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hey find?</p><p id="9205">Are there any typos that the HR team may have missed at first glance? Did you swap practice with practise, or replace advice with advise, for example? While these may not be perceptible at first, critically scanning the contents of your resume will expose these errors.</p><p id="d809">You don’t want to leave mis-spellings or any other grammatical errors uncorrected. An error-free resume instills confidence in your recruiters and tells them you have a high sense of attention to detail.</p><p id="8066">To pass this test, scan your CV with a fine-tooth comb for hidden errors. Don’t forget to dot every proverbial I and cross all literal Ts. Some experts recommend reading it out loud. Others suggest having another person proofread it.</p><p id="566e">Neither approach is wrong. The goal is the same; spot any hidden typos and correct them.</p><p id="d685">With the increasing competition for places and the reducing margin of errors, you never want to miss your dream job because of a typo or a grammatical error.</p><h1 id="b34a">Takeaways</h1><p id="f3a0">To recap, try to run your next resume through the 6–60–6 framework.</p><h2 id="a4f0">6 seconds</h2><p id="71b0">If someone has only six seconds to look at your resume, what will stand out to them? Your aim should be to captivate anyone who scans your resume within a six-second window.</p><h2 id="158e">60 seconds</h2><p id="9383">If the reader is impressed enough, they have 60 seconds to identify some skills and strengths. Can they deduce you are a hardworking team player, for example?</p><h2 id="80f6">6 hours</h2><p id="7ede">If the HR manager spends 6 hours reading your resume, will they will find zero errors?</p><p id="535d">What do you think of the 6–60–6 framework?</p></article></body>

A University Professor’s Guide to a Perfectly Crafted Resume Using the 6–60–6 Framework

6 seconds, 60 seconds, 6 hours

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With a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan, where he also teaches, Professor Patrick Barry has worked with dozens of law firms, state institutions, and nonprofit organizations to improve their written and spoken advocacy.

He has gathered a lot of experience in reviewing legal briefs and motions for argument in court.

He believes resumes share a lot of parallels with many of the legal briefs he has reviewed throughout his career. Given that a busy HR manager may not have time to read every detail of your resume, you only have a few seconds to make a case with your resume.

For that to happen, it must catch the recruiter’s eye at a glance, even before they get to read the entire text. Thus, he created the 6–60–6 framework to help job seekers prepare better resumes to increase their chances of landing their dream jobs.

6 seconds

Your resume has only six ticks of the clock to make a lasting first impression. If someone picked up your resume and has only six seconds to look at it, what would stand out to them?

One way you can aim to capture the reader’s attention with your resume is how you break it down into the various sections.

At the minimum, you should provide clear headings for your career objectives, educational qualifications, work experience, main strengths, interests, and references.

If you identified these items on your resume, you stand a chance of convincing anyone who takes a six-second glance to proceed with reading the content for more details.

60 seconds

Let’s say your interviewer has only 60 seconds to read through your resume. What can they pick up?

Assuming we were still going by the six sub-headings of career objectives, educational qualifications, work experience, main strengths, interests, and references, what stands out under each of those categories?

Within this time frame, can they spot any stand out skills that anyone who intends to fill the role should have? If you’ve built 13 WordPress sites or you helped your former company increase annual revenue by $40,000 a quarter, here’s the time to let your potential employers know.

Professor Barry stresses the need to be specific. Instead of merely listing say, reading, writing, and photography as your interests, be a bit more vivid. You can spice up those three skills by saying reading comic marvels, writing crime fiction, and photographing snowy mountains, respectively.

6 hours

Let’s say the HR manager was impressed with your resume, and you made the shortlist of the three top applicants. Your resume faces even more scrutiny here.

If the panel were generous with their time and dedicated six hours to read through your resume, how many mistakes will they find?

Are there any typos that the HR team may have missed at first glance? Did you swap practice with practise, or replace advice with advise, for example? While these may not be perceptible at first, critically scanning the contents of your resume will expose these errors.

You don’t want to leave mis-spellings or any other grammatical errors uncorrected. An error-free resume instills confidence in your recruiters and tells them you have a high sense of attention to detail.

To pass this test, scan your CV with a fine-tooth comb for hidden errors. Don’t forget to dot every proverbial I and cross all literal Ts. Some experts recommend reading it out loud. Others suggest having another person proofread it.

Neither approach is wrong. The goal is the same; spot any hidden typos and correct them.

With the increasing competition for places and the reducing margin of errors, you never want to miss your dream job because of a typo or a grammatical error.

Takeaways

To recap, try to run your next resume through the 6–60–6 framework.

6 seconds

If someone has only six seconds to look at your resume, what will stand out to them? Your aim should be to captivate anyone who scans your resume within a six-second window.

60 seconds

If the reader is impressed enough, they have 60 seconds to identify some skills and strengths. Can they deduce you are a hardworking team player, for example?

6 hours

If the HR manager spends 6 hours reading your resume, will they will find zero errors?

What do you think of the 6–60–6 framework?