Resume and Cover Letter Guide: Writing Job Descriptions

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Resume and Cover Letter Guide: Writing Job Deions

Before you start adding job deions to your resume, you may want to make a list of the most acplishments for each of your jobs. This will prepare you for actually pulling your resume together.

Skills and Achievements

First, decide whether your explanations can be more concise. Effort should be made to create effective impact statements. Highlight skills and achievements, providing only enough detail to support your premises. Try to edit out pronouns and articles. Begin phrases or sentences with your verbs. You may find the Skills List on the following pages helpful in making your deions clear, dynamic, and engaging.

For resumes which will be submitted to anizations that will scan them into searchable puter databases, care should be taken to include as many industry and job-specific keywords as possible. When searching databases for potential candidates, employers seek resumes with the greatest number of hits on keywords. Keywords are most often nouns.

Heres how to include keywords in your resume and a list of resume keywords.

Be Selective

Be selective as to which information you choose to offer. Determine the relevance of any information by putting yourself in your potential employers position: will this information help convince the employer that you are a worthwhile candidate to interview for the position they are trying to fill?

Prioritize Deion Information

Next, think about prioritizing the information you provide in each deion. Present that which you think is of greatest interest to your potential employer first. For instance, consider the candidate seeking a job in interior design. The resume might reflect a retail experience in which 75% of the candidates time was spent on the sales floor and 25% was spent designing window and floor displays. Priority, determined by relevance to the employer, dictates that design of window and floor displays should be listed before sales.

Example

Sales Associate, Retail USA, New York, NY October, 20XX - Present

Designed all large windows using color as primary focus.

Created engaging point-of-purchase displays for slow moving small items; increased sales of these items by 30%.

anized floor displays to maximize space and call attention to latest merchandise.

Utilized strong interpersonal and munications skills to serve customers; received employee of the month award twice.

Quantify Your Acplishments

Finally, quantify as much information as you can (numbers, dollar signs, percentages can all help to make your case).