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Seven tips for writing a great resume

1. Put yourself in the other person’s position. Make sure your resume is easy to read and to the point. A busy interviewer does not have time to wade through a load of irrelevant babble.

2. Think Positive. You do deserve that job, because you are good at what you do. You will be an asset to your new employer. They are lucky to have you.

3. Follow instructions. Look at what the employer is asking for in his ad. Does he want CVs printed out or emailed. Remember, if you can’t follow a simple instruction about this, how do you think that will look through his eyes.

4 Try, if you can to make your CV no longer than one page, two at the most. You should be able to get the main points over in that length.

5 Print out your resume only after you have done a thorough spell check on your word processing package. Spelling mistakes are a real turn off. Even if you have the right experience, if it looks like you have trouble spelling, or are too lazy to use a spellchecker you will be heavily penalised by not getting an interview.

6 Don’t post in reused CV’s. Print them out fresh each time and make sure they are free from coffee stains and smudges.

7. Make experience relevant to the job you are applying for even if it means re-writing your CV to bring out those parts of your work history that have a good fit with the job description.