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Is Your Resume Boring Potential Employers
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Do you have a resume that is nearly 6 pages long? Does your resume include your entire high school and college sports career? Are your personal unrelated hobbies listed in minute detail? If so, you are probably boring the socks off of potential employers.
An employer wants to be able to look over a resume in less than a minute and know what qualifies an applicant for the job, what experience the applicant has in the job field and how to get in touch with the applicant for an interview. If a potential employer wants to know what your favorite movies and books are he can always look up your Facebook page. Don’t include anything that doesn’t in some way relate to your career field on your resume.
Does your resume include a lot of flowery prose when describing your attributes and contributions? You don’t need all of that. While the idea of a resume is to sell yourself, you are not writing ad copy, you want to inform a potential employer of your strong points, experience, and achievements in a clean, straightforward, bare bones manner.
Your potential employer may become bored with your resume if he begins checking your references and realizes that you have included 20 personal friends and family members and no professional references. 3 references that have knowledge of your work habits and performance are all you need to include. No one cares that you babysat the neighbor kid for 2 years when you were a teenager. Keep it efficient, succinct and related to your field of employment.
Don’t make an employer read your life history, just to decide if they would like to interview you. Allow some mystery to make them want to interview you to ask about certain points. For example if you single handedly improved the sales figures over 1 quarter because you implemented a change in the sales policy, you can list your accomplishments to include the single handed improvement, and then when you are interviewed you can explain how that happened.
On the other hand don’t leave out important selling points that make you ideal for the position. It is sometimes difficult to decide what to include and what to leave out, as well as how to word certain things. At times like this a sample resume and a thesaurus will come in handy. You can reference a sample resume to make sure you are including the right information and the thesaurus to more ably describe your career history. For example you could say “Worked with a team of 6 employees to rewrite the employee handbook” or you could say “Collaborated with a team to introduce new employee policies”, notice the difference and the impact that each has?
Having someone else read your resume before using it on your job search can help you eliminate awkward phrasing and unnecessary information. If your resume fits on 2 pages, is clean and laid out in an efficient and succinct manner, uses professional terminology and has your contact information clearly displayed you should receive an interview request from an interested potential employer as long as you are qualified for the position which you have applied.
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