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Four Resume Mistakes to Avoid

In the job search your resume is often the first encounter a recruiter will have with you. While the resume is most often used in the job search, you may also use it in a number of different circumstances throughout your career: informational interviewing, board membership, and annual performance reviews.


Get Your Dream Job - Best Resume Writing Tips

Resume is a very efficient tool in your job searching campaign, in which it serves as the salesman to promote your skills and experiences to your potential employer. The main problem and the only question that everyone tends to ask is, how to come up with a perfect resume. What shall you put into your resume to convince the HR manager that adding you in their company will be a wise move? Job searching is actually quite alike with marketing campaign, which your resume act as an advertisement on yourself to stand out among the crowd of similarity competent, job seekers like you.


5 Steps to the Perfect Cover Letter

You guessed it! The cover letter.

Out of the few resumes that stand a chance, since they actually included a cover letter, I easily discard 60 % of them for being improperly formatted.

What I would like to cover today is how to easily format and write a resume that will land you any job!

So lets get started!

Step 1: Start the cover letter off with your full name, address, phone, and email. You want to center this on the page and put your name in bold letters.

Step 2: Align to the left. Input current date. Then you want to start it off with,

To Whom it May Concern,

Now if you really want to score some easy points here you will call the potential employer and speak to the HR department to see who you can address this to : )

Step 3: The BODY

Over the next 2 paragraphs (2-3) you want to set yourself apart from your peers. Don"t put in the usual junk about where you"ve worked and how great you were there etc. We see that all day long besides that"s what your resume is for. You want to STAND out! Be creative but also show them what your experience at other companies has taught you and why that will be beneficial for them to hire you.

Step 4: Closing Statement

In the closing statement you want to ask for the interview. One that I use myself is this: I would like to set up an appointment to discuss further job possibilities within your industry. I am a very hard worker, and am always looking for areas that I could best use to further my career. I am extremely interested and would look forward to meeting with you in the near future.

Step 5: End with

Sincerely,

John Smith

Enclosed: Resume






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