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- On Writing Resume
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Author: Antoniette L. Nakama
Posted on: Tuesday Mar 25, 08 - 01:58 pm
Job seekers are usually confronted with the challenge of creating or writing a substantial and interesting resume. Newly graduates or first time job seekers often load their resumes with credentials, extra-curricular, activities, affiliations, school seminars and trainings and volunteer works, hobbies, interests, etc.
However, employers, more often than not, prefer a concisely written resume. They want substance, not tons of information about the applicant, but information that are useful to the employer to be able to assess the person’s qualifications.
A resume must definitely contain the full name of applicant, address, contact number and an email address. It will be helpful to the employer to assess the applicant if the resume contains personal profile detailing all the qualities, experiences, skills and best points of the applicant. These do not necessarily refer to previous employment experiences as we are referring to the applicant here as one who had not been employed but a newly graduate.
Training experiences in school can best speak of the applicant’s important skills and experience that can be considered as useful in the position he is applying for. Any volunteer works in school or community groups, or organizations can be mentioned as long as they contributed to train the applicant with the skills he deem applicable to the position he is eyeing for.
Most importantly, make sure that the resume is not longer that two pages. Employers find it time consuming to read. Some will just search for a specific portion of the resume like the skills, trainings, and educational background.
Examine your resume with the eyes of a prospective employer. What else needs to go? Avoid long narrative information about your plans or dreams. Avoid long explanations or justifications of bad training experiences. If something needs an explanation keep it to one or two brief sentences.
Personal references should be the last thing on the resume and should be listed with office or landline contact numbers rather than mobile numbers. It is important that your references are people you know well in the community, someone who can assess your character.
One good advice which applicants MUST keep in mind is that make sure your resume does not contain a stupid email address that might put off an employer and most importantly there are no spelling mistakes.
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