No You’re Not Bragging and Other Tips for Creating Your Resume

To be completely honest — I do not enjoy creating my resume. The first time in particular was such a struggle. I had to figure out what to put on my resume because I did not have any “real” experience and I felt that nothing I’d done was relevant to the jobs I wanted.

Writing personal essays and talking about myself was definitely not my forte (though I guess that is what I am doing right now haha). To me, it just felt unnatural and sort of like bragging. I did not grow up in a culture where we used a lot of ‘I’ statements…