#Resume Tips

Objectives say what you want. Summaries say what you bring. In 2026, summaries win for 90% of people. Here's when each makes sense.

PMP holders earn 33% more. AWS certs add 26% to salary. Where to place certifications on your resume by experience level, the exact line format, and which credentials actually move the needle.

76% of recruiters start their search with skills. Most resumes miss 52% of job-description keywords. Hard, soft, and AI skills by role, plus the 8-12 sweet spot.

CS reps were the most-in-demand job in 2025 with 1.35M+ open postings, and the average posting gets 250 resumes (Robert Half 2026). Generic "people-person" resumes drown. Specific CRM tools, channel experience, and CSAT/NPS metrics win. Full example plus bullets you can adapt.

"Highlight your transferable skills" is the advice everyone gives and nobody can execute on. The real moves: hybrid format, target-role summary, translated bullets, and one specific example showing how a logistics-to-PM pivot resume should actually read in 2026.

43% of nurses want to leave bedside, 23% want out of nursing entirely (Nurse.Org 2026). Here are the real non-clinical pivots, salary ranges, and how to translate clinical experience for hiring managers who don't know what triage means.

Roughly 125,800 teachers quit per year and 53% of K-12 staff are burned out (RAND 2025). The skills translate. Here's what actually pays, how to rewrite the resume, and which pivots leave you better or worse off financially.

Two-thirds of workers have a career break and 1 in 5 hiring managers still rejects them on sight. Label the gap, don't hide it. Exact wording, placement, and what to say in the interview.

InDesign produces the cleanest ATS-safe PDFs of any design tool. Adobe charges $240/year for it. The 3 cases worth paying, the gotchas, when to skip it.

Apache OpenOffice has been on life support since 2015. The 5-minute switch to LibreOffice, the templates that work in both, and why your old .odt files don't need to change.

LibreOffice is one of the cleanest ATS-export tools available. The real problem is template scarcity. 5 worth using, the DOCX gotcha, when to switch to Google Docs.