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Old 11-30-2012, 10:52 AM   #10
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I think you need to make an achievement based resume instead of your standard resume that I see crossing my desk all of the time.

Even if you have little experience forcus on the impacts that you have done, and in an achievement resume you can be descriptive.

Action - effect - benefit

eg I implemented a new method of prospecting that used an outside organization to cold call within our key market area. By doing this we saw an increase of 10 qualified prospect meetings a month. We were able to increase our close rate by 10% which increased my personal sales revenue by 50%

Too many people fall into the trap of not selling themselves in a resume, they just list experiences. The Resume is your only way to sell yourself into a interview. You have to stand out in what you achieved because companies receive hundreds of resumes for a position and they ultimately want to talk to the top 5 resumes.

I usually tend to mod my resume based on positions, in order to be effective think about the role that you want and grid out what's important to the role and then weight those factors based on importance. Then build your resume based around that.

Cover letters are fairly important to, and you want them to be concise and do the same thing that you did in your resume and that's sell you.

Don't use the standard boiler plate crap of"I believe I can be a valuable asset to your team" Make it a selling statement.

"Everywhere I've worked I've increased revenue based around my process, initiative blah blah blah"

Just my two cents for a short resume.
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