- 5/4/2025
📝 Is your resume feeling weak? Let’s exercise it!
In this full resume walkthrough, I’ll show you step by step how to build, fix, and boost your CV — even if you have little or no experience.
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How to structure your resume (the best 2025 format)
Powerful words & action verbs to make it strong
How to list skills, projects & certifications
Free tools to make your resume professional (ATS-friendly)
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In this full resume walkthrough, I’ll show you step by step how to build, fix, and boost your CV — even if you have little or no experience.
✅ What you’ll learn in this video:
How to structure your resume (the best 2025 format)
Powerful words & action verbs to make it strong
How to list skills, projects & certifications
Free tools to make your resume professional (ATS-friendly)
🚀 Perfect for:
Students & freshers
Job seekers
Freelancers & career changers
👉 Subscribe to NanoTechBoost for more career tips, AI tools, and online earning hacks!
#ResumeWalkthrough #BuildYourResume #NanoTechBoost #ResumeTips2025 #JobSearch2025 #BeginnerCareerTips #ATSResume #GetHired2025 #CareerGrowth #MakeMoneyOnline
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00:00Welcome back. It's time for a fun little exercise. Well, I mean, resumes are never fun, but I'm going to try and make this fun. I might succeed, might not. Let's have a look. Okay. Before we get started, I have a resume cheat sheet for you that we're going to go through. And this is what you can do. I've simplified everything so that you do these items and you're already above average with your resume and you're going to see some increase in the number of interviews you're going to get.
00:28But before we get into that, I want to show you again, this website that we already talked about. The resume maker dot online. Now, I like this website because it shows you what part the interviewer actually cares about or the recruiter actually cares about. If you look over here, we see that we see the title, we see professional experience, maybe a bit of education. And then the left hand side, I don't think you need birth date or nationality, but
00:58you get the idea. A recruiter usually only checks out the main points. And from there, if they're interested in you, they'll read further. But you want to focus on these main points where a recruiter's eyes are going to be drawn so that right away within the first second, they see that you're a qualified candidate. So keeping that in mind, let's go over the points.
01:22All right, so I have the cheat sheet here. And I have here a demo resume that I just randomly found online. Now, before we get started here, let me make this a little bit bigger so you can see.
01:39You can pause the video here and have a look at this resume and see how you might want to improve it. Or you can even bring up your own resume so that as we go along with each point, you can critique your resume.
01:54All right, so pause the video. Otherwise, I'm going to get started.
01:57Now, this resume cheat sheet, the first item on it is, does it use a pre-designed resume template? And if we take a look at this resume, well, I mean, it looks like somebody just wrote it in Microsoft Word with the most basic font, and it doesn't look very pretty.
02:16Right away, if I'm a recruiter looking at this, I'm not going to be impressed and I'm going to associate low skills with the person that doesn't have a well designed resume.
02:24So again, you might want to use a tool like the one I showed you that has pre-designed templates so everything looks good and professional.
02:33So we can fix that resume that way. Nice and easy fix.
02:37What about the next one? Make the resume fit on one page.
02:42I've said this numerous times and you know what? This person has a resume on one page.
02:47That's a nice easy one. Good job.
02:49What about the next one?
02:51Include words from job description.
02:54If I go into this resume, I don't know what this person was applying to.
02:59But again, the very first items, which is what a recruiter is going to look at, is going to read,
03:05I wish to obtain a web graphic design position where my unique technical and creative experience will be valuable.
03:12Having worked in media, I am familiar with a fast paced environment, keeping tight deadlines,
03:17and maybe some technical knowledge and work experience.
03:20But just by reading this resume, I have no idea what this person is applying to.
03:24I just see that while they're looking for a web graphic design position, but it's not very specific.
03:31We want to include words from the actual job description.
03:35If they're looking for a front-end developer, make sure that the front-end developer,
03:40maybe JavaScript, is included in your objectives or technical knowledge right at the beginning.
03:46Again, keywords are those words that people are going to see, recruiters are going to see,
03:51or even machines that are reading your resume are going to see and say,
03:54ooh, this person is the type of candidate that we want.
03:57Let's look at the next one.
04:01Include company name you're applying to.
04:04This is so simple to do and right away puts you above most resumes.
04:09You see over here that this person hasn't really included that.
04:12Ideally, you've added into the objective or maybe summary or the title,
04:17the company name or something specific to that company that you want to improve.
04:22Maybe the company is looking for engineers who can improve their infrastructure.
04:27Well, you should definitely have those words and that phrase in your objective.
04:35All right, off to the next one.
04:37Does your first item on your resume reflect what you are looking for or what they are looking for,
04:44the company is looking for?
04:46Again, this kind of goes hand in hand with the job description and the company name.
04:51But your technical knowledge, your objective, your experience should be exactly,
04:58especially the very first items should be exactly what they're looking for.
05:01Again, if you don't include those words and you give them something random,
05:07like this person has a company name here and a company link of somewhere that they've worked in the past.
05:13Well, I don't really care.
05:15I don't really care.
