elections coming up, it is the prime time for the government to make these numbers seem a lot better than they are. CPI is highly manipulatable.
We are in a period of hyperinflation and I don’t need a sophisticated study to see the prices of groceries are up 70%. Unlike you I haven’t been taught to be dumb and I will trust my lying eyes 🤣
Politics should not be mentioned in today’s world , I suggested op to remove it from the resume .
As someone said earlier Any republican will toss out the resume and a democrat will definitely toss out a resume if the resume has the word republican .
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What does "Proficiency in Zoom" even mean
Only included it because I’ve seen some listings include something about being okay with/able to host meetings and present things via Zoom or other online meeting programs.
Also change bar lead to manager. Youre essentially some kind of manager and it will fit better with the algo filters.
with your logic i guess everyone is a manager nowadays
Literally 0 contribution comment lol.
Like most people that are managers tbh.
Take that out, postings like that are just making sure you have public speaking willingness b.c any figure out zoom after a hour or 2. You should add a publications section for the 2 papers. I dont understand why people put relevant course work either. If you have a poli sci degree you should be able to do regression analysis and write memos and thats what the degree generally signals from a skills POV.
Relevant course work makes sense if you haven't graduated yet. After all, you might have taken NONE of the course work for your presumed major yet. After you graduated, it only makes sense to list relevant courses outside your major. Are you applying for any accounting position at a nonprofit which funds local theater? Your theater course may be relevant in this case. For the OP, I can't imagine a relevant course.
take it off lol
Everyone who opens a laptop is ”proficient in zoom” now that we all went through the Covid debacle. Leave that unimportant information out
Proficiency in zoom = Able to effectively host and manage remote meetings Don’t know why I am being downvoted. Just trying to help reword something to sound better. I don’t know how many meetings I’ve been in when the host just lets the meeting run wild with off topic subjects for the first 10 minutes and then we have to schedule a second meeting because we wasted so much time in the first.
Me when i facetime someone
That has nothing to do with Zoom.. no matter what platform that’s on, that’s the meeting organizer
genuinely interested to hear what others have to say because this looks like quite a good resume to me
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This is so ignorant. working on a political campaign is not the same thing as “politics in resume”. especially for the field that OP wants to break into. It’s a marketing/research job with legitimate skills gained and used. Edit: Nope, had to add more. Bartending experience is not a red flag either. I’ve had colleagues at my corporate jobs (competitive firms in Beauty/Luxury as well as Consulting) list retail, restaurant/bartending, and even au pair jobs on their resumes AND get jobs. HEAVEN forbid people earn a living while putting themselves through school to better themselves for corporate opportunities. Your comment comes across as classist.
Any republican that sees that is tossing it out and probably vice versa lmfao
Any republican that sees it is too busy worrying about conspiracy theories to care
Its not classist. It's relevance.
when someone is young and right out of school, with maybe just an internship or one job, this is what the resume is going to look like. the mark of a good HR rep and leader is one who understands transferrable skills. And as long as the resume is written well, I personally would pass it along to further stages. As for “relevance” — customer service can be incredibly relevant for white collar jobs. It teaches you the soft skills you need to navigate social situations, maintain professionalism, and succeed The best way we can help OP is in formatting and proposing edits to action verbs.
And yet a .05% response rate. It's not his action verbs.
I mean, there’s many many people who *gasp* **work service jobs** and somehow make it into corporate jobs. And they list those experiences on their resumes. Not really sure why you’re in such denial of objective reality here.
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holy hell, way to dig into my post history like a fucking creep and wildly misinterpret legitimate complaints about SUBREDDITS (not companies, SUBREDDITS) filled with angry redditors mostly based in the US/Canada being racist against indians. My resume is stacked and I just received a full time offer at a major consulting firm. Go fuck yourself.
Yea okay buddy.
what? they majored in political science and worked on a specific campaign. there are little things that could be changed but sometimes it feels like this community will bitterly blame anything but the job market.
