You are about to embark on the single most important aspect of your job hunting campaign - the preparation of your RESUME. Your resume, as you know, is the most important job-search tool you have. It is important that you create a distinctive document designed to capture attention and get you that interview. It must do a sufficiently good job of both representing and selling your qualifications.
A well-prepared resume serves as a road map that expertly leads where you want the interviewer to go. It efficiently guides the interviewer through your background in a logical, concise manner with clearly marked road signs that highlight your major accomplishments and key qualification. .
For a resume to be successful, it must do THREE things:.
Convey a positive image of yourself to the employer in less than five seconds.
Showcase how you can satisfy the employer's needs better than any other applicant.
Compel the employer to contact you for an interview.
How can a resume do this?.
You must know what skills the employer requires in an employee.
You must have expertise in the written word.
You must know how to produce a document that will highlight relevant skills in an informative, effective and concise manner.
In scanning the employment resume, the Recruiting Manager is looking for key knockout factors - factors that clearly spell no interest and signal to stop reading and move on to the next resume. These factors should be consciously avoided when preparing your employment resume. .
Examples of quick knockout factors:.
Job objective incompatible with current openings.
Inappropriate or insufficient educational credentials.
Incompatible salary requirements.
Geographic restrictions incompatible with current openings.
Lack of citizenship or permanent residence status.
Resume poorly organised, sloppy or hard to read.
