Resumes
Expert tips and advice on writing, sending, and maintaining your resume.
If you're in your 50s or 60s, chances are you have a lot of experience to offer an employer. Unfortunately, that can sometimes work against you when it comes to interviews and hiring decisions. But here are three things to keep in mind to help employers look past your age and right at your qualifications.
When you're writing your resume, you need to present the information in a way that will best showcase your qualifications and help the employer notice what you have to offer. Each of the three most common resume formats (Chronological, Functional, and Combination/Hybrid) highlights your background in a different way. To find out which is the right one for you, read on.
Your resume has one job: To convince the reader that you're a candidate worth interviewing. Here are five rules to help you write a resume that does its job.
Anyone who sees resumes all the time – recruiters, hiring managers, HR staff – will tell you they typically spend between 10 and 30 seconds deciding whether a resume is worth reading. That’s all you get to make your case. Follow these standard guidelines to create a clean, organized resume that helps readers see quickly that you’re a candidate who’s worth their time!
You’ve edited and tweaked your resume many times, and you're ready to send it to a prospective employer. You're positive it's perfect and ready to go. Wait! Mistakes can still happen. Use this checklist before you send your resume to identify any mistakes that might diminish your chance at landing the job.
Writing a resume is much like writing a paper for school. Every detail contributes – positively or negatively – to your final "grade." Like teachers, hiring managers look for a cohesive story; a persuasive argument; a neat, well organized appearance; and of course, perfect spelling and grammar. These lessons will help your resume make the grade with hiring managers.
Creating an up-to-date electronic resume is the essential first step in any job hunt. Whether you want to email or fax your resume, paste it into a job board, or post it on the web, it all starts electronically. Here, we discuss the pros and cons of the various document formats for distributing your electronic resume: Word, PDF, HTML, or plain text.
Simply put, a resume is a one- to two-page document that sums up a job seeker's qualifications for the jobs they're interested in. More than just a formal job application, a resume is a marketing tool that job seekers use to communicate their value to employers. Read more to find out what goes into resumes, who needs them, what role they play in a job search, and what types are acceptable.
Preparing a resume and sending it to employers can be a challenging task unto itself. Following up on those submissions adds yet more time-consuming work, especially if you're sending several resumes at about the same time. That’s why it helps to become organized if you put your job search in high gear.
In all but a few fields, the video resume does nothing more than create the illusion that you're accomplishing something in your job search. In reality, it may do more to harm your job candidacy than help it. To understand this illusion, let’s look at the employment market from the recruiter’s and legal department's perspectives.