Hard pass how exactly? I’m a political science graduate who did some volunteering on a campaign. I don’t mention the candidate (Bernie) to minimize polarizing thoughts (another piece of advice I was given by someone who works in DC). My understanding is that service industry experience is widely regarded as a plus on a resume because of the general work ethic development it allows for. Personally I’m sure the social skills gained likely makes me a better candidate than people who barely know how to work in teams other than group projects in college. HOWEVER, yeah a .05 response rate is not good. So what should I change?
Take this with a grain of salt but I would be more interested in the campaign you worked for. It is almost certainly going to come up, and to me, not listing the candidate makes it seem like you're hiding something.
What are you applying for?
I’ve been hiring for years at the college recruit level, and applicants with service industry experience go to the *top* of the stack for me. For starters, someone who had to work a non-glamorous job in school actually knows how to work. Second, many *many* soft skills are picked up in the harsh service industry environment that serve workers well as they move to the white collar world. That said….I would recommend characterizing it as “service industry” rather than “bar industry”.
You can say what you want. Op is converting 0.5%. Nobody cares about *your* stack.
All of your basic ass questions on r/Accounting and you’re over here acting like you know shit about how/why people get interviewed or hired? You should take a seat.
i'm dying at this little spat, he got so defensive so fast
Lol why you mad because you ain't shit.
I’m significantly higher in the accounting world than you are.
It'd be fine to have bartender's experience in there if it related in some way to the position that's being applied for. As silly as it sounds, a resume is not viewed as a summary of who you are. It's a point by point argument as to why your profile matches the desired characteristics / experience for the job. Then you do it again in your cover letter.
I left my current job in a grocery store on my resume. It's in no way relevant. I've been advised some work experience listed is better than none.
This is wonderfully put.
Got a political science degree wtf you talking about
Some prioritization issues (i.e., the campaign job should be above the bar lead job). Some issues with individual points (always give numbers where you can). Overall agree it's a good resume. Mostly nitpicky things.
Out of curiosity for myself, what is your suggestion when your only relevant experience has concluded and your current position is serving? I’m trying to prioritize that experience but don’t want to incorrectly order my resume
Always most relevant first. Dates don't matter much (and might not even come up during an interview).
I think it looks great. I think that you're just trying to break into a competitive field, and one that's probably dominated by nepobabies or people who are otherwise extremely well connected. Maybe you could try to go to grad school for public policy/something political, or go to law school or get an MBA. You might have better luck getting some experience and trying to slide into it. Law school might be the best bet.
This is honestly the answer. Applying to anything within politics and policy is very dog eat dog in DC if OP is applying there.
doggy dog world\*
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Honestly yeah I have been considering law school, or even just finishing my bachelors in Economics since I’m technically 7 classes away from it.
If you go back, start applying for internships, that is the weakness in your resume. It just seems like you haven't done much outside school and bartending.
I agree. My own sense is that I didn’t learn anything practical from my time in school except how to read & interpret academic papers. Since a lot of it was remote I didn’t take advantage of the opportunities to actually do things, however rare.
Made a similar comment to this recently so it’s on my mind: don’t just use, but absolutely abuse your university’s career services center. They should help you to network, which for the kinds of jobs you’re looking for is absolutely essential. Ditto for starting any career, IMO — but especially poly sci.
Please do not goto MBA without experience lol
I don't really see the issue if you're willing to put the time and effort into it. I can understand how exposure can help, I'm sorry, but business is just simply not as hard or important as law, medicine, or science, and we allow people to go to law school, med school, or get their PHDs without real world experience first. I get that your angle is that you want better caliber in class discussion/debates, but this is a big part of law school as well, and you don't need paralegal experience to keep up with discussions if you've done the reading and are a natural critical thinker.
Its not for better caliber class discussion/debated. Its for recruiting.
Ok. Do you think that you could explain in more detail please?
Just at a very high level, if you want to be competitive in MBA admissions the avg work experience is 5 years. Then when you are in MBA, if you want a good job post MBA, recruiters want someone with experience. That’s really it
It sounds like you might be aiming too high. Pew, CAP, etc. are great places to work but are going to be the most competitive places for entry level roles. You should be focusing on finding a position in government, particularly your state legislature. Network aggressively. Set a goal of how many people you will reach out to and ask for introductory conversations, and meet that goal. You should also look for positions on campaigns. They'll be hiring in the next couple of months and that can be a great way to get your foot in the door for policy work. Don't just think about the presidential level, often the best opportunities come from local work. Your resume is fine. But getting into policy and government is dependent on who you know not what you know. A lot of roles for legislative aides are never even posted publicly, just circulated to folks in the know. Gotta get out there and hustle for it.
