Now let's talk about what makes a resume more expensive. I advise people on how to improve their resume. Representatives of various positions send me their resumes: from ordinary sellers to company directors. Everyone makes the same mistakes. There was not a single resume to which I could not write 10 tips on how to improve it. Below I have collected the most frequent tips that I gave on the sent resume.
Combine many jobs in one
Of course, everyone has the right to make a mistake, and in a good resume there may be a couple of places where the candidate worked for 1–1.5 years. But if the whole resume looks like this, then its value is very low.
However, it often happens that a person has changed several job positions in one company or transferred from company to company as part of a holding structure. Or he was engaged in project work, in the framework of which he replaced several employers.
In such cases (and wherever possible), I recommend to design this as one place of work, with one name and general dates of work. And inside this block, you can unobtrusively show the change of positions, but so that visually during a cursory examination of the resume there is no feeling of a frequent change of jobs
Keep the perfect resume size
I believe that the ideal resume size is strictly two pages. One is too small, this is only permissible for students, and three are already too many.
If everything is clear with one page - this resume looks like a resume of a novice specialist - then with three, four, and so on pages, everything is not so obvious. And the answer is simple: the recruiter will only look at two pages in 80% of cases. And read only what you indicated on these two pages. Therefore, whatever you write on the third and subsequent pages, it will remain without attention. And if you write there valuable information about yourself, the recruiter will not know about it.
Combine many jobs in one
Of course, everyone has the right to make a mistake, and in a good resume there may be a couple of places where the candidate worked for 1–1.5 years. But if the whole resume looks like this, then its value is very low.
However, it often happens that a person has changed several job positions in one company or transferred from company to company as part of a holding structure. Or he was engaged in project work, in the framework of which he replaced several employers.
In such cases (and wherever possible), I recommend to design this as one place of work, with one name and general dates of work. And inside this block, you can unobtrusively show the change of positions, but so that visually during a cursory examination of the resume there is no feeling of a frequent change of jobs
Keep the perfect resume size
I believe that the ideal resume size is strictly two pages. One is too small, this is only permissible for students, and three are already too many.
If everything is clear with one page - this resume looks like a resume of a novice specialist - then with three, four, and so on pages, everything is not so obvious. And the answer is simple: the recruiter will only look at two pages in 80% of cases. And read only what you indicated on these two pages. Therefore, whatever you write on the third and subsequent pages, it will remain without attention. And if you write there valuable information about yourself, the recruiter will not know about it.
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