Job Hunting

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

Author Byline: Jessica Hernandez, expert resume writer, is a nationally-recognized resume authority and former HR Manager who has achieved over a 99% success rate securing interviews with prestigious organizations through exclusive, personal branding strategies. Author Website:

When writing a resume, one of your biggest challenges is figuring out how to get the message across that you’re a results-maker. One of the best ways to get this done is by using numbers. Quant

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Most job-seekers understand the importance of their resumes. A resume (a good one that is) is your ticket for an interview with a potential employer. However, for you to earn this opportunity, recruiters and/or employers must be able to comprehend your resume; otherwise, your qualifications might go unnoticed.

Here are a couple of tips to help you format your resume effectively:

Save your resume in both text format and as a Word document. Its said that the text format uploads easily online, but does not appear as attractive like a Word document. In the past, I found uploading my resume using Word to be a simple process.

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Many job seekers don’t realize that an HR manager has a limited amount of time to look through a large stack of resumes on his or her desk. To make the review process flow more smoothly, they often scan each resume for just a few seconds to decide whether they want to read further.

During that scan, they are likely to look at the format of your resume to decide whether it’s “instantly denied” or one to “check out later if nothing better pops up”. If you want to ensure that yours becomes a must-read resume, it’s a good idea to consider the following five tips for creating a well-formatted resume:

1. Keep Paragrap

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Check out this HowCast Video, How to Send a Resume

Providing a nice segue from yesterday’s post about resume length is our colleague Laura Smith-Proulx’s post on Careerealism on resumes that are too wordy.

Length and wordiness often go hand in hand. If a resume is too wordy, chances are it is too long as well. Smi

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