Time is ever changing dimension, now a day recruiter does not wish to read the pages of candidate’s information mentioned in the resume. In fact employer looks for those candidates who are smart enough and know how to frame all the important information in a compact and precise manner and make a short job application. If you are a job seeker and thinking that writing a resume in three to four pages will impress the recruiter then you doing a mistake. Current trend is to create your job application as short as possible. Present day competition is very high and recruiter gets a lot of job applications for a single opening which makes the recruiter to have very little time for reading your educational and professional qualification. The better idea is to create a resume as short as possible and it should cover all your significant information like educational and professional qualification, achievements and awards.
The question is how to create a short and precise job application? How to present all the significant information in the compact CV?
Below are the tricks for creating a short and precise resume for job openings:
- Eliminate unwanted information and do not use tables in your resume unless you are applying for a senior level position. Tables generally take lots of space in a document.
- Your career objective should not exceed one or two sentence, Objective written should be interesting and attractive and according to the experience.
- Use 7-8 bullets max to highlight content
- Eliminate separate headings or sub-headings
- Don’t forget to mention your personal details
- Mention your hobbies in such a way that predicts your strength.
Writing one page resume is not a difficult task but you should know what all needs to present to the recruiter in short and precise manner.
An example of a short resume or one page resume is available in my post one page resume sample.
