PRODUCING A PERFECT JOB RESUME

• Write your own job resume perfectly.


• Have single resume, if possible, to support your job search efforts.


• Start by developing a job resume in the standard reverse chronological format.


• Keep your job resume simple and straightforward.


• Your name, address, and telephone number(s).


• Your e-mail address if you have one and can be reliable in contacting you job objective (optional).


• A summary of your job experience knowledge, and skills.


• Your formal job/work with starting date and ending date; company’s name and location.


• Your formal education and professional training.


• Provide only enough information that will interest the job interviewer to invite you for the job interview.


• Limit your resume to two pages or less.


• Don’t make your resume too dense.


• Write your resume in terms of employing organizations’ needs.


• Avoid the common mistakes of having your resume read like a job description.


• Omit any negative aspects of your work history, education, skills, and personal life also eliminated items that are irrelevant and might even disqualify you.


• Be honest in your job resume, present your self accurately, but focus on the positive.


• Include important points in your job resume rather than writing them in your job cover letter.


• Remember that anything you put on your job resume might be a topic or conversation in an interview.


• Never date your job resume.

DON’T PUT THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR JOB RESUME

Your age

Your marital status

Your children’s age

Your problems finding a job

Hard-Luck stories.

How difficulty your life is

Nationality

Religion.

Your weaknesses.