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Here's a free quick easy and good resumes template in MSWord, and as a PDF.
If you want more details and methods for writing a great resume, planning and achieving good career developments and helpful job changes, read on.
UK English version of these resumes tips and format examples are on the Curriculum Vitae (CV) webpage.
resumes writing tips
Keep your resumes simple. Your resumes must be concise. Your resumes must be easy to read. Your resumes must sell you. And your resumes must be tailored to what the reader is looking for.
These resume and letter principles apply to all career moves. Having a good resume is essential for full-time jobs, part-time, internal, external, promotions, new jobs, career changes, internships and work experience placements - wherever an employer or decision-maker is short-listing or interviewing or selecting applicants.
Short-listed and successful candidates are invariably the people who provide employers with the best resumes and best covering letters.
A resume does not have to be a text document. It can be a video. If a picture tells a thousand words, imagine what moving pictures can convey about you. The technology exists now for anyone to create a video resume, and to upload it onto a website - including this one.
These notes are therefore not restricted to text-based resumes. The principles are good for your video resume too. Text or Video - the same principles apply.
How you perform at the interview or group selection is of course crucial, but only the people with the best resumes and letters get to that stage.
Resume writing is a form of marketing or advertising. The product is you.
This is especially so now when you can publish your resume - and/or video resume onto websites.
Opportunities like the ones offered on this website will increasingly enable you to create an impressive 'new-media resume' and then to proactively market yourself to employers where you can be seen, and also referenced by you in letters and hard-copy documents.
Your resume must sell you to a prospective employer, and compete against other applicants who are also trying to sell themselves. So the challenge in resume writing is to be more appealing and attractive than the rest.
This means that your resumes must be presented professionally, clearly, and in a way that indicates you are an ideal candidate for the job, i.e., you possess the right skills, experience, behaviour, attitude, morality that the employer is seeking. The way you present your resume effectively demonstrates your ability to communicate, and particularly to explain a professional business proposition.
Put yourself in the shoes of the employer: write down a description of the person they are looking for. You can now use this as a blue-print for your resume. The better the match the more likely you are to be called for an interview.
If you find it difficult to match your own resume description to the requirements of the role, then perhaps the role isn't for you. There's little or no point distorting or falsifying yourself in order to get a job. If you falsify yourself in your resume you'll be unlikely to provide the necessary proof of your claims at interview, and even if you manage to do this and to get the job, then you'll not be able to do the job enjoyably without stress.
Obviously lying in a resume is a risky strategy, especially about qualifications, and you should avoid any such temptation. Better to be proud and confident of who you are. Integrity and reputation are more important than qualifications. A resume with a lie is an embarrassment, or even a dismissal, waiting to happen, sometimes years later when you've a lot more to lose.
Blow your own trumpet, emphasise your characteristics, your capabilities and achievements - this is all fine - but know where to draw the line. Positive emphasis and strong presentation is good; falsehoods are not.
On the point about 'blowing your own trumpet' (presenting yourself within the resume in a very positive light) - many people find this difficult, especially those with strong 'sensing' personalities, who see life in terms of bare facts (make time to see the personality section, and read Jung, Myers Briggs, etc - it will help you understand a lot about yourself). If you are one of these people (in fact many people are) try to get help from someone creative and enthusiastic to assist you in interpreting and writing very positive phrases and descriptions about you for your resume. In your resume it's important to emphasise your attributes in strong, relevant and expressive terms; modesty doesn't work particularly well on any resume.
Additionally, there is a widely held school of thought that writing such statements - powerful descriptions about yourself, your personality and your strengths and capabilities - actually helps you to become even more like the person you describe. It's related to NLP, self-talk, self-belief, and positive visualisation: we tend to live up to our claims when we write them down and commit to them. Creating a positive resume for ourselves helps us to grow and to become how we want to be.
resume surveys and key points
These statistics relating to resumes and interviews were published in the UK Guardian newspaper in July 2006. The survey quoted the sources: Cubiks HR, IRS, and IAG. The survey findings serve both to remind job applicants and interviewers of warnings, opportunities and critical aspects of resumes and related preparation and approach for job interviews. The statistics also provide a basis for formulating some very useful pointers for resumes and job interviews:
Apparently 86% of interviewers think resumes and application forms (we assume all resumes and application forms) are not wholly truthful, whereas separately it seems that 35% of resumes are actually factually correct, although (for some reason, not actually explained) this apparently reduces to 23% for resumes belonging to women aged 31-35. The precise source of these statistics is not made clear, but the interesting point that comes from all this is that people who are truthful, and can convince the interviewer as such, will place themselves in an advantageous minority group, since the majority of interviews involve resumes which contain lies, and/or are perceived by interviewers to do so. So if you want to have an edge over most other resumes and applicants, tell the truth. (For what it's worth this confirms what I've observed over the years - an honest solid applicant will always be preferred to a dishonest 'star' - integrity is considered to be a significantly vital factor among all good quality employers.)
It seems that only 8% of interviewers believe that academic qualifications reliably indicate future performance in the job. This confirms that for all but the most academically-dependent roles (NASA scientists, brain surgeons, heads of university faculty, etc), it's important to emphasise strengths such as relevant achievements, capability and attitude, and appreciation of what is required to make a difference in the role, rather putting a lot of emphasis on academic qualifications.
Combined with the first point, these findings also confirm that lying about qualifications on a resume and/or in an interview is a completely daft thing to do, because seemingly most interviewers won't believe you (moreover, 66% of interviewers say that they check up on professional qualifications, and 56% check academic qualifications), and hardly any interviewers regard qualifications as the most significant factor anyway.
N.B. This does not mean that you should not bother with training, self-improvement, and striving for new professional or academic qualifications, which are helpful for personal growth and for increasing your range and depth of capabilities. The point is simply that there are far more important things than qualifications in resumes and interviews.
Next is a crucial factor in resumes and interviews that's easy to prepare for:
Apparently 59% of employers say they have to withdraw job offers after receiving poor references about successful applicants. The survey doesn't say what percentage of applications are affected, but we can presume that it's a significant number if 59% of employers mentioned it as being a problem. This means that lots of people are failing to prepare their references properly. It also means that some people who are initially unsuccessful stand a chance to be offered the job because the preferre
