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建议 How to edit your resume like a professional resume writer
How to edit your resume like a professional resume writer
It’s very hard to write your own resume because a resume is a macro view of your life, but you live your life at the micro level, obsessing about daily details that have no bearing on your resume. So I recommend to a lot of people that they hire someone to help them. After all, spending money on a resume writer is one of the few expenditures that will have good return right away.
But some of you will be able to do a decent job rewriting your resume on your own. The first thing you’ll have to do is make some mental shifts. You need to rethink the goals of a resume, and rethink the rules of a resume in order to approach the project like the best of the resume professionals.
Here are three ideas that guide professional resume writers and should guide you as well:
1. Don’t focus on your responsibilities, focus on what you achieved.
A resume is not your life story. No one cares. If your life story were
so interesting, you’d have a book deal. The only things that should be
on your resume are achievements. Anyone can do their job, but only a
small percentage of the population can do their job well, wherever they
go.
The best way to show that you did your job well is from achievements. The best achievement is a promotion.It is an objective way to show that you impressed the people you work for. The next best way to show objective measures is to present quantified achievements.
Most people do not think in terms of quantified achievements when they are in the job, but on the resume, that’s the only part of the job that matters. No one can see that you were a “good team player” on your resume unless you can say “established a team to solve problem x and increased sales x%” or “joined under-performing team and helped that team beat production delivery dates by three weeks.”
If you are only putting achievements on your resume, you are going to be hard-pressed to fill a whole page. That’s okay. Anything on your resume that is not an achievement is wasting space. Because you don’t know what a hiring manager will look at first—and if you have ten good achievements and three mediocre lines about your life story, the hiring manager may only read those three lines—so remove them.
2. Don’t make your resume a moral statement; it’s a marketing document.
Think about when a company announced the launch of their product. First
of all, the product is not done. Second of all, it has bugs. And third,
the company is probably showing photos of prototypes and the real thing
will look different.
All this stuff is fine. It’s accepted practice for marketing. The company will tell you that they are doing their best to get you the information you want in the way they think is best for letting you know what your consumer options are.
You need to take the same approach with your resume, because a resume is a marketing document. The best marketing documents show the product in the very best light, which means using whatever most outrageous tactics possible to make you look good. As long as you are not lying, you will be fine.
Here’s an example: You join a software company that just launched a product and the product had so many problems that they had to hire someone to handle the calls. You start doing the tech support, and you work tons of overtime because the calls are so backed up. You clean up the phone queue and then you start taking long lunches because there’s not a lot to do, and then you start job hunting because the job is boring.
Here’s how you summarize this job on your resume: Assumed management responsibility for tech support and decreased call volume 20%.
How do you know 20%? Who knows? It was probably more. But you can’t quantify exactly, so err on the safe side. But if you just say “Did tech support for a software company” no one knows you did a good job.
There is a fine art of almost-lying-but-not-lying on a resume. You need to talk about it a lot in order to know where you fall on the spectrum. Here is a sample of my own family discussions about what is lying and what isn’t.
3. Don’t give everything away in the resume.
The idea of a resume is to get someone to call you. Talk with you on
the phone. Offer you an interview. So a resume is like a first date.
You only show your best stuff and you don’t show it all.
Some people dump everything they can think of onto their resume, but a resume is not the only chance you’ll have to sell yourself. In fact the interview is where the hard-core selling takes place. So you only put your very best achievements on the resume. Sure, there will be other questions people will want answers to, but that will make them call you. And that’s good, right?
For those of you who can’t bear to take off the twenty extra lines on your resume because you think the interviewer has to see every single thing about you right away, consider that we have statistics to show that people don’t want to know everything up front. It does not make for a good match. Of people who got married, only 3% had sex on the first date.
如何以专业水平写个人简历
如何以专业水平写个人简历
写自己的简历很难，因为简历就是你人生的宏观体现，但你的生活是琐碎的，大部分是与你的简历没有任何关系的日常的细节。所以我劝告人们去雇个人帮忙写。毕竟，雇佣职业写手是少数的投入少、回报高的手段之一。不过你们中的部分人应该有能力把简历认真的重写一遍。你要做的第一件事是改变心态。你需要重新考虑简历的目的，重新考虑写简历的准则，以使你的作品同职业写手写的一样完美。
以下给专业写手的三条建议对你也同样适用。
1.不要着眼于你的责任，而是着眼于你的成就。
一份个人简历不是你的生活故事。没人在乎这个。如果你的人生经历很有趣，你可以写一本书。但你的简历上唯一应该写上去的是你的成绩。任何人都能做那份工作，但只有少数人，不管他们在哪里，都能把工作做得出色。
成绩最能展示你的工作能力。而最好的成绩就是晋升。它能够客观的显示出你的前任老板对你的好印象。展示客观评价的另一个方法是出示一定量的成绩。
大部分人认为当他们得到这份工作后，以前的那些成绩就没用了，但在简历上，这是唯一有用的。没人能从简历中看出你是个“好的团队工作者”，除非你写了“曾成立一个小组来解决问题X，并提高了x%的销售额”或“帮助一个效率低下的小组提前了三周交付货物”。
如果在简历上只写个人成绩，很难把一整张纸填满。这没关系。简历上的任何与个人成就无关的内容都是浪费空间。因为你并不知道人事部经理会首先看什么——如果你写了十个不错的个人成就和三行普通经历，人事部经理可能只会扫一眼那三行字——所以删掉那些。
2.不要把简历写成一份道德声明；它是一份商品文件。
想想当一个公司宣布推出新产品的时候。首先，那个产品尚未完成。其次，它尚有瑕疵。第三，公布的模型的照片同实物会不一样。
这些都没关系。市场营销都这么做。公司会告诉你，他们在努力让顾客得到他们需要的信息，用最好的方式让顾客知道他们应该如何消费。
你需要以同样的方式来写你的简历，因为一份简历就是一份推销文件。最好的推销文件会用最恰当的方式展示商品，即是用不择手段的方式使你看起来无比优秀。只要不是说谎就行。
举个例子：你进入了一个公司，他们刚发行了一个软件，但这个软件漏洞百出，他们想雇佣一个人来处理客户来电。你开始在电话上做技术支持，你不停的加班因为电话太多了。后来你清除了通话名单，然后开始有充足的时间吃午餐了，因为现在没有多少活儿了，然后你再次开始找工作，因为这份工作太枯燥了。
你应该在简历中这样写工作总结：承担技术支持的管理职责，并减少了20%的来电量。
你怎么知道是20%？谁知道呢？可能更多。不过你没法子知道准确数量，所以这点小错在安全线以内。不过如果你只是说“为一个软件公司做技术支持”，没人会知道你做的很优秀。
在简历中近乎撒谎但又并非撒谎是一门艺术。你要实践很多次才会明白应该控制在哪个范围内。
3.不要在简历中把一切都写出来。
简历的最终目的是让别人打电话给你。和你在电话上交谈。给你面试的机会。所以一份简历就像第一次约会。你只需表现出最优秀的一面，而不是全部。
有些人喜欢把能想到的所有东西都写入简历，但简历并不是你推销自己的唯一机会。实际上，面试才是推销自己的重点。所以把最好的成绩写入简历就够了。当然，他们肯定还想问你更多的问题，但这会使他们给你打电话。这很好，是吧？
你们中的有些人不能忍痛将多出的二十行字从简历上去掉，因为你们觉得面试官必须立刻知道你们的每一件事，不过统计指出，喜欢预先知道对方的一切的人并不多。在结了婚的夫妻中，只有3%的人在第一次约会就同对方上了床。
