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How to Write a Resume that will get you Interviews and a Job
What is a Resume?The resume is primarily a means to sell your capabilities and services. It is quite unlike a Curriculum Vitae, the chronological list of work and education experiences preferred in Europe and the Far East. The Resume provides details of your skills and experiences to a potential employer so that he can see, in a short summary, how your skills are relevant to the potential job and how you could contribute something of value in your future workplace. A resume is your advertising and selling tool.You might fulfill all the requirements for a specific position, but your resume fails, if the employer does not, on the basis of what he sees on it, immediately conclude that you are the person for the job. Remember, your first priority is to create a resume that attracts the readers immediate attention. The initial twenty seconds will decide whether it ends up in the "under consideration" or the "rejected" file. The most effective resumes are focused specifically on a job and address the potential employer's stated requirements for the position. The more you know about the duties and skills the job demands the better you can organize your resume around these requirements and the more effective the resume will be. Some Key Points Your resume is about the next job you want to get and your past achievements are only important within that context. Try to remain relevant, when you talk about your past achievement. This is especially important when you describe your past jobs. Keep it short and stay clear of repeating job descriptions. Instead, write what you achieved in that job. If there are aspect of your past jobs that you did not like, don't write about them. Stress the elements that you liked and, presumably, were good at in your past jobs. But, again, remain relevant with those and only use them if the qualities or experiences are asked for in the job you are applying to. Don't lie in your resume. There is a narrow line between stretching the truth and lying! The Importance of Information about the Job you apply for Hence, the primary requirement for writing a good resume is information about the job on offer. It is not enough to regurgitate what you have done in the past, since that information, with all its accomplishments, skills and experiences is only relevant within the requirements of the position for which you want to be considered.The more you know about the job and the employer the more likely you can "cut the cloth to the right size" and create a resume that explains how you will be an asset for your future employer within the job he offers. The Types of ResumeThe choice of the right resume format is important, when applying for a job.Exhibiting the right characteristics and skills mix in the right format, may attract the immediate interest of the human resources, or functional manager, reading it. There are four basic styles, three of them are most commonly used within the USA and Canada, the fourth one, is the European Curriculum Vitae. For more details, click on the one, that you are looking for.
Which of those resumes you use depends on the individual circumstances. If you are unsure, go to the individual pages and read the reasons for the right choice. Which resume is the "best" format and what is preferred by employers? The chronological format is most liked by employers. This is closely followed by the chrono-functional combination resume. As a general rule, recruiters and employers tend to be more suspicious of job applications using the functional format. It is much easier to make exaggerated claims about job achievements in a functional format. There are ways to address these concerns. You can clearly link each achievement you claim to a job title and a specific job listed in your work history or another section that gives information on dates and places.
Resume Content and RelevanceWriting a resume takes some time and should be dome with some preparation. You want to get the job and there are hundreds of more or less equally qualified people out there, that want to do the same. So your first task is getting the human resources manager to invite you to an interview. Below are some points that will help you with the content of your resume and its format. There are also important points about your cover letter, which you can get here.
The Format of your ResumeFormat is just as important as content. A poorly formatted resume is very unlikely read. Format shows attention to detail. If you don't do that, you are also unlikely to fit the job where attention to detail is important. Format is visual and people almost always react to visual stimulation. If something looks nice and attractive it has appeal and that is winning a substantial part of the battle.
Remember, there is not "one way" that is absolutely the correct method to write a resume. But there are better and worse ways to do that. Some things are really important, others are more peripheral. The goal of the resume is that you get an interview which will ultimately result in you being offered the job. The more you know about "what and why", the better a product, you will create. That is why reading some books on the topic will be helpful.
Resume Writers, Resume Appraisers and why they are useful and worth their moneyWe thought long and hard about this question! After all, "everyone can write a resume". So, why use someone else, who is not familiar with your particular circumstances and who does not know your ambitions, job wise? Maybe, the answer is in this very sentence: In your own eagerness to present yourself in the best possible light to a future employer, you overlook what the employer sees, or wants to see from you! You present, in your resume, what you want, rather than what the employer requires or what he is looking for. A professional resume writer is not the prisoner of his own representation. He or she looks at the task of writing a resume in a neutral fashion, dispassionate and with distance to your own past. As a consequence, that resume writer might see strengths and weaknesses that are not seen as important by you. The distance creates a balanced picture of yourself. Most people argue that each resume has to be written as a response to a specific job, because only some of the things, you might offer, will be useful in that job. Therefore, the resume as a response to a job vacancy, has to be tailor-made. That is absolutely correct! However, if you start off with a well written generic resume that projects your abilities and your strengths, while it puts your weaknesses somewhat in the background, you are starting out with an advantage. A Resume Appraiser, as opposed to a writer, will look at you resume and recommend, if required, changes. There are numerous free sites for that, but you have to remember that the business of the appraiser comes from resume writing and the free appraisal is one way to get clients. That does not reduce their usefulness in creating a good resume, but you have to be aware of it. There are a number of sites offering Resume Writing Services. JobLine International also has a team of highly experienced resume writers, that offer resume and Cover letter writing. Below is a comparative analysis of some of the services offered on the net. Click on the names on the far left, if you want to know more. Prices may vary from time to time.
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We have had direct experience with the above services we recommend. Other services are by no means inferior, but we have not had any direct experience with them. Company Resume FormsMany companies provide forms for their applications, so that you do not have to create a resume or CV. This is more common in the USA than in Europe. Below is a site that provides such forms for a large number of different jobs and companies.
Editing your Resume and Cover LetterWe will edit your existing resume and a specific cover letter. You send us your resume and cover letter by e-mail and we will edit it to help it along, and make it appropriate to the job you apply. Obviously, we will need a short description of the job as well (we do not need the employers name, but the country location would be useful, since resume and cover letters can be different from one country to another). Please send the supporting material (resume, cover letter, short description of job applied for) to the email address you will be given after payment in the order acknowledgement. We will normally edit your resume/cover letter within 48 hours.
Using e-mail blasting services to distribute your Resume to different Job BoardsThe Internet has become an extremely popular place to post your resume and also for employers to find suitable candidates. There are a number of services that offer to post your resume on 50 to 100 sites for a small fee. This is obviously helpful, because, everything else being equal, timing the posting of your resume, is the key to finding a job quickly. With domestic, in the USA/Canada based jobs, many recruiting managers post over the weekend, so when they come into the office on Monday morning, they have already received responses to their posting. Most employers and recruiters review these submissions in the order in which they receive them. If, on first evaluation, the recruiter finds between 4 and 8 suitable candidates, he will look no further. That is where resume posting services become useful. You submit your resume to them and they then supply employers and job boards with your details.
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