Digital Meeting
This month in the digital meeting with Psicotec we have one of our HR consultants, you can ask him all kind of questions related to employment and Human Resources. Introduce your question here.
You must never forget that the resume as well as the presentation letter will be your two only ways of representation for the moment, and these are also the ways that you will be judged by. Only in case if the judgement you get is favourable, you will be appointed for an interview, and then you will have to demonstrate personally the expectations that you have created.
This way, when you sit down to write a resume you must be centred on reflecting in it the best things about you.
We give you some practical rules that will help you a lot.
SIX GOLDEN RULES OF A GOOD RESUME
1st. - A GOOD RESUME CONSISTS OF ONE PAGE OR TWO AT MOST
Some useful advice:
Do not use two words when you can only one. For example: Do NOT write: "My function as Manager of Maintenance is...". WRITE: "Manager of Maintenance. Functions:...". The words "my function" and "as" they do not contribute anything.
Do not write useless phrases that do not contribute anything. For example: Do NOT write: "When I came there was no plan of preventive maintenance and I had to work on its development and implantation". WRITE: "Development and implantation of the plan of preventive maintenance". 20 words versus 9 to express the same.
Avoid "common expressions" and the ones that are too extended. "I want you to know that..." etc.
Express one idea in every phrase.
Use:
- Short words
- Short phrases
- Short paragraphs
This way you are going to save 30 % of your problems related to written communication.
2nd. -REFLECT IN THE RÉSUMÉ THAT YOU SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION
The same as there are no identical persons, neither there are two identical companies, and what is even less likely - two identical job positions.
Even if the companies are of the same sector, have the same size and, let's suppose that they even have the same managerial culture, there will always be a lot of different things between them, and one of the most important is the fact that the people who form them are different.
Therefore, your resume will have to reflect the differences and make major emphasis on those characteristics, both personal and professional, that you possess, that make you especially suitable for the position.
3rd. - A GOOD RÉSUMÉ MUST BE WELL STRUCTURED
In a resume every fact must be located perfectly, situated in a corresponding paragraph so that it could be easily found, and the interpretation could be easy so that would be no doubts that you are a suitable candidate.
Normally the paragraphs of a Resume are structured in the following order:
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PERSONAL INFORMATION: Name and Surname/s Address: Street, number, apartment, city and postal area. Phone: Preferably two, the individual and another contact number. Some consultants prefer to make calls to professional phones. In any case, you must clearly specify each of them. E-mail address, if you have one. |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Remember: NAME OF THE COMPANY. DATES OF PERMANENCE. SECTOR DENOMINATION OF THE POSITION. FUNCTIONS. With regard to your professional history you can use a direct chronological order, from the first company to the last one, or an inverse chronological order, from the last one to the first one, it depends on the experience that is interesting for you to mark out. |
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ACADEMIC INFORMATION: We refer to the official studies. Only those of major importance must be mentioned. If you have a Master's degree you must mention it in the first place, before referring to the official education. The serious sequence: TITLE. CENTER. CITY. DATES OF BEGINNING AND END. |
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COMPLEMENTARY FORMATION: Reflects those courses that have a special relevancy regarding the job that you are interested in, or that have a recognized prestige, or those of long duration. Do not forget to indicate the hours of duration: 100h.... Also you can add participation in seminars but only if they have a direct relation to the requested position. ADVICE: Do not flood your resume with brief and slightly recent courses. This only gets the responsible of the selection confused and less concentrated on the information that is really interesting for you to point out. |
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LANGUAGE SKILLS: What is important are the languages that you know and your level of proficiency: low, intermediate, or high; if you can only translate them, speak using these languages or express yourself in a written form. With regard to the proficiency level, you have to be realistic, do not mention nothing more nor less than the reality. They can start speaking German to you in the middle of the interview! |
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PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: The rules are the same as for the professional experience. |
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OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST: This paragraph is optional. Here you can mention interesting information that cannot be included in the previous paragraphs, such as: Geographical and labour mobility: in case of accepting, moving temporarily or to locate yourself in different geographical areas. Driver's license: Do not forget to indicate the category. Possession of proper vehicle, etc. ADVICE: Some time ago, it was habitual to include one last paragraph mentioning Hobbies or affections; with no doubts it is an influence of the Anglo-Saxon countries. At present it is almost unused, even considered infantile. This is more likely to be a question during the personal interview than a fact to be included in the resume. |
4th. - IT IS SUITABLE TO PUT THE DATE IN THE RÉSUMÉ
The detail that is often unnoticed by many candidates. It is convenient to include the date in the C.V., as it gives reference in time, giving information about your professional situation at the moment and that logically, it could have changed. In the majority of cases it refers to the letters and CVs that are not a response to a concrete offer.
Another detail that we advise is that you never sign the Resume, since you have already signed the presentation letter that you enclose. Only in case of delivering the Resume yourself and without the presentation letter, you can sign it.
5th. – MAKE EMPHASIS ON YOUR QUALITIES, BUT NEVER LIE
Remember that a good resume must be:
- Understandable, concrete and concise, the minimal and maximum extension must be from 1 to 2 pages.
- It has to facilitate its reading in everything what you could.
- Typed (with computer), without errors or corrections
- Spaced out and with wide margins
- He notices the holders and the most important or interesting aspects
- It takes care of all the details (abbreviations, you date, etc.)
6th: USED VOCABULARY:
Next we offer you a list of the verbs most used at the time of preparing a C.V., these will help you to express of brief form your achievements and knowledge:
| archieved | founded | promoted | succed |
| obtained | generated | proposed | replaced |
| approved | was in charge of | supplied | supervised |
| constructed | implemented | bought | concluded |
| completed | improved | recommended | outlined |
| conceived | improvised | redesigned | deuced |
| consolidated | installed | reorganized | trained |
| controlled | innovated | investigated | transfered |
| converted | estabilished | revised |
transformed |
| created | presented |
planned |
traduced |
| cut | invented |
was rending service |
adjusted |
| sent | launched |
fixed |
revealed |
| demostrated | guided |
simplified |
unified |
| designed | mantained |
sold |
clarified |
| developed | administrated |
solutioned |
used |
| invented |
negociated |
incited |
left vacant |
| directed | operated |
supplied personnel |
verified |
| doubled | organized |
initiated |
expanded |
| won |
originated |
modernized |
beat |
| edited | executed |
strongthened |
removed |
| eliminated | planned |
extended |
worked |
| estabilished | processed |
organized |
wrote |
| expanded | produced |
7th: CONCLUSIONS:
It turns out to be difficult to do a C.V. standard (rather it is impossible), since every resume must be original, personal and adapted to the position and company to the one that is chosen, but basically we might give as structure bases the following one:
- Personal information
- Name and Surname/s
- Date and place of birth
- Adress
- Town
- Province
- Phone
- Fax
- ACADEMIC INFORMATION
- COMPLEMENTARY FORMATION
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- LANGUAGE SKILLS
- COMPUTING SKILLS
- OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST
- THE DATE OF CLOSURE
