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Why focus on your resume when finding a job?
In the first place, how do you project yourself? Remember that you are marketing yourself to this new employer when finding a job. And your resume is the first tool you will use. So how your resume looks like in the eyes of the potential employer will more often than not make or break your application.
While there are other considerations you need to look at when finding a job, such as your financial considerations, your family’s readiness for the change, your network contacts being updated, the resume is the first step. Your resume will project your capability and readiness to take on a new job. Taking a look at your resume with an objective eye will help a lot in that projection.
How do you write your resume?
Bill Gates was looking at ease and facility when he introduced all those templates into Microsoft Word’s array of features. But if you were a prospective employer, will you not rather look at a fresh resume instead of one that is very obviously a product of a software template?
But then again, you need not start from scratch totally. Those template tools will at least provide you with a working outline to craft your resume with ease and readiness. But there the ease should end. You have to study and be careful about the things you put into your resume and how they are presented. Be as objective as possible in projecting your best light. Also, take pain to customize how you write your resume so that its contents will specifically match the position you are applying for. Here, templates won’t do the work for you; it’ll be up to your creativity and innovativeness to convince a potential employer to read your resume.
What should your resume contain?
You know the usual already: your academic background, your additional training and education related to the job being applied for, your work experiences and some of your personal information. But presenting all these in an impressive way will make the difference. It is not enough to say that you are results-oriented; provide specific examples of some of the results you have delivered in your present or past jobs. It is not enough to say that you are a servant-leader; show concrete projects where you were able to lead a team into performing extra-ordinarily. It is not enough to say that you work not only for recognition but also for personal achievement; provide examples of how you bring in personal triumphs into accomplishing professional ones.
When you have presented your personal and professional ‘self’ in your resume, make sure you have the conviction to drive them home during the interview. Now that you’ve crafted your resume and are ready for the other stages of the application like the interview and the negotiations, you are well on your way to finding a job most suitable for you and your prospective employer.
28.12.2007. 06:59
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