Top Five Tips to Give Your Resume the Much-Needed Boost

Resume is a marketing tool, which showcases the skills of a professional to the prospective employers. This is perhaps a decisive step in the pursuit of getting a job, so it should be fool-proof. There are a number of aspects that play an important role in boosting your resume, however customizing that to a specific job is the key. Let's see what all factors contribute in creating a successful resume.

Top Five Tips from the HR managers

The most repeated question to a HR manager is what they look for on a resume, which comes to their inbox? In 2008, many HR managers across United States have been interviewed by E-Mail to find some tips to creating a successful resume. The common answer to that cliché question is to keep the resume and covering letter customized according to the company and the Industry.

1. Customizing the Resume

In simple words, if you are looking for a job in the manufacturing, try to avoid the credentials of IT industry and vice versa. The common practice that we could see across the globe is creating one generic resume for the jobs across all the industries. This is fatal, when it comes to boosting your resume. Customize the resume as per your requirements.

2. Focus on Resume Objective

These are the commons things, which the candidate should give emphasis on.

* Give emphasis on background and skill
* Do not clutter the resume with 'too much' information
* Keep it short
* Be clear of the Job description and use resume writing tips to alter the resume accordingly.

3. Small Changes Can Make Big Difference

Let's take an example of a job opening for a copy writer for a text book publishing company. As the primary step, the job seeker should thoroughly go through the company's website and learn more about their way of doing business, products and more importantly about the job profile. The next step, which the job seeker should do, is to create a resume that emphasis on his/her accomplishments, skills sets and experience pertaining to the job profile. The resume should always be send along with a customized and well written Cover letter. While writing a resume one must encompass all the excitement and enthusiasm of the self, so as to entice the employer when they flip through it.

4. Give Emphasis on Your Accomplishments

If you are applying for the post of a Sales Professional, nothing else matters than the number of sales you have closed in your previous job. As sales rely more on numbers, it is important to have a good sales record to present in your resume. Show all your achievements on your résumé, even if you think some might not hold any value. In some case you will make the cut if you have won accolades for some thing like 'good presentation' and you are applying for a position which needs to have good presentation skills.

5. Inject Some Vigor in Your Writing

Routine resumes can take you nowhere. To add certain vigor to your Curriculum Vitae you can take the help of some resume software or even a professional resume writer for creating a successful resume.

Finally, the main focus should be on making your resume outstanding so as to make others believe in your capabilities.

The Three C’s of creating a resume

Irrespective of the job that you are looking for, you need to follow the three principles or three C’s of resume writing to get a good feedback. The three C’s refer to Clarity, Coherence and Confidence – the main ingredients of a great resume.

Clarity

Having clarity of all the aspects to be contained in a resume is very important. You must have a well stated and obvious objective. Also, you must include all the necessary information pertaining to your educational background and employment history. Everything that is required for the job should be visible. If you can present an easily readable resume, you stand greater chances of being considered for the position.

Coherence

You always write a resume with a purpose. Therefore, you must provide all the relevant information to get noticed. For instance, if you are now applying for the post of an executive, you need not mention what you’ve done in your college days or when you were struggling. Maintain coherence. Giving irrelevant information would bore the readers and they might not even notice what you’ve mentioned in the later part of your resume. Be professional and highlight your objective.

Confidence

Your resume should reveal confidence. Employers prefer those candidates, who are confident about their skills and abilities, and therefore it is extremely important to utilize the correct words and phrases to demonstrate your level of confidence in writing your resume. Nonetheless, you must be clear about the subtle difference between confidence and overconfidence. Confidence seems good but overconfidence is taken as arrogance. Avoid being excessively foregoing in explaining your capabilities and proficiency. Sentences that begin with “I am confident…” or “I am capable…” sounds better than something like “I am the only one…” These fine lines must be taken into account while applying for a job.

In a nutshell, you ought to be clear, coherent as well as confident in your approach, but within your limits. Your resume should be professional and very well written to match the expectation of the position that you wish to see yourself in.

How to Draft a Career Objective for Your Resume

One of the things that you should include when you are writing your resume is your career objective. All you career objective is, is a simple statement of what your career goals are. It sounds like something that should be easy to write but most of us find that it is the hardest part of drafting a resume. It is hard to break down your goals and dreams into a few words.

The Length of Your Career Objective

Most career experts say that your career objective should be fairly short, no longer than two sentences long. It should be very simple and easy for a potential employer to read.

What It Should Say

Obviously everyone's career objective is going to be unique to them. However, that doesn't mean that there isn't a standard formula you should try to adhere to. The best career objectives are personal, not generic. They should be warm and friendly, you want to think of your career statement as your resumes opening statement, it's an introduction to yourself. When you are drafting your career statement you want to give the person who is reading your resume the sense that you are very committed to your goal. You need to really believe in what you are saying; if you don't believe it, how is a person who has never met you going to take you seriously?

When you are drafting your career objective it is really important that you are very specific. There are two reasons that you need to be specific. The first reason is so that your career objective doesn't sound generic. The second reason is so that the person who is reading your resume knows what you are actually applying for and that you didn't just turn in a form resume.

What You Shouldn't Write

There are a few things that you shouldn't put in your career objectives. You should not say that your objective is to get the job, the person reading your resume already knows that you would like the job or else you wouldn't have turned in your resume. You also shouldn't write that your ultimate goal is to run the company, prospective employers like to hire forward thinkers but they seldom hire people to fill their shoes.

After you have finished writing your career objective have another person read what you wrote. Have them pretend that they have never met you and ask what impression they would make based solely on your career objective.

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