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How to impress, in 45 secondsÂ
Think of a resume as a personal advertisement in which you’re trying to sell yourself to a prospective match. A resume should stand out to a hiring manager who’s looking for the right person for a company. This is especially important in a competitive job market. Recruiting experts say hiring managers have at most 45 seconds to scan one of countless resumes they receive. In fact, 27 percent of human resources managers say they get on average more than 50 resumes for each open position, according to a survey released recently by Careerbuilder.com, an online job search site partly owned by Tribune Co., parent of Newsday and The Baltimore Sun. And more than 13 percent of human resources managers receive more than 100 resumes per job opening. (The study, which surveyed 360 hiring managers, has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.) “You want to think about your resume as a marketing or sales tool, almost like advertising for yourself,†says Susan D. Strayer, a Washington-based career coach and recruiting consultant.Â
Among the biggest mistakes job candidates make, according to Strayer, are sending out mass resumes without regard to qualification and not customizing the document to the job description. “It’s really important to make yourself relevant to that particular company or position,†says Jennifer Sullivan, a spokeswoman at Careerbuilder. The Careerbuilder survey also found that 63 percent of human resources managers cited spelling errors as the most annoying resume mistake. Other errors included not tailoring resumes (30 percent), lying (23 percent), including too many insignificant details on job duties (21 percent) and having resumes that are more than two pages long (21 percent). (Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer.) Here are some other quick tips to write a top-notch resume: Emphasize examples of problem-solving, leadership, team-building and performance improvement. They were cited by Careerbuilder as top keywords searched by recruiters. Include a short profile or objective at the top of the resume that summarizes your experience and skills. Strayer says a profile gives recruiters a way to quickly determine whether “I want to continue reading or not.â€Â Keep your resume visually simple. Don’t use fancy fonts.Â
EDITED: Here is the Requested CV Sample :
http://www.careerbench.info/cvsample.doc
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Jan 28, 2007 - 06:01:41best
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Thanks to provide me such information that i could save myself from such comman mistakes and make my resume representative of my qualification and personality. Ultimately i can sale my knowledge in bettre way. Thanks again please keep it up and kindly provide all such informations regularly.
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Amit Mandloi
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manish
It is good tool for enhancement..
the info provided is superb……. can u also provide us some sample CV so that we can make our CV better…
thanks
deepak agarwal
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its very nice content and i hope it will help reader to improve there skills. i think some cover letter or resume should be there for more improvement.
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Ankit Patni
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Here is the Requested CV Sample :
http://www.careerbench.info/cvsample.doc
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