What every resumé should include:
- Contact information, including cell phone and email address
- Career objective
- Summary statement
- Professional experience highlighting accomplishments in each position
- Education, Training, Licenses, Technical Skills, Professional Groups
- References from previous supervisors and/or managers
What companies want to see in a resumés:
- Specific Industry Experience & Achievements!!!
- Increased revenues
- Saved money
- Increased efficiency
- Cut overhead
- Increased sales
- Improved workplace safety
- New products / lines
- Increased productivity
- Effective budgeting
- Successful project completion
What companies do not want to see in a resume:
- Spelling errors, typos and poor grammar
- Too duty oriented and not accomplishment oriented
- Dates not included or inaccurate dates
- Contact information is missing, inaccurate or unprofessional email addresses
- Poor formatting – boxes, templates, tables, etc
- Functional resumes as opposed to chronological resumes
- Resumes that are too long – over 3 pages
- Paragraphs – long paragraphs instead of bulleted points
- Personal information included not relevant to the job
- Not telling what industry or product candidate worked
- Lying, misleading (education, dates, titles)
- Meaningless objectives or introductions
- Font choice – poor font choice or style
- Pictures, graphics, URL links
- Resumes sent as TXT, ZIP, PDF, etc. Almost all want Word Documents
- No easy to follow summary
- Resumes written in 1st or 3rd person
- Gaps in employment that are unexplained
- Burying important information in the resume
- Candidates who apply to a position in which they are unqualified