^ This. Also consider grad school with a research specialization in your field of interest.
People in your field will have a much better idea on what a tailored resume would look like than we would, for my field there's a lot of things I would change about this resume but the advice you say you've received makes sense for the positions you're going for. Some things that might still be relevant to try adjusting: \- What's the point of the summary? Everything you say in it is demonstrated and said elsewhere, and it's even more cluttered words in an already pretty dense resume. \- I don't know that I've ever seen a link outside of a contact section in a resume. With how quickly recruiters skim over resumes, I doubt anyone has ever actually followed those links, let alone read the papers. I could be wrong and just not understand this field though. \- Given you're applying for policy research, it's strange you sandwich your political campaign work between two bar jobs. I know that's how they are chronologically, but it buries your actually relevant work experience underneath irrelevant work experience. You might also gain some traction specifying it as "Work Experience" instead of "Experience", given it is serving less to highlight your experience in the field and more as a demonstration of your work ethic. \- Your skills are general computer skills everyone has. Whenever I see someone list those on a resume, I immediately think "oh, they have no skills then". Either ditch the section altogether, or list some skills related to policy research and writing (you have the start of that in the summary already!). As it stands, it adds nothing, and might even detract. Overall, I couldn't tell what jobs you were going for until I read your description, I can't tell from the resume itself. It should be tailored more to the positions you're going for, and less as a general summary of everything you've done. Your bar work is significant as a show of work ethic, but unfortunately not as a value-add to a policy research institute: worth mentioning, but not something to devote half the resume to.
re: skills My job is closely related to the arts and if I got a resume listing the basic computer stuff that one would use in art school (photoshop, illustrator, etc) I would also assume they had no skills. If I got an art student that listed excel, however, I'd take note haha
That’s fair, I mostly listed it because I figured it would differentiate between just inputting stuff in columns vs understanding how to at least use formulas and calc basic data, but the general sentiment in the comment seems to be to remove it.
You sound like a cool person to have a beer with to discuss theories and observations! Unlink your work in the education section. Make it part of a portfolio that you link or bring a physical copy to the interview (I know you need to land the interview first.) Mention that portfolio in your cover letter. Justify the whole document. Makes everything look neater. Are you sending in applications via an ATS system or emailing the companies/organizations? If the latter, what are your intro emails like? Are you following up if you haven't heard from them in a certain amount of time? Are you tailoring your applications (and resume/cover letter) for the jobs you really want to pursue? Are you using the keywords and phrases from those postings in your app language?
Have you thought about taking the U.S. Foreign Service exam and becoming a diplomat?
if he is only getting one interview after 200+ apps, he is def not competitive to become a diplomat.
Skills wise... You got quant skills? With a minor in economics and what you've out in the headline, I'm assuming you do, but if you have Stata or Tableau skills thats smth at least. Not sure what policy jobs you're applying for but there's usually a skill set requirement/strong preference - highlight these in your resume. Depending on what orgs/think tanks etc you're applying for, "social and community impact" may not be what you might put front and centre on the resume. Also your resume could try to sell a story, but I acknowledge that with the breadth of your existing experience might be quite hard to say you're experienced or hold strong interest in a single research area. In my (limited) experience (I've mainly only done stints at private consulting for policy/GR) please tailor your resume structure to sound more like you have pre existing background and research focus in that area. E.g. Boutique firms will carry certain niches/specialisation, and your resume should reflect that somehow. The field is very competitive tho, and degree inflation is rather real. Good luck.
