10 ways to make your résumé stand out
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Featured, Mature Workers, Resume, Video
When a house has been on the market for an extended time without an offer or even a showing, homeowners often get help staging their property and even make over important rooms, like kitchens and bathrooms. When it comes to your job search, perhaps you should use this approach with your résumé.
With electronic job applications and ATS systems being the norm, it’s difficult to really make a statement because hiring managers are often viewing stripped-down versions of your résumé. All that time you spent formatting your resume might not even matter depending how a certain employer receives and processes job applications.
And even if your expertly formatted résumé reaches the intended hands, it’s even tougher now to stand out from the competition when there are more and more job seekers vying for fewer jobs. You really need to do all you can to differentiate yourself.
If you’ve been using the same basic résumé for your entire job search and are getting ho-hum results, it might be time to do a gut rehab — deconstruct your resume and rebuild it. Watch this video from CareerBuilderTV to learn 10 ways to get employers to notice your résumé:
autumn | Apr 5, 2010
the explanation for being consistent is to “make sure there are no inconsistencies”? how about some legitimate content next time.
Tanya Robinson | Apr 5, 2010
I have a twin sister who swears the woman on the photo entitiled “woman looking at computer screen” is me, but I thought it was my sister. Who is thet woman?
Yudhir Raj Shahi | May 6, 2010
The 10 tips illustrated here will certainly be helpful for those who are losing jobs without a proper resume.
Thanks Careerbuilder TV!
-Yudhir Raj Shahi.
NEPAL
D. James | May 6, 2010
How is this helpful when thousands of others see this same website and use the same exact information. So these people will follow your advice also.
alacazam | May 6, 2010
wow D.James welcome to the workforce lol. Glad you could grasp how the whole thing works. gl on your job search
Teresa | May 30, 2010
Same information…different day.
Lady54 | Jun 22, 2010
It really is rediculous, it’s like dating…. let’s put our “fake” face on and get the job with all these “sell myself” words and then wonder is it me they are hiring or my resume????