Why some resumes get shortlisted and some do not

What does your resume say about you?

The first step is to state the objective of your resume which should be to showcase your skills and search for a job. This simple yet essential step outlines the purpose of your resume. The proactive resume needs to bring out important information about your skills both as keywords and as action words.

A resume delivers in two parts:

• It gets you a meeting (the interview) with a recruiter or the hiring manager (your future boss)
• Having achieved step 1, it forms the basis for a decision on your selection.

A few tips for your resume:
It is a good thing to choose a resume from the internet to create your resume. When selecting a template remember that the resume should:

• Not be distractingly louder than your capability and skills
• Be relevant to the industry - job position

Avoid this:

• Senior level data administration professional
• Expert in database management
• Implemented creative solutions to produce fast results
• At home with analytics, data structures
• Comfortable with all aspects of enterprise grade database management

Go for this:

• Skill: Database management
• Expert in: Normalisation, Indexing, Warehousing, Analytics, Stored procedures, Data arrays
• Handled large database tables with up to 5 million records
• Retrieved data in 30 milli seconds using performance optimisation
• Optimised database that did not report any down time in two years

Job hunters, especially at the early part of their careers, tend to write long lists of seemingly meaningless things about their professional personality: team worker, problem solver, hard working, creative, disciplined, never say die attitude, excellent communicator, result oriented are commonly found phrases in resumes. Most recruiters have read these phrases too many times and instantly feel bored. Instead, describe your qualities and strengths in a manner that the resume is true to your personality. Always remember, you are working on a resume, and that is your resume. So make it cautiously.

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