Lets
Organize Resume-By
now you should have visited my previous
pages, and have in your hands a printed new resume. Stay with us,
as organize resume,
where you are now, will show you the difference in
your resume
when you make it stand out.
Yes
we all realize organization and attention to detail is the key to
success.Whether
you’re a Vice
President of Marketing or a recent college grad,
your resume is the ‘key’ to opening the doors of employment. With only
60 seconds to make a first impression, it is imperative that your
resume be as
organized and professional as you can possibly make it.
Skim your new resume
as if you were the person doing
the hiring. What parts stand out? Think about what words or sections
jumped out at
you, circle them in red, and use them within the body of your new
resume in a bullet style fashion.
Today's job market is
increasingly competitive, sometimes
hundreds of
people
apply for the same job. This competition means that
certain parts of you message are more important today than others have
been in the past. In general, the resume writer wants to stress the
employment-related skills, achievements, awards/honors,
responsibilities, duties, and actions that make him/her a good
candidate. So organize resume to make it stand out better.
Lets organize resume as I mentioned before, by laying out all
of your past jobs on a sheet of paper, then start highlighting the most
eye catching features. I like to bold face type all of my red circled
features on my new resume in a bullet list under the previous job.
Example 1:
See how the bold text above, stands out from the rest of the article
drawing your attention to it?
Instead of listing your Qualifications like example 2 below;
Example 2:
Knowledgeable in quality procedures, lock/out tag/out procedures and
MSDS procedures. Production scheduling, purchasing production supplies.
Get your Qualifications more organized and make them a bold, bullet
list, like the example below, to make them pop out.
Objective:
Production Scheduler
Qualifications:
Knowledgeable in quality procedures
lock/out tag/out procedures and MSDS
procedures.
Production scheduling, purchasing
production supplies.
Now if I were to glance this article over again in say 30 seconds or
so, what do you think I see?
Sometimes
hundreds of people apply for the same job.
Also I see your
highlighted experience that you created with a bold bullet
list. So I am going to sort your resume out of the stack of resumes and
put it in the keep list for a second look.
Again, sometimes 5 to 6 people sit at the conference table and go
through the stack of resumes in front of each of them. Some in the no
section, and some in the yes section. Organize it with everything you
can, to make it stand out.
Check out
the Organize Resume tips on the two examples below.
Now doesn't the top example stand out better. At first glance I see John Doe---Scheduler---Qualifications, all
5 in bold and all organized with bullets.
The
second example, I kind of have to decipher the qualifications myself,
and I just don't think that's a good idea, when you can make it stand
out yourself.
After you get the resume you printed out at the end of the Resume Draft section,
looking like example 1
above, in the top picture, stay with us a little longer
and go to the next section, Review
Resume for more tips.