Aug
5
2011
Work experience will generally be the most relevant detail for most positions so make it easy for employers by presenting this section at the start of your resume. If you are a recent school or uni graduate applying for graduate specific positions include your education first, its what employers will be most interested in. When making a career change, be guided by which section is more in line with this desired change, ie which section is more likely to sell you, is it work experience or education?
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Aug
4
2011
As a general rule, approximately ten years is a good length of time. Work experience that is more than ten years old can lose most of its relevance simply by how long ago it was due to different work cultures, work pressures and technology used.
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Aug
3
2011
Use point form instead of sentence format. Limit what you include in each point to the main responsibilities of your job and/or those tasks, activities and achievements that are in line with the work you are applying for. Combine similar duties into one slightly longer, but general point.
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Aug
2
2011
Information relating to your work experience or training is relevant when it can be transferred and applied to the work you are now looking for. Ask yourself – is this information going to help me secure an interview? If the answer is no, leave it out.
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Aug
1
2011
Be clear, concise and make sure its grammatically correct. Your objective should state your professional goals or aims and not be a subjective statement of what you think your strengths are. It needs to be broad enough to appeal to a wide range of employers and yet be specific enough to match an employers' requirements. This can be the hardest part about writing an objective and be aware that some employers may use your objective to screen you out if it doesn't meet their needs.
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Jul
29
2011
If this has happened to you, you do need to acknowledge it in your resume because large time gaps can confuse or raise suspicions.If you have been unable to work due to sickness state that you were "recuperating from illness" with the relevant dates and leave it at that. Its important to use a positive word such as recuperating or recovering rather than something negative like "suffering". Do the same thing for time away from the workforce because you were raising your children or caring for a sick parent etc. You can also describe any skills gained during this period of time that you think are transferrable to the workplace.
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Jul
28
2011
Assess all your job application documents before you send them out with a view to tweaking the information so that there is a heavier emphasis on the skills that are relevant to each particular job and reducing the impact of skills that are not so crucial.
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Jul
27
2011
Because your resume is a marketing document and its main function is to entice the reader to invite you to an interview so that they can find out more about you. Salary details are usually discussed at later stages of the recruitment process and bringing this detail up in your resume may complicate or in some cases put an end to your application.
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Jul
26
2011
For the purposes of selling yourself to an employer, it is ok to modify your official job title in your resume BUT what you change it to must be a true and accurate reflection of what your job involves.
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Jul
25
2011
When the study is relevant to the sort of work you are looking for AND your research suggests industry employers are unlikely to consider incomplete study as a negative. Give a brief legitimate reason as to why you didn't finish eg you had to defer due to family responsibilities or similar in your description. You can only list 1 or at the very most 2 unfinished courses though, anymore and it won't make you look good at all, no matter what the reasons.
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