Career resume

A career resume is your way to secure a job interview; make sure that your career resume is saying what you want it to say about you.

You career resume is a means for you to win an interview with any employer that you would like to work for. You should view it as a marketing tool; a means for you to sell yourself. Your resume does not need to contain every bit of information about you. What you want is something simple and appealing enough to pique the interest of employers.

It is important that any career resume you sound looks professional; you don’t want to personalise it too much with pictures of cuddly toys or the emblem for your favourite football team. The language should be crisp and straight to the point, and a resume is no place for demonstrating your gift with flowery prose. It is probably best to use simple words, than risk using a long word that you use incorrectly; this is likely to irritate anyone reading your resume. Remove any unnecessary words from your sentences.

As mentioned above, your career resume should not have all the information about you. Your resume should not run to more than two pages and one page (two-sides) is probably best. The information you are providing is only to help get you the interview; when you actually go to the interview it is then that you can provide all the other information. Your resume should contain information about your previous employment, qualifications, and interests but it does not require much more for this.

Your career resume should be easy to read. You may choose to use a template; you can find many free ones available on the internet. It is advisable to only use the standard fonts and avoid unusual ones; you want to stand out because of your content and not the fact that you submitted your resume using the comic sans font. Headings and borders are useful because they make your resume easier to use. Ideally any interview should be just able to glance at your resume and get any information they need without having to search for it.
A well written and laid out resume can really work well for you. If an employer is in a position of choosing between two people who are equally qualified for an interview then they are likely to go with the one with the more attractive resume; and ugly one is likely to go unread.
Sources
http://www.resume-resource.com/article59.html
http://www.powerful-sample-resume-formats.com/resume-writing-help.html