You have to create an excellent resume if you want to get a great job. Review these awesome tips and make sure your resume is the hiring manager's dream resume.

Resume Tips:

1. Do not think simply in terms of duties and responsibilities. You must also demonstrate accomplishments from your job history.

2. Choose items from your work experience that show the employer that you can do the job you are applying for.

3. Be consistent in your use of tense-specific statements (i.e. prepared, designed, created).

4. You want a resume that is bold and stands out, but not so much that it makes the hiring manager wary.

5. You want to use active language.

6. Avoid being wordy.

7. The length of your resume is important. Resumes should be no more than 2 pages long.

8. Design your resume so that you promote your accomplishments including those achieved outside of the work environment.

9. As you list your qualifications and achievements reflect on the personal qualities and aptitudes that contributed to these successes. If you dont use these in the resume, you will likely do so in the interview.

10. The overall appearance of your resume is also important. Keep everything aligned neatly and allow some room for white space.

11. Use quality paper.

12. Use a high quality printer to generate copies of your resume.

13. Do not use wild colors, cute graphics, or odd colored paper.

14. Proofread everything.

15. Make sure that the punctuation is correct.

If you want a hiring manager to take more than 30 seconds to review your resume, you have to be willing to put in enough time creating it to make it a worthwhile read. When you follow the resume tips listed above, you will stand a much better chance of creating a resume that gets read from top to bottom. More importantly, you are more likely to get a call for an interview.

Carla Vaughan

Carla Vaughan began her journey into the field of Career Planning and Human Resources while working toward her degree in business at Southern Illinois University. Her newest book, "How To Write a Resume" is in it's final stages and will be available on her web site "Professional-Resume-Example.com" very soon.

Carla also writes for several other web sites and enjoys creating individualized articles for specific needs.

In their home in Rockwall, TX, Carla and her family focus on three things which have brought them many blessings: faith, family and friends. Everything else comes after those three things. Carla believes that "When you have your priorities right, everything in life become has value, love has a deeper meaning and we all have hope in a better future."

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