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Latest hints from the Work Offshore Team.
Electronic resumes
Design your resume to be easy to read on a PC screen; recruiters do not read every
word, they scan the text rapidly for important information.
Put your job title near the top:
this needs to be a concise discipline; for example electrical engineer is
informative, using engineer or consultant is confusing and vague.
To survive the quick 30 second scan used by most recruiters your first page needs to
contain the information they want; your job title, what are your skills,
what is your experience, where you have worked, when did you do this work?
Building any business relationship requires good manners; wasting a
recruiters time will encourage immediate rejection, making them decide to move
on to the next applicant.
Simple Text
Format
Eighty percent of Fortune 500 companies
use online job application forms; this allows hiring managers access
to keyword-searchable candidate databases.
Resumes with elaborate formatting,
graphics, tables, borders, bullets are not suitable for use in online
applications: all
formatting is lost when converted to simple text used in forms...............[click to view sample resume design]
How to test your
resume for online form compatibility.
Open your resume in MS Word, then use
[select all] command to copy and paste entire resume into MS Note Pad
to convert to simple text,
if your resume is readable your format will work when pasted into online job application
forms.
Key Words
Design your resume for each stage of
the recruitment process: recruiters use resume text search software similar
to Google
to match skills to jobs, rank and short list the best applicants.
This is why you need to
spend some time researching what are the right key words for your
discipline.
Recruiter’s viewpoint
Each candidate believes
their resume is perfect: everyone is an expert when it comes to
writing resumes however over 60% never survive the first 30 seconds,
many rejected due to poor written communication
skills or missing information.
Job applicants
rarely have an objective resume
opinion from the recruiters viewpoint: the trick is to get someone else to
review your resume, every successful writer
knows the value of 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.
Every
hiring manager is time
conscious: get
to the point on page one,
sell your skills with a brief 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.
Building any
business relationship requires good manners; it is rude to waste employers
time, state which job you are applying for in
the email subject, then paste
your summary into the email body.
Poorly
designed resumes give recruiters an excellent reason to move on to the
next applicant, your resume should be ready for immediate submission to clients
Private Email
We
recommend using your private email address; this helps protect your
privacy, using your work email gives no guarantee of future contact, why
risk losing jobs.
Finishing touches
Combine your cover letter and resume in one single document, it's quicker
to open or read, plus eliminates the risk of these 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: avoid using large blocks of text, making it easier for the recruiter to gain an accurate overview of your skills.
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.
Click here for free resume readability check
Resume design
and content
Your
overall approach will
determine the success of your job search; giving employers the impression you are aggressive or
vague, informative or helpful will determine if recruiters will consider
you for interview.
Email job applications are really electronic
interviews: easy
to read structured information
can only help to create an excellent first
impression, so be polite, be professional.
Resume File Name.
Over 60% of job applicants save their resume document as resume.doc or
cv.doc; this is poor document control, confusing and lazy, forcing
employers to waste their time renaming your document.
Be more professional:
save your resume document as your [family_name_first _name.doc] to ensure
your application does not get lost.
Like to
know
what companies think of your resume?
Work Offshore write
resumes that work: every engineer knows the
real value of testing: time and resources are the only
proven method of writing better resumes.
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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