Attention is either negative or positive. Employers want to see something positive. You resume is sometimes all that represents you in your job quest. I once was invited into a CEO’s office to review some resumes for a forthcoming vacancy, about a dozen or so. I was amazed at the poor quality of what I saw from people with degrees from A.A. to Ph.D. In the end, the winning candidate was one with an average-looking resume, but one with a personal touch and good details of his knowledge and accomplishments.
It is critical that you get some feedback on your resume. There are plenty of sample resumes in books. Go to the bookstore to the career section. One popular book is the Adams Resume Almanac. Your local library has these type of books.
Generally, you can’t go wrong with these FIVE rules of resume writing:
Feel free to submit a comment for your own list of “the five most important resume rules.”