05:16And if I look over here, the first item that I see is HTML.
05:20If they're applying for a web graphic design position, HTML is probably not the most important here item here.
05:27So again, oops, again, I don't really care about that.
05:33All right, off to the next point.
05:35We're flying through this.
05:36It's not that bad, is it?
05:37Experience titles demonstrate value.
05:40Probably the most poorly worded sentence I have come up with.
05:45But let me explain what it means.
05:47The experience title should demonstrate value.
05:51That is the work experience, which is usually the main part of the resume,
05:57should show that you provide value.
06:00If I go into this person's resume, the first sentence I'm going to read is that
06:06a company's name that they've worked at that I've never heard of WebMD,
06:10which is a big website, so I've heard of them.
06:12And then I see web producer.
06:14And then again, responsibility includes updating HTML content.
06:19Doesn't really demonstrate a lot of value here.
06:23Instead, you want to make sure that your work experience shows a value.
06:28That is, instead of having the company name here, unless it's a big company like Amazon,
06:33Netflix or Alibaba, something with a lot of good recognition.
06:39I don't really care about the company.
06:41I care about what you did.
06:43Web producer, that sounds a lot more impressive than this company name.
06:46So this should be bolded and highlighted.
06:48Production coder, again, more important than WebMD.
06:52Art director, again, more important.
06:54So you want to make sure that that's highlighted, that those are the key things that shows you're valuable.
07:02Another thing is, if you look at the response, this sentence over here,
07:06this HTML part doesn't sound impressive.
07:09But the second part, cropping, retouching, optimizing photos for creation of thumbnails and other images.
07:16I mean, you could reward that and make that sound better,
07:20such as improving performance of the website by optimizing assets, such as photos.
07:26Having those first items demonstrate value is very, very important.
07:32And this is actually over here as well.
07:34When we go to technical knowledge, we see that the second item is MS Office, Microsoft Office.
07:39I mean, everybody knows how to use Word.
07:42It's not very impressive.
07:43Maybe adding Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash.
07:48At the beginning, if you're applying for a web design graphic position,
07:51is more important than Microsoft Office.
07:54And again, even this sentence, I've been hand coding HTML for nine years,
07:57CSS for four years, Webmaster, done PHP, MySQL.
08:02Why is that so small and underneath everything?
08:05A recruiter is going to see this without reading this full sentence.
08:09That's probably the most valuable part of the resume.
08:11This should probably be up over here.
08:14Again, making those key items.
08:16Remember this image that I showed you, the very highlighted items,
08:21the most important thing.
08:22All right.
08:23I think I've talked about that point enough.
08:25Let's go to the next one.
08:26Do you have an online link?
08:29Again, if you're applying to be a web graphic designer,
08:33and for people taking this course, you're most likely some sort of an engineer,
08:37you should have some sort of an online link to your GitHub profile,
08:41maybe blog posts, maybe website portfolio.
08:45That needs to be at the very top.
08:48Next one.
08:49Remove the word I.
08:51I wish to obtain, I am familiar.
08:56I was hired.
08:58I mean, all those sentences doesn't really tell me anything.
09:03You're adding extra weights.
09:06Again, you only have a few seconds to impress a recruiter
09:09and you adding these extra items that we don't really care about.
09:12As a recruiter, we want to know right away what you can offer us.
09:16What type of asset you would be.
09:18I have been that we don't really care about that.
09:21Instead, let's just say something like professional web graphic designer
09:25with five years of experience gets to the point right away.
09:29Again, we don't care about.
09:31I have been coding or any of those eyes.
09:35Get to the point right away.
09:37Speak in the third person if you want to.
09:39Just make sure right away the first sentence that they read
09:43are the keywords and important items on the list.
09:46Let's look at the next one.
09:49No buzzwords describing how great you are.
09:52And you know what?
09:53This person definitely undersells themselves.
09:55I think this resume could be a lot better.
09:57This person definitely does not over inflate themselves.
10:01But what I mean by buzzwords is don't put garbage on your resume.
10:06That doesn't mean anything.
10:08So words or phrases such as thought leader, passionate entrepreneur.
10:13And sometimes people actually think negatively on these type of terms.
10:18Don't tell the recruiter, him or her, what to think about you.
10:22And we want to focus on using something called action words.
10:27And that's actually the next point.
10:29Instead of using vague terms that don't really mean anything,
10:34we want action words.
10:37What did you do?
10:38And what were the results?
10:40And you can be really creative here.
10:42Every time you do something with code,
10:44see how you add it to your resume as an action and an end result.
10:48It's very easy to just list your responsibilities,
10:52kind of like this person has done.
10:53But what did you actually do?
10:55And I mean, this sentence is actually pretty impressive over here.
10:59The content or not this one over here.
11:02Testing the content management system
11:04and seeing that migration to the new servers is running smoothly.
11:08I mean, that sounds a lot more impressive than coding HTML web pages.
11:12Action words perhaps should be testing, deploying,
11:16and observing content management systems to production servers.
