Your Resume is:
A resume is a written presentation of your work skills, your work experience and your work goals. Sound simple? The goal of a well written resume is to get you an interview. Its a marketing tool to present your value to your next employer.
In order to get your resume noticed, picked up from amidst the pile of other applicants, it should inspire the employer to pick up the phone and call you.
Your resume should be well written, free of grammatical errors and bad spelling. It should contain appropriate language for the job you are seeking.
Your resume should contain your educational experiences, additional training courses, work experience, along with a short list of contact names and address as references.
But it should contain more. Your personal skills, enthusiasm, target job goals should also be perfectly clear within your resume.
Your Resume is Not:
Your resume is not a catalog list of work experience dates along with your educational background. It is not a regurgitation of the information provided on a job application. Additionally, your resume is not an invitation for personal expression that will put your resume into the "freak" pile instead of the "to call" pile.
Your Resume is Necessary:
Your resume is necessary because it provides you the opportunity to give the important background facts of your previous experience while you look forward to using your skills and energy in your next position.
Explore your upcoming job opportunities to insure your skills and experience can shine within your resume to get noticed. If the job is worthy of a paycheck, its worthy of the time and energy it takes to create a resume appropriate to the position.
Girls, get going!
GGG recomends: Resume Writing by Rockport Institute
