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Why This Is An Excellent Resume

Why This Is An Excellent Resume
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How to rock LinkedIn: The beginner's guide What do recruiters look for in a resumé at first glance? How to Quantify Your Resume Bullets (When You Don't Work With Numbers) You’ve likely heard the advice to add numbers to your resume bullets. It helps recruiters really picture the impact you’ve made in your position, and it frankly just sounds more impressive. See for yourself. Which person would you hire? Person 1: Duties included taking field measurements and maintaining records, setting up and tracking project using Microsoft Project, and developing computerized material take off sheets.Person 2: Initiated and managed tracking systems used for the Green District water decontamination project, saving $125,000 on the overall project through a 30% decrease of staff allocation time. Exactly. Of course, I know what you might be thinking: Sounds great, but what if I just don’t really work with hard numbers? That’s OK! 1. Not knowing the exact figure for things is often a big deterrent for using numbers in resumes. Give it your best estimate, and the range will show that there is a bit of leeway. 2. 3. Photo of numbers courtesy of Shutterstock.

10 Words Recruiters Hate Seeing on Your Resume (and 10 They Love) We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: With so little space and so much awesome information about your career to share, it’s critical that you get picky with the words you use on your resume. Unfortunately, when trying to make a resume that stands out, people often get a little too, shall we say, creative with their word choices, opting for corporate-sounding buzzwords that they think hiring managers want to hear, rather than simply describing their accomplishments. Well, we’ve got news for you: It’s time to cut the jargon. Last week, CareerBuilder released the results of a survey asking more than 2,000 hiring managers and human resource professionals about their biggest resume word turn-offs (and turn-ons). You can check out a sampling of the best and worst words below (and the full list at CareerBuilder, but the bigger takeaway is this: When it comes to the words you choose on your resume, keep it simple. The Worst Resume Terms The Best Resume Terms

The Resume Summary Statement: When You Need One and How to Do It It’s been well established that the good ol’ objective statement has gone out of fashion in the world of resumes. But what’s all this about its replacement—the summary statement? Depending on who you ask and how you’re using it, summary statements can either be a complete waste of space or a total game changer. For those of you who don’t know, a summary statement (also known as “Summary of Qualifications” or just “Competencies”) essentially consists of a few pithy and strong statements at the beginning of your resume that help summarize your skills and experience in order for a prospective employer to quickly get a sense of the value you could offer. Here’s a sample: Summary Sounds great, right? The short answer is, it depends. If you do decide that a summary statement is right for you, get ready to do some digging and some introspection. Once you have these two cardinal rules down, the real fun begins. Step 1: Figure Out Where You’re Going Ask Yourself What skills do you most enjoy using?

Beat the Robots: How to Get Your Resume Past the System & Into Human Hands Landing an interview for a position in a giant organization can feel impossible if you don’t have any personal connections. People often blame the sheer volume of resumes that are submitted—HR simply can’t review them all with enough detail to see what a perfect candidate you are! And this is partially true—one study suggests that recruiters spend only six seconds looking at each resume. However, many resumes are trashed before they’re even seen by human eyes. How is that possible? Here’s how: Many large organizations rely on applicant tracking systems (ATS) to help pre-filter resumes. Undoubtedly, this saves HR managers the time and trouble of sorting through irrelevant, underprepared, and weak resumes to find the golden candidates. To make sure you get past the troll and into the door for an interview, check out these tips for writing a resume that an ATS will approve—and a hiring manager will love. 1. Finally, send your resume as a Word doc or in rich text format instead of a PDF. 2.

How to Tailor Your Resume for a Job Applying for a job? You’ve probably heard the advice plenty of times (like here, here, and here) to tailor your resume for the position. But, you might not know exactly how to put it in action. What does tailoring your resume actually involve? It might sound like a lot of work, but it’s really quite manageable. 1. First things first: Sit down with a highlighter and really read the job description. This is always step one—after all, you can’t tailor your resume for a position if you don’t really know what the gig entails. 2. Next, with your newfound knowledge of what the hiring manager is looking for, take your resume, find the experience that would make him or her most excited about your application, and rework the document so that’s what’s at the top. And yes, even if it’s not the most recent. 3. Now that your relevant experiences are at the top of your resume, that doesn’t mean you should ignore everything else. 4. Of course, sometimes there’s only so much you can do.

Resume Tips for an Executive Resume Crafting a killer resume is hard for most of us. Talking about ourselves in a robust, compelling manner tends to make us feel like cocky braggarts, so we often undersell our capabilities. We get tangled up in the so-called structural rules. If you’re an executive (or striving to become one), you’ve got one additional level of complexity, and it’s not a small one: You’ve got to make your resume “executive-y” enough so that you can play ball with the big dogs. It’s not an easy task, but if you’re heading for the C-suite, here are a few reasonably simple tips that will help you position yourself well. 1. Ding dong, the career objective is dead, especially if you’re an executive. Yes, yes, we know. For our executive resume clients, we typically showcase four to five bullet points that highlight the person’s overarching value proposition (or, as we call it, her “So what?”) This is your most valuable resume real estate. 2. The best way to make it instantly clear that you know how to do this?

Create a Social Media Resume in Four Easy Steps Enter “SOCIALMEDIA” at checkout for $75 off any resume order This practical and detailed guide teaches you exactly how to stand out in the right way and separate yourself from the hundreds of other applicants vying for social media jobs by creating the very best social media resume. Social media management and online marketing jobs are still allow you the chance to grow with this burgeoning industry – if you start now. However, all to often corporate hiring managers don’t understand the ins and outs of digital marketing. What is Hootsuite? Facebook Power Editor? You’ll need more than 140 characters to stand out from the other Social Media Coordinators and Digital Strategists in the world. The Resume to Interviews team has created resumes and CVs for 5,200 clients since 2007. A key part of landing any social media management position is showing that you are up-to-date with cultural, internet, and industry trends. Objective Statement: Bad Example Summary of Qualifications: Good Example

The Four Things That Will Get You Noticed By Recruiters Whether you’re actively searching for a new job or you just want to be kept in the loop of potential opportunities, standing out among the crowd is the key to attracting the attention of a recruiter. When creating your résumé and social media profiles, keep these tips in mind: Study Your Past Experience Dan Ogden, principal of Omnibus Consulting, a knowledge economy executive search firm, says the "I can do this for you" approach that most of us use on our résumés is flawed. "The perfect cover letter for any position would say, ‘I have done the exact job you are advertising for your business,'" he says. Show, Don’t Tell While most job applicants tend to list responsibilities on their résumés, Ogden recommends a slightly different approach. Showing what you have accomplished relative to the responsibilities, and quantifying those achievements, is key to standing out. "The résumés that stand out are the ones that show what (the candidate) did with the responsibilities they were given.

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