Top Tips to Perfect Executive Professional Resumes
Resumes are your first point of contact between you and a potential employer. I'm not talking from a "never seen you" point of view, this is purely from a business POV. It's essentially the employers first view of you, so you need to make it personal and professional (how you should act all the time.)
Back it out with a strong Linkedin profile. Which includes:
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Back it out with a strong Linkedin profile. Which includes:
- Professional but smiling photo
- Relevant experience (not all your experience)
- Recent posts and updates, to show you are still active
- Hobbies and interests section
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Australia or anywhere you must have a resume that works both overseas and locally!
Forbes writes about 6 key things to include in your resumes:
- Numbers - Quantify everything you have done. (Not "handled a large budget" but instead "distributed a £120,000 budget successfully into marketing channels"
- Be Quirky but not OTT or Jokey - Be quirky and memorable but do not try and be funny for the sake of it.
- Show off - With relevance - They don't care if you won a football medal when you were 9 if you are applying to be a marketing director.
- Feedback - Don't just get references - Get feedback as well, people will give you positive and negative feedback, use both effectively.
- Create a personal brand - Your not "Coca Cola" but there is no reason why you can't create your mini-brand.
- Don't go on - Don't let your resume be too long, you want people to want more and invite you for an email. Don't make them feel like they already know everything good about you.