Resume is a written communication material for job application, which shows prospective employers that they have skills, attitudes, qualifications and self-confidence to meet specific job requirements. A successful resume is a marketing weapon, which proves to the future employer that he can solve his problems or meet his specific needs, thus ensuring that he can get a successful interview.
Write a good resume, send it alone or attach a cover letter, and you can apply for the position you are interested in. Take a few copies with you when you attend a job interview, which can not only provide ideas and basic information for introducing yourself, but also provide detailed reading materials for the interviewer. After the interview, it can also be stored in the computer or archived for future reference.
Chinese resumes don't have a fixed format like English resumes. Common Chinese resumes in society are mostly evolved from "resumes". Although the times are constantly changing, resumes still follow the characteristics of resumes, such as personal information as rich as the "national census form". Although the column of work experience can accommodate a lot of pen and ink and space, it is not as detailed as filling in personal information, either a long description that is flashy or a few dry short sentences. Some even write their resumes as applications for joining the Party or autobiographies, with strong emotional elements and subjective colors.
Such resumes are generally accepted and recognized by the hiring managers of state-owned enterprises, but if you apply for a foreign company with a non-professional Chinese resume, you may encounter two embarrassing situations: First, although the recruitment company invites you to submit your resume in both Chinese and English, the recruiter who screened your resume is from China, so your Chinese resume will be the main screening basis. The recruiter from China may understand your "Chinese style" emotionally, but tell him rationally that your Chinese resume does not meet the professional standards. Second, some foreign companies even require you to submit your resume in Chinese, without the constraint of "Chinese and English resumes need to be consistent". When writing a Chinese resume, you will probably take it for granted that you can use whatever format you like and whatever format is pleasing to the eye. But these Chinese resumes, which make you look pleasing to the eye and can't be put down, are typically not pleasing to the eye and don't like in the eyes of foreign recruiters with professional vision.
Most of the well-written Chinese resumes in the job market use professional English resume formats, and some even translate English resumes into Chinese word by word, so that the format of such resumes can at least be "in line with international standards". This kind of resume is mainly divided into three categories: the United States, Britain and Hong Kong. American resumes, especially those of famous American business schools, are concise, one-page and efficient in communication. At the end of 1990s, this resume began to spread on bbs of famous universities in Beijing and Shanghai, and was recognized and used by more and more people. British resumes have many pages, and personal information such as age is fully "disclosed". In contrast, the description of work experience is not concrete and vivid enough, which is not desirable. Resumes in this format spread to Hong Kong more than 30 years ago and have been widely circulated in the market after localization. Although it has been icing on the cake, plus the current salary level and salary expectation, there is still little description of work experience.