Professional Resume Writing

Video Transcript

"Your resume obviously again your resume is going to be the document that you submit to your hiring manager to the organizations you wish to work for asking for the interview and so it is very important to make it as perfect as possible and so things that you do want to include and things that you don't want to include first off your resume needs to be catered to a specific job. Often times resumes are too general, they are not made specifically for any job they are made specifically for the individual that resume belongs to to pass it out and for it apply to multiple jobs. However, if you can read a job description if you are trying to get an interview for a particular job that resume needs to reflect the organization, the job and the job description and the job description is going to be full of the characteristics of duties that you need to perform and those are the things that you need to focus on. So if you are applying for a computer job you don't need to necessarily focus as much on your retail job as you would the computer skills from that retail job. So if you are selling you don't want to focus on that but if you are ringing up someone if you are working on an atrium or a computer and there were some technical aspects to your retail job then you could include that. Another common mistake with resumes, resumes often time will include duties rather than accomplishments and that you can have a successful resume listing the duties and responsibilities of previous job experiences that you have had in the past however if I were to say I once worked in a movie theater and I listed the duties that I was required to do pretty much any hiring manager that's out there would be able to guess without reading my resume what duties I had to perform. Obviously I had some cleaning in there involved, tickets were involved in some way and so rather than listing those duties, list the accomplishments, what problems occurred at that movie theater that you were able to overcome, that you were able to fix and make it a better organization. Did you make that organization some money? Were you able to fix issues within the organization? Were you able to rally a team together. Accomplishments such as that are going to speak volumes a lot more than being able to just speak on duties, things that you did because again people know what you did. If you are a district manager we know what goes with that, you need to speak on what exactly you accomplished because that is going to help you out in the end. Your objective in your resume needs to reflect a little bit about yourself but more so what you hope to contribute to the organization again that being direct and having an area that your resume is focused on is going to be better than just a general resume."