Have you tied everything up neatly? Don’t include information that has nothing to do with the job at hand. If you hate working with animals, please don’t include the summer internship you were a dog walker. Your luck, the only thing that will register with the reader will be that and your next call is to walk her 3 barky barky dogs in the park. Focus on what you do the best and join all your experience in that same theme. Sort of like a story. It has a beginning, middle and an end. There is nothing to make me scratch my head and wonder, what does this mean?
Don’t confuse the printer or computer with some fancy schmancy font that is too small and doesn’t come loaded on a regular computer. Being bold, different and an out of the box thinker should come through via your successes in the job, not muddled in an indistinguishable on a resume font.
Keep it simple stupid. That’s right. Giving too much information is just as bad as giving too little. The hiring manager wants your call to action bullets upfront and very personal. Don’t make them hunt you down like a wounded animal. That is too much work for someone to exert before you are on the payroll. And, fyi, they will hire you to make their life easier, not harder.
Who are you? You certainly know your strong selling points and what they mean to you. Imagine the reader coming from a different country and not familiar with your company name or specific jargon.
This is exactly my point. Proof read your work and self-edit before you send it to the entire world. Most people don’t know how to read between the lines and if they do, they probably are reading in a different language.
2009 ·SDN Consulting by TNB