You must have often heard the popular saying, “First impression is the best impression.” Well now, note that your resume is that first opportunity to make the best impression on your prospective employer. It is the channel through which you open conversation with your future boss, for the first time. So, make sure you are at your best!From a fresh graduate to an experienced manager, most people are lost when it comes to deciding what information about themselves they should mention in their resumes. Here is some help.
Interesting Facts!
* A resume parser decides whether or not the recruiting manager should even see your resume.
* The recruiter may spend less than five seconds to go through a resume!
Before you embark on building your resume, be informed that your resume is read by a resume parser and a hiring manager. Therefore, you have to impress them both!
Passing the parser test:
To make sure that the parser picks up your resume from the database or a job portal, fill it with key words relevant to the job. For instance, if you are applying for a sales job in a pharmaceutical company, words like sales, business development, marketing, healthcare, product launch, distributor management, sales analysis and customer support can do the trick. You will understand how to use the keywords efficiently after reading this article.
Look to stand out:
In the next stage, a hiring manager, with all this knowledge and experience will assess your resume and decide whether you should even be called for the job interview. The only way to impress him is through thorough research.
Hiring managers are interested in
what you know, what you did and
what you can do – that is what they look for in your resume. This indicates that you cannot use a standard resume for every job you apply. You have to understand what the manager expects from a person in the specific job role and tailor your resume accordingly. You can do this when you know enough about the organisation and the job role. So, do research.
Go through the company’s website and understand what they do, their goals, values and culture. Read about the company from newspapers, magazines and the Internet. Talk to current and ex-employees of the organisation.
Follow the thumb rules:
After arming yourself with comprehensive information about the company and the job roles, it is time to actually build the resume.
Given below are some quick pointers for the same:
- Be honest
- Restrict the resume to only one or two pages
- Divide the resume into separate sections to talk about work experience, credentials, skills, awards, personal details, etc
- Mention your name and contact details in the first section of the resume
- Talk about the current job followed by the previous job or educational qualification; use as many keywords as possible
- Mention first the details of the highest degree followed by those of lower degrees
- Focus on achievements rather than responsibilities and aspirations; use keywords
- Back your assertions with evidence (instead of saying that you are an amazing sales person, mention the targets you have achieved); use keywords
- Highlight your traits and skills that can be useful to the job; again use keywords
- Keep the sentences short and simple; use bullet points wherever you can
- Your resume is all about you; drop the pronoun ‘I’ (Use ‘‘Demonstrated intelligence and tact’ instead of ‘I demonstrated intelligence…’)
- Do not clutter your resume with colours, special fonts and other embellishments
- Avoid personal information like marital status, number of siblings or children, hobbies, etc; avoid photographs
- Run spelling and grammar check before you send the resume to the employer.Resumes can make or mar your prospects of getting short-listed for a job interview. So, take all the care you can while preparing a resume.
DID YOU KNOW :* Resume parser is a technology that allows the screening of resumes in an intelligent way. These days, recruiters receive hundreds and even thousands of resumes for the few job openings they post. It is impracticable to go through all of them. Therefore, they use parsing tools that shortlist only the resumes that have certain Keywords.
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