Your resume is the best way to market yourself to future employers. Remember, your resume is there to get you an interview, not the job. The interview is what leads to actual hiring. But with employers sometimes going through hundreds of resumes a day– how do you get yours to stand out? Or, at least, how do you keep it from being immediately tossed into the rejection pile?
Cashmoneylife.com has compiled an awesome list of 34 tips to create the ultimate resume. Here are some of my favorites:
The most effective method for making your resume stand out is by using a clean and easy to read format that clearly highlights your skills, talents, and abilities. So skip the funky fonts and colored paper.
Pay attention to basics. Spelling and grammar errors are a surefire way to never be hired.
Pay attention to resume length.It can be difficult to reduce years, or even decades, of experience to one or two pages. Do it anyway. Many hiring mangers only give 10-15 seconds to a resume on an initial pass. If you have three or four or five pages, chances are very high your resume will be placed in the reject pile.
Use Keywords ~ But Don’t Spam. Each job listing will have a list of keywords in the job description. It’s a great idea to use some of these exact phrases in your resume, as long as they represent your skills and abilities, of course.
These are some great tips, for those who are just starting the job hunt as well as for those who need to work their resumes over for the hundredth time. Be sure to read the whole list here.