Resume Writing
Writing a winning resume.
It all starts with your resume – a short, concise and highly valuable look at your
professional life on paper. In nearly all cases, your resume will have to compete
strongly with a host of other resumes. Your "life on paper" will co-exist in a stack
of others – all vying to grab the attention of the person who's job it is to wean
through the masses and glean out the winner. Hopefully, that's you.
A few tips:
- Stay focused. Remember that your resume is a marketing tool, not a detailed description of your personal and professional life.
- Sell yourself. Don't just itemize your work history, describe how you perform and what you can bring to a new employer.
- List accomplishments. Create a clear, concise picture of what you've done.
- State your objective. Accurately describe what you want to do in your professional world.
- Keep it short. Fluff can hurt you.
- Stay recent. It's rarely ever necessary to go back beyond 10-15 years.
- Be relevant. Avoid listing things like your hobbies or religious affiliation.
- Focus on information. Recruiters are often annoyed or sidetracked by fancy paper or overly complex formats.
- Keep your reader in mind. Answer questions before they need to be asked – if your name is Jamie, don't keep them wondering if you're a mister or miss.
- Create an advantage. Describe relevant volunteer or civic work if it pertains to the job you seek; sell your winning attributes.
Sample Resumes – Great ideas worth sharing
Your resume can sell you to a potential employer – it’s the sum total of your work abilities and experience, all on one sheet of paper. So how you put your resume together can be critical.
Learn from what others – including industry experts – can share. Use these links to research various resume types and actual samples so that you can create a resume that gets results.
(Note: These links are provided as reference only. Pro Staff does not endorse, and is not affiliated with, any organization or service represented.)
http://www.bestsampleresume.com/
http://www.distinctiveweb.com/samples.htm
http://www.jobweb.com/resources/library/Samples/default.htm
http://www.career-resumes.com/resume_samples.html
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/sampleresumes/a/sampleresume2.htm
http://www.careerperfect.com/content/resume-writing-help-sample-resumes/
http://www.susanireland.com/resumeindex.htm
http://jobstar.org/tools/resume/samples.php
http://www.resume-resource.com/
http://www.resumeedge.com/