Resume mistakes-do not let this mistake happen to you - part 2
A resume is basically you in a printed form. it represents you to your potential employer. it contains various details about you. It contains your educational and experience details. it should be usually two page long and should contain brief information about yourself. The popular belief is that the résumé’s main function is to get a job but the résumé’s actual purpose is to get you an interview with the potential employer. This function of the resume is very important and is very significant in this competitive world. Lets see what happens to your resume that you have mailed. The HR person receives 100-200 mails every day regarding jobs. His first aim would be to reduce this number into something manageable such as 10-20.here the first thing your resume undergoes is filtration process. Every organization usually has some kind of an optical reader which scans the resume for relevant key words and selects the resume which has these key words and rejects the others. The HR people look at your resume for only about 10-15 seconds. They select a resume based on the key selling points at the top of your résumé. It could be your qualification or your experience. The thing that has to be kept in mind while preparing a resume is to follow a standard format. Please focus on the following Sub topics to prepare a resume without any mistakes.
Buried skills
It is so important for you to prepare your resume in such a way that the person who scans your resume should know about your skills which you have mastered or the accomplishment which you have made in addition to the job duties. They should know the special talent and abilities you have. It is important that you are specific and use numbers as far as possible. Don’t forget to mention how you helped your previous company to achieve their desired result and what are your responsibilities in that.
Format focus vs. content focus
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