Tips of Creating a Superior Resume

A resume is the first vital tool that an HR personal will look into, whether to include the candidate to their short list or not. They will normally go for the superior one, which they feel reflects they owner of it. Resume can be in any format, but how do we create a good one. Here are some tips of how to create a desirable resume.

1. Start with a ‘Powerful Statement’
Most of resume writers assume that resume should start with an objective. Not to say that it is not true, but doesn’t it will better if we start it with a power statement that will get the attention of the person who reads it. Here is an example, ‘An Experienced Processor with excellent computer skills and able to work independently.’ Doesn’t it strike the reader’s mind to impatiently find out what is so special about the candidate?

2. Keep it brief and short.
HR personnel normally spend a few seconds (15-20 seconds) on a resume. So we should not expect that they will get the full picture of the candidates. The shorter the resume, the more desirable it will be. Try to write the whole thing in one page.

3. Put the best criteria about you at the upper half of your resume.
If your experience is far better than other criteria, put it on top. If your achievement is the best, put it up and same goes to your academic status. Why is this important? Again, normally the reader does not have much time to read the whole resume. The first part will be the vital part that they will normally go through.

4. Always check your spelling. Make sure that are perfectly correct.
Depending on word auto checker is not enough. You will have to check them manually at least 3 times, and it is better to include an additional reading it backward. Sometimes, this will help to detect error.

5. Try to use as many specific symbols as possible.
The specific symbol means using numbers, figures and percentages when they are required. Try to avoid using spelling of this character when actually you can use a simple symbol.

6. Try to put yourself into Employer’s Shoe.
Try to write what your potential employer want to read, what you can offer for them and eventually they will seek candidates that have potential in solving problems.

No matter how you want to write your resume, do remember the power of sincerity and do not ‘over express them’.

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10 Ways Your Résumé Irks Hiring Managers

Fashion designer Coco Chanel had a personal rule: Before she left the house, the style icon always removed one piece of her ensemble to avoid the faux-pas of wearing too many accessories.  Were Chanel alive today and working as a hiring manager, she would likely offer similar advice to job seekers: You don’t have to include everything.

Job seekers do themselves a disservice when they send out résumés with more information than they need. Most employers don’t have the time or patience to sift through the irrelevant details. Here are 10 things your résumé could do without:

1. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
“If you are careless enough to send out this most important document with a mistake…I immediately assume you’ll never care enough about the work you send out representing my company,” says Jose Bandujo, president of New York-based Bandujo Advertising. He recalls one candidate who misspelled Manhattan, despite having worked in the city for a decade and another whose great educational background didn’t compensate for the fact that he couldn’t spell “education.”

2. Opening objectives.
“These are generic…They do nothing to differentiate one candidate from another,” says Donna Flagg, president of The Krysalis Group, a human resource and management consulting firm in New York.

3.  Personal attributes.
Listing personal information such as height, weight and age and providing photographs is a pet peeve for Heather Mayfield, vice president of training and operations for Snelling Staffing Services.  “It is amazing that we still see this on the résumés of today, but they are out there.”

4. Interests and hobbies.
If these points of information don’t pertain to the job in question, there’s no need to include them.  “Create a mystery and save these kinds of data points when you start the job,” advises Roy Blitzer, author of “Hire Me, Inc.: Résumés and Cover Letters that Get Results.”

5. Details of every task you’ve ever performed in every job you’ve ever had.
“It’s too much information. Managers and recruiters need to know at-a-glance what makes a candidate special,” Flagg says. Focus on those details that pertain to the job for which you’re applying.

6. Excessive bragging.
Stating one’s accomplishments can be helpful, but when it’s overdone, the candidate can come across as narcissistic, a huge turnoff for employers, Flagg says.

7. Outdated information.
Leave off the activities that you did in high school if graduation was a few years ago and omit jobs you held 10 or more years ago, as the information is probably irrelevant to the position you’re trying for now.

8. False information.
“Putting [that you have] a B.S. on a résumé when you do not have one is ‘BS,’” jokes Stephen Viscusi, author of “On the Job: How to Make it in the Real World of Work.” Not only is lying on a résumé unfair and dishonest, it’s also not very intelligent.  “Companies verify dates of employment – often after you start. If you have lied, they fire you…Nobody wants to hire a liar. Nobody.”

By Mary Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com writer

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