Free Resume Tips

Below are some technical and professional free resume writing tips

  1. Use the headings or titles that match with the job profile you are applying for.
  2. Use resume designs that can have attention.
  3. Please read job advertisement very carefully and identify some important keywords used in the advertisement. Use these keywords in your resume.
  4. Identify the hidden needs given in the advertisement. Try to solve those hidden needs in your resume.
  5. Create your unique image that matches with the salary you are looking for. For example, language used for $5/hour expectation is very much different than the language used for $15/hour expectation.
  6. You can generate more interviews by squeezing your resume and cover letter foe that resume so that it addresses the desired skills each employee requests.
  7. First of all, list out your technical knowledge in an organized manner. Your technical strengths should look clearly at the starting of your resume.
  8. According to the relevance, list out your qualification from most to least. Please list your technical qualifications and degrees if they are really relevant to the job that you are applying. If you’ve already done what the new job requirement is, please list it first, even if it is not your recent job. Please abandon any strict adherence to chronological order of the experience.
  9. Please qualify your experience whenever it is required. Show numerical figures like monetary funds/budgets saved, efficiency/time period improved, lines of code debugged/written, number of machines fixed/administrated etc. that can demonstrate the progress to your work.
  10. Try to start the sentences with the action verbs. Try to portray yourself as a person who is motivated and active, who uses his/her brain and get things done. Try to stick with the past tense, even for the descriptions of currently held positions. This will avoid the confusions.
  11. Please don’t make it short. Your experiences are worth giving a review by hiring authorities. Treat your resume as an advertisement for yourself.
  12. Write your resume in brief. Try to avoid lengthy descriptions of the past projects of which you were just a part.
  13. Try to avoid the use of articles like (the, an, a) and never use word “I” or other such pronouns to point yourself.
  14. Give your resume to your trusty friend for review.
  15. Don’t forget to proofread your resume. It should not go with the grammatical mistakes and other errors or such weakness like inconsistent capitalization.
  16. Sometimes, you can hide your age. Let’s say, if your age is more than 45 or 55, there is no need to show your entire work experience. You can simply show your last 10 to 15 years of experience that is relevant for the job.
  17. The biggest question is that what if you have never done real paid jobs? Give credit to yourself credit and create a fair-job title yourself. For example, Cleaning & Hauling (Self-employed), Household repairman or self-employed.
  18. The best way to impress the employers is to fill the resume with PAR statements. PAR stands for Problem-Action-Results. In other words, first tell the problem faced in the workplace and then describe what was the action taken by you and finally point out the advantageous results of that action.
  19. About 8 to 15 years of experience is more than enough, unless your important work experience is from farther back.
  20. Let us also consider the case of students who wants to list out their summer jobs. They can list out very neatly as “Spring 2000” or “Summer 2000” rather than 6/2000 or 10/2000.
  21. Keep the headings and names in the font size of 14 to 16 in resume. Keep content information in font size of 10 to 12, depending on the style of font chosen.

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