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Your resume is your first appearance in front of your employer,
it represents you and is the vital source of opening opportunities
for you if properly managed. How should you manage your resume, let
us take a brief look.
1. First of all and the most important thing is its looks.
Its layout and setup should be simple, graceful and attractive.
Selection of font, size and spacing matters a lot. Unnecessary bold
letters, repetition of words and phrases, selection of many fonts
and sizes irritate persons. A proper font and 2 sizes (one for
heading and one for text is enough). You can highlight the matter on
which you want to emphasize most.
2. You should write your resume in your own words. It would help
you a lot in your interviews and afterward when you are on job. If
you are not a good writer you can get help from an expert. But
prepare it with his consultation rather than getting a ready made
resume.
3. Be careful about the resume etiquette. Try to use the word ‘I’
as minimum as possible. Be brief, specific, positive, in an exciting
manner. Try to avoid irrelevant matters. Emphasize most on the part
of your qualification, training and experience relating to the job
you are applying.
4. Truth is another important aspect of your resume. Never tell a
lie or fabricate the matter. It might help you in the beginning but
you might face very embarrassing situations afterwards. To work in
the state of fear that your lie might be disclosed is another
negative point of telling a lie.
5. Include a brief summary of your experience specially the
assignment you have done related to the job you applied for. You can
highlight most important of them.
6. Try to know as much about your employer and the company as you
can prior to submitting the resume. Their way of working, their
priorities, what they care most, and then make the resume in the
light of these information.
7. Change your career summary into an objective. Companies are
interested in what you can do for them, not a list of everything
you've done before. Make sure the objective describes what you want
to do and what you bring to the organization. You may choose to have
more than one version since you indicated you are interested in
several financial options. I have written a sample objective on your
resume.
8. Make sure you list your job duties from each of your jobs in
the order of preference to the job you would like to get, not the
one you had, don't include any responsibility on your resume that
you don't want to do again. People can only infer that if it's on
the resume you must want to do it. Try and work up results from what
you have done. Flesh out the items you want to highlight. One's eye
is drawn to the larger paragraphs and therefore indicate an
increased interest. This is particularly important in those
positions that are closest to what you want to do.
9. Remove the months from the years of work experience. This
makes the resume flow better and prevents gaps in work.
10. Place your achievements first on the list within each job. In
fact, write them so that you demonstrate responsibility,
achievement, and results. Then list those other responsibilities
that are important, but that you can't show results.

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