Thursday, August 11, 2011
What to write in a resume when you have no previous experience experience?
Firstly, by using bold headers to distinguish between the areas of your resume, you'll chew up space and give it a more full, professional look. You want it to look less like a well written letter and more like a resume. Secondly, your objective statement needs to pop. This is where you state the specific position you want (yes, you will need one for every different type of position you apply for) and that is the only want you state. Your objective is where you tell the potential employer what skills you are going to bring to them when they hire you. You have only a few seconds, a glance, for your resume to go into the pile of "look at these and actually read them" vs. the trash. Do lots of home work, you have more soft skills than you think: good communication, self-starter, home accountant, motivated (if you ever got anything done around the house this is very true as you had no supervisor telling you what and how, you just did it). List these separately as a go to for inspiration list. Home makers bear incredible responsibilities. For your education, if you have any secondary education, be specific about your area of study and list core courses. Your resume is not all that different from a student who is graduating into the work force, you can come up with a beauty. A Functional Resume, vs the traditional Chronological Resume, may be the way to go. I've included a link where you can start your research about writing a better resume. Yahoo hot jobs and Monster.com have lots of free resume writing examples and articles to help. Learn what words to use, what words not to use and how to maximize the information you have to come up with a resume that really tells the story of what you have to offer an employer. Best of luck.
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