The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a resume as a brief description of the career and qualifications normally prepared by an applicant for a position.
The reality is that when you create your resume, you are like an artist / painter. Your pen is the brush and the paper is your canvas. Create a masterpiece and it will sell! Paint a fiasco and your own resume will abuse you.
The main purpose of a resume along with the accompanying cover letter is to get you interviewed, pure and simple.
The way to achieve this is to show your strengths and achievements and minimize your weaknesses (we all have them). If you write your resume correctly, the strengths will appear stronger and the weaknesses will be less visible.
Remember, now is not the time to be modest – if you don’t tell the hiring manager how good you are and what you can do for your company, no one else will.
You have up to 5-10 seconds to grab the attention of the person reading your resume for the first time, so your skills and abilities need to be quickly viewed and relevant.
Listed below are the ways your resume should be used.
What does a resume do?
– Your resume organizes your career by selecting and presenting specific events clearly and concisely.
– It forces you to take an inventory of your achievements: the more you understand about yourself, the more capable you become of explaining yourself to others.
– A resume should stimulate the employer’s interest in meeting you.
– Good resumes tell the company that they would benefit from being called in for a personal interview.
However, the bottom line is that their ONLY purpose is to get you an interview.
When the hiring manager first reads the resume, he should:
– make the reader want to learn more – a joke.
– Quickly convey how and why you are better than the rest of the candidates in the pile of resumes they have.
– tell them what you did and how well you did it.
– show that you are uniquely qualified to solve the problem the employer is having.
In the interview the curriculum:
– is a basis on which to start a discussion.
– serves as an agenda for a discussion, which means that you have predetermined the structure of the interview.
– acts like leaving behind.
After the interview:
– The person (s) interviewing you can use your resume to strengthen your case with other team members.
– The resume serves as an overview for other members of the organization.
See your resume through the eyes of the hiring manager:
– A resume reflects your image; Anything that doesn’t help you get an interview shouldn’t be on your resume.
– View a resume as your own personal ad.
– The past is relevant only to the extent that it shows its potential for the future.
– When in doubt, leave it out!
A good resume:
– you focus on the skills and abilities you have that are most relevant and important to the job you are looking for.
– focuses on your accomplishments and accomplishments, not just the responsibilities you had in each job.
– reveals the results of your achievements.
– You must project your career as a series of progressive achievements.
– should be short in words and long in deeds.
– it is attractive to the eye and visually appealing.
Just remember, your past accomplishments and accomplishments are relevant only as far as what you can do now for the hiring company. No matter how good you were at a previous company, for the recruiting company, it’s all about what you can do for them.
