Kick Start Your Career by Lee Smith

Author:Lee Smith [Lee Smith and John van Genderen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

12.5.3 Resume contents: option one

● Header with a name – visually attractive.

● Career goals.

● Overview of skills and capabilities.

The following will be a short summary via a few bullet points for each item:

○ Overview: to relate you personally to the job.

○ Key skills: to relate you to the key skills required for the job.

○ Personal characteristics: to relate your characteristics to the job.

○ Interests and activities: to show your wider activities and abilities.

These are intended to be an easily scan read summary. It aims to help the manager or interview panel quickly see how you relate to the job. After all, you are trying to make their job easier.

● General skills.

Depending on the nature of your job, these can include skills that are often common across jobs. They may include teamwork, communication, people skills, quality, commitment, timeliness and customer service (use short sentences or bullet points for the relevant ones).

● Job-specific skills.

These relate to the particular job or to organisation specific job criteria (use short sentence or bullet points for each one).

● Key qualifications.

○ University qualifications.

○ Other qualifications.

○ Other courses and achievements.

● Employment experience.

This can be specific employment-related experience as well as more general work experience.

The latter can show you have a range of experiences and work skills.

Work experience.

○ Year and organisation.

○ Short sentence about your role and achievements.

● Referees.

○ Contact names, telephone numbers and email addresses (or say “Can be supplied on request”).

Normally, you will need to provide at least three names of referees to include in your resume. If the potential employer is interested in your resume, they may contact some of these referees to vouch for you and to provide some further background about you. So, before you insert their names on your resume, you should have contacted them to ask if they would be willing to act as a referee if requested and send them a copy of your resume, plus any relevant information about the specific job you are applying for, as well as any information you have about the organisation (e.g. the company’s website).

○ Some companies and organisations ask you to submit your references together with your resume. In that case, you need to ask your referees to write a more general reference for you. It is best to keep your submitted materials to the basics, such as a good cover letter and your resume.

For an employer, it is much easier to email or phone your referees, once you have reached the interview stage.

● Personal details.

○ Name: make sure it is clear which is your family name and which is your first name. If there is any possible confusion, put your family name in bold uppercase letters and your first name in lower case letters.

○ Birth year: note in some countries they will not ask you for your age or date of birth, as this is against the country’s discrimination laws. They are not allowed to select the successful applicant on the basis of age, sex, religion or other personal characteristics. If it is not asked for in the job vacancy announcement, then do not provide it.

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