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What do recruiters see when they look at your resume? Jessica Pointing, a Harvard junior who won internship offers from companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, McKinsey, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley, previously told Business Insider how to make your resume error-free and all-around stellar.
Here are some of her ideas for how to take your resume to the next level, Read complete resume tips till the end.
Top Resume Tips :-
Be specific
“Include how you impacted the company or organization you worked for,” Pointing says.
“This is important because many people only describe their past jobs. What’s more important is demonstrating how you contributed to that job.”
Also read: – Top 100 resume objectives
Throw around numbers
“It’s important to quantify your achievements when possible,” she says.
“For example, if you saved the company $10,000, including that number instead of saying, ‘I was an exceptional employee.’ Including something tangible, concrete, and quantifiable really helps.”
Use action verbs
“For example, instead of saying ‘I made a new program that increased conversion rate,’ you should say ‘Initiated a new program that increased conversation rate by 20%,'” Pointing says.
Never, ever embellish
“Don’t include anything that you are uncomfortable talking about during an interview,” Pointing says.
“In your resume, you may want to embellish it and include, for example, all these languages that you speak and all these programming languages you understand.
In an interview, the interviewer might ask about any of that.”
Get to the results
Don’t treat your resume as an opportunity to just list all your past work experiences.
“Include how you impacted the company or organization you worked for,” Pointing says.
“This is important because many people only describe their past jobs. What’s more important is demonstrating how you contributed to that job.”
Editorial Team