Top 3 Reasons to Build Your Resume

The word “resume” describes a one- or two-page summary of your skills, training, and employment history.

Although resumes traditionally have been submitted on paper, they are increasingly sent in electronic form over the Internet. Whatever a resume’s form; the idea is to highlight specific parts of your past that demonstrate that you can do a particular job well.

Top 3 Reasons to Build Your Resume:

1) Employers usually ask for resumes.

If an employer asks for a resume, why make excuses? If you cannot provide a resume, there are plenty of other applicants who can and will. This alone is reason enough to have one.

2)?Resumes help structure your communications.

A good resume requires you to clarify your job objective; select related skills, education, work, or other experiences; and list accomplishments—and present all this in a short format.

Doing this is an essential step in your job search, even if you do not give the

resume to anyone. If you have put some effort into writing your resume, you

will find that you are much better prepared to speak about yourself in

networking situations and interviews.

3)?If you use it properly, a resume can be an effective job search tool.

A well-done resume presents details of your experiences efficiently so that an employer can refer to them as needed. You can also use it as a tool to present the skills you have to support your job objective and to present details that are often not solicited in a preliminary interview. In other words, the resume helps you tell the employer what you want them to know about you, and often provides the employer with a starting point for interview discussions.

A resume is one of those things that almost everyone seems to know more about than you do. If you were to show your resume to any three people, you would probably get three different opinions on how to improve it. And they would probably contradict one another.

One person might tell you that you really should have only a one-page resume (“And how come no references are listed?”). Another will tell you that you should list all your hobbies plus your spelling-bee victory from the sixth grade. The third

may tell you that your resume is boring and that you should handprint it in red

ink on a brown paper bag to get attention.

Few experts agree on the best way to prepare your resume. Even then, the advice differs depending on your situation. This means that you will have to become your own expert and make some decisions on how to present your qualifications. How did you build your resume?

Share your methods in the comments section!