Resume Writing Tip
The most important resume writing tip you’re ever going to receive: think while you’re writing!
It’s trivial, but you’ll be surprised how many resumes are proofs of its writers’ stupidity. Grammar mistakes, improper names or addresses left from the free resume sample that made a base of one’s resume cover letter, letters sent to wrong companies etc, etc, etc… Every single one of them can be avoided if only the resume writer thought while writing.
Resume writing tip number two: read what you’ve written!
The best way to avoid such mistakes is to read your own resume and the cover letter. Oftentimes people are so tired after creating their resumes that they resign from checking it. This is the worst mistake one can make! When you’re writing resume cover letter or the resume itself, you always have to re-read it, or even better – ask somebody to read it and find as many mistake as possible!
The third resume writing tip: use plain English!
We tend to think that managers and assistants that read our resumes are kind of godlike creatures, fanatics of English language and masters of the corporate doublespeak. The truth is that most of them are normal folks, just like you and me. It is even probable that they needed some resume help in order to get THEIR jobs! The point is they aren’t more fluent in English than you are, so don’t try to use too difficult or rare vocabulary just to show how well educated resume writer you are. Plain, simple English will be much easier for them to read.
If you need any other resume writing tip, just put “resume writing tip” phrase into google.com and check the results (remember that you need the quotation marks, though). Just make sure that you’ll be reading them until you feel overeducated – don’t stop your “resume writing studies” in the middle – better to know nothing about the subject than learn only a part of it!
And the last tip: even if your resume is perfect you still may fail. The people who will read your resume might be too tired at the time or they may have already made up their minds, or… or anything. Keep in mind that if you haven’t got a job it might be because of any of these reasons, not because you’ve made any mistake during the resume writing process. Don’t turn your resume cover letter upside down only because you haven’t been qualified once!
Copyright 2007 Jay Tokarz
