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You can see a lot of web advertisement about the best job resume structure and look-and-feel, but honestly - nothing like the best structure of the job resume exists. You can just have a better resume than the other candidates. The job resume, which comfortably meets the requirements of the HR Recruiter.

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The job interview with the HR Recruiter is more important than the job candidates believe. The HR Recruiter is the person who makes the first impression of the hiring manager. The HR Recruiter asks those “stupid HR questions”, but he/she builds the personality oriented picture of you and the hiring manager is usually strongly influenced by the HR Recruiter’s advices and notices.

It is important to have several things in mind when being interviewed by the HR Recruiter. You can believe you are the best person in the world when you come to the job interview. But you had a chance to go through several job interviews. But the HR Recruiter conducted from several hundreds to several thousands job interviews. You did not meet all the situations the HR Recruiter did. The HR Recruiter can quickly compare your answers with the answers of other candidates. Even in the history – he/she has a memory.

The job candidates usually make the same mistakes when being interviewed by the HR Recruiter:

1. I just need you to send me to the hiring manager
2. You do not understand my skills
3. You know nothing about the company
4. I am smarter than you
5. I do not have to listen to you

“I just need you to send to the hiring manager” is the most common mistake of job candidates facing HR Recruiter. The HR Recruiter is the gate keeper for the hiring manager and he/she decided about the candidates to be allowed to meet with the hiring managers. Showing to the HR Recruiter the only need is to see the hiring manager is not a good technique. You can be rejected really quickly.

“You do not understand my skills” is a very dangerous mistake. The HR Recruiter exactly knows what skills and competencies are needed for the job position. And many times – the HR Recruiter can compare you against a winning candidate from the past. Be very careful about this.

“You know nothing about the company” is a mistake, when you have no questions about the company and you just show to the HR Recruiter your opinion about his/her knowledge of the organization. It can happen from time to time that you have no questions for the HR Recruiter.

“I am smarter than you” is again a dangerous mistake during the interview with the HR Recruiter. You can be an expert in your area, but the HR Recruiter is the expert in the area of selection processes including job interviews. You cannot tell to the HR Recruiter your area of expertise is so complicated to explain and it is very hard to others to understand to it. HR Recruiters are very smart and they generally understand to the whole organization.

“I do not have to listen to you” is more common than you expect. When the HR Recruiter likes you, he/she can provide you with some advices for the next round job interview. But you have to listen to the HR Recruiter. Sometimes, the job candidates want to finish the job interview as soon as possible.

Do not forget that your job interview with the HR Recruiter is a very important part of the whole selection process. Do not ignore them.

Lately a friend of mine asked me about the winning job resume. What does the resume make a winning one when I have to decide about “GO/NO GO”. It is really interesting question and I tried to formulate pretty general answer for him.

I formulated my own answer about the winning job resume, which must consist of just 4 simple components:

1. Simplicity – I do not like complicated stuff. In moment, when I need to read job resumes selecting the right candidate, the simple resumes are given a priority. Not because of just their simplicity, but the author of a simple job resume knows to express himself/herself quickly and simply.
2. Clean resume is the winning one – the resume with a clean layout, which shows non-complicated person behind it. To make a really clean resume takes time and I know it. I appreciate clean design and it helps to read the job resume quickly. And no HR employee has time to make a deep research.
3. Structured resume is the winning resume. No one likes to search for information. The people tend to search for information at places they know. And each resume should follow the same structure. Or – the structure must be visible immediately. When composing your own winning job resume you have to prepare its structure first.
4. Potential to future growth – the winning job resume shows a potential of a candidate for a future growth. The winning resume shows the skills and it shows, which skills are still missing and the HR Recruiter must have something to offer. This is simple to say, but it is very hard to write into the job resume. Without a potential to growth – the HR Recruiter can easily reject the candidate as “overqualified”.

These are mine four main components in the winning job resume. Which are yours?

Many times the same story. The people get disappointed with every rejection letter they receive in their mailbox. Or no response from the company.

But you have to be realistic. When you read your own resume, would you hire yourself. That is the basic question. Many people do not read their resume, when they finish it.

HR Recruiters are very busy people. But they have really well trained eyes and they see any mistake at the first sight. You do not have to mention any grammar mistake or misspelling, but they definitely will notice it.

In case, when they receive a lot of resume for a job vacancy, they will tend to select resumes, which are correct as no one wants to send documents with the mistake to the selection process. As the hiring manager can notice the mistake as well.

The advice is really simple. Make proofreading before sending your resume to the company. It does not take much time from you, but it can help you a lot. You can jump over other candidates with mistakes in their resumes.

Ask the people around you about their own opinion about their own dream job. The more people you will ask, the more opinions about the dream job you will receive. But there is always a chance to provide people with the more generalized conclusions.

The people will generally show their own emotions and personal preferences when describing their dream job. And you will be quite surprised - they will not generally speak about the job position or job content. They will describe their own benefits from the dream job in their mind.

This is really very important for HR Professionals to recognize. When asking your own staff about the dream job, you will receive the preferences of your employees and you can set your HR Processes and benefit portfolio to meet their needs.

And what do the people prefer in their dream job generally?

1. Money
2. Work Life Balance
3. Challenge
4. Development Opportunities
5. Friendliness

Think about your own dream job. Would you fit into these 5 categories? One of them?

