Resume is not designed to get you a job. A resume can’t make you qualified for positions outside your area of expertise. When we compare between entry level or mid level resume executive resume’s tend to be longer (two or even three pages is the norm) or even a bit more detailed, and emphasize strategic contribution. The resume along with other documents should present a sharp, focused, cohesive picture of whom you are and why you are valuable.
1. Start your resume with a summary rather than an objective, it should highlight your strongest selling point or say your USP. It would enable a reader to consider you as asset. The main point to note here is that through this you should be able to convey the type of profile you are searching for and your major career contribution.
2 Display your work history chronologically. Your resume won’t do any good to you if your career history in your resume is not arranged chronologically. It becomes easy for all executives to go through a reverse chronological format after a powerful introductory summary. Also don’t forget to include details like job titles, employers and date of employment, even if you want to display some recent work experience. Else your chances of getting eliminated become pretty high.
3 Resume should be in proper order starting with your scope of responsibility then your achievement and your contribution. Contributions that improved the productivity, profitability, revenue, customer satisfaction or other things that contributed to other business activity. An Executive should be more focused on the strategic contribution rather than the administrative task that he has done. Always keep in mind that the resume readers are very smart they can make the assumption on the job title and general description. They don’t need everything to be spelled out for them.
4. Always present your resume to highlight your achievements as a challenge you achieved. Instead of showing that you increased the revenue by 23 percent you should show that revenues grew by 23 percent and the company achieved profitability for the first time. It is always important that you make your resume in such a way that it is easy for the reader to pick up important information. Use of type enhancements, bullets and indentations to create an organizational hierarchy that makes your information easy to absorb. Never make any spelling or grammatical errors
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