Getting a job can sometimes be very difficult. It can also look tough and highly competitive if you don’t have an experience in the said job you are applying for or if you don’t have a competitive resume. A competitive resume is the type that can give you a hedge above your fellow competitors. Making a competitive resume can be made so easy by following some few and important steps that will be highlighted bellow:
- Contact Information: As a first-time job applicant or if you are making any other type of application for the first time, you should know that your updated contact information is the first requirement in such application. Without an updated contact information about yourself, it will be difficult for them to know the basics information they are to know about you. For example; your full name is very important in such an application. Your home address is also required, likewise your current email address and phone number.
NB: (a). When putting your email, let it be a professional mail and not a too personal email address, e.g: creativejay@gmail.com, its very wrong, rather it should contain mostly your full name or something pertaining to your name professionally. E.g: John.bush@gmail.com or johnbush@gmail.com.
(b). Your phone contact or phone number should always start with your country code. e.g: +2341234567890 and not 090123456789. This shows professionalism.
- Font size: While typing, there’s a font size you are to maintain for the hiring manager to be able to read and access your resume without stress. Advisable font size is 11 or 12 at maximum.
- Self-Introduction: After putting things to other like your contact details in an advisable font size and you are about to proceed further in your resume making, you should not forget to introduce yourself. Introduction on its part gives a lot of credence to your resume. Introducing yourself first is like telling the hiring manager more about you, your hobbies, former and present occupations, etc.
- Voluntary activities: You should also not forget to state any kind of voluntary activities you’ve been involved in. it’s an aspect that boost your chances of selection. If you believe you haven’t been involved in voluntary activities and you are a Nigerian, as long as you served your father’s land under the platform of the NYSC, you can state that as a voluntary activity.
- High school education: Depending on the application, its very necessary to put in your secondary education, stating all the activities you carried out in secondary school, coupled with all the prizes won during your secondary school period and the positions held at high school. This might boost your chances of selection.
- Relevant skills/Experience: At this stage, you’re to state the relevant skills or experience you’ve acquired maybe personally, or from an organization in irrelevance to your field or application. Don’t state anyone outside that.
- Objective specifications: This is the most important thing in your resume. It’s necessary to state your objectives, aims or goals. From here, the hiring manager will be able to read and know your mind, and also, he will be able to know how capable you are in delivering the job. Mind you, be explanatory in every detail you are writing down.
- Conclusion: It means general referencing. You must put mostly your supervisors, teachers or someone who knows you pertaining to your field of interest.
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