Attractive job resume structure has its own rules. Many job applicants repeat the same mistake again and again. They try to cover their whole life in their attractive job resume and they provide the HR Recruiter with a lot of details, which are not necessary to build a picture.

The job resume has one simple goal - to get the invitation for a job interview and to build a common basis for the discussion to answer all the questions. But the questions should be answered during the job interview. When you need to type your resume, you have to be aware of one thing - You do not write a book, you write you own job resume.

The structure of the job resume is usually a constant and it is not recommended to change a common structure as almost every HR Recruiter expect the same structure of job resumes in his/her mailbox. The only exception is allowed, when you apply for a highly creative position, when some adjustments are allowed.

In case you are not sure about the structure of the job resume, it is always good to start with template from Microsoft Word. The look of the template is nothing to be used, but the structure of the resume prepared by Microsoft is very nice and it is commonly accepted on the market.

When it comes to the structure of the job resume, do not be too creative, it is better to follow the common scheme on the job market. You can be the best person in the world, but you have to think of others reading your own attractive job resume. They must feel comfortably and they have to find information at parts of the page they expect it.

The attractive resume is a key to get a dream job. But, when you decide to type your attractive resume, it is not that easy task as it can look in the beginning.

The resume is usually a single page of the paper, but with a very important content and all the words must be selected very carefully.

When you want to type the excellent resume, you must be sure about the kind of the position you want to get. In case, you do not have a clear view about your work future, you have no chance to write the excellent resume. It works this way - the job done without clearly defined goals brings no results.

Before typing the resume, the following things must be clarified:

1. you must collect information about your previous experience
2. you have to find everything learned during your previous positions
3. You have to identify key moment during your previous career. This is very important as every HR Recruiter will be very interested in those career path changes and it has to be pointed out clearly and you have to provide explanation at some really key moments.
4. Select your skills gained from your previous positions and make a list of competencies, which were used during your previous experience, you will definitely need to mention them.

When you are finished with this preparation, just sit back and relax. You have to think about your next dream job and then - start typing your attractive resume.

A cover letter is the substantial part of the job resume. The resume shows your experience and cover letter explains the motivation to join the potential employer. For the most wanted employers, the cover letter is more important part of the attractive resume.

Many people have problems to write the attractive cover letter. They do not know, what should be included in their own cover letter. Just people, who are desperately hunting one company to make them a job offer are successful straightaway with their own cover letter.

The attractive cover letter should make three things clear:

• introduction about yourself
• your motivation
• why they choose you

When you are able to describe these three areas in your cover letter, you will be probably very successful during the job interview as the HR Recruiter will not make the job interview about your previous work experience, but the job interview will be about your motivation and how you could help the company to be more successful in the current business world.

Writing the attractive cover letter takes its time. It is not a letter to finish within 30 minutes. It takes several days to finish it as every single word must be well balanced and HR Recruiter must be clear about your personality, motivation and your position within the organization.

HR Recruiters love attractive resumes and it makes their job a lot easier. Just imagine yourself in their position - receiving tons of resumes and the management press you to close as many as possible of open positions within very limited time frame.

The structure is very important to make your resume look attractive. The structure makes your resume easy-to-read and easy-to-understand. Many people believe, the structure is not that important as the content, but the structure is much more important.

Usual HR Recruiter gets a resume and reads - but not as the article in the newspapers, but the HR Recruiter looks for keywords. And the must important keywords in your attractive resume must be visible and easy-to-find.

The other important part of the attractive resume is the content. You provide the recruiter or the company with the extract of your life and they must recognize your importance for the future of the company. Your attractive resume must raise their interest to meet with you, make a job interview and to have you on the board.

The content must be important facts from your professional life, noticing the main milestones in your life and not hiding any facts from the potential employer. In case of hiding any issues in your history, you can be really sure, they will find out - at the job interview. When the HR Recruiter is not confident about your life and your accomplishment, you are probably lost. The HR Recruiter is a very suspicious person.

And last - when you want to have the attractive resume, do not use a standard template delivered with Microsoft Word. The templates of resumes are nice, but - would you like to see the same design several hundreds times a day? The original design is very important as well.

When you want to be attractive, you need to be different. The same story is valid for your resume as well.

Each attractive employer suffers from the same issue – being overloaded by a lot of resumes of people trying to get a job. In the situation of too many resumes the HR Recruiter tends to select just the most attractive resumes to be sent in the process of job selection.

The employer has a very difficult problem to solve. The process must be quick, efficient and HR Recruiter must keep with his/her personal goals, which is usually about the cost and speed of the recruitment process. There is no time to study all the resumes. The resume must be attractive.

Attractive resume is the resume, which leads HR Recruiter to read it and to know immediately for what position the resume is suitable. It happened just several times during my professional career that the resume was leading me in the process of selection. But almost all the candidates were hired for the job.

What is the attractive resume about? The attractive resume is not a general one, it is the resume, which is custom-made for the position and sometimes for the employer. Each employer is looking for different set of things in the resume and the applicant, who knows the employer best - he/she is the winning candidate.

The attractive resume does not make the HR Recruiter to think about the personality and possible position, the HR Recruiter sees immediately the position and wants to put the candidate in this position. Strange, but it happens. The attractive resume walks the HR Recruiter through life and work experience and the HR Recruiter sees the personality and has no questions.