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5 Ways To Pump Up Your Resume

 

Make sure your resume hits the mark with these 5 steps.


1. Poof!  No resume gap.  Many job seekers have time periods they would love to play down.  Maybe they were short term assignements or periods where you dropped out of the workforce all together.  If the whole gap or forgettable job fits into the same calendar year, drop it of the resume entirely.  So instead of writing "June 2005-April 2009" write "2005-2009".

2.  Assignment consolidation.  The typical resume of a big company veteran is full of endless descriptions of meandering from one job to another.  Unless these same company jobs are truly distinct from one another no one cares when you moved from Desk A to Desk B.  Consolidate your jobs inside one employer under a heading like "marketing roles" or "operations assignments" instead.

3. Draw a picture.  If you weren't working for a brand name employer like IBM or Kraft the first thing perspective employer wants to know is what is done in that company.  Use a framing statement at the beginning of each job description to say what the employer did, like "Global Supply Compmay."

4.  Cut the jargon.  25% of the words in a typical resume are useless corporate jargon like "task-oriented manager" or "cross-functional collaborator."  These are energy sucking terms that waste space that should go to telling quick, pithy stories.

5.  Add a human voice.  Resumes are marketing documents.  Avoid sounding like everyone else anywhere you can. "I love to tackle a chaotic office and lower the panic and stress levels" is more human and specific than "attention to detail." 

Source: hotjobs.yahoo.com