Resume Tips

Regardless of your professional experience, industry background, or undergraduate major, there’s room for everyone in tech — even those of us who don’t code! And although there are plenty of opportunities in the startup scene, breaking in can be tricky, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the ways of the startup world.

On Tuesday, October 25th 2021, Planted and General Assembly co-hosted a virtual panel of startup experts from Liquid, Public.com, and Headway. We asked them about what life is really like at a fast-growing company, what a perfect fit looks like for them, their secrets to success for interviews and beyond. But if you weren’t able to attend, don’t worry — we’ve compiled all of the most important pieces of advice from the event right here! Check out the Q&A from the panel below.

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Jobseekers, anti-commuters, and homebodies alike — ready to transform your career (from home?) — we’ve got you covered, and are ready to get you hired. This week, we want to make sure you know about the opportunities available to grow your career remotely with a top Planted partner company. Whether your specialty is account management, accounting, analytics, or something else, we’re sure there’s a promising remote operations job in store for you with one of these top startups. 

Make sure to read on to get the full scoop on all of our must-see remote jobs available right now:

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People experts, finance pros, and operations specialists — ready to change your career for good (from home?) — we’ve got you covered, and are ready to get you hired. This week, we want to make sure you know about all of the in-demand opportunities available to grow your operations career (remotely) with a rapidly-growing Planted partner company. Whether your specialty is recruiting, accounting, analytics, or something else, we’re sure there’s a promising remote operations job in store for you with one of these top startups. 

Make sure to read on to get the full scoop on all of our must-see remote operations jobs available right now:

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Updated 2/28/22

When you first start working from home, you’ll notice yourself taking on new challenges: how to stay productive, how to collaborate remotely; but something not as often discussed? How to strike a healthy work-life balance. 

When the spaces we use to decompress and entertain become the same place we’re hitting the daily grind, the lines between work and play can easily become blurred. And while everyone’s ideal work-life balance looks a little different, there are definite steps you can take to make sure your work stress stays *at work* (even if you’re at home.) At Planted, we work fully-remote with a distributed team, so we like to consider ourselves WFH-pros. Read on for our tips on achieving a healthy work-life balance when you’re working from home.

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Regardless of your professional experience, industry background, or undergraduate major, there’s room for everyone in tech — even those of us who don’t code! And although there are plenty of opportunities in the startup scene, breaking in can be tricky, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the ways of the startup world. 

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Whether you’ve made resolutions or not, this time of year encourages all of us think about ways that we can be the happiest, best versions of ourselves—and a having crappy, soul-sucking job won’t help.

If finding a new job is your ticket to a happy 2019, we’ve put together a few quick and easy things you can do right now to make sure you’re ready to get the startup gig you’ve been dreaming about. Not looking quite yet? No worries—this is something that every job seeker can use no matter what time of the year they start their search.

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Updated 4/20/22

Having a strong resume is arguably one of the most important parts of the job application process. Not only are you detailing your entire life story in work experience — but it's also your chance to make a first impression when putting yourself out there in the job search.

There are many elements that go into a resume, from layout to style, even font size. When deciding what kind of experience to include, however, — one question that job seekers commonly have is: “how far back should I go?” You certainly want to give a full picture of the professional experiences that have shaped the skills you have now, but you need to be careful to not go back too far.

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Updated: 3/24/22

A good resume is a work in progress, and you could update it forever. But who wants to do that? If your job search is on a time crunch and need to update your resume STAT, just keep three things in mind: make it clear, compelling, and error-free.

Check out our handy resume checklist below and be sure to use our sample resume and resume writing template to make sure you're writing an effective resume that employers will take a second look at:

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Do you feel like you've mapped out the blueprint of a perfectly fabulous, successful life, only to feel like you’ve fallen flat on your face when your dream company doesn’t hire you? Or maybe you don’t know what the plan is and you need some help getting on the right track? The good news is that there are so many great career development books out there chock full of amazing advice your college career center never gave you—and we’ve rounded up the five best ones of 2018 below.

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The debate over resume length is age-old. With so many articles but a total lack of objective statistics, it can feel impossible to know if there’s a hard-and-fast rule when it comes to resume length. That’s why the Planted team decided to get to the bottom of this question: we dug into our user data — a sample of 82,000 candidates — to answer the most burning question on job seekers’ minds: should a resume be one page?

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Losing your job is heartbreaking, frustrating, and everything in between. Your whole life has changed in an instant, and it’s crushing to your morale (basically, it just sucks). You know you need to find a new job ASAP, but you don’t even know where to start. Not to mention, it can be hard to update resumes, fill out applications, and network until you lose your voice when you’re already feeling down on your luck. Follow these five tips to help improve your self-confidence and fire up your job search.

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Itching to ditch your boring desk job to break into a dynamic, high-growth startup? You’re not the only one: last week, dozens of job seekers joined us at General Assembly’s NYC HQ for the inside scoop from growing startups.

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For as much as we pay to go to college, we don’t always learn everything we need to prepare for post-grad life (aka “the real world”). For those of us who are a few years out of college, we remember the struggle of finding a job -- having to craft just the right resume, answering interviewers’ questions right, making sure you track all your job applications -- admittedly, it’s not fun. But because the job search is something most of us will have to go through in our lives, we’ve put together these three tips for fresh job seekers so that you don’t have to make these mistakes yourselves.

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The job hunt is about as tough as it gets. When you’re looking, and I mean really looking for that next opportunity, you have maybe just one chance to woo the hiring manager before your candidacy gets tossed into the digital Recycle Bin.

That means you need to up your game and make sure that you’re gonna give the hiring manager as many reasons to want to hire you, as well as remove all the reasons why they wouldn’t. We’re in a game where a simple typo could cost you a great new job. The misplacement of a single word could leave an unintended negative impression. And we want to help you get that job, so here’s a little something to address those mistakes:

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Finding a job is not an easy task- and that can go extra for startups. With online applications at an all-time high, hiring managers are seeing hundreds of resumes, so standing out can be difficult. Add that to the fact that most of them glance at a resume for an average of 6 seconds, and pretty soon, the job hunt is gonna start feeling pretty bleak.

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