A fun site that makes a word “cloud” of oft-used words and phrases is wordle.net. However unexpected opportunities present themselves with Wordle that will allow you to see the ‘big picture’ of your resume development. From your existing resume, highlight the entire document and click on “Edit” and “Copy”. Now make your way to the wordle.net site, paste your text in the space provided and click on “Go”. What do you see? Do you see action words, key words that define your industry and market, a powerful representation of you? Or… do you see a predominance of passive words such as “responsibilities included” or “duties”.

Your Wordle resume cloud will be able to point out in a visual sense the passive or powerful nature of your resume. Does your cloud represent you the way you see yourself?

Just for fun, here’s my cloud taken from the home page of Top Margin here