Help Me Find a Job – Part 2

This week, let’s look at pulling together your resumé. Your resumé is your marketing tool to get you a job, so take the time to craft it and alter it for different industries. It will take many rewrites to get to a final version so be patient. Here are 10 tips to get you started.

1. Make sure all the information on your resume is accurate and it should be typed.{{more}}

2. If you use your cell phone as a contact number, please remove all ring tones or music on your voicemail until after you have the job.

3. Use a professional email address e.g Your name556@gmail.com. Do not use emails addressees like cute@gmail, xxoo@yahoo.com.

4. Use strong verbs to describe what you have accomplished, but do not go overboard. If you answered the phone in a small office with one or two lines, that’s different from managing multiple phone lines as in 5 or 10 lines. Here are some examples:

– Accelerated – Accomplished
– Achieved – Acquired
– Activated – Recorded
– Recruited – Reduced
– Referred – Regulated
– Rehabilitated – Reinforced
– Eliminated – Enacted
– Encouraged

5. Don’t just list tasks, demonstrate how your contributions impacted your employer. Did you increase sales, streamline a system that saved the company money etc?

6. Do not use titles that are inappropriate for the tasks you performed. In other words, you are not a manager if you fill in for a colleague for a short period of time.

7. Review your resumé for grammatical errors, as it will end up in the garbage if it contains them.

8. Enlist the help of a professional who can also review your resumé. Ask them if they would hire you based on your resumé only.

9. Type your resumé in Times New Roman or Arial font in size 12 point. If you are using a Mac font Geneva 10 point is good.

10. Use a resumé design that grabs the reader’s attention. Check online for different design ideas, but keep it simple. Using extra large font, fancy design and nice resumé paper will not make you look great.

11. If you have a specific position you are applying for, read the job descriptions carefully then craft your resumé to suit the position.

Karen Hinds is “The Workplace Success Expert” For a FREE SPECIAL REPORT on 7 Ways to Develop your Competitive Edge in the Workplace, send an email to info@workplacesuccess.com Visit online at www.workplacesuccess.com