résumé writing
This is the most important personal marketing collateral you can have. Unless you have a recruitment consultant out there representing you, reminding, prompting, chasing opportunities and following up for you, you will find it tough going. Employers and recruiting agencies get hundreds of applicants every week. How are you going to stand out? You’ve got three (3) seconds to make an impression, to make them turn the page and continue to read about you, to then pop yours on the pile to take to their desk, to read and contact later.
Resume writing is an art, a powerful marketing mechanism that creates a unique snapshot of you. Good resume writing is the difference between being interviewed or not. Great resume writing can get you in front of the decision maker so you can shine. Great resume writing is about getting interview opportunities every time.
Resume writing tips:
- Remember your resumes job is to get you to interview; it needs to be concise, informative, interesting and appropriate to the position.
- Adapt your resume to the position you are applying by using keywords relevant to the position.
- Length of document: always less than 5 pages plus a cover letter.
- If your resume has many years career experience elaborate on the last three positions and put the rest in a table with headings Company, Position, Dates and Responsibilities.
- Put some personality in there somewhere…remember your audience possibly has piles of resumes to scan.
- Always get someone else to proof read.
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Rebekah consults between Bellingen, Sydney, Canberra & Melbourne.
