Resume Writing Tutorial - Write a resume objective
When you send your resume to the employer, you have only seconds to capture their attention and to convincing them exactly on how to adapt their corporate structure and add value to their organization if you are employed or offered a job.
While you may think you are opening new opportunities for using a general resume, the truth is that if you use a great and generalized CV, you are probably doing a disservice and wasting the opportunity of being called and invited for an interview for the available jobs that you are really interested in. Using general CV/resume is a very cheap way of weakening the chances of using the resume to unlock the job market. Well branded CV/resumes can actually create a job/employment in an organization where non exists before you submit your CV/resume.
Resume readers are lazy (well, "lazy" might be a little difficult, but try to review a stack of 200 resumes and see how long sustaining attention can get you exhausted, hence we can say it becomes lazy reading a pack of CV or resumes, cover letters, job proposal, employment letters), and when sending a resume out of focus that compels them to think and try to find the best position for you, your chances that your CV, resume, cover letters may be read is highly reduced. Do you really think that will make the effort? Of course not. It is always in your best interest to focus your CV and a resume objective is to generate a much higher response rate.
But what I can do if I have multiple job objectives?
At this point, you probably think, that most clients we work with to provide services of resume Writing usually tells you are interested in different types of jobs and so it is important that you have a general CV. Otherwise, how will you be able to cover all the different types of positions, hence the need for branding your CV.
The solution in most cases is as simple as creating multiple versions of your resume, each focused on a different area of interest. This is the specialized and customized CV. Always note that writing one CV to fit all job search purposes is a very big, costly and expensive mistake. If it has worked before now, it no longer works and cannot work now that labor, employment, job market has become severely tight and ever competitive.
For example, look at those four resumes that we created for one of our clients: Samantha candidates. Samantha has had a varied career and complete when she came to us, filled with a lot of volunteer work, work of the international mission, and two not-quite-finished with college degrees. She was ready to have a career, and she came to us with this goal in mind. But like many people, she was qualified for participation in a variety of positions. After much consultation, we were able to limit the interest in four broad categories:
1) Communication and Customer Service
2) Real Estate Development
3) The management organizations- Non-profit making organizations
4) A position in a Purpose-Driven organization with global implications.
Whenever possible, we believe that the best solution is usually the simplest. As you can see from the CV example, each highly concentrated. But the new kernel is basically the same. We have simply shifted the focus by changing the upper back, so by making small changes in how we organize and view the contents of the body.
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