Biotech Resume Executive Summary

Focus your Executive Summary on what you do now: You should be highlighting what’s most relevant your work now and to where you want to go. Don’t be fooled by the word summary and think this is a catchall or review of your entire career. 

A hiring manager wants you to answer the question: “What have you done for me lately?”

This past week a candidate submitted a resume and in her summary she had every call point she has ever called on: It made her look like a primary care rep. Yet, she’d been in the specialty/rare disease space for the past five years.

It’s imperative to update your resume at least once a year—and I recommend once a quarter—so that when that recruiter calls you with your dream rare disease job you aren’t submitting a resume that makes you look like a primary care rep.

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