1.) Think of yourself as a mini profit-and loss center rather than just a prospective employee. I know it sounds terrible, but employers today buy results and are less impressed with candidates promoting a laundry list of skills.
2.) Write "Power Statements". Develop specific examples of how you benefited your company by making or saving them money and PUT it on your resume! This statement below is an example of a results driven human resource resume:
"Increased employee retention by 60% in 2001 through new training and development incentive programs. Increases internal employee staff referral by 29%.
3.) You must have a resume that is designed to catch their attention. Employers make a snap decision when glancing at a resume if they want to pursue it further (usually within 60 seconds)! Always use bullets/short sentences as the employers have no time or patience to read long paragraphs. Especially in this job market where the common open position gets over 400 resumes!
4.) Learn how to analyze the key words that the employer is advertising for the open job descriptions. Use these words in your resume, especially in the top few sentences as it is a key element in creating a powerful resume! You may have to change your resume wording for EACH POSITION that you are applying for.
5.) When you write your power statements in your resume ( refer back to # 2 above) always include "how" you did it! It's one thing to say you increases sales by 80 % but another thing to say how you achieved that!
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