22 Oct 09 The Importance Of Your Resume Objectives

Don’t underestimate just how important the objectives section of your resume. Mapping your objectives is your opportunity to connect with a potential employer. Through these you outline what you hope to give and achieve to the company. That alone can be the difference between getting a job, and failing to be considered. If you’re not on the same wavelength, or don’t effectively convey what you hope to achieve, you could be passed over.

Thinking about what a hiring manager considers, your career objective says to them whether you fit in at that corporation, or not. You want your career objectives to immediately follow your contact information on your resume. Having your career objectives first up in your information points out what you want, and what you want to contribute immediately. This way if you write your objectives effectively, you’ve already got the interviewer’s attention, and more importantly their interest.

The biggest key to writing your career objectives, is to tailor them to each position you apply for. Writing a generic objective that doesn’t apply to that company directly shows a lack of attention to detail. Or worse, too little commitment to even think about that company specifically when writing your resume. Tailor those objective statements to fit that company. Your career goals that you hope to get from them should apply to that job specifically. The same with what you give to that job opportunity. Make sure they have a slant towards that job specifically.

Competition for jobs gets all the more fierce when faced with a recession, so avoid some of the common objective pitfalls. This means avoiding commonly used phrases that will make your resume seem generic. Avoid terms like “opportunity for advancement” when applying for a job. Of course that’s what you want, that’s the whole point. Don’t waste an interviewer’s time by telling them something they already know. Instead, use the space for something more unique, and more important.

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31 Aug 09 Never Pad Your Resume

When writing your resume, it’s fairly normal to feel disappointed with the way that your work history, or academic accomplishments appear. No matter how many of either you have to add, the anxiety of searching for a new job can make you feel as though your resume just doesn’t measure up. So many people choose to ‘pad’ their resumes, to make a more respectable document, more likely to garner the attention of potential employers. But more often than not, that’s a very bad idea.

In case you didn’t know the term, padding your resume refers to adding accolades that aren’t true about yourself. Whether it be false work history items, or false educational accomplishments, or even dishonest community contributions. All are considered padding, and are wrong in the sense that you are being dishonest to companies that you are trying to attract. Nothing really sets you on the wrong foot with a new company more than them discovering you lied in order to get the job.

Which is why if you are unhappy about how something appears on your resume, you should take advantage of explaining yourself in your cover letter. If you don’t like a particular gap in your employment history, you have ample opportunity to put a positive spin on things through your cover letter. The same with anything else you feel uncomfortable about, whether it be education, etc.

But mainly, padding is bad because it sets a bad precedent for your new job. Even if you get the job, you’re not presenting yourself correctly. That puts you and your company in an awkward position, as tasks you don’t have the skill to accomplish may be expected of you, and your new company is getting an employee that doesn’t have the skill set expected of them. If it’s found out you lied on your resume, most places won’t hesitate to terminate you immediately, so that little bit of padding can really come back to bite you.

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