Pandemic or not, the warm breezes of spring will arrive over the next few weeks and if you are like me, you will spend some time working on projects around the house. Maybe switching your clothes around. Moving the golf shirts and flower printed yoga pants to the front and shoving all the black yoga pants into a box in the garage . Maybe cleaning up the back yard. Those are the kinds of things we like to do in spring.
It is not just your home that should be sorted and updated. Your resume should be refreshed too.
It may not be as important as your changing the batteries in your smoke detector, but in terms of your career, it should be right up near the top of the list.
Here are the things to consider:
Has your title changed?
Has the scope of your role changed?
Did you take any courses or workshops over the winter?
How about any special projects?
Any new volunteer committees or fund raising initiatives?
Once your resume is refreshed make sure it is stored in a place that’s easily retrievable, like Dropbox. Once that’s done, you might want to apply the same logic to your LinkedIn profile. Make sure it is a really good reflection of where you are and what you are doing.
And if you have a few minutes at work, find all those emails that say “thank you” and “you’re a star”. Email them to your personal account and then print them and take them home. You just never know when you are going to need a little pick-me-up or evidence of your great work.
So put on your favourite spring shirt and get to it!
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