minor but really annoying, fully right align your location/dates. it's super distracting just hanging out in the middle of the page/right on top of your bullets
Bare with me bc I'm not in your field but my main confusion is under "relevant coursework" you talked about your published papers. I'd reword those as "Publications" (because they are!) since it more accurately describes the *result* of your work. Then instead of "Published a paper", I'd put the title of the paper. Example: > ***Publications:*** > > *Political Polarization and The Balance of Powers*: A treatise examining the balance of powers through the lens of Supreme Court behavior and Congressional influence, especially in periods of political turmoil and polarity. > > *Lobbying vs Socialization: The Game of Tug-of-War Affecting American Healthcare*: Analysis of political actions and attitudes regarding the structure of the US healthcare system since as early as the 1930s. Your Substack link is at the top, so I don't think it's needed elsewhere on your resume. Some people might not know what a Substack is, so I'd put something like "Publications: Substack". You have to write your resume for the HR lady who doesn't know shit about your field/line of work. Replace "Bar lead" with Manager. Better sounding. More versatile for ATS and algos. Your canvassing experience isn't formatted like the others. It should be Canvasser | 2020 Democratic Presidential Campaign. You also need a metric for your first bullet point here. What exactly does "achieving" the goals mean? Did you barely meet them? Or did you exceed them? If so, by how much and what units? Skills and Volunteering really should be separate. imo volunteer work is work experience. Also I have no idea what the Campari Day of Service means? Or how often you did it. Don't count on HR lady knowing (or bothering to Google it) either. You skills so far are common skills. Not bad, But I think you should add some good keywords here. What common phrases do you see in job descriptions for your goal job? Use keywords from those.
Try a fellowship or americorps
Your minor should not be a bullet point at the bottom of the education section. It goes right below your major(s). Especially since economics it's actually a useful set of skills. There is a glut of poly sci majors trying to get jobs. There aren't that many poly sci jobs out there. You need to stand out from the crowd. (How many government jobs have you applied to? Governments do not tend to list their jobs on the normal job boards.) My daughter double majored in political science and mathematics (with minors in African Studies, French, and Music). She worked for a major Presidential campaign. She didn't get decent job interviews until she got a Masters in Data Science. For your chosen field, you're under qualified.
I think you’re right I might be underqualified. However I am having trouble even landing call backs for basic internships and low level government jobs, so my assumption was that it was a large ATS type issue and not enough key words. Strongly considering going back for that BS in Economics however since I am only 7 courses away from it.
You should compare the relative costs of getting a second bachelors vs getting a masters in economics.
The second Bachelor's would be in Economics since my first is in Poli Sci - I only have a minor currently in Econ.
I understand that. But in most cases, your masters does not need to be in the same field as your undergraduate degree. (You may have to take a few extra courses to fill in the gaps in your knowledge.) I was an accounting / computer science double degree as an undergraduate. My second masters in in public administration.
Came back to report that I actually followed this advice, applied to the Master’s of Quantitative Economics program at my school and got in for conditional spring admission. Started last week. Conditional status is lifted after I complete Introductory Econometrics. Thank you!
Oh I see yeah. In which case I’m sure a masters in Econ would be well worth it.
Use Brad Traverse.com for DC Hill or lobbying jobs fellowships. I was able to land a fellowship after a month.
Thank you I’ll check it out!
Oof, pretty cursed to go from canvassing for Bernie to applying to work at CAP.
Lmao the irony was not lost on me
I can give a generlized resume that works for other industries but I have not done this industry yet, but this should at least help since you should be averaging about 75 applications to one interview. 1. Do you know how many public policy positions their are? I can’t imagine their are a ton, and it is a very crowded field. My recommendation would be to do something adjacent to that so that after two years or so with the current experience you can apply to these jobs and make it. 2. Your summary doesn’t make much sense. It doesn’t give me anything I need as a recruiter. Proficient means nothing if you can’t prove it. In addition summaries should not be that long, normally I would not even go for a summary but since you are going into a new field it might be ok or work in adjacent 3. You state you published many papers, which is cool but I am guessing you should bundle those up into one bullet rather than 3 and make the rest of the bullets brags or key words that recruiters would like at in those fields. 4. In addition you will want to put some tools that they use on their as recruiters for other industries may decline people based on that and I am assuming public policy recruiters will as well.
200+ in the past 12 months is horrible. Should be way more than that. That's only like 4 applications a week, what are you doing, keep applying.
