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The Purpose of a Resume

 
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:13 pm    Post subject: The Purpose of a Resume Reply with quote
Here are some thoughts from pages 21 and 22 of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success[img]http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir[/img] (a book I liked very much) that give the author's thoughts on the purpose of a resume:
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Resume writing is a creative exercise that combines the skills of direct mail with the skills of a storyteller. You can be great at your job, but unless your current boss is going to personally arrange your next job interview, you're going to have to depend on your resume. Your resume gets you the interview, and you can't get a job without that.


The job search process works as follows: resume leads to an interview and the interview leads to a job. So if you want a new job, you have to get an interview. And the way you get an interview is to have a resume that "sells" your skills -- one that makes your accomplishments so compelling that the hiring manager simply HAS to talk to you.

But a resume really needs to pack a punch to be effective:
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Each resume gets approximately ten seconds worth of consideration. You need to make sure you use those ten seconds to your best advantage. Every line of your resume must say you are amazing because you don't know where the person's eye will go first (though you can be sure the person won't read every line).


I'll be posting a bit more over the next few days on what this book has to say about resumes, but in the meantime you can check out How to Write a Winning Resume if you'd like some of my thoughts on the issue. And if you'd like a bit on interviewing too, see A Simple Recipe for Job Interview Success.

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