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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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