Treat your resume as an advertisement for you
Date: 23-Feb-2011
It's well known that first impression is the last impression and it's true even in the case of interview. This is a fact that you can impress the recruiter even when you have not yet appeared in front of him.
But that's possible only when you make your resume expressive and well structured and with relevant information. Following are the tips you should use while preparing your resume
- Pen down your key skills related to the respective job first. Your strengths must be reflected clearly at the beginning of your resume. List as many directly relevant words as you can which reflect your knowledge and experience. List all the technical knowledge, languages and platform you know.
- Make sure that your strength lie on the particular requirement of the employer. For example if the recruiter is looking for an event manager, design your resume in a manner that at a glance he understands that you can be a good event manager. Do mention your previous activities related to the particular job.
- Mention your qualification in order of relevance, from most to least. Only list your degree and educational qualifications first if they are truly relevant to the job for which you are applying
- Begin sentences with action verbs. Portray yourself as someone who is active, uses their brain, and gets things done
- Don't sell yourself short. This is by far the biggest mistake of all resumes, technical and otherwise. Your experiences are worthy for review by hiring managers. Treat your resume as an advertisement for you. Be sure to thoroughly sell yourself by highlighting all of your strengths. If you've got a valuable asset which doesn't seem to fit into any existing components of your resume, list it anyway as its own resume segment.
- Be concise. As a rule of thumb, resumes reflecting five years or less experience should fit on one page. More extensive experience can justify usage of a second page. Consider three pages (about 15 years or more experience) an absolute limit.
- Avoid lengthy descriptions of whole projects of which you were only a part. Consolidate action verbs where one task or responsibility encompasses other tasks and duties. Minimize usage of articles (the, an, a) and never use "I" or other pronouns to identify yourself.
- Avoid needless items. Leave all these things off your resume: social security number, marital status, health, citizenship, age, scholarships, irrelevant awards, irrelevant associations and memberships, irrelevant publications, irrelevant recreational activities, a second mailing address, references, travel history, previous pay rates, previous supervisor names, and components of your name which you really never use (i.e. middle names).
- Be sure to catch all spelling errors, grammatical weaknesses, unusual punctuation, and inconsistent capitalization. Proofread it numerous times over at least two days to allow a fresh eye to catch any hidden mistakes.
- Take the print out on plain white paper. Handwriting, typing, dot matrix printing, and even ink jet printing look pretty cheesy. Stick with laser prints. Don't waste your money on special bond paper, matching envelopes etc. Your resume will be photocopied, faxed, and scanned numerous times, defeating any special paper efforts, assuming your original resume doesn't first end up in the circular file.
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Posted By : Aradhana Masih
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VERY VERY EXECILLENT ABOUT RESUME,VERY IMPACTFULL ,THANK YOU VERY MUCH...........GREAT...