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To win more job interviews and dramatically increase the quality of opportunities your resume can help you attract, strip your resume down to bare bones and resurrect it using the same techniques professional resume writers use to reposition job seekers whose own job search campaigns have failed to yield the results they need. Problem #1: Resume Lacks Structure You cannot create a resume without first creating a structure for it. Resumes are complicated documents that include different types of information which they communicate to different types of readers. If your resume has a poor structure it will make no sense to the reader; he or she will simply discard your resume and move on the next one in the pile, and you will count yourself lucky to even get a rejection letter. Solution #1: Create A Strong Skeleton For Your Resume · Be as specific as possible in the content you want to communicate. · Match your content to the job you are applying for and the industry you seek to enter. · Avoid jargon yet be sure to use industry-specific key words. · Organize and sequence all of your dates and details. You didn't edit, then write and then initiate; you initiated, then wrote and then edited. · List dates chronologically but in reverse order. · Combine like skills together. · Choose a resume style (chronological, functional, skills-based combination) that highlights your accomplishments. · List resume sections with most important section first, least important section last and all other sections in their appropriate place in between those two poles. Education should rarely be listed first unless you seek work either in academia or in a field where education is paramount, such as in medicine. · Be consistent in how you record information. Begin bulleted sentences and phrases
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