Your resume is the single most important document in your life. It is, or should be, a one or two page encapsulation of everything you can bring to a new organization and is just as important, if not more, as your monthly bank statements. That is why it’s crucial for you to keep your resume as up to date as possible and I recommend you update it at least once every quarter.
Your memory isn’t that great. If you update your resume every quarter, chances are you will have a much easier time remembering the fine work you’ve been doing over the last quarter. You get the opportunity to accurately assess what you’ve done, how it compares to the other bullet points on your resumes, and makes that decision an active one. If you forget you did something, that’s not a good reason to leave it off the resume.
It focuses you on why job hunting is important. You should always be looking out for yourself and thinking about the next opportunity. That next opportunity may be in the organization you’re in now or a completely different one. By refreshing your resume and keeping up to date on your accomplishments, you arm yourself with more ammunition when you go in for your performance review or job interview.
Maybe you’re not doing anything interesting. Sometimes we get into the daily grind and don’t realize that we’re stuck in a rut. If you go to your resume each quarter and find that you have nothing of interest to add, you to re-asses your situation. Add to your list of responsibilities, seek out more work, seek out more challenges, seek out more bullets to put on your resume!
So, start reviewing your resume every quarter, considering bringing it up to your mentor, because you will reap the rewards even if you don’t know it.
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