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TIPS AND TRICKS
The most important tip there is: TARGET YOUR RÉSUMÉ! A résumé is NOT your professional
biography. It is a marketing tool you use to sell yourself to a particular employer.
Job descriptions are your cheat sheets! If there is a posted job description for the
position you’re applying for, this tells you what the employer is looking for. If there isn’t
one, call and try to get more information.
Be direct and clear about how your experience relates to the job you’re applying for.
Don’t make them guess or have to assume things.
Address the WHOLE job description, not just the qualifications section. Consider each
and every task listed on the description, and for each one that you have done before, or
done something similar (where you used the same skills), list it on your résumé. Don’t
leave out anything on the job description that you’ve done or can do, even if it doesn’t
seem important to you. If they put it on there, they think it’s important!
Think about how your résumé might be reviewed. Might it be screened by an HR
department before ever going to the department that’s hiring? (If it’s a larger company,
the answer is almost always yes!) Think about what this means. Someone in your field
may be able to see how your experiences could have prepared you for this job, but the
HR staff are not experts in your field. What they know about the job is what’s in the job
description, so this is what they will be looking for in your résumé to determine if you
are qualified! So, in this case,
The best résumé is the one that most closely matches the job description (without
copying it word for word or lying!)
Determine the order you list things based on what the employer is going to care the
most about. This applies to your categories as well as the information in them. For
example, which is your stronger selling point, your education or your experience? Your
job title or the company you worked for? The degree you got or the school you got it
from?

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