10 Tips To Consider When Writing Your Resume

Monday, June 30, 2008

Free Resume Examples Articles : 10 Tips To Consider When Writing Your Resume by Timothy Kessler

A resume is a document reflecting the professionalism of an individual desiring employment. A such, a resume must be written well if it were to serve it's intended purpose which is to increase the chance of being invited for an interview. Thus, effort is necessary to create a resume that will stand out and draw the attention of the person contemplating your employment. While writing a resume may be a daunting task for some, here are 10 tips that will maximize the effectiveness of your resume.

1) Use resume formats and designs that grab attention.

2) Identify the specific skills and traits that the potential employer desires and word your resume so that it addresses these desires.

3) List your qualifications in order of relevance, from the most relevant to the least.

4) Whenever possible, quantify your experiences and successes. Try to cite numerical figures, e.g. monetary amounts/funds saved, time periods improved due to efficiency, lines of codes written or debugged, number of machines administered or fixed, etc. This will clearly demonstrate accomplishments achieved while at work.

5) Start your sentence with action verbs. Use your resume to sell yourself as an active person who uses their brain and gets things done.

6) Don't sell yourself short. Always keep in mind that your experiences, no matter how insignificant you may think they are, are worthy to be reviewed by a hiring manager. Your resume should be treated as an advertisement of yourself.

7) Avoid lengthy and wordy descriptions of projects, which you were only partly involved. Keep your resume concise.

8) Never forget to proof read. Your resume is the first impression a potential interviewer has of you. It must never go out with errors, grammatical mistakes, unusual punctuation and inconsistent capitalization. Have a trusted friend review your resume.

9) When describing your Work Experience, arrange it as "Problem-Action-Results". First state the problem that existed in your workplace, then describe what you did to solve it and finally point out the beneficial results, quantified as much as possible.

10) Don't go too far back in your work history. Between 10 to 15 years should be the maximum. That is, unless your best work experience is further back.

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About the Author
Timothy lives in sunny Malaysia. Currently married to Vella Marie, he has two beautiful children Angel and Pierce.

Having travelled the length and breadth of Malaysia, he has worked in a vast number of fields and now is serving as Call Centre Manager for one of South East Asia's largest telecommunication corporation.

Timothy enjoys reading and expanding his mind but nothing compares to his love for writing and surfing the internet.

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