How to write a resume during a economic recession

With economic recession, for each position there are a large number of applicants and recruiters have issues handing resumes. Sometimes you would feel like that all your efforts are going for a toss. There are a few things that can be done in order to see that your resume gets recognized and you get optimized results. Here are 8 tips you can include your resume in order to achieve this:

1. Portray Achievements: Don't mess up your resume only describing job responsibilities. Include your achievements and the unique work in your career you have done.

2. Give References: If you are buying a product online you would go in for a product which has a lot of good testimonials / customer reviews. You can apply the same logic to your resume it sure works. Take out recommendations from sites like LinkedIn, Performance reviews or customer 'thank you' letters and add them on your resume.

3. Uniqueness About You: Try to contact your previous employers and ask for your skills which make you unique. Look for some common occurrences and try to get an idea what your targeted employers are looking for. Keeping in mind the unique skills, try to include them in your CV.

4. Personal Branding: If you have blog, Twitter profile, you can always mention them on your resume. This will add more credibility to your profile. Every employer will feel this and this process may rank your resume high among other job applicants.

5. Don’t Use Objective: Instead of an objective giving out possibilities you can start your resume with how your skills can add value to the organization that recruits you.

6. Your Work Approach: Portray to employers how you approach your work. Instead of the traditional work terms use words like you have the ability to understand, build relationships, have knowledge, and organize. This will add more meaning to your resume.

7. Describe Your Personality: Some people use resumes of others and revise them instead make your resume more practical and a documents which describes your personality rather exaggerating.

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tyoshi

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Hmm, well there is no specific points for the recession but thanks :) Good post. I liked no 6. Your work approach the most :)
 
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