Resume tips

Never thought about the similarities between your resume and a common burger? Well now is the time to consider it! We give you the recipe to the perfect resume and, inadvertently, a really good burger.

Find resume writing a boring task? Selling ourselves can be awkward, but treat it like a performance and you will be sure to keep recruiters interested.

Kathrin from UK eBook publisher Bookboon reports on the main reasons that resumes go to the bottom of the pile.

Are you applying for jobs but never getting called in for interviews? Jo tells you what you may be doing wrong and how to get out of this predicament.

Mums who are planning to re-enter the workforce after taking time out to look after children face a dilemma explaining their employment gap – but don’t worry, there are ways around it.

We may be living in a digital age, but leading HR professionals still rank the traditional resume as the most effective recruitment tool.

Here at Career FAQs, we’ve seen a lot of resumes - the long and the short, the wonky and the boooring. You think writing an effective resume is easy? It's not. To help you out, here are some of the more common resume no-nos we’ve observed.

If your reading this and can’t immediately spot the spelling error in this sentence, then you’re in trouble – because silly spelling or grammatical errors and typos in your resume could immediately sink any hope you have of getting an interview.

You can spend weeks perfecting your resume: selecting the perfect font that represents who you are, finding the right alignment for your bullet points and weighing up the pros and cons of hard versus soft copy.

In a world where resumes are usually sent in electronic form and often stored in databases, keywords are becoming an increasingly important tool that every job seeker should know about, and know how to use effectively.