Tips to Rock Your Resume: No. 3

on October 1, 2009 1:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Joe Turner offers six easy steps to really rock your resume and motivate hiring managers to call you in his article Six Tips to Rock Your Resume for Quintessential Careers. The third appears below, and the rest of the tips will appear here over the next three days.

Add Keywords

“Everyone talks about keywords, but few job-seekers actually include them. Adding a separate keyword section will increase your odds of keyword-searching software flagging your resume on a search. Just as important, a separate keyword paragraph will provide a convenient scan area for the human reader who needs to pre-qualify your hard skills. A separate keyword summary will satisfy both requirements and help your resume pass that 20-second test.”

[Also see our article Tapping the Power of Keywords to Enhance Your Resume.]

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