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2006-03-25 Career News
Spicing up your resume with extra information Does your resume demonstrate, to perspective employers who are looking for people, your overall abilities as a jack of all trades?
I am sure that all of us have some unknown skill that we have always wanted to add to a resume just because it looks good. In today’s tight job market, employers are looking for people who can do more than just the job they are hired for. In essence, they want to hire a jack of all trades for a position. Once your resume is ready to go, the next step is to get it posted on all the major job sites. The Resume Director service will do this work for you. When you sign up and enter your resume on their site, they will post it for you on over 90 job boards including Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, etc. Your resume will be seen by up to 1.5 million recruiters and employers daily. To find out more, visit this web address: http://www.jobwerx.com/resume_director.html Another way to get your resume seen by recruiters and employers is to email it to them directly. Using ResumeArrow, you can have your resume sent by email to thousands of recruiters and employers in your industry and desired work locations. You can visit their site by going to this web address: http://www.resumearrow.com/def.php3?pc=13CS756 Decide what looks good If you played water polo in college, that is probably not going to secure you a job on Wall Street. If, however, you coached for the city league basketball team, it might help you secure a job at a local high school. Coaching ball exhibits that you are able to deal with young people in organized activities. You have to look at all of the information you have always wanted to put on your resume or just let people know about and decide what is pertinent and what is not. For some sample resumes and information on how to get your resume rewritten professionally, visit this web address: http://news.jobsearchinfo.com/edge.htm Organize your extra info Once you decide what looks good, you can add sections to your resume like Civic Responsibilities, Volunteer Activities and even Additional Information just so I have somewhere to list this information. One friend was applying for a job that involved a lot of writing so he added an additional information section where he added facts about two articles he had published. Your cover letter is a good place to mention a skill and then expand on it in your resume. If you are applying for a very civic-minded or non-profit organization and you have volunteered or participated in local civic activities then add a section on your resume to include that information. What is your goal? Finally, you want to appear to be a dynamic and interesting individual that will contribute to a company as a new employee. You should only list information that can somehow be considered applicable to the job, to you as an applicant or to the company in general. You are trying to create a positive picture with your additional information. Once you add your unrelated information, sit back and read your resume objectively. If you laugh out loud then it might mean you should remove that info. If it makes you think twice or think how neat is that, then the information is probably warranted and should stay on your resume. So, whether you are black belt in martial arts or were in the ROTC in
high school, use whatever skills that you have developed outside your
work experience to make yourself appear to be the most competent and sought-after
applicant for the job.
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