In Your Resume, Highlight the Skills You'll Bring to Next Job

A resume should be a statement of the skills a job-seeker would bring to a new job, as well as an outline of accomplishments in past positions, said human resources manager John Logan in the Q&A interview he did with Quint Careers.

Because the resume is often the only data an employer receives from a candidate, the bullet points must provide context for past work; providing details like number of people supervised, size of project budget, estimated cost savings in dollars (or other appropriate specifics) helps an employer place each candidate in the context of the organization. “I find that most resumes do not provide enough details for me to understand the scope of the candidate’s experience, but are merely a restatement of a job description, which is not helpful to me as an employer,” Logan said.