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Additional information on Resume Development | Compensation Guidelines to Contracting

Additional information on Resume Development.

Our TRICORP staff review literally hundreds of resumes each week. We have compiled a few tips that can help correct common mistakes we see on resumes. We try and help our candidates with resume development to assure the best possible presentation of their skills and experience to our clients. We suggest you take a look at the suggestions below and possibly reduce the chance of your resume being overlooked because of common oversights. We hope these tips will help you develop a more powerful resume.

Tip 1. Write a powerful summary of skills in the beginning of the resume. This should be four to six sentences that explains why you are a great fit for the position you want. Make sure your summary includes all of the key skills or experience they are seeking. If applying for multiple positions, write down a list of skills and make sure your opening summary addresses all of the required skills for both positions. This is the first thing a recruiter and hiring manger see when they look at the resume and it is the best opportunity to encourage them to read further.

Tip 2. List your key skills after the opening summary. List all of the skills - even those skills you think should be obvious to another IT person. Not everyone handling your resume will be an IT person. Write for that audience too.

Tip 3. List your employment history in chronological order from most recent to past. Put the complete historical dates into the resume. Missing information that is not addressed can creates a unnecessary concern. If you have gaps in your employment history discuss these with your recruiter so they can be addressed appropriately.

Tip 4. Format each job history in the following manner:

NAME OF COMPANY,
City State
DATES OF EMPLOYMENT/ASSIGNMENT or YOUR TITLE

Briefly describe what the company does. Briefly describe the business purpose the technology you developed/worked with. (90% of our hiring managers want someone who has the technical skills but also has similar application experience.) This also helps our recruiters find good matches that you have the best possible chance to successfully obtain.

List your specific role in the project. Identify if you were designing, leading, managing, coding, all of the above, etc.

Describe the technical aspect of the project.

List the specific technologies you used during this role such as Websphere, J2EE, Unix, Oracle 9i, etc.

Follow this format for each of your positions.

Tip 5. Typically the education should be listed last. An academic experience is very valuable but probably not a huge aspect of the questions the hiring manager will have. Save it for the end.

Tip 6. Don't put personal hobbies and interests on your resume.

Tip 7. Don't send your resume to positions you do not qualify. It is bad for you and the employer because it keeps everyone busy working on the wrong things like sorting through resumes that don't fit positions. Instead, apply for positions that match your professional experience.

Tip 8. Be very careful about the graphics and type faces you are using to develop your resume. It should be crisp, neat, well formatted and easy to read. Some bullets and type styles do not transfer well. You may want to send the final version to a few friends to see if any problems occurred when sending. Do not send plain text either. The common method to send a professional resume is in Word format. Other types of files may not open properly or worse, may not be opened at all.