What Your Boss Wants to Hear: Resume Guide Lines
You must write considering your future employer’s mindset. If you believed that the resume is about you, it isn’t really. Although it is your statement or your biography, the heart of it should touch directly on the needs of the employer, or the human resource staff who will be reading it. What are their company’s immediate needs and how will you be able to provide a solution to their problems?
Although pinning down a company’s primary problems before an interview is difficult, the truth is that new company position candidates are needed because they are replacing an unproductive employee, a top employee has been promoted or has left, or the company is expanding and new positions have opened up.
Companies are results-oriented, they need active people with backgrounds to back up their claims, skilled and articulate individuals with strong work ethics. Your goal is to point your resume toward these key aspects to directly address any company’s concerns.
Resume parts are phrases, and should be written carefully. Use action words (in your own words) instead of copying a template. Examples include: participated, moved sales up, coordinated and organized. When your application does not feel like the others in the pile, you will get shortlisted.
Get your message across and stick to a consistent slogan. Do not go into the “I-can-be-anything-you-want” trap. If you want to head the operations, don’t indicate that you are willing to do customer support.
What about you will sell? Did you graduate from a top university? Did your accomplishments include improving your former company’s production? Were you key to the success of a particular event?
Never mention negatives, about you or about your former employer.
