hi it's Linda Rayner of Linda Rayner
comm career strategist speaker and coach
and in this video I'm going to teach you
the top 10 resume tips that'll help to
lend you more interviews and ideally job
offers and watch until the end so that
you can get a free copy of my resume
cheat sheet so let's get started with
tip number one tip number one is all
about your profile or summary and that's
the first section on your resume that
potential employers will see so you want
to make sure that it's short and sweet
yet informative and it should only be
about two or three bullet points max and
it should emphasize your technical
background not your soft skills so for
example if you were a designated
accountant looking for a new opportunity
you'd probably start your first sentence
something like this a designated CPA
with strong financial reporting and
planning experience in large public
companies within the technology and
healthcare industries that would be your
first bullet point then your second
bullet point would then emphasize more
of the software skills the technical
skills that you have so you could say
something like possess strong working
knowledge of Microsoft Excel ASAP and
Oracle the last two I just mentioned
were accounting software systems so if
you don't have that experience in your
non accountant then just disregard that
but anything that's software related or
maybe languages anything that's
technical that you can point out right
at the beginning of your resume would be
very important let's move on to tip
number two tip number two is all about
mirroring your work experience to the
job that you're applying for mirroring
your experience means looking at the job
description and asking yourself if you
have the same duties experience
qualifications that the rule is asking
for you to have now if you don't then
you do want to ask yourself if this is
appropriate for you to be applying for
this role at this point in time maybe
you need to keep staying at your current
job and try to see if there's any way
that you can take on some duties that
match up to the ideal job that you want
to apply for now if you do already have
some of the experience then you don't
really need to worry about this tip it's
just another check that you need to make
now on to tip number three tip number
three is all about
highlighting the buzzwords and using
them while you're writing your work
experience and describing your job
descriptions in your resume you want to
first look at the job description in
detail take a highlighter and start
highlighting the exact keywords and
buzzwords that the job is asking for
because what you're gonna do is then
take those same buzzwords and keywords
and then match them onto your resume
meaning start to formulate your
sentences based on what the job
description is about when the hiring
manager actually looks at your resume
they can see that there's a clear
indication that you are good match for
the role because your experience matches
up to the role now moving on to tip
number four speak in the hiring managers
language not your own and this is pretty
much an extension of tip number three
but what I mean by that is you really
want to mimic the words that are used in
the job description because when a
potential employer reads your resume
they want to read it in a way that it's
quick it's easy really they're just
skimming it they're not even reading it
and so they want to make sure that they
pick up on the keywords that they
require for this job so if you are able
to catch on to those buzzwords and
incorporate them in the phrases that you
put on your resume for your job
experience then that's only going to
help you so for example if a job
description says something like prepare
financial statements then you're gonna
put it in your resume and you're going
to say prepare financial statements on a
monthly quarterly and yearly basis so
you're just finishing off the sentence
and giving it a little bit more detail
and tailoring it to your specific
background and experience tip number
five is all about your accomplishments
this is an area that I find is key to
really standing out from other
candidates in a job search process and a
lot of people don't even bother putting
in their accomplishments for whatever
reason so you want to be different you
want to reflect and actually think about
your most recent accomplishments in your
current role your most recent role and
in your previous roles and an
accomplishment is anything where you've
saved time saved money improved
processes improve profitability anything
that's helped your company or department
in some
shape or form and ideally that is
quantifiable I'll get into talking about
more accomplishments after this but make
sure you start thinking about what are
some of your major accomplishments that
you've been recognized for in your roles
tip number six is an extension of tip
number five and it's about being job
specific about your accomplishments what
that means is you shouldn't be listing
your accomplishments in one major
section on your resume what that does is
it confuses employers and potential
hiring managers because they can't tie
back the exact accomplishment to the
role that you've accomplished them in
they could have been 10 years ago could
have been five years ago could have been
just yesterday but they have no idea
because it's not related to the specific
jobs that you've had what I mean by that
is you might have your most recent role
you'll have a list of your job duties
and underneath that you'll put the word
accomplishments and underneath that
you'll put your one two or three
accomplishments that you have related to
that particular job so that's going to
make it more easily read by employers
and hiring managers and it gives them a
lot more context as to where and when
you achieved that accomplishments tip
number seven is all about quantification
quantify quantify quantify wherever
possible specifically again relating to
your accomplishments if you've been able
to save time save money improve some
sort of process that's resulted in some
sort of quantifiable results then you
definitely want to indicate that so
think in terms of dollars think in terms
of percentages time hours days months
whatever it is that you can indicate
that says you went from this much down
to this much or this much up to this
much whether it's your profitability or
cost that you're talking about when you
can quantify it just makes your
accomplishment that much more attractive
to potential employers tip number eight
is all about your dates be transparent
and thorough a lot of candidates I've
seen have only indicated their years
with respect to their job titles so for
example if you were a financial analyst
between 2013 2016 they're only including
the 2013 2016 and not including the
months what this does is subconsciously
it makes
potential employer or hiring manager
think that you're trying to hide
something because it's pretty easy for
us to hide a gap in our work experience
if we haven't included the months so in
order to appear transparent and honest
you really want to include the months
and what that does is if there are gaps
that are in your resume then you just
have to be prepared to answer them in
the interview but at least they don't
think that you're trying to hide
something okay we're almost at the
homestretch so tip number nine relates
to using bullets and not paragraphs
writing lengthy tales of your job duties
and lumping together your sentences on
your resume it's not going to get you
close to getting an interview like I
said hiring managers and employers they
skim your resumes they do not read them
so what that means is you need to use
clear concise simple bullet points that
are detailed enough and describe your
job experience relevant to the role okay
finally on to tip number ten does it
sound like you're talking to Grandma if
yes that's a good sign what I mean by
that is you want to explain your job
experience on your resume in a similar
way to how you would explain your job if
you're talking to your grandmother and
that means keep it simple you don't want
to start going all complicated and start
throwing in acronyms all over the place
that people don't understand instead if
it's a project that you've worked on
that you're proud of and you want to
indicate it on your resume then just
simply describe what the project was
about what did it result in what did you
do what was your role but don't get into
oh I worked with these X number of teams
and name all the teams and discuss the
titles of the people that you dealt with
and discuss the different acronyms for
different meanings of the projects that
you had to deal with people just want to
get a very simple clear vision of what
work you've done and so therefore you
want to make it very clear concise and
simple so in this video you learned the
top ten resume tips that will help you
to land more job interviews but if you
want to make sure that you have some
clear examples of what it is I talked
about today then feel free to click on
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