Leverage your skills through resume editing

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Leverage Your Skills Through Resume Editing
https//polishedpaper.com
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• Gone are the days when a person could or would
  spend 30 years building a career at one company.
  Now, workers change jobs every two to four years.
  Unfortunately, for those who struggle to
  represent their core self in a single page, this
  relatively new phenomenon means resume editing
  and lots of it!
• Everyone has compiled a list of skills, jobs,
  schools, and professional affiliations, but very
  few know how to leverage that information. Here
  are essential tips to polishing your resume, a
  task thats never been more crucial, not with a
  7 unemployment rate countrywide.

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• 1. Pare down your resume (to one page).
• Human nature being what it is, we grow bored
  quickly. And large clumps of text are more
  difficult for us to follow, particularly if were
  scanning. Most potential employers will scan tens
  or hundreds of resumes to make a short list of
  individuals they will then interview. At that
  point, theyll give your resume a closer look.
• You need to make it through that first pass, and
  the best way to do that is to eliminate
  everything that will not appeal to your target
  audience and make the rest easy to absorb with
  bullet points, bolding, and lots of white space.
• What do you keep? You need to include jobs where
  you completed the tasks your new employer will
  expect of you, where you contributed the most
  added value, where you rose the highest, and
  where you stayed the longest.

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• That said, Id avoid the chronological resume
  style. Instead of using Employment for your
  jobs, use something like Teaching Positions to
  indicate that these are the jobs applicable to
  the position. Id also pare down your list of job
  responsibilities. Highlight leadership and core
  tasks.
• 2. Create an interesting profile.
• Another way to capture a potential employers
  attention is by creating a Profile section near
  the top where you summarize yourself in almost
  the same way you would in a personal ad.
  Incorporate the basics (years of experience,
  profession, and special skills) as well as trivia.

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• Take the following as an example Ivy-league
  educated professional editor and proofreaders
  with 10 years experience and proficiency in
  French and Italian who routinely catches spelling
  and grammar mistakes in The New York Times and
  published books. This is much better than a
  run-of-the-mill objective.
• 3. Foreground successes.
• Within your list of responsibilities, include (in
  bold) your achievements. How did you improve the
  companys bottom line? Did you decrease
  complaints through quality control? Save the
  company money? Or increase its earnings
  substantially? If youre a teacher, what pass
  rate did your students achieve on the Regents?
  When possible, use numerical data. Thats much
  more striking.

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• 4. Highlight professional development.
• Employers want to know not only what youve done
  well in the past but also what you might be
  capable of in the future. Thus, you should
  include any conferences, workshops, or classes
  you attended to improve your industry knowledge
  and hone your skills.
• 5. Perform resume editing frequently.

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