Before we get into the specific skills that you'll need to write the resume, I just want to talk about three important points about the mindset that you'll need while writing your resume. First, as a job seeker, think of yourself as the product and your resume is your primary marketing tool. So in order to develop a marketing tool, we're going to need to know what are your key selling points, and also what is your target market looking for. So we're going to loop back to this in the research section of the course. And we'll also touch on it throughout writing and formatting as well. Next, there is no one perfect way to write a resume, which is kind of great because it means we have a lot of flexibility to make the perfect resume that works for us in any given situation.

So throughout this course, I'm going to give you a few different methods that you may choose to follow. But you can also mix and match the stuff that I showed you or alternate if you need to. It's it's completely up to you. So As long as you are thinking carefully about the decisions you make in your resume, and how they apply to the job you're looking at, then you're going to be just fine. And finally, let's have some fun with this because I know resume seems all business, but writing it does not have to be stressful. Sometimes I like to think of it as a professional self portrait made of words.

So we're writing a document it strategically points out how great you are. So I hope you're feeling great as you're writing it.