How to Make a Resume

Customize your resume for the specific job that you want. Yes, it's more work than having just one version of your resume, but it pays off big time.

Find out as much as you can about the company and the particular job, and write your experience to target their specific needs.

You'll make the hiring manager love you if you give just the relevant information and save her the effort of wading through irrelevant experience.

In other words, know your resume's audience, and write your resume specifically for them.

Think of the summary at the top of your resume as the teaser at the top of a newspaper article, after the headline. That's how hiring managers read resumes.

If you don't give them a compelling reason in the summary to read further, your resume disappears into "perhaps relevant" hell. Catch their attention with a relevant and compelling summary of you and your experience.

A good summary makes the job of the hiring manager easier, and once again, he'll love you for that.

Most resumes are just - so - boring! You wonder why most hiring managers keep a box of tissues on their desks? Do most of them have hayfever? No, they're bored to tears by the dull resumes that list feature after feature after feature.

Your resume is your very own personal advertisement. What do have most ads have in common? They sell you on the benefits of the product, not the features! People only "buy" when they believe they will benefit from what they are buying.

Don't be yet another candidate who comatoses the hiring manager with a boring list of features.

What's a feature and what's a benefit?

"Five years of C++ programming experience," is a feature.

"Brings five years of advanced C++ technical and architectural knowledge to Acme Company that will improve solution reliability and reduce unit testing and integration testing costs," is a benefit.

Nowadays you really don't have an excuse if there are spelling errors in your resume. If you can't be bothered to press F7 in MS Word, why should a company be bothered to hire you and pay you a salary?

Once the resume goes out the door, you can't take it back.

Go over it with a fine tooth comb. Ask someone else to check it for you.

If you submit a resume that contains glaring spelling errors, it tells the prospective employer that you're too lazy to press F7. Good luck getting a job with that first impression!

It's one of the easiest how to make a resume tricks that many people forget.

Okay, so writing is not your strength.

Did you know that there are services that will assist you with your resume, and will give you one that will absolutely dazzle the reader?

Spend a few bucks and get professional help with how to make a resume.

When you get the keys of your new company car, or when you can suddenly afford what you've always dreamed of, you'll pat yourself on the back for your wise decision.