An Outstanding Resume

An Outstanding Resume is the difference between a new job and no job. If you want to land a job, then you have to get an interview. If you want to get an interview, then you need to stand out amongst all the other countless applicants.

Where can you go to learn how to write a resume? How can you create a professional resume quickly in response to the changing job market? There are many websites that offer resume help. Unfortunately, you can become overwhelmed and easily confused and most sites are just a fill in template scenario which does no one any good.

Your Resume is a personal marketing document that communicates your career objective and value to a hiring company. A strong resume is carefully planned and developed (not quickly typed up) in an appropriate format (style) designed to showcase your experience and accomplishments in direct relation to a specific position. A blue collar worker may have an exceptional resume, while the resume of a white collar professional may have a poorly written one. A good resume is your 1st step through door of a good job

Instead of a bunch of rules and tips, we are going to cut to the chase in this brief guide and offer you the most basic principles of writing a highly effective resume.

The tried and true resume format that has won me more interviews that I can count is a chorological resume.  This type of resume lists your work history /experiences in a descending time line from most recent job and continues no more than 10 years or 4 jobs previously.

But I add a twist, not anything new but something that is more effective than any thing else I have tried and that is to simply list projects you were a part of , how they benefited the company, and any achievements such as promotions you may have received.  Then at the end, list what you were initially hired for but use no more that one short sentence.

The reason this works is that not only does it highlight your skills and competencies it also shows that you are worth much more to the company then the short one liner job you were initially hired for.

Whatever you do please do yourself the favor and not say as Account Executive I did blah, blah, and became the blah, blah.  When you constantly restate your position held it indicates to the person reading your resume that is the only thing you are capable of being.

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