How to Create an Award Winning Résumé in 3 Steps - Step #1

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It only takes 3 meaningful steps to create an award winning résumé that gets noticed by recruiters, HR professionals or hiring managers, and it has to be value-based. Meaning it has to show a prospective employer how you can contribute to their bottom line, solve their problems, and meet their needs. It has to show that value quickly and upfront where it counts. You have 15-20 seconds or less to make an impression, so why leave important details that are specific to the job you are applying for at the end?

Think of the hiring professional as your customer, and your résumé as the product you are marketing or trying to sell. A good salesman sells a product to a prospective customer based on product benefits, and how that product will add more value to the purchaser's lifestyle. Consumers, especially now with the downturn of the economy, buy products based on value, not merely based on price.

Now back to your résumé. When your résumé is what Certified Professional Résumé Writers such as myself, call "value-based," it communicates the benefits you will bring to the prospective employer if you are hired, and it answers the question, "Why should I hire you?" While your long or short work history is important, your education, and your skills, employers look for the value you will bring to their organization when reading your résumé, and you have 15-20 seconds or less in which to do that.

Thinking a little differently about your résumé huh? Well you should! Always write your résumé from an employers view, not your view because the employer is your audience. You're not going out there to hire yourself!

There are only 3 important sections of your résumé that will make it a value-based one, the heading, the showcase, and the evidence. Want to create your own. Go to my blog at http://www.web.me.com/fairjoann and purchase my eBooks for as little as $2.50!

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The Résumé Writer

How to Create an Award Winning Résumé in 3 Steps - Step #1