Best practice for writing a great resume

Best practice for writing a great resume






Make sure your résumé is clearly written

This is the first in a series of 10 blogs looking at improving your resume.  Making sure your resume is clearly written is a key step to improving your recruitment chances.  A clear, well written resume is much more likely to grab the attention of the recruiter or potential employer and increase your chances of being selected for interview and thus find a job.

The potential employee who reads your résumé will probably have read around a hundred others that same afternoon, and sorted them into a number of different piles. So you've got to make yours easy to read - otherwise it might not seem worth the effort. Put all your information under sub and section headings, so that if the prospective employer is skimming down the page, he or she can find a particular section very fast. Don't repeat any information since this will look like padding at best and poor organisation at worst.

When listing your jobs always put the most recent job first.  On the basis that the recruiter will only keep reading if interested it is best to put your most recently job first - since it is likely to be the most senior, most relevant and one of most interest.  This hooks the reader and encourages them to keep reading to find out about your other experience.

It is also important to customise your resume to the role - so pick examples that are relevant and will help the recruiter make the connection between what you have done before and what they are looking for in their vacancy.  Recruiters usually give you plenty of information on what they are looking for in their advert so make good use of this.

An additional benefit of a well written resume is that it is also evidence that you have good written communication skills - something nearly all employers are looking for. 

 

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