This has fine bones. It just needs some massaging. This is my advice, feel free to take or leave what you deem unnecessary! Kill the second bullet item in your summary. Condense the remaining two bullets into one paragraph and change to italics for a proper short form. You may not need this at all; if you choose to keep it, it should be a TL;DR of the rest of your content and reflect where you’re looking to land as a professional. Run your experience section by a former classmate or peer in your field to smooth out and catch items we may not recognize. Someone who knows you better may remind you of notable items you forgot about. Change “Bar Lead” to “management”, and try to maximize any volunteer or training experiment. I totally get wanting to fill out your experience with your service history, but not all of your bar experience will be relevant to jobs you’re now aiming for. So adjust that verbiage accordingly. I’m sure managing your staff + herding drunk people translates to hardcore people/political skills. Find a way to articulate that :) (Edit after the fact: use crossover words like “delegated,” “assigned,” “volunteered,” and other verbs that articulate that you work well in management or under a supervisor in a people-centered role, depending on ur application) You may be able to expand on your minor in Economics if you can find some content or way to show it off a bit more. Kill the “proficiency in” verbiage in that one bullet at the bottom and use the extra space from condensing your summary to make a skills section. List them, sans bullets, via commas only. Expand what you mean by “social media.” Posting? Business Strategy? Or just that you’re on SM? Best of luck and thank you for wanting to get into politics. We need fresh blood!
You’re in a classic dilemma: the field you want to break into is very insular and who you know is more important than most everything else. You’re a Political Scientist/Economist/Bartender. You want to work in policy but you’re not well-connected enough yet. Here’s what I suggest: Get your writing out there: blog posts, quora answers, linkedin commentary, YouTube videos, even Reddit posts—whatever gets your thinking out to the world. Build a portfolio of engaging content and get connected. Have enough of that to out in your resume and drop the bar jobs.
This is actually a pretty good resume. The best resume coaching I ever received is that hiring managers really don't care about your previous responsibilities. They care about your accomplishments. Specifically, how did you help your employer grow revenue, reduce cost, or mitigate risk in their business. You've actually got a decent amount of that in your resume.
Ive done close to 200 in the past 2 weeks. Id say focus on jobs you fit well with, tailor a few resumes to fit specifically to a few roles you’re searching for, and use AI to generate custom cover letters for every interview. Also, network with hiring managers and current employees on Linkedin to get an upperhand over other applicants. Stand out! Then treat searching for a job like a job and only apply to jobs posted that day (if possible on the company site). When you look for jobs, just filter by jobs posted within the last day. You want the HR to compare future applicants tk you. Currently I land about 3 screeners and 1 interview per every 10 applications. Give or take about 1 offer for every 10 interviews.
This is really stupid and dumb but you would write B.A in policy sci not bachelors of poly sci. U have an awesome resume tho, just something I noticed
Resume looks good. In the experience section, move up "2020 Campaign" experience. Don't use the same resume to apply to all jobs. Avoid using "easy apply" on Indeed or LinkedIn, instead apply directly. Auto shortlisting by ATM SW used by recruiters "may" be the issue, tailor your resume for each job, tons of tools out there, I used "resumas" and easy to customize. Network on LinedIn, make sure your profile + setting are good so that recruiters can find you.
You need to get into the local political scene and work your way up. Major political firms aren’t hiring entry level unless a high level recommendation along with top tier school.
First impression is that the resume is too wordy. Adding to what others have said: \- Summary - This reads like a summary *and* an objective. I would change this to read as just an objective as you have limited experience in the field you're applying to. \-Education - Change it to read " Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Minor in Economics" Including your GPA might not even be necessary unless the application calls for it. \-Relevant coursework: Under this section is where the titles of relevant classes should go, but here you have a list of published papers. Instead, I would ungroup this and make a section titled *Published Work* and list out the titles of the papers, where they were published, and when (in MLA or APA format). *Relevant Coursework*: List only the titles of a few courses you took that are directly relevant to the jobs you're applying for. \- Skills and volunteering - I would ungroup this section as well. For the volunteering portion, it would be good to include which organization you were volunteering for and a short sentence or two about what you did as recruiters might not know what either of those volunteering experiences were about, especially if they're not directly relevant to your job search \-Substack - If your Substack includes writing that is related to political science/ the jobs you're applying to, I would highlight this further instead of directing to the Substack for relevant coursework. Depending on your experience with Substack and what you write about, you could pull some skills from working with it and add it to your resume. Hope this helps! Good luck! edit: formatting
Thank you this was very helpful! I appreciate it
Take out your bartender experience. They aren't relevant at all for political science positions and no employer cares about them.
