Make sure you get your resume right

It’s a dog-eat-dog world

Things are more than tough out there in the job hunting arena. It’s a dog-eat-dog situation at all levels of employment, from mailroom operator to CEO. Companies are changing their top management in an effort to deflect financial disaster. Top managers are also resigning for various reasons – difficulties with the board of directors, poor results and inability to fulfill expectations. The result of this is that there are many top people looking for jobs.

The key to finding the right job? A good resume.

This is the key to opening new doors for mid- and top-management level professionals who need to get back into the job market.

The right resume

There are various ways of getting a great resume. One is to take a Cash Advance and hire a professional resume writer, one who, although he cannot guarantee results, will guarantee that the resume is great and will make the right impression in the important places. The other way is to update and polish your own resume until it is as near perfect as you can get it.

Don’t try and mislead your job interviewer

There is an art to resume writing that even top executives get wrong from time to time. Job seekers at the executive level are often either too humble or too blasé to note and highlight their achievements and accomplishments. These are essential to allow a future employer or headhunter to distinguish skills and talents.

Don’t make your resume too long. The trick is to highlight achievements to grab the reader’s attention and to provide ‘proof points’ of your achievements by including enough detail to bring the words on your resume to life.

Pointers:

• Never lie: Don’t over-exaggerate your experience and skills and don’t pinch lines from other peoples resume’s to make yours look good. If it is discovered that the information on your resume is misleading in any way, your credibility will be destroyed instantly.
• Don’t be sloppy: Nothing is more off-putting than typos, bad grammar, poor spelling, and dates that don’t tie up. These mistakes indicate that you pay no attention to detail or you do not care about the quality of your output. Neither are great assets in the job market.
• Motivate yourself: Your resume is your opportunity to make a good impression. It is your personal brand message.
• Customize it: When responding to an ad, tailor your resume to meet the requirements of the job described.
• Bullet points: A resume in bullet point format, as opposed to essay style, is more pleasing to the eye and easier to scan.
• Be contactable: Make sure that all your contact details are on the resume.
• Don’t embellish and no photos: It is unnecessary to use fancy fonts, colorful lettering, or other similar decorative paraphernalia. Keep it simple and straightforward.
• Number the pages: If your resume runs to more than one or two pages, number them.

Pretend you are the recipient

Before you send out your resume, ask yourself whether the document is easy to read and sufficiently detailed to communicate your level of skill, achievements and experience, and that is also not too long.