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How much weightage will you give to resume while applying for the best job opportunities? Don’t you think that these play an important role, specially at the time of making the first impression when applying for the dream job? Yes, these actually do have a crucial role, so you need to make sure that your resume is definitely not old fashioned and is up to the mark. Do not just label yourself as being out of touch personality and read the tips which we have come up for you to make the resume look perfect with all the important elements.

•    Overly Short And Overly Long Resumes
If your resume is overly long or overly short, then as well it can portray your resume as old fashioned and you as ‘out of touch personality’. Many people look for what is the ideal length of resume or how many pages should be there in resume. When new asked this question to a renowned resume service provider, he said that presently there is a trend of shorter resumes.

According to the expert, ideal resume should be of:
o    1 page for recently college pass-out or fresher
o    2 pages for experienced professionals
o    3 pages for the professionals, who have experience of 15+ years

•    Cut the crap

Instead of resume’s length, its relevancy matters most, according to another resume expert. Your resume should be a summary for your achievements & capabilities instead of a complete biography. The best thing is to include the points which the interviewer would want to know from you. For instance: your resume give the interviewer an idea about what you can do for his company’s growth. How much experience do you have in doing that task? How will you handle the challenges that would some in the mid-way?

The best way to write a best resume is by thinking like the hiring managers. Be concise with your words and be relevant with the details.

•    Ending the resume with “References available on request”
There are people who think that ending the resume with “References available on request” has become out fashioned now. Upon asking a resume expert about the same question, he said that it is still acceptable to end the resume with this. The question here is not whether you are talking about references in this way; instead, what matters is the presentation and information provided. It is important to present the information or relevant details in the resume in precise manner.

If you’ll be a part of relevant jobs community, you can perfectly avoid to stay old fashioned specially with resumes. I mentioned here for being a part of job community, because that’s the best way from where you can stay updated about the prevailing trends in job network and how resumes should be circulated and in what forms.

Well, we’ll come up with few more tips and advice from the expert resume writers on the same issue in our next post. Stay tuned for learning the new tips.

In the first part- “Does Your Resume Say, “I’m Unprofessional?” we had discussed few points in your resume, which can ruin your impression. Without much ado, let us look at certain more aspects that make you look unprofessional.

1.     Depicting laziness:
Laziness is one of the most common unprofessional traits which employers never want to see in the professionals. You would be amazed to know that even your resumes can tell whether you are lazy or not. Certain signs such as, using ‘etc.’ or ‘same as above’ portray your lazy impression, which can go against you.

A resume writing expert says, “If you want to mention about two similar things, say, which you did in your last two jobs, then you can use bullet heads to summarize responsibilities & accomplishments.” This is a better way to highlight what you want the interviewer to know about you.

2.    Sending nothing less than templates:
When sending your resume for a job profile, do you actually make necessary amendments to tell how sincerely you are looking for this job? No, actually this question arises because one can clearly identify from the past records that people just change the names of company or addressee and forward it ahead. This happens most in the case of cover letters, where a general sentence is written such as, “I respect your career status and have been following your career from quite long time.” Well, it’s ok if you are saying something of this sort, but you need to mention something or at least describe them a bit to tell how exactly you have been following them and what can you conclude out of it.

3.    Resume or brochure
Well you have to understand the value of time. If you’ll handover a resume of 5-6 pages to the interviewer, then he would hardly go through it. Nobody has interest in your life story, they want to know what is important for them and beneficial for their business. So it’s better you cut down your resume to max 2 pages and include only the important points relevant for the job vacancy.

To conclude, there is just a simple advice for you that do not to take resume lightly and make your best to utilize its power in getting your dream job.

A CV (Curriculum Vitae) plays an important role for the job seekers. The ones, who hunt for the desired job, look out for various zones where they think can post their resumes to get a job of their choice. In most of the cases, before going for the one-on-one interview, companies look out at the job communities where they find the appropriate resumes for a particular position. In the job communities, there are several number of resumes, but how to promote your resume amongst all of them is an important aspect. To make your CV with skills, here are some of the points that should be kept in mind to promote a CV online, which are as follows:

•    Give a powerful start
Curriculum vitae should begin with a powerful and strong opening. A resume should be the one that should start with the brief and introduction about you. The introduction should be such that should clearly describe you in short, simple and concise manner. While applying for a specific job, make sure that you have given appropriate exact title of the job that you are applying for at the right of the top. If you want to know that what employers are looking for, then checking online can be helpful. You can search through job postings to identify in-demand skills and ability. Remember that a great opening builds the interest of the interviewer and your CV gets promoted more easily.

•    Keep the formatting simple
The next point that will help in promoting your CV online is by keeping resume format simple and concise. The more you are going to make it simple, the more it will get noticed. The resumes that are with graphics, or logos, or templates, to grab attention of the recruiters, are the ones that mostly get unnoticed. In sake of getting a Bio-data noticed; do not make it too flashy or informal. The more it will be simpler the more it is going to get promoted online. The most commonly fonts that are accepted fonts are Arial or Times New Roman.

•    Ask a professional resume writer
The next point that is essential to know is to consult a professional resume writer, who is going to advice and suggest you the right basics & is an expert in writing resumes. You can also ask him to prepare a professional resume and provide your all details to him, rest assured. Hiring professionals services are going to increase value of your bio-data and will promote online in best way possible.

•    Focus on specific keywords
The interviewer hardly gets anytime to go with your entire resume. The one, who is going with your resume, is not going to read and go with it completely. It is better to mark some of the points, or bold particular keywords, that you think are important to get noticed or one should read those points. Your work experience, your credentials, your previous work details are going to be the ones that are mostly noticed and demanded by the recruiter. So mark them and bold them along with the other details. Make sure that you are writing and highlighting the right keyword, which is essential to be done.

A resume is said to be professional when it is error less and is written in professional resume format. If a resume is not written professionally then it not only gets in notice but also do not give a lasting impression. A resume that is written by specialist is the resume that stands out from all the competitors, who have already mentioned their resumes in the job community. To make your CV stand out of the crowd, candidates consider many points but in order to skip the mistakes it is important not to include certain points, which are discussed below:

•    Do not mention your short term jobs
The foremost point that should be kept away from the resume is not to mention short term jobs in the CV. This gives an impression that you are unstable and you don’t have a clear career path. The job that is done for few months is not sufficient to present any real accomplishments and should be included in one instance. For instance, if the job is contract or project based, it is not going to raise any of the questions or will not deduct your marks, as you will have an explanation that doesn’t reflect poorly on you.

•    Reason You Left the Job
When you go with tips for writing a resume, you will notice that there is no column for the previous job and specially the reason for leaving the job. You can save this information for the face to face interview. This is the thing that should not be included in the resume that may give a negative impression in the early stage only. The reason for leaving the job, may be you were terminated or left the job, cannot be explained on the paper, as you have to focus on more important points and keywords that make you get the job.

•    A Complicated Design
If you are applying for a job as a designer then the condition is different, otherwise a resume should be written in professional resume format. The format and design of a CV plays an important role, if your competitor has proper format and well written CV then professionally it will be chosen without any doubt. If you want to highlight specific points then you can line up all the headings to keep a CV look clean and professional. There should not be much graphics, boxes, distracting lines or any design that does not match the profile.