Great tips to help you write an amazing resume

Great tips to help you write an amazing resume






Brevity is the soul of wit

This is the third in our series of blogs about creating a great resume which gets you the job of your dreams. Adopting the approach that "less is more" when it comes to writing your resume is a key step to success.  Employers and recruiters want to use your resume to decide if you are a good fit for the job and therefore the more concise your explanations are the easier they can do this.  You do not want to have their attention wander or for them to pass over your resume in favour of one that is easier to read and interpret.

Obviously there are certain things that you have to put into your résumé or there'd be no point sending it to potential employers. Many people also include all kinds of things that a recruiter really doesn't need to hear - like lists of every single piece of software that the applicant knows how to use. That might be useful if you're applying for a technical position (and even then it should be added at the end as a list), but otherwise it makes for very dull reading, particularly if it's duplicated throughout.  More commonly still, people write résumés in a style which is unnecessarily verbose or far too personal. Try to avoid expressing your achievements in the first person. Instead, just leave them impersonal - put a date or period of time, and say what you did clearly & precisely. An example would be, "1996 - Graduated from university.

The use of the pronoun "I" is always to be avoided and it is best to not talk about yourself in the third person either (leave this to recruitment agencies if they are giving the employer a write up on you).  Not only does this remove the feeling of conceit (which "I" does) or the odd sensation that someone is writing about themselves, but it also helps keep the text crisp and to the point.  So rather than "I ran a project that was ..." becomes "Leadership of xx project"

 

 

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