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So I've been collecting a bunch of resume's over the past couple days.
All I have to say for advice, If you plan on getting noticed do the following.
#1. Do NOT use some sort of weird 3rd party program to write your resume. If Word or wordpad does not open it, I wont bother to figure out how to open it.
#2. DO put a cover letter in it, even briefly saying something as simple as the following makes you stand out so much more than the rest. "Hey I saw your ad for X on X site and I would like to know more about the position, here is my current resume where you will find a extensive sales background. Here's how to get a hold of me, if I don't answer leave a message and I will be sure to call you ASAP!, Thanks".
#3. DO NOT send out "resume.txt". It annoys me when my first task as your potential manager is to do a simple task that you should have had the smarts to do.
#4. DO send out "John-Doe-Resume.txt". This makes me happy because when I save your resume, I can quickly go back and find it.
#5. If it has a phone number listed with the ad, call it. So far I got about 2 dozen resumes and 3 phone calls with them. When I sit in my office monday morning and see the red voicemail light on, and I check it to see "Hey this is John Doe calling about the sales position listed on X, I just want to let you know that I am very interested in the position. I sent my resume to the e-mail address listed and would love some more information......" it makes me pleased.
#6. Don't send me your resume 4 times, and at 4 different times during the day. You are instantly on my bad side.
#7. Please make sure your resume is limited to 2 pages and is at least easy on the eyes to read. I'm not any kind of english nazi, and I'm not grading you on how your resume looks. But if its all crunched together and I have to figure out what I am looking at, you are on my bad side already.
#8. If your resume only takes up one page...That is fine, but dont make it 18point text to make up for your lazyness. It may have worked back in 5th grade writing assignments, but not in the adult bidness world.
#9. Spell check....I'm referencing #8 here because he spelled "because" "becasue". There's gotta be ony 30 or 40 words on that resume of his and he couldnt bother to make sure all the words were spelled right?!?!
#10. When the ad says "Call Mr. Doe" and my voicemail says "Hi this is John", Call me "Mr Doe" because yes, it is a test to see if you can follow simple instructions.
Anyone who says "I send my resume out to a bunch of people and never ever get a response, the job market sucks" probably is breaking 1 to 10 of those simple rules that I pointed out above.
In short.
Use microsoft word or wordpad
Put on a coverletter, no matter how short and simple.
Name it with "your-name-resume.txt"
If it has a #, call it too.
Do not harass the employer with multiple e-mails or calls.
Make it easy to read, there really is no perfect format. 2 pages MAX.
DONT USE HUGE FONT
Use spell check
Take the time to read the directions posted.
All I have to say for advice, If you plan on getting noticed do the following.
#1. Do NOT use some sort of weird 3rd party program to write your resume. If Word or wordpad does not open it, I wont bother to figure out how to open it.
#2. DO put a cover letter in it, even briefly saying something as simple as the following makes you stand out so much more than the rest. "Hey I saw your ad for X on X site and I would like to know more about the position, here is my current resume where you will find a extensive sales background. Here's how to get a hold of me, if I don't answer leave a message and I will be sure to call you ASAP!, Thanks".
#3. DO NOT send out "resume.txt". It annoys me when my first task as your potential manager is to do a simple task that you should have had the smarts to do.
#4. DO send out "John-Doe-Resume.txt". This makes me happy because when I save your resume, I can quickly go back and find it.
#5. If it has a phone number listed with the ad, call it. So far I got about 2 dozen resumes and 3 phone calls with them. When I sit in my office monday morning and see the red voicemail light on, and I check it to see "Hey this is John Doe calling about the sales position listed on X, I just want to let you know that I am very interested in the position. I sent my resume to the e-mail address listed and would love some more information......" it makes me pleased.
#6. Don't send me your resume 4 times, and at 4 different times during the day. You are instantly on my bad side.
#7. Please make sure your resume is limited to 2 pages and is at least easy on the eyes to read. I'm not any kind of english nazi, and I'm not grading you on how your resume looks. But if its all crunched together and I have to figure out what I am looking at, you are on my bad side already.
#8. If your resume only takes up one page...That is fine, but dont make it 18point text to make up for your lazyness. It may have worked back in 5th grade writing assignments, but not in the adult bidness world.
#9. Spell check....I'm referencing #8 here because he spelled "because" "becasue". There's gotta be ony 30 or 40 words on that resume of his and he couldnt bother to make sure all the words were spelled right?!?!
#10. When the ad says "Call Mr. Doe" and my voicemail says "Hi this is John", Call me "Mr Doe" because yes, it is a test to see if you can follow simple instructions.
Anyone who says "I send my resume out to a bunch of people and never ever get a response, the job market sucks" probably is breaking 1 to 10 of those simple rules that I pointed out above.
In short.
Use microsoft word or wordpad
Put on a coverletter, no matter how short and simple.
Name it with "your-name-resume.txt"
If it has a #, call it too.
Do not harass the employer with multiple e-mails or calls.
Make it easy to read, there really is no perfect format. 2 pages MAX.
DONT USE HUGE FONT
Use spell check
Take the time to read the directions posted.
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