Resume is the driving force of career design. It shows future employers that your skills, attitude, qualifications and credibility can meet specific job requirements. A successful resume is a marketing weapon, which proves to the future employer that you can solve his problems or meet his specific needs, so make sure you get a chance to make your interview successful. Resume plays such an important role that quite a few people will make great efforts on it. As everyone knows, the icing on the cake in the eyes of some job seekers is actually "gilding the lily" ...
Minefield 1: Resume can help you find a job.
John Zhang is an energetic and ambitious person. He was very interested in a job in the professional field (building maintenance), but at the same time he realized that the position needed someone with higher education and more experience than him, so he decided to make some "small moves" on his resume to appear "completely" in line with the requirements of the job. At first glance, the resume was not bad, and even got a telephone interview. When things began to come to light, hopes of finding a job were dashed. To make matters worse, when others in the same trade heard about it, his reputation was suddenly hit. He once successfully concocted a resume and opened the door to an interview, but the truth that was discovered later closed the door mercilessly.
It can be seen that if you want to make your resume more weighty by exaggerating your qualifications, you will be in an extremely embarrassing position in the future interview process.
Discussion: If your resume can get you a job, according to this logic, cherry nuclear energy will bring you cherries. In fact, if you plant a cherry pit in fertile soil, you may get a tree, and then you may harvest cherries, but you may also get nothing. Similarly, a resume can help you get an interview, and then you can talk about whether you can get a job. If you want to find a job successfully, you need to have a strategy to find job clues: a compelling resume and an exciting cover letter. In addition, you also need to have sales skills, good personal qualities, excellent performance in the interview and suitable referees, and so on. All these factors together can determine who can win the job, and interviews account for a large proportion.
The interview gives those who examine you 99% of the information they need, and they decide whether to hire you during the interview. So you may think, "Why bother to prepare your resume?"
However, the resume is a "letter of introduction" and a stepping stone, which will enable you to successfully pass the first round of screening for future employers. Therefore, it is helpful to think about your resume from the other person's point of view.
Different recruiters will look at resumes from different angles. Some people will compare your resume with other resumes they have received; Some people regard it as a key determinant to judge whether your qualifications meet the job requirements. They are not interested in people who "almost" meet the standards. You will meet some people who will not hesitate to judge a resume by personal prejudice, and those standards are only understood by themselves. Larger companies generally have human resources departments, and resumes to be sent to hiring managers for further review are screened first.
Based on the above situation, what you need to do is to prepare a resume that highlights your experience and potential, without including irrelevant details that may confuse the recruiter.
A resume can make or break an interview. To increase your chances of being selected, consider the following guidelines:
□ Is your resume concise (two pages or less) and focused? Employers don't need your life experience, just an overview.
Does your resume show that you have talents that can be used in many ways and in any industry?
□ Does the resume look only a few lines, or is it crowded? Of course you don't want to come up with a resume that looks uncomfortable.
□ Did you clearly express the information you want to tell your employer in your resume?
□ Do you avoid technical terms that may confuse readers? Remember, in most cases, there will be two people reading your resume, a human resources professional and a person who decides whether to admit you.
After writing your resume, remember what it says. It seems unnecessary to mention this point, but many people do forget this important step. Once someone asks about your experience, you should be able to answer with the same information as your resume, without any obvious discrepancy.
In addition to the above, we must also remember to prepare these two questions:
□ Can you provide evidence to prove the skills and work experience stated in your resume?
Can you prove to us what you claim to have done?
An honest and well-prepared resume will open the door to success for you. When you finally get an interview, try to sell yourself and convince the interviewer that you have both the talents the company needs and the character and work attitude they are looking for.
Truth: Your resume just knocks on the door of an interview, and you won't get the job until the interview is over.
Minefield 2: You can't find a good job with a simple resume.
In order to highlight the role of resumes, many job seekers have racked their brains to make their resumes different and even add some tricks. Is there really no market for simple resumes?
Discussion: In the process of quickly scanning your resume, employers only pay attention to the facts listed, and will not be interested in your interesting rhetoric, exaggerated text patterns or scented paper. So, design your resume simply and clearly, highlighting what you can do for them. The purpose of writing a resume is to describe your skills accurately and convincingly.
If you find your resume unconvincing, you may want to add some words that sound very touching, but in fact these words don't convey any important information. Although I really want to list my past achievements, I suddenly lost my mind and couldn't remember them. Maybe it's because you've been doing this job for too long and it's hard to remember, so you need to do some research to help you organize the contents of your resume.
