21 Ways to Improve Your Resume
Your resume is critical to your job search success. It must be a highly effective resumé to capture the employer’s attention in today’s market. Here’s what employers recommend, based on a national survey conducted with 600 Hiring Managers.
1. EMPHASIZE RESULTS!
This was the top survey response. State the action you performed and the achieved results. Include details about what you increased or decreased. Use numbers to reflect, how much, how many, and percentage of gain or reduction. Stress money earned or time savings. Example: Managed the project for implementing a new tracking system that resulted in a 17% decrease in cost overruns.
You’ve worked hard to get here. You’ve sent out 31 resumes, networked, attended job fairs, enrolled in school for more education – you’ve taken all the right steps.
Whether you are out of work by circumstance or by choice, there are several things to learn by others’ job search experiences. Each of the job searchers featured in this article was out of work at least 4 months; one participant had not had a paying job in over 20 years! Their search experiences are unique, yet have similar themes. You can learn from their successes as well as their blunders.
Resumes, ah resumes! How they are ever with us, in any talk about the job-hunt, whether in magazines, newspapers, or in books, or on the Internet.