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Resume writing tips
Keep your resume to the standard two or three pages.
There’s really no need to tell anyone your life story.
Spend time on the layout, making it clear and readable.
If an employer finds it too difficult to find the relevant information in your resume it will end up in the bin.
Check your sentence structure, grammar and spelling.
Do not use slang! Ya ain’t gonna get the job if you can’t write proper!
Begin your career history with your most recent job.
… assuming that you’ve had one.
If a company you have worked for isn’t well known, include a sentence to explain who they are and what they do.
Unless the company’s called Trucks R Us, a prospective employer will have no idea what they do.
Update the master copy of your resume regularly.
This is a great time-saver if you need to apply for a new job quickly.
Rework your resume to fit each job and keep copies for future reference.
You won’t need to list those summers spent at McDonald's on your resume when you’re applying for a graduate position!
Don’t plagiarise anyone’s work.
Beware of sentences such as ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was …’.
Make sure your email address looks professional.
You don’t want your prospective boss picturing you as ‘sexyfox@imyours.com’.
Save and send your resume as a PDF attachment (if possible) so the format doesn’t change.
You’ve spent all this time on layout – why waste it?
Don’t forget to attach your own name when saving your resume.
Just imagine how many documents titled simply ‘Resume.doc’ the poor HR manager has to filter through.
Don’t give too much information – stick to essentials.
No-one wants to know about the gold star you got in kindergarten, but they do want to know about your previous promotion.
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