How to Optimize Your Resume if You Want to Get the Job?

Writing your resume is only step one in presenting your credentials. Step two is to tailor your resume for each individual job. In other words, in today's job market a resume is useless unless it's written expressly for a specific employment opportunity.

​Indeed, whether or not your resume has been tailored to a job is used as one of their evaluation criteria. From an employer's perspective, anyone who's unwilling to invest the time and effort to put their best foot forward in their resume is probably also unwilling to make a contribution to their organization. And giving that impression with your resume will get you rejected, no matter how qualified you may be for a job.

So what resume modifications are likely to help you get noticed by recruiters and evaluated favorably? There are two key rewrites you should perform:

• Vocabulary: Most recruiters are not experts in the fields for which they recruit; they're searching for that kind of talent. They look for certain specific keywords on a resume to indicate whether a person is qualified for their opening. 

How can you determine which keywords to pick? Look at the job posting and any other content provided by the employer, then translate your vocabulary into the specific keywords and phrases that they're using.

• Content: Recruiters are busy people, so make it easy for them to recognize your credentials.

Remove information that isn't directly related to the job you want, and emphasize the information that is related until it's as complete and compelling as you can make it. Then pick the five or ten parts of your record that work best for the job, and highlight them in bullets at the top of your resume in a "qualifications summary."

Tailoring your resume to each job opening clearly takes a lot more time than just forwarding the same old, generic document over and over again.

The more precisely you fit with a company's open position, culture and mission, the more you will be perceived as a qualified candidate.

Think of it this way – a tailored resume works; a generic resume means you don't. Detailed article please see here.