How is it that at least 80% of the resumes received or read on job portals are unconvincing? The only answer we can find now is that we can afford it. Currently, on the labor market there are many job offers. At career fairs, top companies do not know how to attract youngsters with potential and technical training suitable for available. With an unemployment rate less than 3% in a capital city for example, it is clear that something on the labor market has changed for the benefit of the candidates.
In this situation, many candidates can afford not to promote very well their professional experience in their resume. Moreover, many candidates can afford not to pay enough attention to their resume because they have enough offers not to be motivated to review their resume.
The above situation creates much room for differentiation for those of us who want to invest more time and effort. This investment will further distinguish us from the competitors by a good first impression created by our resume.
To develop the most important improvements that can be brought to the resume, we will include a number of elements, which can be found in mediocre resumes. Eliminating these items, your resume may be convincing and it will help you distinguish from the competition and ultimately it will fulfill its purpose, namely to ensure an invitation to an interview.
The following items may be removed from most of the resumes: your birthday, your marital status, the number of children, the reason why you have changed jobs, Curriculum Vitae as a title, conferences that you have attended passively, military satisfied, responsibilities that dominate quantitatively the resume in the detriment of the results, listing skills like flexible, analytical, organized etc.
When completing your resume on one of the online portals of jobs, part of the above information are required. In this case, you can choose to write them or not. If you choose not to write them, you limit the employment strategy to companies where you want to work and contact them directly.
The following items can be changed in your resume. Your resume can be started with the professional objective. Why should you start with your professional goal? We should do it because each of us likes to see people who know what they want from their professional life.
The contact data can be moved at the end of the resume. Let us see what the reason of this trick is. The reason is that nobody is interested to contact you until you have convinced him or her that you deserve to be contacted. In this respect, professional experience is the most valuable section of the resume.
Studies can be mentioned after professional experience. Except for a few special jobs, most of us do not win more than 10% reliability by our studies and education. To conclude, if you want to have your resume remarked, you should remove any useless information and add everything that can be representative for your future position.
