subject: Tips For Writing A Good Job Resume [print this page] In a tough economy, if you want a job with a certain employer, chances are you'll have to do one heck of a sales job to outshine everyone else vying for the position. An Associated Press report one year after the September 2008 financial meltdown found that on average in the United States, six people competed for each advertised job. One generic resume is just not enough. You need to tailor your resume to fit the position you are applying for. Match up your experience with the description of each job. Depending on how many different types of jobs you are applying for you could easily have ten different resumes.
Some jobs stress a lot on academics while others focus mainly on hands on experience. If you are sending your resume to a company that cares about educational background, make sure you list all the degrees you have procured and also make sure to list them in order of relevance. What's worse is to a certain degree hiring is also somewhat seasonal. It probably won't shock anyone to learn summer is typically the slowest hiring season of the year. This can be extremely tough on a job seeker's moral - especially if they aren't aware of the seasonality associated with hiring. If you aren't landing that next opportunity during the summer months, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with your employability.
Most resumes are generally too long. In fact,the recruitment of a business, especially large enterprises will receive many copies of resumes every day, they could not read every resume carefully, a resume is generally read in 1 minute. Therefore, the resume should be as short as possible. A resume compressed into 2 pages can be highlighted, 3 or 4 pages are too much.
Focus on the employer, not you. That's not an abstract problem. It leads the resume to answer the wrong questions: What have I done, what am I proud of? Those questions seduce job hunters into writing lots of documentation that is irrelevant to the recruiter and marks you as a bad candidate. A savvy job seeker should be good in expressing his skills, and the relation of these skills with the new role. For example, if you have been in a customer service position for 5 years, then getting the position as a customer service manager will be easier than getting a job as a production manager as your previous and current expertise relates well with the new job.
