Recently, a survey report attracted people’s attention: nearly one-third of job seekers slightly exaggerated their past performance in their resumes, and more than 10 of them had poor educational background and work experience. exaggerated.
Career consultants believe that the ultimate goal of a resume is to enable job seekers to successfully pass the first round of screening by the employer and enter the interview. If the information shown on the resume basically meets the other party's hardware requirements and can leave a good first impression on the recruiter, it is a success. For this purpose, job seekers can use some techniques to package themselves, such as avoiding the weak points and focusing on the weak, while highlighting the strong points. As long as your resume catches the eye of the employer, your true abilities can be revealed during the interview!
The so-called moderate packaging is not easy to grasp, and it will change if you are not careful. It's like walking on a "balance beam" on your resume. Only by being highly skilled will you not fall off.
Try to be as vague as possible when mentioning weaknesses. When screening resumes, many units refer to hardware standards, such as major, academic qualifications, working years, age, place of residence, etc. When you don't meet the requirements, you can omit it or provide ambiguous information. If the other party is unsure of your actual situation, but at the same time is attracted by your other strengths, they will not eliminate you prematurely.
For example, you have worked three jobs. The first job lasted for 1 month, the second job for 3 months, and the third job for more than two years. If you don’t want to give the employer the impression that you change jobs frequently, you can omit the month of employment on your resume and only write the year, so that the first two jobs don’t have to appear at all. For example, the other party requires a formal undergraduate degree, but you obtained an undergraduate diploma through self-study. You just need to fill in "Bachelor's degree" in the academic field, and don't make any other explanation. As long as you can show no less ability than a regular undergraduate during the interview stage, academic qualifications are not a problem. In another situation, there is a job, and you can You can definitely do well with your experience and skills, but the academic qualifications are far from the other party's requirements. It doesn't matter, you can omit the educational background and highlight the work experience; or say that you studied in a certain university, but do not indicate whether you have completed it. It is possible to get valuable interview opportunities.
On the contrary, some people cannot find a suitable job because of their high academic qualifications or qualifications. If you are willing to lower your expectations, you might as well hide it later. Education.
"Successful Case" Dr. Tang, who is currently studying at a management school of a prestigious university in Shanghai, wants to find a job after school. Unfortunately, when others hear that he has a doctorate from a prestigious university, they will express their opinions. A small temple cannot accommodate a big Bodhisattva. In desperation, Dr. Tang only stated his technical undergraduate degree and a period of work experience before studying for a master's degree on his resume, and omitted to mention his master's and doctoral education. It happened that a certain enterprise boss needed one. The boss was overjoyed that he was a helper who had both technical knowledge and management experience. The boss was overjoyed and hired him at a salary of 7,000 yuan (RMB) per month. Later, the boss was amazed when he learned that Xiao Tang was a doctor. He is so down-to-earth and doesn't have the airs of a highly educated person, which makes him more and more valued.
The appearance of resume is simple but original. Nowadays, many job seekers try their best to make a lot of gimmicks in the appearance of resume. Some girls put their *** photos on their resumes, and some spend hundreds of dollars to make video resumes for themselves. These resumes are expensive, but they may not be favored by recruiters. In fact, the packaging of the resume appearance is very important. The highest level is to see ingenuity in simplicity and impress people with details.
If you are good at calligraphy, you can attach a handwritten cover letter to your resume; if you have art skills, you may wish to include it in an appropriate place on the envelope. Draw some beautiful patterns; if you have experience with stamps, you can also affix one or two exquisite special or commemorative stamps on the envelope to create a visual contrast with the residential houses. Maybe the other person is a stamp collector! These details can make your resume stand out at first glance and leave a deep impression on people.
You can also use some brainpower in the layout of your resume.
For example, learn from the newspaper layout method, use subtitles, horizontal columns, vertical columns, boxes and other tools to highlight the key points in the visual effect, fully strengthen your personal advantages and downplay the disadvantages.
"Successful Case" A well-known 4A advertising company went to colleges and universities to conduct a vigorous campus presentation. After the meeting, the resumes submitted by college students piled up like a mountain. Yang Hong had always longed to join this advertising company, but looking at the piles of resumes, she was really not confident that she could stand out. She thought over and over again, how could she highlight the qualities an advertising person should have in her resume—being creative? Suddenly, she saw a small shop selling Christmas cards on campus, and an idea flashed over her: Why not use Christmas cards to write a resume?
Xiao Yang immediately bought a beautiful music card and wrote his greetings to the recruiter in beautiful pen calligraphy on the homepage. When he turned it over, accompanied by beautiful music, Xiao Yang posted Got a solid resume. When Xiao Yang personally delivered this blessing resume to the recruiter, he saw obvious surprise and joy on his face. In this way, Xiao Yang entered the first round of interviews.
Mention strengths It is not easy to pass the resume test by focusing on highlighting one's own weaknesses. Only when certain abilities of job seekers deeply attract employers can they ignore vague information. Therefore, how to highlight and highlight strengths is another aspect of packaging.
If your educational background is not up to par, you must emphasize your work experience or related skills as much as possible. If you have ever served as a project manager, do not mention it in one sentence. For example, while working as a project manager, it took 6 months to develop a payroll application system, saving the company XX yuan in budget.
Fresh graduates generally have no work experience, which is a fatal weakness. List the internship experience related to the position you are applying for, and express it in the same way. If you have some knowledge or skills that are directly related to the job, be as detailed as possible and show how you will apply these knowledge and skills at work. You can show that you are good at learning new knowledge and gain impression points.
In addition, for some jobs that often require overtime work and business trips, even if you are not qualified, you can just write "I am willing to work at night." and weekend work", "Able to adapt to frequent business trips", etc. When other applicants are not willing to make sacrifices, you can get opportunities based on this.
"Successful Case" Li Wen originally applied for an Internet company At that time, the economics major she studied was completely unrelated to the computer major required by the other party. She only used one sentence to summarize her education. Instead, she spent a lot of space describing her participation in the school's web design competition when she was studying. situation. She described in detail the process of identifying ideas, collecting materials, and designing, emphasizing that she has solid design skills and is proficient in using various network software. Finally, she attached the award-winning work that was appreciated by the company’s boss. , Li Wen passed the test.