According to a recent LinkedIn article by Danielle Krause, Executive Recruiter at Randstad, most recruiters and HR managers only spend about 6 seconds screening your resume. That's right - only 6 seconds!
Which means, that while you may have truly labored over your resume, re-reading and editing until your education, skills and finer qualities were all swimming around in one big jumble of euphemisms in your head, that piece of artistic genius isn't going far unless you remember the below steps...
1. Are you really, truly qualified? Don't just think you can stretch some basic college-level skills or the past three summers of temp-work to sound like a managerial position and a Master's degree.
2. Formatting is a big deal. Unless you work in a creative industry - like Graphic Design or Fashion, etc. - leave the colored fonts and crazy spacing and margins to the pros. And remember to have a Human Resources contact or other professional to edit your resume for you, to ensure that you are providing the type of consistent, easy-to-read draft that recruiters will like.
3. Double-check you're your spelling and grammer grammar. Unless you start making spell-check your best friend, you could seriously end up looking like you don't care. Or implying that you didn't pass High School English 101.
4. The content is boring, rudimentary, and/or devoid of meaning.
5. Make sure you show career progression. Or, if you are at the starting-line of your illustrious career path, show a willingness to work hard (in order to one day advance).
For more in-depth advice and examples you can read the entire article here.
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