How Resume Often Takes Opportunities Away from You

	Pre-college years	College years	Post-college years
Common perception			Very important (focused on school brand and grades earned)
Real impact	Very important (differences in perspective; ability to create business capabilities)	Very important	Important

Many believe that the core of a resume lies with listing school name, GPA, and a wide range of functional skills. However, decision makers typically scan a resume in less than ten seconds. In that instant, they look for one thing : the abilities required to create business capabilities and generate revenues. Consequently, resumes for many applicants narrow opportunities rather than expand them.

Employers want to see whether the applicant can define problems with a perspective they have not yet considered, persuade others, motivate people into action, and produce tangible results. Only the few individuals can do so, and even artificial intelligence cannot replace them. So, such abilities must be clearly identified at the top of resume, and the details of the body should serve only as the evidence.

Such abilities cannot be practiced overnight after college. The most powerful applicants are those who, through their pre-college years, learned to understand different perspectives, led their own small transactions and projects, and demonstrated the ability to create tangible values.