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Job Application Techniques                           [more resume hints]

Resume guidelines                 [click to view sample resume style]

Resumes are a business document: part business card, part sales brochure: recruiters are busy people so deliver your message in a brief, succinct style that emphasises your written communication skills.

Your resume marketing strategy should integrate with the recruitment process; your initial resume review may be by computer conducting a key skill search of a database for specific skills amongst hundreds of applicants.

Consider the fact 90% of people will read your resume on their mobile phone or PC screen.

How recruiters select candidates.

Recruiters tend to short-list or interview candidates with the best resumes; not necessarily the candidates who have all the right skills for the job.

First step is key skill searches of thousands of resumes in seconds: this software selects only resumes matching the job specification to short list candidates for interview.

Use a descriptive job title like recruiters use to search for candidates: never use vague words like engineer, supervisor or consultant, use descriptive titles like electrical engineer for example.

Research can influence candidate suitability or search results; key word optimization when used writing your resume will help get you short listed for interview, fancy graphics and complex formatting will not.

Resume performance can be measured; testing and comparing can help identify your résumé's strengths and weaknesses, performance testing reduces rejection by employers, testing is critical to all engineering excellence.

[Click to view key word optimization example]

Is your resume easy to read?

To survive a 30 second review your first page must contain the information hiring managers want; your job title, what are your skills, what is your experience, where you have worked, when did you do this work?

Think of your job title as a one line summary of your resume; an accurate, concise description of resume content; for example electrical engineer is more descriptive than just engineer, such precise detail helps recruiters find your resume.

The easiest way to ensure that the right key words are visible to both recruiters and search engines is to write this text into your resume.

Well written business documents need to have a formal structure: all the right information in correct sequence, easy to read with short sharp informative sentences that do not confuse the reader.

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Career summary

Important business documents rely on a summary to save time; your name, job title, contact details, followed by a brief career summary of your level of experience, your skills, what companies you have worked for, where you have worked.

Before you even start writing your resume think about who will read your document: amongst hundreds of job applications will your resume be impressive enough in seconds to get you short listed for interview.

Your resume should convince the recruiter in 30 seconds or less to read on; or risk the moving on to the next applicant.

Professional help

Most of us have basic word processing skills: that is the easy part, where most people fail is by insisting on proofreading and editing their own copy.

Good writing demands impartial editing; don’t make the common mistake of editing or proof reading your own work, get a professional help.

Make your document easy to read avoid using all or excessive capital letters, keep your sentences to short paragraphs that are easy to digest.

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Writing style

Magazine articles are an excellent example to follow: first a clear heading, [your job title]  followed by short, sharp sentences of content that tells the recruiter what they need to know with a minimum of words.

When your job application arrives via email you are a guest: good manners count, so make sure you do not send large attachments above 300kb except on request.

Web based form applications

Many companies have changed to online job registration: instant online registration reduces spam, saves time reducing the cost of hire, is virus free and in a simple text resume format.

Forms eliminate the slow process of downloading email resumes; this structured method helps to identify the best applicants: reject unsuitable applicants, minimise spam, more companies are using this faster method of processing resumes.

Employees cannot guarantee their data entry people will enter your correct details; you get to fill in the application form to avoid errors.

Format your resume for forms.

Resumes with complex formatting like bullets, borders, graphics etc. when pasted into forms can become unreadable.

Forms convert your resume to basic text; formatting such as columns, bullets, borders, tables and graphics will all be lost in the text conversion.

Over 80% of Fortune 500 companies now use online recruitment methods: this includes major oil companies, project managers and employment agencies.

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Resume style

Employers prefer a career summary on the first page: this should be followed by your latest employer.

You get hired for your technical skills: not your graphics, so keep it simple, text based skills searches totally ignore fancy graphics and complex formatting.

Email resumes are stripped of columns, tables etc to simple text for database entry: so eliminate complex formatting that puts you at the bottom, not the top of the pile of applicants.

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Resume File Names

Why confuse employers by naming your resume document as resume.doc or cv.doc; why be lazy like over 60% of job applicants;

Smith_John.doc for example is much more professional: using your last name you will assist companies to register your details, plus ensure error free electronic filing.

Follow the employer instructions

This is great opportunity to convince the employer you are capable of paying attention to detail; most companies are not impressed by any applicant not capable of following simple instructions.

Why risk delay; if your application is not sent exactly as requested by the employer it will at be delayed, go right to the bottom of the pile, or be deleted.

Include your contact details.

Employers are just like you: they all delete or forward emails, if you do not include your email address in your resume your most important contact detail can be lost or deleted.

Phone contact is important but email is more convenient; you risk losing jobs if employers decide not to phone you due to different time zones.

We recommend using your private email address; when you change employers this will protect your privacy.

For example: say your private email is bill00nn@.aol.com, you then name your resume resume.doc then send your application using your work email.

This a very common fault: very confusing to employers as there is no relationship at all between any of this information, should these documents or email ever become separated employers will have difficulty making contact.

Application or cover letters

Combine your application letter and resume in one single document, it's quicker to open or read, this eliminates the risk of two documents being separated or lost.

Use the right keywords relevant to your skills: both in your covering letter and your resume.

Key word skill searches of an employer database will now also look in your cover letter; this simple but effective method increases your chance of an interview.

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