How long is the resume suitable?
Career counselors believe that resumes are usually one or two pages, not more than three pages at most, because HR must screen out suitable candidates, arrange interviews, and spread out several pages of resumes, which makes it difficult for HR to understand the advantages and "selling points" of job seekers in a limited time, but it is easy to be eliminated. In addition, many companies believe that only concise expression of employees can help the company run at a high speed.
How to present yourself in your resume?
"In the face of 100 applicants, you must prepare 100 different resumes." Different companies have different employment requirements, so job seekers are required to show that you are the one they are looking for with the corresponding resumes. According to the content of your resume, you can start from the following three aspects:
I. Summary of resume
The key to objectively emphasize the part of experience that fits the position you are applying for and to be concise/concise/true is to emphasize the achievements that can be "tested" in professional experience/professional qualifications.
B. Description of responsibilities
For the experience part, we should emphasize the specific job responsibilities and completion, actively meet each other's job requirements, and even show that we have more potential abilities suitable for this job.
C, learning experience
You don't have to be highly educated to sit back and relax. In the column of "education" in your resume, you should summarize the relevant learning contents, and it is best to improve the wrong majors, such as taking minor courses in related courses as soon as possible, so that at least it can be reflected.
How to show your selling point?
When writing your resume, you should focus on different industries and highlight your work, practical experience and learning experience in related fields. For example, we should highlight the ability of software and hardware application and development in our work experience; Sales should highlight sales performance in work experience; The market and consulting industry should highlight some successful consulting projects; The real estate industry should highlight some real estate development experience and focus on describing its own real estate development projects; The advertising industry should highlight some influential advertising planning cases. How to show your selling point is closely related to your career direction and orientation. The huge and complicated work content and responsibilities are meaningless, and it is impossible to highlight one's own experience and selling points in one page. In addition, when writing your resume, you should have the concept of "main line"-what industry is it for? What position? What responsibilities does this position require of you? What should I do every day, week and month? ..... Expound the accumulated experience, skills and knowledge in the past work around the post responsibilities and work contents, and explain by this: You are the person they are looking for, you are fully qualified for this job, and no one is more suitable for this job except you.
Ms. Yu Yin, a consultant of Lok Fu, once positioned job seekers. She hopes to be an account manager in 4A advertising company. Her main responsibility is to be responsible for customer contact and customer coordination, and act as a medium and bridge between the company and customers. Previously, the resumes of job seekers were completely filled in chronological order, and all irrelevant contents were listed on the list, including members of the party constitution study group, unpaid blood donation, scholarships and so on. , occupying a considerable space. Generally, foreign companies are not interested in employees' belief in their spare time life, but what they value more is what internship experience can help her win this position. Moreover, the staff turnover rate in the advertising industry is extremely high, and staff training is lacking. Therefore, they are looking for an old hand who has mastered the basic skills and guidelines. They want you to have experience, a strong understanding and a strong desire to take the initiative to learn-this is the "selling point" that your resume should highlight.
Therefore, if you want to highlight your "selling point" in your resume, you must write on the basis of seeking truth from facts, and use the writing method of 5W 1H (who, what, why, where, when and how) to analyze your past work experience, work content and job responsibilities.
Ms. Yu also has a job seeker who is engaged in administrative work in a state-owned listed enterprise. In eight years' work, her work experience covers three aspects: ① Human resource management. Including recruiting, selecting and hiring new employees according to the requirements of the headquarters, arranging new employee training, filing personnel data, keeping, updating and sorting contracts, establishing labor relations, and participating in labor arbitration on behalf of the company; ② Market work. Including organizing the annual general meeting of shareholders, the board of directors, making brochures, receiving guests, maintaining good relations with the media and reporting the company's annual performance; ③ Administration. Be responsible for the general affairs/material management of the Group (including material and equipment management, vehicle scheduling, internal affairs arrangement in the office, etc.). According to the requirements of her own development, as long as her career development focuses on human resource management, her resume only needs to highlight her experience in human resource management, and does not need to express her experience in marketing and administration.
