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4 Key Ingredients of All Quality Resumes
We all know that resumes should be personalized and customized to meet the needs of each individual and industry of interest. Still, there are common traits to all quality resumes to consider when creating and perfecting your resume. Here are my top 4 key ingredients of all resumes.
- Convey Value to Employer: You can go on for hours about every minor detail of your career, but you’re just wasting everyone’s time if none of those details will benefit the specific employer you are trying to impress. Make sure to highlight and focus value-added to the company to which you are applying. It’s not about having the most experience, it’s about having the right experience.
- Engaging Storytelling: You don’t have a lot of space on a resume nor will you have the reader’s attention for long, so make sure to hook them as quickly as possible in your career story. Make sure the content is pleasing to the eye, coherent and, most importantly, phrased in a way to maximize your ability and potential impact.
- Quality and Logical Flow: It can be confusing when resumes bounce around too much or move from one section to another without a clear and logical transition. Make sure your message constantly flows and supports your overall appeal to a company by routinely adding quantitative points to strengthen your resume.
- Focus on YOU. I added this last point because too often I have seen clients and prospective employees focus too much on how impressive their previous company was without including how they added to its success. Employers need to see proof that the company was that successful BECAUSE of you, not that they happened to simply be successful while you were there.
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