Professional Documents
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Tips for
Resume Writing
Are you suffering seconds scanning each resume. Most employers
from resume-writer’s are more concerned about career achievements
block? Does everyone than education. Place the most interesting and
else’s resume seem compelling facts about yourself at the beginning,
more professional and such as a list of accomplishments in order of
better worded than relevance.
yours? The following
are some guidelines to 5. Emphasize your skills.
help you create a bet- Use a skills or capabilities section in your
ter resume: resume that is organized around the main talents
you have to offer. Prioritize everything.
1. Be neat and error free.
Catch all typo’s and grammar er- 6. Use keywords.
rors. Make sure someone proofreads Include specific keywords and
your resume, preferably someone phrases that describe your skills
attentive to details. Even the smallest “Portray and experience, such as Product
error could land your resume in the Launch, Income Statement, Balance
yourself as Sheet, Sales, Account Management,
reject pile.
active, accomplished, C++, Visual Basic, Word Process-
2. Write a powerful opening intelligent....” ing, MS Excel, Adobe Illustrator,
statement. Graphic Design, and Advertising.
Form a solid, clear opening
statement that will help you carry 7. Use industry jargon.
a focused message throughout the Use industry jargon and
resume. The best opening state- acronyms to reflect your familiar-
ments summarize your skills and emphasize your ity with the employer’s business, but not to the
strengths. point where it makes your resume hard to read or
understand. Spell out acronyms in parentheses if
3. Focus on your benefit to they are not obvious, such as TQM (Total Quality
employers. Management).
Focus on highlighting accomplishments that
will arouse the interest of employers who read 8. Use action verbs.
your resume. Answer the question: “How can Portray yourself as active, accomplished,
this candidate fulfill the role and make a positive intelligent, and capable of contributing. Examples:
impact?” Remember that the goal is to get the Managed, Launched, Created, Directed, Estab-
interview. lished, Organized, and Supervised.
Prepare
Resumes & Letters
20. Write your own resume.
Be personal, yet professional. Create a resume consider placing it under your education instead
that reflects your best personal characteristics and and change the section title to “Education and
positive traits. Training”.