Your Resume Is Screening You Out Don t Let It Happen
one Correctly, a good history.
resume can:
Think keywords and specific ways
1. Be your calling card. you helped your employer make
2. Help you win an interview. money or save money.
3. Set your agenda during the
interview. The only benefit you can bring to
4. Continue to sell for you after the table is past performance.
you've left the interview. When you interview (either phone
or in person) this is what will
In today's real job search world, be discussed. But set the
your resume will often work groundwork now in your resume.
AGAINST you, knocking you out of Think of all your jobs in the
the search process before you've past and bring forth examples of
even had a chance to begin. some of your best work. How can
an employer think of you as a
Too often, a resume is just a problem solver? If you can
screening-out tool. Used by lower monetize it (state it in terms of
level staff looking for a quick money), so much the better. At
way to weed candidates out of the interview, you will be
consideration, your resume can prepared to enlarge upon these
work against you as much as for successes.
you.
And last of all, don't tell too
Don't overload it with much. A good resume should leave
unnecessary or irrelevant the prospective employer with a
information. One page is ideal, whetted appetite, a desire to
two pages only if you are a 15 to know more. They will be likely to
20-year veteran with a call and phone screen you. So
significant growth and promotion don’t fill in all the details
just yet. Save that for the what you can offer. This way the
interview. Do, however, paint a document can stand on its own.
big picture of who you are and
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