By Grace du Prie for Emotional Wellbeing

09/03/2011 LEARN MORE ABOUT RESUME WRITING:

Keep your resume simple. Your document must be concise. Your resume must be easy to read. Your resume must sell you. And your resume must be tailored to what the reader is looking for.

These resume and letter principles apply to all career moves - full-time jobs, part-time, internal, external, promotions, new jobs, career changes, internships and work experience placements - wherever an employer or decision-maker is short-listing or interviewing or selecting applicants - the short-listed candidates will invariably be the people who have the best resumes and best application or covering letters.

How you perform at the interview or group selection is of course crucial, but only the people with the best resumes and letters get to that stage.

Resume writing is like advertising. Your resume must sell you to a prospective employer, and compete against other applicants who are also trying to sell themselves. So the challenge in resume writing is to be more appealing and attractive than the rest. This means that your resume must be presented professionally, clearly, and in a way that indicates you are an ideal candidate for the job, i.e., you possess the right skills, experience, behaviour, attitude, morality that the employer is seeking.

Put yourself in the shoes of the employer: write down a description of the person they are looking for. You can now use this as a blue-print for your resume. The better the match the more likely you are to be called for an interview.

If all this sounds a little too complicated for you, or you are simply too busy: contact Grace du Prie on 0438 760 735 for assistance and your application documents may be opening the doors to the coveted job for you.

Grace du Prie can assist you to apply for a position by preparing:

Resumes, Selection Criteria, and Application Letters that answer an employer’s questions about you:

• What skills do you bring to the job?
• How do your skills match the new position?
• What kind of person are you?
• Why are you worth the money you hope to earn?
• How are you better than the other candidates for the job?