SEPERATING YOURSELF FROM OTHER CANDIDATES THROUGH YOUR RESUME

The resume has never gotten anyone hired and it never will. Interviews get people hire. Your resume is your calling card; your door opener. Your resume should never be over 2 pages long. You don't want to tell your life story through your resume, but you want the reader to become excited about you through your resume to the point of wanting to interview you.

How do we get people excited by reading your resume? By putting job related accomplishments in your resume. Most people write their resumes stating what they have done but not how well they have done it. The only way you can separate yourself from the other people submitting their résumé's for the same opening is by putting down your accomplishments. They don't have to be big grandiose cost savings or that you changed the total direction of a company, but they should be job related items that you're proud of.

EXAMPLE OF A BADLY WRITTEN ACCOMPLISHMENT:

Developed absenteeism policy for the company.

EXAMPLE OF A WELL WRITTEN ACCOMPLISHMENT:

Developed absenteeism policy for the company and reduced absenteeism 5%

After you write down an accomplishment ask yourself a very simple question,"SO WHAT?" What were the results of your accomplishment? The results in the above example were a 5% reduction in absenteeism.