11:20Maybe add some monitoring there,
11:22but you want to show exactly what you did
11:24and then perhaps even say what were the results
11:28that the customer experience improved
11:31or that more customers came to the website
11:33because of this transition to production servers.
11:36And again, this translates into the next point.
11:39We want to measure everything in terms of impact.
11:42Don't just describe your responsibilities.
11:46We want to show off what we've actually done
11:50for a company like WebMD.
11:53Ideally, you have some sort of numbers such as
11:56by how much did you improve the website performance
11:59by optimizing the photos and thumbnails?
12:02How much did the traffic of WebMD improve
12:07because of this migration to new servers?
12:11By having numbers, it's a lot more tangible.
12:14As a recruiter, I can see the impact that you had on the business
12:17because let's be honest here.
12:18Companies hire people that are assets that improve the company
12:23and create more revenue for them.
12:25So if you're able to demonstrate that in a past job
12:27that you've actually here are the numbers.
12:29This is how I improve the company.
12:31Well, then you for sure are going to be a good hire.
12:35All right, let's talk about the next one.
12:37We're almost done here.
12:38Hang with me here.
12:39I know resume is not the funnest topic,
12:41but I promise you it's going to get better and better.
12:44So technical knowledge skills should include
12:47what they are looking for only show ears if it is impressive.
12:53So over here, this person, when I say ears, I'm saying,
12:59hey, if you worked at this company only for a month or two months,
13:03well, that's not very impressive.
13:04But if you have a certain number of years of experience,
13:08this person has nine years that they've been coding on HTML,
13:12CSS for four years.
13:14I mean, that's nine years of experience.
13:16You don't even have to mention HTML or CSS.
13:19You can just say that you're a web and graphic designer
13:22with nine years of experience.
13:25I mean, that sounds impressive.
13:27And you also want to make sure that these technical skills
13:31is what they're looking for.
13:32I doubt they're looking for MS office or laptop PC hardware knowledge.
13:37They're probably looking for Photoshop illustrator,
13:39maybe CSS, maybe PHP MySQL.
13:43Maybe it's a React JS position you're applying for.
13:47You want to make sure that you show off those skills.
13:50And if you have many years of experience with them,
13:53make sure you include that number.
13:55If you don't have that many years of experience,
13:57just don't show the number.
13:58You don't need to tell them everything.
14:00All right.
14:02Last two items.
14:03Include only sections items that are impressive.
14:07Experience, projects, education, technical skills.
14:11This just says, hey, only include items that a recruiter really cares about.
14:17For example, if I was an intern at a flower shop five years ago,
14:21as a recruiter, maybe recruiting for a software engineering role,
14:26I don't really care about your flower experience.
14:28I mean, hey, maybe some people do, but I doubt that they do.
14:31Only include things that are relevant or can be indirectly improve your odds of getting a job.
14:39You don't want to just fill out a resume just to fill out a resume if it doesn't actually add to your overall picture.
14:47Now, this person does a pretty good job.
14:50You can see that most of their experience is technical knowledge.
14:53So that's good.
14:54But we see over here that usually you want to include experience, maybe projects, education and technical skills.
15:02Anything outside of that.
15:03I mean, you can add it, but only if you think it'll improve the way the recruiter sees you.
15:08But those four categories should be enough.
15:11And then finally, everybody knows this, but I added it on here just in case.
15:16No typos or bad grammar.
15:18If you're not a native English speaker or a native speaker of your language,
15:22make sure you get somebody to double check your resume that there's no typos.
15:26But everybody knows that.
15:28Whew.
15:29All right.
15:30That was a lot.
15:31I know.
15:32I know.
15:33But hey, I'm excited just as you that we're almost we're pretty much done with the resume section.
15:38So we can get into the fun technical part.
15:40But, you know, people have written books on the topic of how to write resumes.
15:45And there's so many things, so many minor things that you can adjust to make them important.
15:49But if you follow these steps and I'm going to give you the sheet right after this lesson,
15:54you've pretty much done 90 percent of the work that is important for you to get a job.
16:00After that, you should be focusing on other things such as improving your skills as a developer.
16:05So by just following this simple list, I guarantee your percentage of getting interviews is going to increase,
16:12at least with resumes.
16:14That's it.
16:15Hopefully by looking at this and your own resume and looking at these checkpoints, you can see
16:20how you can improve things.
16:22It's all about wording and how you can get the recruiter to see the top parts about you,
16:29the good things about you at the very beginning.
16:32So that it catches their eye and they say, hmm, I'm going to keep reading.
16:36Or, I'm going to give this person an interview so I can find out more.
16:40Now, that's enough for resumes.
16:42There are books written on the topic.
16:44But you have to remember that they're simply a way to get interviews.
16:48And as such, treat them that way.
16:51Don't overcomplicate them.
16:53But I hope you get the general goal here.
16:55Every word in a resume should convince the recruiter why they should hire you.
17:00I'll see you in the next video.
17:01Bye-bye.
17:02Bye-bye.
17:03Bye-bye.
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