An Important Tip in Preparing Resume for Experienced Professional

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One of my former students asked my help in preparing her resume. She has already two-year experienced working on an IT company and planned to move on with her career. Just like most established professionals, I still sensed the inferiority within her despite of her experience. I gave her the copy of my resume so she could have a format to follow.

“Sir, why do you have all this big amount of figures written all over your resume?” as she enthused.

No matter how trivial (to some) your position in the organization, you are an integral part of its success. The first person you need to convince your importance is you. Learn to appreciate of what you do. Before anyone could notice, you’re still the very first person who’s going to appreciate your work.
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“But sir what I do are mundane tasks. There’s no value onto it.”

There is no value on your tasks because you are not measuring it. Let us say for instance that you are one of the purchasing assistants of a big telecom company. One of your responsibilities is to print all purchase orders approved by the purchasing officer on a given transaction.

So you placed on your resume: “Prints all purchase orders approved by the Purchasing Officer”. Does it create any impact to those who will ever read this part of your resume?

You know very well that the estimated value of purchase orders per transaction you are processing costs US$ 15,000 for the US$ 1.2M project your company presently engaged in. Will it be better if your resume prints this part somewhat like this:

“Processes US$15,000 per transaction of purchase order for a US$ 1.2M telecom project”.

Will it be too much to brag about? I say no. As long as you are honest in giving all the facts, there nothing wrong to it. Explaining what you can do and how much value entrusted onto you are important attributes an employer look for on a potential valuable employee. Understand that a job interview is a business transaction. You are marketing yourself. As we say: let’s put modesty aside for the moment.

What do you think? Will it create a whole new image if you revise that “lousy” resume of yours, now?

Let me know.

Good luck!