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Accounting InformationFOUR SIMPLE STEPS TO BETTER RESULTS WITH YOUR RESUME
by:
Jeff Altman
Is every job description you see the same? No.
Is every job you submit your resume to the same? Of course they aren’t.
If all these job descriptions are different, why do you submit the same resume?
Every day, folk send the same generic resume out as although each position was identical and each leader
was attempting to hire identical skills and attributes. Too often, the results they obtain are like the broken watch that is right doubly a day—hit or miss success.
They list their name, address, phone amount and email address, list an objective, education, and chronology of experience with dates of employment. The resume includes several successes or accomplishments. This is their resume.
In the days prior to computers once
dynamical
a resume required you to re-type several versions, this ready-made sense. Today, once
computers allow you to customize, spell and synchronic linguistics check documents so easily, you are missing out on opportunities and cost accounting
yourself money by being lazy and not trade your resume for each possibleness
you are interested in.
Here are several steps that you can do to improve your resume and get better results.
1. Each leader
wish be interested in several attributes of your experience. They often indicate it by the items they describe in their job ad. Emphasize the experiences that you have that relate to the skills being sought-after and the functions you wish perform in the job they wish ask you to perform. If you are applying for a staff position, emphasize your staff experience and minimize your management experience. If you are being hired to be a leader, write just about your recent leadership.
2. Employers are much interested in recent work, rather than activity you did many an years ago. Use much space in your resume to highlight recent experience, rather than things you did before Saint george W. Bush became President.
3. Like setting a goal where
you do them specific, measurable, possible inside
a specific period of time, describe your successes or achievements concretely. Reducing price is a good start but it is much powerful to describe thing
as reducing operational price globally by 2%. Augmented division
sales by 27% resultant in . . . You get the idea. Use action verbs where
possible (For much on this, see my article, Preparing an Effective Resume” on www.newyorkmetrotechnologyjobs.com).
4. Ask causal agency you trust to critique what you’ve written. Too often, folk believe that they can do everything by themselves without asking for help. Ask a friend in your industry to critique what you’ve written to insure you’re on target and aren’t missing the mark.
When you go to a eating place and order a meal, you have the expectation that it wish be prepared in a way that wish please you and be given
on the plate beautifully. Writing a great resume requires that you be the cook
and prepare a meal that is several visually appealing and tastes great too!
Jeff Altman
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com
© 2005 all rights reserved.
Just just about the author:
Jeff Altman, Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New Royal family search firm, has with success
power-assisted
many an corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and else disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the Grouping Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist. For additional job hunting or hiring tips, go to http://www.newyorkmetrotechnologyjobs.com
If you would-be like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff, or if you would-be like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at jeffaltman@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).
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