Resume Hints from the Work Offshore Team

Simple changes in your resume can yield impressive results.

Your resume wording and style will determine what interviews you get: first impressions are important, sending a concise, well written resume will demonstrate your written communication skills.

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Key Words

Design your resume for every situation: recruiters use resume text search software like Google to find and short list the best applicants from thousands of resumes in minutes.

This is why you need to spend some time researching what are the right key words for your discipline.

Electronic resumes

Make your resume is easy to read  on a PC screen; recruiters do not read every word first but scan the text rapidly for important information.

Don't force people to read every pages of your resume before they can discover what you're all about.

You have only seconds to convince hiring managers to read on; not telling the recruiter what they want to know means they will decide to move on to the next applicant.

Recruiter’s viewpoint

Each candidate believes their resume is perfect:  everyone is an expert when it comes to writing resumes  however the facts are over 60% never survive the first 30 seconds due to poor design or missing information.

Two or three objective expert opinions of your resume will advance your career; every successful writer knows the value of  using independent editors to proofread, revise and correct their work.

Career summary

Many business documents rely on summaries to save time; your name, job title, contact details followed by a brief career summary outlining your skills, experience, what companies you have worked for, where you have worked will impress employers.   [sample resume design for PC screen]

Every hiring manager is time conscious: get to the point on page one, sell your skills with a easy to read summary that demonstrates your written communication skills.

Email etiquette

Remember the global nature of email; you may be applying to people of another culture, English may not be their first language; keep it simple to avoid confusing your audience.

Part of building any business relationship is to be seen as helpful and considerate: it is good manners to state which job you are applying for in the email subject, better still paste your summary into the email body to convince the recruiter to open your resume.

Candidates are responsible for the standard of their resume: poorly designed resumes that are not suitable for immediate submission to a client will give recruiters an excellent reason to move on to the next applicant.

Resume File Name.

Over 60% of job applicants save their resume as resume.doc or cv.doc; this is poor document control, most recruiters consider this very lazy, this can result in hours of time wasted renaming hundreds of documents.

Make sure your application does not get lost or misfiled: may we suggest a better method is to use your family/first name [Smith_John.doc] for example.

Private Email

We recommend using your private email address; with no guaranteed contact at all times work email can lose you jobs, even more important this helps protect your privacy.

Finishing touches

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

Many employers in Asia request you include a passport sized photo in your resume: China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are examples.

Writing Style

Keep your paragraphs short: make it easier for the reader to remember important points to gain an accurate overview of your skills, no one should have to read your copy twice.

Over use of capital letters reflects on your writing skills; you never see all capitals used in corporate documents, newspapers or magazines because it is very difficult to read, we like most employers will not accept resumes in this format.

Resume design and content

Your overall approach will determine the success of your job search; will the employers first impression be that you are aggressive or informative, helpful or vague.

Email job applications are really electronic interviews: easy to read structured information can only help create an excellent first impression, be polite, be professional.

Like to know what companies think of your resume?

Every engineer knows the real value of testing:  every review and test takes time and resources, the only proven method of finding out how to write better resumes.

Work Offshore write resumes that work: all our resumes have the same high standard of presentation used to submit project manpower proposals to our clients.

Update from the Work Offshore Team

Our company is dedicated to raising email job application standards: we trust these latest hints will help you find all the best jobs in our highly competitive oil and gas marketplace.

We trust this information helps you better understand recruiting trends in the manpower planning and project recruitment in Australia, Brazil, Brunei, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.                         

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