The first step to bidding a hello to your future hiring manager is to send in your resume. You might post, e-mail or hand over it directly. Or, your resume may get picked from an online job portal. Without much significance on how your hiring manager got your resume, you should take care of the fact that, once hiring managers get your resume they should absolutely fall in love with it.
Note, every hiring manager deals with similar thousand such resumes everyday. So how do you make your one standout? How should your resume be innovative, so much your future boss cannot miss it?
Here is simple eight to-do’s in your current resume that you can do, and you will surely see an unbelievable change in your job recruitment fortune.
Begin with career snapshot
The first look of your resume (also called curriculum vitae) has to grab attention of the reader. So do not clutter personal details like name, address, phone number and so on, at the top. State your name on the left side, e-mail id on the right side and begin with career snapshot. Career snapshot should be in a paragraph stating all good achievements you have. Do not present the career snapshot in listicle form, as you will require that later.
Listing work experiences
In today’s times, the more your work experience – the better you are as a candidate. So, if you are one of those who has many work experiences previously, list it clearly in a chart or tabular format. Do state your work span in each organization you worked with. You can also add a little brief about the kind of work you have done for each company. However, the list should be crisp and not so long that the reader loses interest. Try to fit in the work experience list on one page only, for easy understanding of the reader.
Including academic qualification
In your resume, you have to include your academic qualifications. Now, to this, it is your choice whether you would want to include the marks of each exam and courses you have cleared. The marks part is usually of no business to the employer and hence can be skipped. Still, if you think, you have really performed so brilliant in school and college that you would want to share that with prospective employers, you can add your marks relevant with each course.
Proofs to your resume
Please do not add imaginary or incorrect facts and figures in the resume. Every point you make in your curriculum vitae (CV) can be cross verified by your next employer. So ensure, that you have relevant documents to all claims you do. Though these documents are not asked for until you join the job, yet you should always keep them ready as backup option.
Adding your picture to CV
The addition of picture to resume is very much profession based. While receptionists, air hostesses or those in hospitality sector mandatorily needs to add pictures, for others it is optional. Now, if you decide to add a picture to the resume, you have to take care of the following – quality of image, outlook of image and position of image. Place a clear image preferably on top of resume such that recruiters notice it. The outlook of the image should be professional and not the last one you clicked during college reunion.
Club in keywords
As the entire recruitment process is computerized, you have to ensure that your resume has all related keywords to your profession. From innumerable applications, your CV will only get plucked if there is uniform distribution of keyword all through. To do this, first prepare the list of keywords that you would want to add. Then, you can place each keyword at relevant places and your resume will surely get shortlisted.
Add social media usage
A new trend in resume composition is to add all your social media links. This does not imply Facebook alone. You can add your LinkedIn, Twitter or personal blogs URLs, which can be referred to. However, you have to ensure, that each of the links you add is authentic and includes your good work only. If your social media or personal blogs, highlight controversial side of your personality, then this can turn out damage for your resume.
