Sharp Resumes For College Students

Is your resume so thin that you raised the font size to fill in the gaps? Or maybe your resume is too lengthy and full of big words. Be aware. Employers are interested in job candidates who can clearly state their skills and objectives. How does your resume compare to the next candidate?

Put yourself in the hiring/firing manager’s shoes; you have 25 resumes on your desk, and you have to make a decision to hire only one person. Having a formatted, well targeted, and easy to understand resume will ensure that you are that one person who gets the interview. The rest is in your hands.

What Hiring Managers Want To See

30 seconds. That’s about how long it takes the person reading your resume to decide if they should press delete or continue reading. The ones that get deleted are the people who get off easy, you play hard and nothing comes easy, right? You took the steps to cut the fluff and target the good stuff, right?

Listed below are a few critical mistakes that are made on college resumes, some ways to avoid them, and how to create a resume that says you have style and smarts for miles.

• Aggressively coordinated sales through utilization of network partners. If your resume over-emphasizes your vocabulary, a hiring manager is going to think that you won’t be able to talk on their level. Instead opt for something more subtle and simple likeClose rate of 90% on all sales opportunities.
• Your resume is two pages and one of them is all sports accomplishments. Cut it down to one page. State your skills and objectives clearly and carefully. If the resume is full of fluff and the company is all about getting to the point (and all companies are), then they have no time for you.
• Show your sense of style. If you are the creative type, have a great attitude, and have a million reasons to smile, show it on the resume.Who wants to read a resume based off of a Microsoft Word 97 template when the next resume in the pile was created using a host of different resume resources to create a stylish and up-to-date resume

Want To Really WOW! Them?

When going to career fairs and job interviews always use real resume paper. This is so important and often one of the most overlooked aspects of resume writing. You spent a great deal of time formatting and writing your resume. Spend a buck or two and by 20 sheets of 32lbs resume paper. Ivory color works well.