Posted By: Helen Rhodes Date: January 2024
 You may be considering taking the next step in your career, thinking about changing your career direction or just wanting to find a new job… its vital to ensure that you nail the basics!
Your resume is your calling card and the first contact with a new potential employer. It’s extremely important that you get this right!
New employers want to see how your skills and experience specifically align to the role that they are recruiting. You should tailor your resume to the job, highlighting how your skills and experience match and showing the potential employer that you really want to work for them.
Generic resumes are a good place to start for ideas, however, you should make a few alterations before sending off to a potential employer to make your application a more relevant ‘stand out’ match to their role.
Reverse Chronological Order, Correct Dates and Contact Details
It’s extremely important when detailing your employment history to list your most recent employment history to your earlier roles.
By listing your Role Title, Employers Name and Dates of Employment - this allows for an easy reading overview and timeline of your achievements and experience making it easy for future employers to assess your suitability for the role you are applying for.
Another essential is to ensure that you have your correct Contact Details on your resume – email address and phone number are essential so that you can easily be contacted for interview and your home address will positively target you for roles local to where you are living.
If you have Redundancies due to Covid should you include these in your resume?
Definitely, you should include any redundancies. During this time there were many others who were in this same situation. Being able to clearly outline and explain your layoffs during this time is important.
Cover Email is this important?
Yes, this will make your application stand out. When applying for roles write a short introduction email, addressing the Recruiter/Hiring Manager highlighting the match of your skills and experience to the open job.
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