When was the last time you refreshed your CV (or resume)? Two years ago? Just before you got into your current position?
Two reasons why you should get on that:
- Obvious one: You’re ready to take on a promotion or new role (within the current company or at another company)
- Keeping your resume current allows you to nimbly apply for both new positions within your organization and ones outside
- In the unfortunate situation where you lose your current job, its one less thing to have to do to kick-start the job search process again (and it’s a nice psychological relief to have that already taken care of)
- Less obvious one (but even better reason): Assess where you’re currently at career-wise in your current role
- It’s easy to get drawn into the day-to-day work of your current role and suddenly months and at times years have passed
- Your job may be going well, however it’s also quite possibly your head-down approach has allowed you to miss out on fruitful opportunities
- Updating your CV, due to the nature of it being a high-level summary of your current and past roles, is a great opportunity to get a sense of what you’ve achieved, what more you’d like to do, and areas where you definitely want to do more
It’s definitely worth spending an hour (even better splitting that across 2-3 sessions) to get your CV up to date
You’ll likely have a couple of reactions when you’re finished:
- A fine smile after reflecting on how you’ve had some nice achievements
- A good boost to step back and re-establish some strong goals and milestones for the upcoming year