HR usually only needs 20 seconds to scan your resume and then decide whether to interview you. So, your resume is not for reading, but for scanning. Therefore, the simpler the resume, the better the effect. Imagine a job seeker writing down pages and pages of irrelevant and redundant experiences, which can easily bore readers.
In fact, HR knows what kind of resume he is looking for and what kind of person his company is looking for to do the job before reading the resume, so the nonsense on the resume will not have any positive effect on job seekers. Those long and empty resumes will be thrown aside without hesitation. Therefore, one A4 page is usually enough to apply for a junior position. Most human resources managers like to read "sketched" resumes: not many sentences, but many sentences, and basically the job seeker's own experience is expressed in his own language, and one page of content can fully express a person.
There is too much content, how to cut it into one page?
Your resume page is too expensive, your name, gender, address, phone number and so on. It should not occupy too large a page. Take the name as the title, and give the contact information immediately after the title.
Delete those unimportant details and merge the repeated details to make the details you provide more concise and effective.
To eliminate the nonsense on your resume, you can start from the following aspects:
Computer skills: eliminate the most basic computer application skills, such as "proficient in using Windows" and "able to operate Office".
Education: Don't list many courses you have taken. Except for the main courses closely related to the job application, all others should be eliminated.
Put an end to those big and inappropriate rhetoric and empty self-evaluation, and put an end to the empty talk of "patting the chest" at will.
Don't "shout slogans", for example, since God has given talents, let them find jobs! .
Avoid "talking big", if you give me a fulcrum, I will pry up the whole earth!
Avoid "showing loyalty". If you give me a chance, I will give you everything I have!
Reduce materials that have nothing to do with job hunting intentions. Take finance as an example. Anything unrelated to finance can be deleted. If all the content is related to finance, you can also give them a priority, compress or delete those that are not important.
Reducing line spacing, font, and the distance before and after paragraphs is the last way. But the line spacing is too small, which will make people uncomfortable. If the Chinese characters on the resume are smaller than "Xiao Wu", it will also make many people uncomfortable.
There is too little content, how to expand it to one page?
Students have little work experience and can't write, which leads to insufficient pages. Here, we introduce some compensation techniques:
You can write courses related to the position you are applying for in your educational background. But don't write down all the processes just to piece together the space.
Scholarships are one line at a time. Many students have scholarships every year and can write three or four lines or more.
Extend the sentence. You can add some words to each sentence to prolong it. But at the same time, we should also be careful not to pile up a lot of adjectives to make up the numbers. The method that can be used is action decomposition.
Naturally, you should change your lines and write more sentences (that is, each sentence is a paragraph and each sentence shows an action or result).
The details of social work are put in the work experience. This will make up for the lack of work experience. For example, you can list the things you have organized, contacted and participated in when you are doing social work such as the Communist Youth League Secretary and the President of the Student Union. If you only do one thing, try to break it down, such as how many people you led, what you accomplished, and what role you played. So, there are at least three lines. If you do more, just one line at a time. At the same time, we should pay attention to the principle of concise words.
Summer job. As a college student, employers usually don't expect you to achieve anything earth-shattering during your summer job. Of course, it would be better if there were. But even if you don't, even if you stay in your parents' unit for a few days, you might as well write it down. This can also be regarded as getting in touch with society, understanding some industries and doing some work. But you must be able to say a few words before you can write it on your resume. Otherwise, you may be tongue-tied and embarrassed in the future interview.
Middle school situation. But don't write too much about this. Some people have had brilliant experiences in middle school, such as being the president of the student union and the secretary of the Youth League branch, and their academic performance is among the best, but it generally has little effect. Of course, if you won an international Olympic competition prize or a national prize in middle school, you might as well mention it.
The last method is to increase the font size: 10 and small five can be changed to 12 and small four.
Examples of action decomposition and rich wording:
It is very necessary and difficult to describe holiday practice and social practice activities in detail and list them one by one. For example, Ning Xiaoer, who graduated from college, only participated in Suning's marketing activities on a weekend of his junior year. How to describe this experience in detail? The content can be broken down into several aspects, and then listed as follows:
Explain the performance of the new TV.
Assist in lucky draw for live activities.
Distribute and recycle market questionnaires for upcoming new products.
Collect on-site customer information
In the case of authenticity, try to use professional language, which also reflects your professionalism from the side. For example, your internship in a company is "typing". In order to broaden the job search, it can be expressed as "word processing". A secretary can also be expressed as an assistant; "Leaflet distribution" can be expressed as "spreading product information" and so on. At the same time, the use of numbers will make resumes more convincing. By dealing with the work content of Ning Xiaoer in the above case, we can express it like this:
Provide product display and performance explanation for potential customers in the large-scale marketing activities of Suning TV new products.
Participate in organizing and arranging large-scale lottery activities at the promotion meeting site to attract 3000 potential customers to participate in the day's activities.
Conduct market research on new TV, organize 30 people to send out 3000 questionnaires, and effectively recover 92%.
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