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A Great Job Resume Will Get You Noticed Sooner & Get You Hired Quicker

A Great Job Resume Will Get You Noticed Sooner & Get You Hired Quicker: Customizing your resume is so important for some job openings because employers receive hundreds of resumes, if not more. So, when you are looking for a job, how can you best promote yourself? You have to know how to convince a prospective employer to pick-up the phone and call you for an interview.

Gone are the days of the bland, simplistic one-page job resume. Employers these days are more impressed by a resume that is customized and they tend to give jobs to interviewees that have a bit of knowledge about the company. By showing an interest in the employer's organization, you, as a job seeker, automatically become more interesting to the employer.

By doing your research, you're showing both interest and initiative, which impresses potential employers. It will also help you decide whether or not you would feel comfortable working for the company, and would fit in with others at the office and the overall atmosphere.

Researching the company can also help you get through the dreaded job interview, since it will give you an idea of what you need to communicate, and how you can incorporate your ideas into the company approach.

Here are my top tips to customizing your job resume:

  • Visit the company's website: read past the obvious introductory pieces. Pay special attention to the layout and design- they should give clues as to the type of company it is. If possible, familiarize yourself with the key players in the company.

  • Go beyond the company web site: Google the company name, and read some of the recent news articles, annual reports or any other relevant information you can find.

  • Seek out the competitors: talk to anyone you know who works for one of the competitors to find out how your potential employer is viewed in their industry.

  • Talk to people around the water cooler: ask your friends and co-workers what they know about the organization.

  • Pick up the phone: call the company, and ask the receptionist their views on the company, including dress code, organization, leadership style, and overall office atmosphere.

Each job listing you see has a particular list of required experiences. If you possess the right combination of experiences, then make sure that you express clearly this in your resume and cover letter. You should assume that the potential employer knows nothing about you or your background.

On an executive job resume, a simple list of accomplishments is no longer sufficient. Employers expect added value, and since your resume is an introduction to your full qualifications, you must incorporate what you have done as well as provide a notion of how you influence others. This information must be presented in a concise and compelling manner given that your resume is your most important marketing tool. Include soft 'people' skills as well as hard technical skills such as your IT proficiencies, but go further than the basics to show you are truly up to date. If you know how to use social networking such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook in a professional, market orientated way, it can be an advantage.

Similarly your ability to interact with people is taken for granted, but if you can do it in another language even better!

Most of all include leadership training on your job resume - it doesn't matter where you gained it, just that you have it and know how to lead will make you stand out every time.

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These Resume Tips will get you off to a great start, but please don't forget the importance of a really well written resume cover letter.

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Resume writing or perfecting your CV in line with your career aspirations will help to make your employment searches more productive. When you search jobs, try to find the key points in the job advert that you should include in your resume writing.

A well-written Resume can make a difference between being stuck at your current job and getting an interview to land the job of your dreams, so take the time to get it right with my resume writing tips.

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