Friday, July 17, 2015

Tailor Your Resume To Specific Jobs

When applying for jobs many people do not limit themselves to just one application; they apply to many and therefore need to change their resume to fit each of the jobs. This is a tad more difficult than it sounds, but will be extremely easy after reading these steps.


Instructions


1. Make sure to change the position and company in the objective. So many neglect to do this and end up applying for Position B at Job B with a resume for Position A and Job A.


2. Figure out exactly what the company in question looks for in a candidate.


3. Getting even more specific, figure out what the specific job entails.


4. Cross-reference Steps 2 and 3 with what you have accomplished in the required fields. If nothing, you are likely applying for the wrong job.


5. Rearrange your general resume to feature the accomplishments most relevant to the job in question at the top.


6. Explain how each of your duties in these relevant positions relates to the job specifics of the position in question. Writing that you wrote a movie on a resume for an accounting job is useless unless you can prove they somehow correlate.


7. Always include your school and GPA at the bottom, regardless.

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