As a recruiter, I’ve seen thousands of resumes. And as most job seekers already know, the overwhelming majority of them end up in the “no” pile. Think about how many jobs you apply for, and how many calls you get for interviews.

Is there something wrong with your resume? Chances are your existing resume is acceptable, although not the best that it could be. Here are some quick tips on things you should do to strengthen your presentation, and some things to avoid.

Resume Do’s – Substance

• Include a Summary Statement rather than a resume objective. This should be a short narrative of 3-5 sentences describing your key strengths and experience. Read the full story

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Sometimes, when you are writing your CV, your covering letter or accomplishment statements you might find yourself having difficulty finding descriptive words to help you describe the activity appropriately.

Sure ’successfully achieved’ works pretty well but at the end of the day there are only so many times you can successfully achieve something and you want to avoid your CV from sounding to repetitive.

When detailing each of your achievements within your Resume, make sure that you prefix each achievement with a strong ‘doing word’.

You’re the person who was responsible for the achievement after all so make sure you take full credit for each of these achievements within your CV by throwing a nice descriptive verb at the beginning of each of your main achievements.

Here’s a list of descriptive action verbs for you to include within your Resume: Read the full story

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