Writing a powerful resume is an art, because it highlights your uniqueness and provides you with an interview call. The biggest question which is faced is that, is your resume attractive enough to get noticed for 30 sec. You don’t know and probably cant even know. But why only 30 sec. Cant it be more?
Well hiring managers pays attention to a resume only for 10-20sec. No hiring manager is going to read resume word by word. So it becomes tough for freshers as they don’t have lot of skills and applied knowledge to show. And here comes the role of attractive and powerful resume. Your resume is like advertisement. And like advertisement, you need to highlight your strengths, core competencies, accomplishments, clear goals and activities in order to grab attention.
When it comes to online resumes, creating a resume is easy and can be done by ready templates and predefined formats. But it must be take care to make to resume attractive and easily visible. As on Internet, resume search is done based on keywords so your resume must contain all appropriate keywords.
Also one should not forget social networking sites and must create a good profile over there. Social networking sites provides a lot of opportunities and freshers must grab these opportunities. Also make sure that your resume is visible and shared to all your friend and other network. Make sure to participate in groups and forums relevant to your field so that you can share knowledge. Do not underestimate power of online resume sharing and make serious attempts on social sites.
Readers can easily portray your image by reading your resume. A good and well written resume opens door to many interviews. So start selling yourself by creating a powerful resume.
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