How to Tailor Your Resume to Specific Jobs
When applying for jobs many people do not limit themselves to just one application; they apply to many and therefore need to change their resume to fit each of the jobs. This is a tad more difficult than it sounds, but will be extremely easy after reading these steps.
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Make sure to change the position and company in the objective. So many neglect to do this and end up applying for Position B at Job B with a resume for Position A and Job A.
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Figure out exactly what the company in question looks for in a candidate.
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Getting even more specific, figure out what the specific job entails.
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Cross-reference Steps 2 and 3 with what you have accomplished in the required fields. If nothing, you are likely applying for the wrong job.
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Rearrange your general resume to feature the accomplishments most relevant to the job in question at the top.
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Explain how each of your duties in these relevant positions relates to the job specifics of the position in question. Writing that you wrote a movie on a resume for an accounting job is useless unless you can prove they somehow correlate.
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Always include your school and GPA at the bottom, regardless.
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wysiwyg4
Dec 22, 2008
the comment by wywisyg4 is one third of the actual article. Is there any way I can edit it? -
wysiwyg4
Dec 22, 2008
the comment by wywisyg4 is one third of the actual article. Is there any way I can edit it?
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wysiwyg4
Dec 22, 2008
Can you tailor your resume without lying? A friend of mine worked in computers all his professional life as software engineer. Before he was recently layed off, he was a Principal Engineer (PE). The steps, he explained, to become PE is first you are hired as Junior Engineer (JE), then after a couple of years you are promoted to Senior Engineer (SE). He said he worked as SE for more than 8 years when he was promoted to PE. Anyway, he said he was making good money, a family of four, living in a nice house in a new development. It has been more than a year that he was layed off. But during this time, he worked on and off, for about five months as a contractor. He worked on two short projects. When he met with managers for those contracts, two different companies, they asked him questions, mostly about managing projects, how do you start and end a project. What are the different ste
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wysiwyg4
Dec 22, 2008
Can you tailor your resume without lying? A friend of mine worked in computers all his professional life as software engineer. Before he was recently layed off, he was a Principal Engineer (PE). The steps, he explained, to become PE is first you are hired as Junior Engineer (JE), then after a couple of years you are promoted to Senior Engineer (SE). He said he worked as SE for more than 8 years when he was promoted to PE. Anyway, he said he was making good money, a family of four, living in a nice house in a new development. It has been more than a year that he was layed off. But during this time, he worked on and off, for about five months as a contractor. He worked on two short projects. When he met with managers for those contracts, two different companies, they asked him questions, mostly about managing projects, how do you start and end a project. What are the different ste
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SWEETFACE
Sep 02, 2008
As a career counselor I would not advise always putting your resume. If you have too low of a GPA it can prevent an employer from reviewing your resume. This can always be resolved in an interview as it gives the applicant an opportunity to explain that they may have struggled in a specific area, but have suceeded in other areas. I think there are certain fields where it may be mandatory for GPA to be on your resume, but I think most applicants can get away with not adding it to their resume.
