And how many errors in your resume will you find?
Once a year you change the gadget, despite the convenient functionality, you update the favorite things and even think about the complete upgrade of housing, and at the same time you naively believe that your resume is still that unshakable soil that will once again be given a harvest from once-planted seeds? Hmm ... It turns out that just adding up your list of skills and regalia is not enough anymore, because according to the researches of the workers of the CareerBuilder site, in order to impress the future employer you have only 6 seconds, so it's time to immediately get rid of all the excess in the resume and focus only on the important !!
Let's check, what from this list time has come to be deleted also to you?
1. Do not specify a goal! Why write about the obvious? If you started writing a resume, then getting a job is an established and understood fact.
2. Do not become a master of all trades! A well-known expert on career Alisa Gelbard advises not to list past successes in overfulfilling the baking plan and the ability to grow geranium, if you are looking for a position in another field. This also applies to information about the hobby.
3. Reduce personal data! Until recently, information about personal data, such as age, marital status, children, religious beliefs and sporting achievements, related to the standard points in the compilation of the resume, but today it is not so important for the employer to know about you "all the most intimate". Even an attached photo can be repulsed!
4. Taboo on a lie! Employees CareerBuilder assure that their 2 000 interviewed recruitment specialists for a split second determined a blatant lie! An important advice - it is better to meet two or three of the five stated in the vacancy, rather than exaggerating their skills for all ten!
5. Do not overdo the design! If you are looking for a position as a designer, illustrator or other creative vacancy, then the original fonts, hyphas and graphics will throw a couple of points in a certain circle of applicants, but in general it is more convenient for the employer to get acquainted with the text of a minimum volume, a single format and legible type. By the way, Times New Roman has long been obsolete. Pay attention to Arial or Helvetica.
5. Get a "working" email! If you opened your email while you were in the chat room of acquaintances and use the second ten as the only acting one, it's time to act more professionally. No pupsik25@mail.ru or krasotka321@gmail.com! Take ten minutes and register an email with your name.
7. Watch the words! Profi of his case from CareerBuilder found that employers automatically put aside a resume with cliched cliches, such as "pleasant in communication", "purposeful" or "unique / best of its kind", and even beginning with the phrase "I'm looking for an interesting job with growth opportunity ". But the questionnaires with the words "reached" or "succeeded" at times provide chances for consideration of the candidacy.
8. Leave links to social networks! Until recently, sitting in "Odnoklassniki" could serve as a reason for remarks from the authorities, nowadays profiles in social networks are an excellent help in finding a job. Surely the employer himself is their active user, and therefore the probability that your page will be inspected is high enough (put things in order there!).
9. Indicate current experience and salary information! Even if you are a guru in the field of seo-marketing or webdesign, do not write about professional achievements, including obsolete certificates, for a period exceeding 15 years of experience. It is not necessary to focus attention on the once big salary, giving the wrong signal. Such moments are discussed during the interview or in the subsequent correspondence.
10. No first persons! Maybe modesty and colors a person in gray, but in this case, a loved one should be a little forgotten and not indicate personal pronouns (I, my, me), but use more loyal designs - "held a position" or "managed the department."