If new year, new you = new job, fix your resume today.

The 4 years I spent leading marketing for a talent marketplace in East Africa put me in conversation with 100s of hiring companies and 1,000s of skilled talent.

Patterns emerged across the resumes I reviewed:

• vague descriptions

• poor formatting

• too long or too short

Your resume is a story about you.

Guide the reader on a journey to their inevitable destination: “yes.”

In 2026: let’s de-emphasize beating ATS and make reading resumes human-friendly again.