When I first sat down to draft an English resume for an international role a few years back, I made the classic mistake of translating my existing Korean self-introduction letter line by line. I thought if I used high-level vocabulary and polished phrases, it would convey professional competence. After actually going through the process and…
Staring at the blank white screen I really thought I had a decent resume. It was clean, simple, and detailed everything I did at my last office for the past three years. But then I started looking into what actual global companies use to filter people out, and that’s when things started feeling weird. I…
When I first had to draft an English resume for an international role, I fell into the trap of using those polished templates you find online. I spent three full days tweaking fonts and trying to make my Korean job descriptions sound sophisticated in English. After actually going through this, I realized that my obsession…
Downloading those expensive templates didn’t really help I spent about 30,000 won last month on a fancy resume template I found on some design site because I was convinced that my old, plain Microsoft Word document was why I wasn’t getting any callbacks for these global roles. It looked sleek, definitely. It had those little…