Finding a Job Series – Playing Up Your Skills

Refine your resume. The expression ‘less is more’ is perhaps overused in today’s society, but when an employer is tasked with finding the best candidates for a position, concision and elegance will most likely defeat an encyclopedic account of your experience and skills. However, you may have a three-page resume and feel unable to make it any smaller. Here are a few things you can do to make better use of your space, and ultimately of your employer’s time. Consider your experience from many years–if not decades–ago. If this industry is not as thriving or if the one you are trying to enter into has little to do with it, then simply put the years that you have worked there instead of a lengthy summary of your accomplishments. Furthermore, positions that you only stayed at for a few months should not be emphasized as much as those where you stayed for a longer time. Remember, your resume will not only reflect who you are, but also how efficiently you can organize and prioritize with respect to the company being sought out.