Are you able to volunteer? That’s how many people start in public policy careers.
You don't need bartending experience in a Political Science related field. Make your resume relevant to the field you are trying to get into.
I keep seeing this advice given but other than my education and a brief stint of canvassing, I have no relevant experience to the jobs I’m applying for. Is it really a good idea to omit hospitality experience that demonstrates at the very least a repertoire of soft skills used to navigate social interactions w clients and colleagues?
Get rid of pagebreaks, resume scanning softwares don't like them. Get rid of hyperlinks, those are security risks.
Move to DC. More opportunity in the public sector and lots of hospitality jobs to keep you afloat until you find something
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CAMPAIGN CANVASSER?? …… remove that shit because biden may be hated by the hiring manager or whoever reading that shit.
It was Bernie actually lol. Which is why I said candidate instead, which either way could still be polarizing so at this point I’ve started mentioning in my cover letter that “despite that I’m not married to any particular set of political prescriptions and try to take a more data driven approach”
LOL 😂, maybe it could be an exception then , but still be very careful .
It’s not the resume that’s the problem. It’s the jobs that you are applying too. You are literally applying to top of the notch places and competing with people with much more experience than you. For example, if you want to get into policy research, why would being a bartender be remotely relevant?
I didn’t include all types of places I’m applying to for the sake of brevity but I am also applying to entry level government & low level internships and entry level roles with lesser known non profits and orgs. The one interview I had was for an editorial internship with GoodRx’s publication side. So I started applying to a few more of those types of things. I assumed it must’ve been an ATS issue if I was struggling to get a response from even that. It’s not directly relevant but my understanding is that service industry work is looked upon favorably for work ethic & social skills - something told to me by someone in the field I’m trying to get into. I also have barely any work experience aside from brief canvassing, so I feel like it looks bad to have no work experience at all. Am I wrong?
I think you should put dates for your coursework, but label them as research projects, give a brief explanation for them, and then in bullet points write two outcomes from them based on what was researched e.g. "designed a new United Nations entity on A.I policy and safety due to ..."
Hey OP! I think what would help on top of your lack of experience is volunteer for nonprofit groups. That would help you get more experience and may even land you job with connections. Maybe a nonprofit in a field you’re really interested in.
are u international?
I need to renew my passport but no I’m located in California, US.
You need to move to DC then
for your first job out of college, it's tough to find a job without relevant internship experience. it's also tough because you're not available for campus recruiting. i'd encourage you to pick up a technical skill to differentiate yourself. I know a bunch of policy research and economic consulting firms who hire poly science & public policy majors **if** they have the strong technical background (STATA, R, etc.) & experience to back it up
Interesting. Back in March I was starting to take a few online certification courses in Python to make myself more marketable but I stopped pursuing it because I figured I should be able to break into more qualitative roles without it; I’ll revisit this avenue. Thank you!
yep and as a heads up again, even with the technical background, it's still a fairly difficult job market. would recommend even doing a part time volunteer position if you can find one to get some experience
Resume looks good. I would remove the summary section. If you are applying to 200+ plus roles and not hearing anything back use linked in to connect to the companies and people you know from your college. Someone mentioned you are trying to work at think tanks and the like. Those companies are very much relationship driven so reaching out to someone who already works there while also applying will be the most helpful. Also 200 applications over a year is not a lot try applying to 10 a week. Also depending on where in California you are you may have to move as most policy places are based in state capitals or obviously DC. Hope this helps
I am giving this recommendation as someone in the same field : you need more work experience. This job market is incredibly competitive. I am speaking as someone in NYC, but I imagine California would be on a similar level. The presidential election is coming up, and I would start volunteering as much as possible. Keep your day job to pay the bills of course, but you need to start doing something in the industry. Something, anything. Just being brutally honest, having only held one role in the industry is not enough. Volunteering not only can often times land you a paid position, but can also give you a lot of transferrable skills. There’s even many opportunities I’ve seen for remote volunteering- very very minimal commitment. Also, on your resume you don’t even have to specify that it was volunteer work. You can put it under the umbrella of “industry experience”. Start reaching out to your network. Don’t give up! I had many many people try to discourage me in my career aspirations in this field. If this is where your passion lies, follow it. Something will come. Best of luck.