The information and materials needed when preparing a resume include: resumes used in the past, some records of your work (reports, designs, newsletters, etc. ), newspaper clippings about your achievements in some old books, newspapers or magazines, performance evaluation and so on. These things help to activate your memory.
Follow these simple guidelines:
List the same achievements and make them suitable for the job you are looking for. List the most important achievements first.
□ If you are interested in several jobs, prepare a separate resume for each job. Reform according to the requirements of different employers, and attract attention with "fashionable terms" in the industry.
□ Summarize all skills and show your achievements in chronological order.
If you don't have much work experience, put part-time or summer jobs, internships and volunteer work on your resume. Don't make your resume look small, and don't make something up just because you have just entered the job market.
Getting a "cool" job depends on the following conditions:
Write a resume that will get you the first interview.
Convince the decision maker that you are the best person for this job.
Being in harmony with other colleagues.
□ Know your value in the job market.
□ Understand the basic principles of effective salary negotiation.
Don't write some empty content and lofty long-term goals in your resume to fill in the blanks. If you want to attract the attention of employers, you should leave enough space on your resume to gain visual appeal in a concise format.
Truth: Avoid all kinds of novel and clumsy attempts. Write an article with advertising promotion skills to attract the attention of recruiters, so that you can get an interview and get a very good job.
Minefield 3: Good-looking cover letters and resumes make you stand out.
Example: Liu Yue summed up his job hunting experience like this: "Because I don't have much work experience, I want to write my resume on lavender paper, which is as thick as colored art paper. I spent two stamps when I mailed a two-page resume! I was really proud for a while, until a recruitment agent told me that this was the reason why I didn't get an interview. But I think he is talking crazy. He keeps sending out thick lavender resumes. I finally realized that what he said was right. Unfortunately, I was ignored by companies that thought I was a radical. "
Liu Yue finally got the job she wanted. Ten years later, she became a career consultant in the career service department of a university. She always shares the story of lavender resume with her students.
Discussion: Those who write cover letters and resumes on pink, blue or green paper (or any other non-neutral color) often don't get an interview. Why? Because they look strange compared with other competitors who use conservative white paper or yellow white paper. Usually thicker paper or oversized paper is not suitable.
Note: Only in rare cases will a cover letter that looks wonderful attract the attention of the recruitment agent. However, it is best to use the "tried and tested" method, otherwise you will take great risks. Unless they are looking for an unconventional person, recruiters and employers will not attach importance to strange or flashy cover letters and resumes.
Truth: You want them to remember your job qualifications, not your unique resume. Adhere to the standard professional style.
Minefield 4: Your resume should include your job objectives.
Wang Xin is studying TV broadcasting in university, and her goal is to become a sports commentator. "I have been a sports fan since I was a child. At that time, my uncle worked in china national radio Sports Department, and I really enjoyed being with him when he was working. But the job market was tight when I graduated, so I had to adjust my goals. Finally, I wrote down several different job hunting goals related to the jobs that employers can offer. After many interviews, I chose the public relations department of a brewery, and they took sponsoring sports as part of their public relations plan. I am very satisfied, but it is all because I have made some creative changes to my work goals that I have attracted the attention of my employers. "
Discussion: If you are looking for a specific job, and you only need that kind of job, you need to write down your specific job-hunting goals.
For example, if you are looking for a job as an accounting supervisor and are only willing to accept this position, you should indicate on your resume:
Job objective: Accounting supervisor.
But if you are also interested in other positions in the same field, your job search goal should be written as follows:
Target: Accountant/Assistant Accountant/Deputy General Manager of Finance
The difference is that the type of company you apply for is different. In a medium-level company, the position of accounting supervisor is ideal; But in a bigger company, you will be satisfied to be an assistant to the accounting supervisor; In a small company, the position of deputy general manager of finance is ideal.
When writing several job hunting goals, it should be noted that each related field must be at the same work level.
A broad job-hunting goal looks more like a career goal, such as "I want to find a challenging job in a constantly improving organization, so that creativity and autonomy can be freely exerted", which just wastes valuable space on my resume and cannot provide any useful information. Either write a more detailed work goal or don't write it at all. You can include some job goals on your resume in your cover letter.
