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| Work : Resume Tips For Hard Copy |
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on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 01:18 PM MST - 747 Reads -  |
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1. Determine who will be reading your resume.
Who is reading you resume? A resources manager? A department manager? A headhunter? That reader - we'll call him or her a Hiring Manager, knows the kind of person they're looking for before they read the stack of resumes in front of them. That Manager is looking for someone with certain experience, certain skills, and certain training.
Your resume is not the only resume on their desk, it could be 1 of 100. The better the position and the bigger the company you are applying to, the more resumes yours will be competing against. Remember that the Hiring Manager is looking for a certain kind of person. They're not going to interview 100 people. They will interview 4-5 potential employee's who may be suitable for the position. You want to be one of those 4-5 people.
That Hiring Manager knows the kind of person they're going to hire. If you don't write what the Hiring manager is looking for, your resume will not make the short list. If you write exactly what the Manager wants to hear, you will be one of the 4-5 people interviewed.
2. Writing what the Hiring Manager would like to hear.
When most people write their resume (90%+) they are not thinking about what the Hiring Manager is looking for, they're thinking about themselves. They write their autobiography. The Hiring Manager is not interested in your life story. The Hiring Manager is looking for someone that demonstrates that they can do the job available and meet the job description better than the other 4-5 people who make the short list.
The Hiring Manager wants to hear what they want to hear. Your resume has to be honest, but it also has to focus on the part of your background that is relevant to what the Hiring Manager is looking for.
If the Hiring Manager, when reading your resume is thinking "there's nothing here that I need", they will read 1/3 of the page and go onto the next resume. If that Hiring Manager, while reading the resume is thinking "hey... this person has exactly what I need," you've got the interview.
3. Make your resume easy to read.
Too many resumes are written in the traditional paragraph format that is not easy to read. The Hiring Manager has 50-100 resumes and they will not read the paragraphs. They'll scan 1-2 lines of each paragraph.
Writing your resume in a bulleted format will enable the Manager to scan through your resume. Bulleted job descriptions are 3 times faster to read than the long paragraph format. In 30 seconds they can read a bullet format resume. It would take 60-90 seconds to read a paragraph format. It's well documented that employers spend only 30 seconds on the initial reading of a resume.
4. Write a resume with substance & depth.
Making your resume easy to read doesn't mean simplifying your job descriptions down to 2-3 lines. If you do this the Hiring Manager may think that you do not have the experience needed for the job position. On the other hand, if you have 8-12 bullets describing your recent jobs, the Manager will think that you can really take on significant responsibilities and are a potential employee. The bullet format enables you to say more and still be easy to read, as opposed to the paragraph format where the more you say the less is read. Bulleting is a win-win technique.
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