How To Create An Attention Grabbing Resume

Starting at the Beginning: The Cover Letter

A resume cover letter is nearly as important as the resume itself.If the cover letter does not show the employer a top rate employee, he or she may decide to go with another applicant.

It is extremely important to make sure to address each point that is mentioned in the ad you are responding.

Show the employer, through words, which jobs and experience you have. If they are interested in someone with computer experience, let them know how you gained the computer experience and how much experience you have.

Moving On to the Resume

Proper resume format requires that there is a heading at the top of the page with your name, which should be centered, and bolded, and contact information. In regards to your contact information, please make sure there is a way for your potential employer to reach you by phone.

If you are not available when they call there should be a way for him or her to leave a message on an answering machine or a voice mailbox. One last resume tip is to make sure to have bold headings between sections such as: objectives, employment history, and education.

Using action words instead of using telling verbs will increase your resume’s readability. You want to use words such as increased profits, reduced debt, saved time, and improved moral, when describing some of the accomplishments that you made.

Of course that is only if these are the accomplishments that you personally made. If you want to improve these specific action words to make them even more attention grabbing try putting numbers with them, like so:

* Increased profits by $20,000 in the second quarter

*Reduced debt by 20 percent by implementing new packaging method

*Saved time in the shipping department so that production increased by 15 percent

*Improved moral by assisting Human Resources manager implement new rewards program

Make sure to custom fit the resume to the job. No two jobs are the same, and no two resumes should be the same either. Make sure that what the employer is looking for is on the resume.

If the potential employer is asking for specific job qualifications, then you must make sure that those job qualifications are highlighted in the resume that you send for that specific job.

Going Along with the Digital Age: Emailing your Resume

There are some resume tips that you need to focus on if you are emailing your resume. You will want to print out and examine it for consistency, white space usage, and examining of font size to make sure that it is no smaller than 12-point font and is Times or Arial.

Make sure that it is clear, concise, and readable. The resume should be bulleted or consist of short paragraphs for ease of reading. This will allow the potential employer the ability to read over the information that you have provided and decide if you are worth a more detailed look.

Points to keep In Mind:

Use the same font on resume as you use on cover sheet

Use no smaller font than 12-point

Custom fit resume to the job – no generic resumes

Address cover letter to a real person – not a generic person

Use action words not telling words

Use numbers with action words to make it even better

Make sure to address each point in the ad placed by the employer

Make sure that a potential employer can leave a message if you are not reachable by phone