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describe what YOU did: what are you accomplishments?
dont describe the company, describe what exactly you did, and what were YOUR accomplishments
Keywords - Important!!
Using Resume Keywords an important strategy for your resume
Many employers use database technology to store and search the resumes that are sent to them by potential employees. Employers and recruiters search these databases using industry-specific keywords. Keywords are nouns and phrases that highlight technical and professional areas of expertise, industry-related jargon, achievements, projects, task forces, job titles, etc.
IF your resume does not contain at least some of the keywords that the employer is using, then your resume will be skipped by the computer, even if you have all of the experience and skills required by the job.
Some experienced job seekers may enhance their resume by including many of these keywords in a "Summary of Qualifications" near the top of their resume. This section may also be called a "Professional Summary" or, where appropriate, simply "Skills." And while most graduating seniors' resumes do not benefit from such a summary, it is still imperative to include the appropriate keywords in the text of your resume..
read more.. here http://www.bc.edu/offices/careers/skills/resumes/keywords.html
Use Action verbs !
Management Skills:
- administered
- analyzed
- assigned
- attained
- chaired
- contracted
- consolidated
- coordinated
- delegated
- developed
- directed
- evaluated
- executed
- improved
- increased
- organized
- oversaw
- planned
- prioritized
- produced
- recommended
- reviewed
- scheduled
- strengthened
- supervised
Communication Skills:
- addressed
- arbitrated
- arranged
- authored
- corresponded
- developed
- directed
- drafted
- edited
- enlisted
- formulated
- influenced
- interpreted
- lectured
- mediated
- moderated
- motivated
- negotiated
- persuaded
- promoted
- publicized
- reconciled
- recruited
- spoke
- translated
- wrote
Clerical skills
- approved
- arranged
- catalogued
- classified
- collected
- compiled
- dispatched
- executed
- generated
- implemented
- inspected
- monitored
- operated
- organized
- prepared
- organized
- prepared
- processed
- purchased
- recorded
- retrieved
- screened
- specified
- systematized
- tabulated
- validated
Research Skills
- clarified
- collected
- critiqued
- diagnosed
- evaluated
- examined
- extracted
- identified
- inspected
- interpreted
- interviewed
- investigated
- organized
- reviewed
- summarized
- surveyed
- systematized
Technical Skills
- assembled
- built
- calculated
- computed
- designed
- devised
- engineered
- fabricated
- maintained
- operated
- overhauled
- programmed
- remodeled
- repair
- solved
- trained
- upgraded
Teaching Skills
- adapted
- advised
- clarified
- coached
- communicated
- coordinated
- developed
- enabled
- encouraged
- evaluated
- explained
- facilitated
- guided
- informed
- initiated
- instructed
- persuaded
- set goals
- stimulated
Financial Skills
- administered
- allocated
- analyzed
- appraised
- audited
- balanced
- budgeted
- calculated
- computed
- developed
- forecasted
- managed
- marketed
- planned
- projected
- researched
Creative Skills
- acted
- conceptualized
- created
- designed
- developed
- directed
- established
- fashioned
- founded
- illustrated
- instituted
- integrated
- introduced
- invented
- originated
- performed
- planned
- revitalized
- shaped
Helping Skills
- assessed
- assisted
- clarified
- coached
- counseled
- demonstrated
- diagnosed
- educated
- expedited
- facilitated
- familiarized
- guided
- referred
- rehabilitated
- represented
Rules to follow:
o Examine how you use white space on the sheet of paper.
o Use the HEADER to conserve space so that you can tell your success stories.
o Where appropriate, choose the bullet point over the paragraph. Keep it clear and precise.
o Use Times Roman for the best text look.
o Use no smaller than a 10 font, and no larger than 12-14 for your name in bold.
o Contact information should appear clearly under your name in the 9-10 font.
o Addresses, phones, fax, cell numbers, and email addresses are important.
o Use categories, in 12-14 font in bold.
o If you use the OBJECTIVE category, limit it to one line, clear and precise.
o Your next or even first category should be professional experience.
o You may even use a category of Summary of Qualifications. Bulleted, of course.
o List the most recent entry first, whether professional or educational.
o Use action words to describe responsibilities and results: Managed, designed, supervised, etc.
o Avoid errors in grammar, spelling, and spacing.
o Computer proportional text spacing requires one space only after a . or a :.
o Indicate quantitative accomplishments with numbers not percentages or use both.
o For personal information in the U.S., you do not need to mention birth date or marital status.
o Include information about your computer literacy and software fluency.
o Include information about your other languages: Conversational Finnish.
o Add information about awards, recognition, and the like.
o Include information about your outside interests.
o Avoid stretching the truth about any item you include. Be honest and frank.
o You may use your GPA once you finish a degree. Otherwise, it’s a work in progress.
o Your résumé is a work in progress. Work on improving it. Never look at it as a completed task.
o Ask a friend or colleague to look at your résumé and comment.
o Before you print it, go into Word, click on Print Preview and notice the use of black/white space.
o Use xerographic paper that has rag content.
o Use white paper.
o Know your audience.
o Know the purposes of your résumé.
o As a rule of thumb, keep the résumé to one page, with margins no smaller than .5 inches.
o If you have more than 7 years experience, consider the two-page résumé.
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