Please critique my SEO resume

[BobGW]

Hello,

Please critique the SEO resume found here.

I'm looking for a job working 30 hours a week making $30/hour in Idaho.

Looking for advice on creating the best resume possible. It's all honest.

Thanks.

[KevinBudzynski]

A few things I would change: 1.) I would change "Self Employed" to "Consultant". 2.) I would take this out: Note that these aren’t very optimized for the search engines. 3.) Move education up

Good luck!

[BobGW]

Thanks Kevin,I made the changes and uploaded them to the same above link.

Any other suggestions by anyone are welcome.

[TimKelsey]

Hi Bob,

Looking pretty good, but there are a couple things I would change. First, move SEO at Current Employer above Web Designer. I usually show my most recent job first and then go back through my employment history in reverse chronological order. However, if you're specifically looking for web design work, it would make sense to keep Web Designer first since it would be more relevant.

Next, I'd try to make your Major Accomplishments sound more...exciting, for lack of a better word, by replacing standard words like "used" or "learned" with strong action verbs. Some examples:

• "Got used to a lot of very useful tools..." could be, "Conducted research and analyzed campaign performance with expert knowledge of various industry tools including..."
• "Bob is a fast learner and kept up to date by being active with Moz" could be, "Maintained and expanded SEO knowledge base through active participation in the Moz community."
• "Learned that content is #1" could be, "Gained valuable insight into the importance of content as part of an overall Internet Marketing strategy."

Here's a good list of resume power words that might give you some ideas. It can be a little cheesy sometimes, but when you're looking for a job, every little bit helps.

I'd be happy to give my input on your other Major Accomplishments if you'd like. Just let me know!

Tim

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Bob,

• In your list of accomplishments, the second one is not closed with a ".". In general I'm not sure if the second one is really an accomplishment as it's just a list of tools you know how to use. I see accomplishments myself more like goals.
• I agree with Tim, your resume should have your present jobs on top and should read down from your current qualifications.
• "Other languages such as PHP and MySQL were used but it’s been a long time." but it's been a long time is not quite OK to say about yourself. You can say this in an interview but I wouldn't list it like this.
• For you BS I would list the year you started as well, this normally gives some indication if you graduated within the usual nr. of years for a Bsc.
• Cpanels should be cPanel, also the .etc. is useless. Because I probably as a reader have no clue what the other tools are you know. Also Design should not be with a capital earlier in that list.

Just some points I saw by looking quickly.

[Kingof5]

An objective based resumé should be for someone just graduating or early in their career. Change that top part to be skills based.

'Bob is a fast learner' - don't talk about yourself in the third person.

Don't say it's been a long time since you used PHP and MySQL. I'm sure you could brush up on it pretty quickly if you needed to.

Don't include 'references available upon request'. If they want them, they'll ask for them.