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The best tip is to get on the good side of whoever is handling your resume in HR. At Motorola, it was nothing for us to sabatoge people's efforts that we didn't like.
If I brought someone in for an interview, and they were rude or looked down at my receptionist, their file went in the LOST section after they left.
Sometimes we would aggressively push ugly people into jobs to work for supervisors that we didn't like. Knowing they had to look at these ugly people all day long and could not say anything without risking a harassment suit.
One of the best tricks, depending on how your resume is formatted is when using bullets to describe your skills, duties, etc.. (for instance)
NAME OF COMPANY HERE DATES WORKED
JOB TITLE
* duty #1
* duty #2
* duty #3
when doing it that way take your strongest skill and put it in the first line, take your next strongest skill and put it in the last line, your third strongest skill in line where it says duty #2, your fourth strongest skill right above the last entry, etc... the reason for having your weak/small skills in the middle is that people will just skim over the middle and only pay attention to the first couple and last couple entries.
Also, use the job title key word many times in your resume. If you are going for something like an UNIX admin, sprinkle the word UNIX and whatever system, Solaris, HP, etc... all through out the resume. Even in the introduction/objective part. Use as many buzz words related to the Job Title as you can. Even if you have a little to no understanding of that skill. The days of humans reading your resume are long over. Nowdays, the resumes are electronically scanned and everything is done by word match/association before it is spit out for an interviewer to look at.
Another tip is not to reveal too much info. You want to give them just enough info to get them interested in you to interview you. Now days, many resumes are so much in detail, you don't need the interview, unless you want to check out their ass. Some of the new doctors fresh out of school that my company handles, turns in these 5 page resumes. Containing every little detail about themselves. Key Club in High School, Worked At PPC Hospital - Right Wing, Second Floor only on Mon Tues and Thurs, etc.... It is like reading a novel about themselves. The other doctors who have been with us for 20 years or so, working multiple clients, hand in a resume only one page.
If I brought someone in for an interview, and they were rude or looked down at my receptionist, their file went in the LOST section after they left.
Sometimes we would aggressively push ugly people into jobs to work for supervisors that we didn't like. Knowing they had to look at these ugly people all day long and could not say anything without risking a harassment suit.
One of the best tricks, depending on how your resume is formatted is when using bullets to describe your skills, duties, etc.. (for instance)
NAME OF COMPANY HERE DATES WORKED
JOB TITLE
* duty #1
* duty #2
* duty #3
when doing it that way take your strongest skill and put it in the first line, take your next strongest skill and put it in the last line, your third strongest skill in line where it says duty #2, your fourth strongest skill right above the last entry, etc... the reason for having your weak/small skills in the middle is that people will just skim over the middle and only pay attention to the first couple and last couple entries.
Also, use the job title key word many times in your resume. If you are going for something like an UNIX admin, sprinkle the word UNIX and whatever system, Solaris, HP, etc... all through out the resume. Even in the introduction/objective part. Use as many buzz words related to the Job Title as you can. Even if you have a little to no understanding of that skill. The days of humans reading your resume are long over. Nowdays, the resumes are electronically scanned and everything is done by word match/association before it is spit out for an interviewer to look at.
Another tip is not to reveal too much info. You want to give them just enough info to get them interested in you to interview you. Now days, many resumes are so much in detail, you don't need the interview, unless you want to check out their ass. Some of the new doctors fresh out of school that my company handles, turns in these 5 page resumes. Containing every little detail about themselves. Key Club in High School, Worked At PPC Hospital - Right Wing, Second Floor only on Mon Tues and Thurs, etc.... It is like reading a novel about themselves. The other doctors who have been with us for 20 years or so, working multiple clients, hand in a resume only one page.
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