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How you format and layout the content of
your resume is just as important as the

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actual content, because it has to be easy
for someone to quickly scan over

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and pick out the most important
pieces of information.

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Always think that the top third of your
resume is a snapshot.

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It should be everything they really need to

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know about you in terms of what type of

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job are you targeting and why are you

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qualified for that type of job. It should

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sum up what they really need to know

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about you and give you teasers for the

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rest of the resume so they actually want

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to read the rest they want to know I'd

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go out on a limb and say objectives a

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dirty word and resume writing you don't

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want that on your resume why because

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it's the most vague thing in the entire

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world it doesn't tell the recruiter

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really anything about you and it's all

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about what you want not necessarily what

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you can provide to the employer so

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instead of having one of those awful

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run-of-the-mill objective statements

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replace it with a professional summary

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that's your elevator pitch

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what are you great at and passionate

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about and why are you qualified to

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pursue that type of role that's what you

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want to capture there underneath that

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you have a core competencies or areas of

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expertise section it's a quick summary

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so they understand exactly who are they

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dealing with and what's their realm of

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knowledge to figure out are you a good

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fit or not when you're looking at your

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work experience on your resume and

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you're trying to break it down I usually

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recommend a format where you have a

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small paragraph that describes your role

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and responsibilities at the end of the

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day what were you hired to do and then

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underneath that you use bullets and the

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bullet points are a great technique to

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draw the eye to your bragging points

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always think bullet points equal

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bragging points and when you're talking

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about those bullets you want to use

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action verbs if you are fresh out of

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school if you are entry-level you get

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one page of real estate you haven't done

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enough to warrant a second page you

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don't get that much real estate if

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you're five or more years out of the out

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of college you've had a job or two you

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have enough material you're allowed to

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go to a second page your header should

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be larger and normally anywhere from 13

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or

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14 all the way up to 16 depending on

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what you're emphasizing but your main

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body is tends to be a 10 to 12 font size

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I recommend going as low as half an inch

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all the way around but definitely don't

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go any lower than that you um you run

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into issues with printing at that point

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and frankly if you need to go smaller

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than that you're trying to cram too much

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information in you need to reevaluate

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what you're putting in there in the

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first place