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According to a recent study by TheLadders, recruiters only spend about six seconds looking at your resume. During those few seconds, recruiters decide whether your resume goes into the callback pile or becomes a coaster for their morning coffee. So how do you make it into the callback pile in those mere seconds? By thinking outside the box and crafting a resume that will hold the recruiter’s attention. Here are a bunch of ways to do just that. 1. Use buzzwords When recruiters browse through resumes, they’re looking for keywords that match the job description. Including base keywords will get their attention, but you can take it a step further. Check out the company’s website and look for any company goals that fit your experience, then include those keywords on your resume as well. RELATED: 7 Controversial Ways to Boost Your Salary Say, for example, that I’m trying to land a job at Jamba Juice’s corporate office. I quickly browsed their website and found out th...

If you are worried that the career you are searching may not be right for you, or if you are not completely sure what job you are seeking, you have a greater problem than just writing a great resume. You are handing over your future to chance and accident. How you can I show if it is right for me? If you are changing to a job that is pretty much the same as your current or latest job, it is not too difficult to assess whether or not you need to just make a job change or consider a new career route. The big question is: how much do or did you enjoy the actual work? If you liked the work itself but were not satisfied with the boss or the pay or other components of the job, you may just need to find a new job - a job where you can keep doing the same thing in a different setting. If the work itself was lifeless, routine, uninteresting, tough, frustrating, or if you did not feel fully challanged by it, you may need to make a change in your career direction. If you are seeking a job t...

The resume is visually enticing, a work of art.  Simple clean structure. Very easy to read. Symmetrical. Balanced. Uncrowded. As much white space between sections of writing as possible; sections of writing that are no longer than six lines, and shorter if possible. There is uniformity and consistency in the use of italics, capital letters, bullets, boldface, and underlining.  Absolute parallelism in design decisions. For example, if a period is at the end of one job's dates, a period should be at the end of all jobs' dates; if one degree is in boldface, all degrees should be in boldface. As mentioned above, the resume's first impression is most important. It should be exceptionally visually appealing, to be inviting to the reader. Remember to think of the resume as an advertisement. There are absolutely no errors.  No typographical errors. No spelling errors. No grammar, syntax, or punctuation errors. No errors of fact. All the basic, expected information is i...

Research shows that only one interview is granted for every 200 resumes received by the average employer. Research also tells us that your resume will be quickly scanned, rather than read. Ten to 20 seconds is all the time you have to persuade a prospective employer to read further. What this means is that the decision to interview a candidate is usually based on an overall first impression of the resume, a quick screening that so impresses the reader and convinces them of the candidate's qualifications that an interview results. As a result, the top half of the first page of your resume will either make you or break you. By the time they have read the first few lines, you have either caught their interest, or your resume has failed. That is why we say that your resume is an ad. You hope it will have the same result as a well-written ad: to get the reader to respond. To write an effective resume, you have to learn how to write powerful but subtle advertising copy.  Not only th...

This award-winning guide to resume writing will teach you to write a resume equal to one done by a top-notch professional writer. It offers examples, format choices, help writing the objective, the summary and other sections, as well as samples of excellent resume writing. It is the most trusted resume-writing guide on the planet, used by more than a million people each year. Writing a great resume does not necessarily mean you should follow the rules you hear through the grapevine. It does not have to be one page or follow a specific resume format. Every resume is a one-of-a-kind marketing communication. It should be appropriate to your situation and do exactly what you want it to do. Instead of a bunch of rules and tips, we are going to cut to the chase in this brief guide and offer you the most basic principles of writing a highly effective resume. Who are we to be telling you how to write your resume?  As part of our career consulting practice, we have coached and advise...