#70 Avoiding Updating Their Resume

For the most part unemployed people are fundamentally opposed to updating their resume. It’s the one thing that’s constantly in the back of their minds (besides scrubbing out the disgustingly embarrassing toilet) that they just don’t want to do. The resume is universally dreaded because, seriously, for lack of better words, it’s absolutely dreadful. Who really wants to sit in front of a computer fine tuning all the aspects of previous jobs that made them want to die? Are they really achievements, or proof that life didn’t exactly pan out the way they wanted things to turn out?

Going over previous duties for the sake of getting a new job presumably in the same “career” path would make anyone want to put off their resume. For example, after years of hating being a project manager, a position that happened by unfortunate circumstance but came with a raise, would  someone really willingly subject themselves to another project management job? It’s possible, simply because those are the skills that would present themselves on a resume. And attempting to extrapolate other skills out of the job for something in an entirely different field takes time. It’s time that unemployed people are unwilling to give up simply because they’d rather avoid working on their resume so they can prolong avoiding looking for another crap job. It’s a catch 22, no skills to find a crappy non-project management job, and no will to find a crappy project management job – the perfect recipe for avoiding one’s responsibilities in favor of a free government check.

Ultimately, working on a resume entails giving in to the mounting pressure of finding a job. Out of stubbornness, the unemployed just want to put it off as long as they can – which is likely whenever their unemployment insurance runs out. After sending out hundreds of resumes already in an attempt to find any job, regardless of what field it’s in, the unemployed refuse to believe their generic resumes have anything to do with their lack of luck. Already beaten down from getting no responses, the unemployed would rather convince themselves that tailoring their resumes for each specific job is bad CareerBuilder.com advice and that it’s the bad economy that’s preventing them from being hired. Which is true, “in this economy”, there’s really no point in working on a resume right now because there are no companies hiring, and your skills will be unappreciated at any job found. If the unemployed could just convince themselves of that, let their resumes sit untouched for months and keep collecting those unemployment checks, then they can continue to play video games all day, guilt-free.

Tags: avoiding reality, avoiding resume, in this economy, not applying for a job