Note: Don't simply change the name and wording of your career or work goal, and your resume itself should be changed accordingly. In order to make your resume more effective, you should focus on the qualifications and abilities required by your specific career goals.
Truth: Actually, there are two considerations.
1? When a resume that should be "ordinary" involves a specific field that is too narrow, you will lose many other opportunities.
2? If the work goal is too broad, it is better not to write.
Minefield 5: It is important to include every job you have done in your resume.
Example: Zhao Ya began to write a 7-page resume, which included his work information for 26 years and listed his hobbies for reference. Little did she realize that her resume was a little annoying to her employer. Until a career counselor criticized her resume and reduced it to two pages. Since then, she has become very attractive in the eyes of future employers and soon found a job she likes.
Discussion: The purpose of resume is to arouse people's interest in reading and understanding, and invite you for an interview. Don't pour out all the preliminary work that has little to do with your current job, just write in the work experience of the last ten years.
So, what should be included? Pay attention to the following four points:
First, if your past experience is related to the job you are applying for, you might as well write it down. For example, a job seeker looking for a retail position wants to mention that he works as a clerk in a department store in order to earn tuition during the summer vacation. That's a good idea. If an employer wants to find a sales manager or a store assistant, he is likely to like someone with short-term working experience in retail.
Secondly, in another case, job seekers who apply for junior management positions, if they have management experience, even before 15, will have a little more advantage than others who have no management experience. As long as you put your heart into it, employers will always see the value of your management experience.
Thirdly, if this is your first job after graduating from high school or college, and you have no full-time work experience, write about your part-time and temporary jobs. You can also list some volunteer work, especially those related to your professional field.
Fourthly, it is obviously unnecessary for older job seekers who have had many work experiences or worked in the same employer for many years to trace their work experiences 25 years ago on their resumes. Just add a sentence, such as "I worked as an accounting supervisor, budget analyst and cost accounting clerk before doing the above work", which is enough to tell the other party that you have held other positions and have a mature sense of responsibility. If the recruiter wants to know more information, he will ask you in person.
Pay attention to the information you must write on your resume. Tell the employer what preparations you have made for this job with appropriate examples. Employers will understand that everyone has a starting point.
Finally, I should listen to a human resource management manager say, "I like to read those short and concise resumes, which makes me curious about the job seekers' past work." "And resumes with more than two pages often make some unnecessary mistakes. In fact, job seekers can get an interview as long as they grasp the facts and be concise. "
Truth: If there is too much information on your resume, people who read it will have little interest in interviewing you.
Minefield 6: It is very creative to attach photos to your resume.
Li Dan once believed that a charming photo would increase her chances of getting an interview. However, after doing this, she didn't get any reply, and it took her several months to understand why. She knew someone who happened to work in the human resources department of the company she applied for, and that person told her how people in the company reacted when they saw her photo. Unfortunately, that sexy photo soon ruled out the possibility of her being interviewed.
When Joe just handed in the photos, he met the same result, but for different reasons. Because he looks too big in the photo, and there is a shadow in the afternoon in the photo, it gives people a feeling of lethargy, making him look emotionally fragile and not paying attention to his appearance. Therefore, the prospective employer feels that he is not suitable for this job and has no interest in him.
In fact, both job seekers were qualified to get the job, but they unexpectedly lost their chance because of a photo. So, before meeting you, let the interviewer guess what you look like. Keep expecting you, and they will be more interested in interviewing you. Ignore the common saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words." Because this photo is not to be placed in a photo frame at home or in a conspicuous position for people to enjoy.
Discussion: Who knows what unpleasant memories or associations your photos will cause employers? It's best to remain mysterious. Until he is willing to interview you, let the employer make a preliminary judgment based on your skills, work experience and education, not on your appearance. Therefore, the resume should only include those work-related facts to leave a preliminary impression on the other party.
Maybe you think that a good photo will leave a good impression on the interviewer and help you get an interview. But consider these opposite possibilities: your photo may remind the interviewer of a nerd who sat behind her in sixth grade. She always kicks her chair legs to disturb her attention in every exam, which makes her angry and hate.
Maybe the charming smile on your lips reminds the recruitment agent of the girl who refused his dance invitation at the last minute and let him die on the spot at a junior dance. Think about these possibilities that you will never think of, and you will understand that more is better than less. Your photos may look too fat, too thin, too serious or too excited, too dark or too bright, or even too sexy.
Truth: If you attach photos to your resume, your employer will be more likely to reject you.
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