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\nHiring managers and recruiters alike say they’ve seen more poorly written resumes cross their desks recently than ever before. Attract more interview offers and ensure your resume doesn’t eliminate you from consideration by following these six key tips:
\n1. Format Your Resume Wisely “Do the Hiring Managers” Work for Them
\nNo matter how well written, your resume won’t get a thorough reading the first time through. Generally a resume gets scanned for 25 seconds. Scanning is more difficult if it is hard to read, poorly organized or exceeds two pages.
\nUse a logical format and wide margins, clean type and clear headings
\nSelectively apply bold and italic typeface that help guide the reader’s eye
\nUse bullets to call attention to important points (i.e. accomplishments)
\n2. Identify Accomplishments not Just Job Descriptions
\nHiring managers, especially in technical fields like engineering, seek candidates that can help them solve a problem or satisfy a need within their company. Consequently, you can’t be a solution to their problems without stating how you solved similar problems in other companies and situations.
\nFocus on what you did in the job, NOT what your job was there’s a difference
\nInclude a one or two top line job description first, then list your accomplishments
\nFor each point ask yourself, What was the benefit of having done what I did?
\nAccomplishments should be unique to you, not just a list of what someone else did
\nAvoid using the generic descriptions of the jobs you originally applied for or held
\n3. Quantify Your Accomplishments
\nQ: What’s the most common resume mistake?
\nA: Making too many general claims and using too much industry jargon that does not market the candidate. A resume is a marketing document designed to sell your skills and strengths rather than just portray a bio of the candidate.
\nInclude and highlight specific achievements that present a comprehensive picture of your marketability
\nQuantify your achievements to ensure greater confidence in the hiring manager and thereby generate interest percentages, dollars, number of employees, etc.
\nWork backwards to quantify your accomplishments by asking, If I had not done X, what could have happened?
\n4. Cater Your Resume for the Industry
\nUnlike advertising and design professionals who have greater creative license in designing their resume for those fields, the mechanical engineering industry won’t be impressed and may be turned off by distinctive resume design.
\nErr on the side of being conservative stylistically
\nYour accomplishments, error-free writing, grammatically-correct, clean, crisp type and paper will make the impression for you
\n5. Replace your Objective” with a “Career Summary”
\nA Career Summary is designed to give a brief overview of who you are and what you do. Most Objectives sound similar: Seeking a challenging, interesting position in X where I can use my skills of X, Y, and Z to contribute to the bottom line. Not telling at all.
\nGrab a hiring manager’s attention right from the beginning, remembering you
\nhave only 25 few seconds to make a good impression
\nSpend time developing a summary that immediately gets their attention, and accurately and powerfully describes you as a solution to their problems
\n6. Network. Network. Network.
\nFor unemployed candidates, handing out resumes should be a full-time job. The majority of mid- to senior-level positions are filled through networking, so contact absolutely everyone you know in addition to recruiters who are in a position to hire you or share insights. Networking can include
\nPersonal business contacts, people you’ve worked for or who worked for you
\nVendors and sales representatives you’ve dealt with in the past five years
\nPeople listed in the alumni directory of your alma mater
\nWith a solid resume in hand you’ll greatly increase your odds of earning a closer look and getting that interview.
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