When encountering a "career gap"
Ke Rui believes that the best way to fill the job gap is to use "study" or "receive some professional training or part-time", so the answer will not leave people with the feeling of being idle and doing nothing.
Love believes that if the "career gap period" is not very long, at most one month, don't care at all; If the "career gap period" is very long (more than 6 months), then job seekers can list their further studies or part-time jobs during this period. If this information is not relevant to the position you are applying for, please tell us directly. Never provide false information! You are likely to get an interview because of false information, but you will only show your true colors in front of experienced examiners.
I want to change careers.
When job seekers want to change careers, they must pay attention to the correlation between the work experience of the original industry and the new industry. Highlight your interest and development potential in a new industry in your resume, and convince future employers that although your original work experience comes from different industries, the exercise you get from it has certain industry relevance, and your interest and potential can fully qualify you for a new job. For job seekers who change careers, the interviewer is most concerned about their reasons for changing careers and whether they are qualified for the job. When making resumes, this kind of job seekers should screen and combine the past work contents according to the job responsibilities of the position they are applying for, and highlight the relationship between the past work and the position they are applying for. In the process of working contact, job seekers have a clear understanding of the work flow of the position, and carry out relevant professional training and further study. Job seekers should show the interviewer that they are confident that they are qualified for the job.
How do fresh graduates write resumes?
When writing resumes, fresh graduates should emphasize some club activities and scientific research projects they participated in during their school days, as well as social practice outside school. Good selling points include excellent academic performance, winning special awards, successfully organizing large-scale community activities, completing scientific research projects and some of their own specialties. Everyone has accumulated experience from scratch, and this year's graduates are faced with problems that all working people have experienced. In order to impress people, the resumes of fresh graduates should include four aspects: academic (academic achievements, scholarships) skills (advanced interpretation certificate), campus activities (organizing large-scale community activities), and internship experience (such as internship experience in large companies). Although fresh graduates have no work experience, they are flexible, good at learning and brave in innovation, which is valued by some multinational companies.
Should I write down the salary requirements?
If you write it, the "advantage" is that the company will clarify your needs in terms of treatment. If you feel that you are not suitable, you can save the costs of both parties; The disadvantage is that you may lose a valuable opportunity, because salary is not the only criterion to measure a position, although it is a very important criterion. Unless the salary level of the position you are applying for is not much different in the industry or the other company requires clear information, it is best to leave the salary issue in the interview and act according to circumstances. Because the quotation on your resume is too high, the interviewer can "out" you because of the cost; Moreover, the quotation is too low, which easily makes the interviewer doubt: Are you qualified for this job? Or join at a low salary for other purposes?
Will everything be all right after the resume is sent out?
If the employer doesn't refuse to call, you can call to ask about the resume reception and follow-up interview arrangements to show your concern and interest in the company. A week after the resume is sent, the job seeker can contact the recruitment enterprise by phone or email and ask the relevant personnel: Have you received the resume? Do you arrange an interview? When and where is the interview? ..... so that the other person can feel your concern for this position. In particular, some job seekers often submit their resumes in the form of "extensive training and low income", so that when the other party informs the interview, they simply can't remember what industry the other party is engaged in and what position they are applying for. This is a taboo for job hunting.
Is the "cover letter" redundant?
HR will take the time to read your cover letter. The cover letter is in the position of emphasis and supplement. When writing a cover letter, you should pay attention to the length, highlight some outstanding abilities related to the applicant's requirements and reflect your writing ability.
However, Love has a little objection that HR has very limited time, because he/she has to select qualified candidates from a large number of application letters, so he/she usually makes a preliminary screening based on his/her resume. Only after 2-3 screenings will the interviewer read the rest of the resume in detail and learn some details of the job seeker from the "cover letter". Therefore, a "cover letter" can be regarded as a "supplement" to a resume. To write a good cover letter, we should pay attention to the following points: ① A cover letter must be short and pithy, and the success rate of a cover letter exceeding one page is very low; ② Provide some unique reasons to illustrate the application principle; ③ Try to use industry terms in the cover letter; 4 highlight what contribution you will make to the company; Don't try to show your humor in the cover letter. What the interviewer cares about is whether you have business communication skills.