Chloe Wang is going to find a job related to finance with a resume showing ten skills and certificates.
However, his job search was not smooth, especially when HR once asked him "which skill is his best". He didn't dare to say that it was related to construction project planning, and he didn't want to exaggerate his financial ability.
Why not write too many skills on your resume?
Lack of professionalism, miscellaneous but not refined
Generally speaking, the positions interviewed by interviewers belong to professional positions. If there are too many skills displayed on the resume, it will definitely make the interviewer feel that he can't find the key point.
Obviously, the candidate is a financial professional, but there are many unrelated skills written on his resume: teacher qualification certificate, software development certificate, securities qualification certificate ... All these can only haunt the interviewer's mind with three words: unreliable.
Enterprises pay more attention to whether they can hold a specific position and undertake the professional work that the position is responsible for when recruiting talents. If the interviewer can't make the interviewer feel his professionalism and ability, he will miss the job in most cases.
Uncertain professional skills are prone to cognitive bias.
The accumulation of resume skills is still problematic. HR doesn't know what job seekers are best at. Originally, the professional ability of job seekers in a certain field is very prominent, but because there are too many resume skills, they cover up their best professional skills.
What is even more embarrassing is that job seekers who want to change industries can't say that their best skill is their previous work field, nor can they say that their best skill is the job they are applying for now. In desperation, I listed all the skills I could access, hoping that HR could choose from them, and the results were often unsatisfactory.
HR's mailbox is full of resumes of various talents, so it is very important to "see the advantages at a glance".
Too many promises, burying the pit for future work.
Because many job seekers put themselves in a weak position during the interview, they not only listed all their skills, but also often promised the interviewer that I could do whatever the company arranged.
To a great extent, this will lead to an embarrassing situation after joining the job: the leader really regards you as an "eight-faced hand", and as a result, you can't do both sides well due to lack of ability or energy.
This happened to Xiao Wei after he joined the company. Because he promised too much in the interview, he talked too much. When there was no project, the leader asked him to plan. The project is coming, and he has to go to the scene. You have to engage in technology with technicians when you are busy. He is so busy that he often makes mistakes in his work.
How to write the skill item of job resume?
To impress the interviewer?
Can be superimposed and displayed in the field of professional work.
If the skills are related to the position you are applying for, it is suggested that you must write close-ups in uppercase and display them superimposed.
If it is financial, you may wish to show it all, such as intermediate certificate of accounting, certificate of certified public accountant, certificate of actuary, etc. Let HR see your achievements in the financial field for many years and quickly match the job requirements.
If you are an engineer, don't be stingy with certificates with high gold content, such as second-class constructor and first-class constructor. Take it all out and let the interviewer see the written proof of ability and strength.
Through the vertical superposition of a certain major, you can often get twice the result with half the effort, and it will not make people feel dazzling.
Hide some unimportant skills
Hiding is not hiding, but covering up some unnecessary things at the technical level to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.
Liu Lei is always bitter about an interview, because only two people competed and he lost. He believes that his appearance is superior and his language is not bad. The only thing is that when communicating, the interviewer has some doubts about his resume.
The position he interviewed was film and television planning post, but HR first asked him why he took the teacher qualification exam. Is it because his original dream was to be a teacher?
Later, Liu Lei thought a lot and thought that the interviewer must be dissatisfied with the answers to these questions before he was accepted.
The interviewer will discuss the past experience of the job seeker according to every detail on the resume, so as to draw a conclusion whether the job seeker matches the position. So don't blindly show some irrelevant skills, in case the effect is counterproductive.
Demonstrate work skills through real experience.
In fact, the resume skill item is not only a list of certificates, but also a phrase "mastering office software skillfully", which will give the interviewer a very perfunctory and inexperienced feeling.
Mendeleev, a Nobel Prize winner, said that a theory that has not been tested by practice, no matter how beautiful it is, will lose its weight and will not be recognized.
Kobayashi works for an Internet giant company with strong professional ability and is well-known in the industry. Once he was invited to a youth sharing meeting, and when it came to job hunting, he was very emotional.
As we all know, giant internet companies like uncut fresh graduates best, but they don't accept previous graduates who have worked for two years.
However, Kobayashi summed up his project experience in the past two years into a complete analysis and display plan. With excellent past experience and extraordinary eloquence, he finally won the job.
His experience is worth learning, because any company likes the ability of "seeing and touching" rather than the ability of empty talk.
Many people like to get all kinds of certificates at school, and even write a very rich resume when applying for a job, thinking that doing so can maximize their strength and win the favor of interviewers, but they ignore one point: the disadvantage of too much content is that HR can't grasp the advantages of job seekers. This will directly lead to the resume sinking into the sea after all kinds of delivery, or unable to justify itself in the interview.
Therefore, no matter before or after your resignation, you should concentrate on optimizing your resume skills as much as possible in order to meet a satisfactory job unexpectedly.