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Stop trying to dress up the wrong information, and don’t pay someone else to dress up the wrong information! Chances are, if you hired someone to write your resume, they did what a resume builder will do: they make the wrong content look prettier and leave you feeling like something’s wrong with you when you don’t get the interview. But the real problem is most likely that somewhere along the line you probably spent so much time writing about all the work you did in your previous jobs that you didn’t spend any time planning for your next job.
Here is the SECRET to a GREAT resume (or BEST recruiter resume) … are you ready?
Write it for the job you want, not the jobs you had and left!!! Seems pretty simple right? Try it: if you want to be an Instructional Designer, pull 5 Instructional Designer jobs and highlight all of the qualifications listed on those jobs and include them in your resume. Same goes for Human Resources, Logistics, Management, and Data Analyst! The information that was important to your previous jobs is not really important for the jobs you want to get.
If you want to grab some great Spices… run your previous jobs through a translator like ONet and pull a few great descriptions to spice up your qualifications, and then try adding your content to a resume builder or template.
WARNING! You should keep a simple master resume on hand at all times. Templates are not very easy to manipulate after you have a final product. So, if you do use the template you might not be able to edit the resume easily. Make sure you have a plain format resume in case you need to make a quick modification for a job application.
Whatever you do, don’t forget the main ingredients! No one likes chickenless chicken parm, even if it’s served on your grandma’s good Sunday china.
Where's the Chicken?