As a job seeker, you may not be aware what insights hiring managers, recruiters & headhunters can gather from your professional resume.
So the question arises is there something else you need to consider while crafting your professional resume? The following paragraphs will shed light on what ,besides from your experience, skill sets, achievements & expertise, you need to consider while writing your resume.
When people read and evaluate thousands of resumes, they start to recognise & decipher the pattern beyond standard description of work experience, skillset, competencies, academic prosperity & achievements.
So what should you consider?
- Accomplishment orientation: Do you use more space in writing your job responsibilities & achievements. Recruiters & hiring managers are interested in reviewing bullet points of your achievements. They are keen to read about your successes. If you do not include them in your resume, how would they know what strengths & competencies you carry along? They may not able to build a confidence on your accomplishment orientation
- Resume writing skills: Well written & easy to read resume speaks a lot about your writing skills-either you know good writing to pick up a brilliant writer or you wrote it yourself
- Mental abilities: A good & professional written resume speaks a lot about your general & specific mental abilities which is perfect indicates how you would perform in your future job. If you realise, writing a resume is like presenting a business case. You need to
- Gather a lot of information- about company, job role, work environment, growth prospects etc..
- Analyse & interpret the information & prioritise what matters for you
- Build a strong business case to influence the decision makers to interview you.
- Employment Gaps: You may have employment gaps on your resume. If you have a large gap or more than one gap on your resume, explain the reason in one short sentence. Do not let prospective employers cook up stories about what you were doing & your employability.
- Building & Nurturing Relationships: Recruiters generally look at average vintage per employer & try to gauge your ability to work with others. If they notice too many shifts, they may give your resume a miss. If they do not see much movement still they hesitate. This is sad & obscure but true. Therefore if you are writing a resume for yourself, make sure that you use a propertformat so that prospective employers can read your employment dates with ease. A professional resume writing can help you structure your resume to counter the objective in case your average employment vintage looks like a risky proposition.
- Context: Lack of context is another version of the gap that appears on resumes. Context on your resume helps your prospective employers & recruiters understand & gather information & facts about your recent &/or current employers. These facts include
- Size- annual turnover, assets under management, loan book size etc.
- Ownership structure- privately held, Private Equity/Venture Capital funded, Subsidiary of parent, family owned etc.
- Industry
- Story telling: As you move beyond professional summary articulating all the above mentioned subjects with full satisfaction & instilling confidence, you start building a good story. Good leaders use compelling stories to communicate. You believe it or not, you are communicating your leadership skills & ability through your resume
- Delighting target audience experience: While crafting your resume, you should strive to enhance target audience experience through:
- Making your resume easy to read
- Easily finding & evaluating your accomplishments.
- Do a quick 6 to 10 seconds scan.
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