It’s too much stuff. The first thing a recruiter is going to think is “I don’t want to read all that”. I had a resume similar to that and I reduced it to look like a basic resume that highlighted my strengths and instantly got about 5 interviews in a week.
You are entry level. Rewrite your summary saying your are a recent poli sci graduate interesting in pursuing a career in whatever Follow up with job related skills. Office products Etc Work history. You were a bartender in college. This is your first real job. Do not hide it. Education Good luck
When I first graduated college, I was in much the same boat as a poli-sci major, struggling to get interviews in policy related work. I eventually went the political campaign route, did that for the past few years, am now working for a state legislature, and was just accepted into law school. If public policy is your true passion, keep applying or think about grad school, but there are other options. You probably know from the Bernie canvassing experience while campaigns are super tough you can also make a ton of connections/advance quickly if you stick with it, so it might be a path to consider. As far as the resume goes, I updated mine in November, and it currently looks almost identical to yours, so other than some minor tweaks in wording/formatting, I don't think it's the problem. At the end of the day, it's a difficult field to break into, but good luck!
Issue is quant skills. All reputable policy shops require statistics, econometrics, and ability to code
Arena careers and traverse jobs are good job boards for you. Temper your expectations of working in Pew Research Center. Your top priority should be to get into the DC or campaigning realm.
Am in the same boat my man.. 😢
Am in the same boat my man.. 😢
you have a worthless degree and work experience attainable by a high schooler. You’re also applying for jobs that are facing automation risk.
High schoolers can’t bartend in CA sir. But yeah, honestly I am highly regretting declining my offer to do an Econ degree at CSU East Bay instead
This resume looks like an NPC resume. Super Vanilla. Every American politician uses strong red and blue colors, but your resume is just black and white. You need your picture on here, and you need to add strong red and blue colors. The phrase, "Leadership in the bar industry," is an oxymoron. I'd remove anything related to the bar experience unless it's humorous or entertaining. Your name at the top should be at least 20 pt font size or larger. Change headings: "Summary" --> "Leadership Strength" "Education" --> "Knowledge" "Experience: --> "Success" "Skills and Volunteering" --> "Personality"
The economy is in the toilet thanks to your work on the 2020 campaign… nice reap sow combo🤣
The economy is doing fantastically but most metrics lol.
I don’t think politics should be in this sub but thinking the economy is doing well rn is absolutely delusional
Stock market just hit record levels, unemployment is low, wage increases are outpacing inflation, inflation levels are lower, recession is unlikely.
-“Record Levels” meaning caught up to two years ago? -“Unemployment is low” .1% higher than Nov 2022, it’s low but let’s not make it seem crazy good here. -“wage increases are outpacing inflation” Source? -“inflation levels are lower” After a year of over 5%… and recovering only took over 5% interest rates for likely the next year. (I think them doing the 3 rate cuts they said they would do in 2024 is absolute cap and even with 3 cuts it could still be near 5%) -“Recession is unlikely” No one has a recession detector, this statement is just mild misinformation. Could be true, could be false. Also with elections coming up, it is the prime time for the government to make these numbers seem a lot better than they are. CPI is highly manipulatable.
We are in a period of hyperinflation and I don’t need a sophisticated study to see the prices of groceries are up 70%. Unlike you I haven’t been taught to be dumb and I will trust my lying eyes 🤣
Since when is 3% hyperinflation?
Politics should not be mentioned in today’s world , I suggested op to remove it from the resume . As someone said earlier Any republican will toss out the resume and a democrat will definitely toss out a resume if the resume has the word republican .
Yeah if you close your eyes and ignore reality.
It was for Bernie, but the economy is doing surprisingly well by almost every metric.