From the course: How to Highlight Your Job Skills
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Key elements to your resume
From the course: How to Highlight Your Job Skills
Key elements to your resume
- The resume is one of the cornerstones of your job search, but it's also one of the pieces that gives candidates the most anxiety. After all you only have a few short pages to set yourself apart and make a recruiter put your resume and the yes pile. How do you do it? Emphasizing your job skills and your resume is key. And the goal is to lead with your skills in every piece of your resume. Let's break it down one element at a time. First, you should have a bio or summary at the top. It should only be one paragraph long. And you should think of this as your elevator pitch. Include the top skills and defining qualities you'd want a recruiter to know if you only had a 15 second elevator to impress that person. Second is your professional experience. This should make up the bulk of your resume, because it's the most relevant information. You'll start by listing each of the relevant jobs that you've held in the past, of course.…
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