Resume Tips - Check your Stream

Started by Kalyan, Jul 27, 2008, 03:02 PM

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Resume Tips

Marketing Resume Tips:

You are marketing yourself, present your information quickly, clearly, and in a way that makes your experience relevant to the position, condense your information down to its most powerful form

Steps:

1. Contact information: name, address, phone no., E-Mail ID clearly
2. Objective: specific statement which includes position and relevant skills.
3. summary of qualification: this is for experienced person for mentioning their job oriented skills.
3. Marketing skills: mention marketing related skills, use appropriate industrial terms.
4. education: give in reverse chronological order with degree, year of graduation, university and any certifications related to job applying for.
5. Marketing experience: give the most recent first, emphasize on accounting related contributions.
6. Activities: mention community activities, responsibilities, and accomplishments. Use only action verbs when giving the statements of accomplishments.

Information Technology Resume Tips:

IT resume should clearly shows candidates IT skills. To achieve this add IT skill, software or programming languages expertise section in your resume.

    * Relavent to your target job profile list your qualification, from most to least.
    * If your educational qualification is relavent to the job for which you are applying then list it first in your resume.
    * quantify your experience.
    * Mention numerically, time periods/efficiency improved, lines of code written/debugged, numbers of machines administered/fixed, etc. which demonstrate progress or accomplishments due directly to your work.
    * Begin sentences with action verbs related to IT field.
    * Show yourself as someone who is active, uses their brain, and gets things done.

For a quick scan of your knowledge of programs and applications. For example include the following that is applicable to you

    * Technical Certifications
    * Hardware
    * Operating Systems
    * Networking/Protocols
    * Programming-Languages
    * Web Applications
    * Database Applications


Highlight some of your soft skills in a career as a programmer to add a personality to your resume. Remember your resume should be short enough, yet should be able to effectively showcase your achievements. Do not make it excessively lengthy.

Admin Resume Tips:

An administration resume must be clear and relevant to the position.That means condensing your information down to its most powerful form.

    * Focus on the following areas:
    * Skills
    * Areas of expertise
    * Certifications
    * Accomplishments

Technology resumes Tips:

Include your technology-related skills. Your skills must be related to the job you are applying for. Keep the items with which you are most proficient near the top of the list.

Categorize your skills. Give general heading such as "Network Security", If you can list several of these category-level skills, they can be used on the resume in a separate section. They can also be used as descriptions in your summary or objective section.

List your certifications. If you have more than two, you will want to include them in your technology section. If you have two or less, move them to an "Education and Certification" section. Your education section can be placed at the bottom of the resume if your experience outweighs your education .
Begin sentences with action verbs