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To make your CV reach the employer, you have to empress the scrutinizer. When the scrutinizer forwards the CV to the employer, you have to impress him too. At both levels, you have to apply self-marketing strategy. Please read this article for some self-marketing tricks. |
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| Author: Net Pathik |
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Scrutinizer Level:
Scrutinizer is a person who picks up your CV/Resume first before it reaches the hands of the employer.
1. If your CV/Resume is in the hands of a scrutinizer, he has maximum 20 seconds for you. So, always have a impressive cover page for your CV/Resume that almost summarizes all your activities and can be easily browsed (not read) in less than 20 seconds.
2. To save the time and effort of the hardworking scrutinizer, highlight/bold some of the important keywords on your cover page that you want him/her to see. e.g. Worked as a full time volunteer for Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) from 2003-2005 (3 years). This line can be easily read as - Worked as volunteer for YMCA 3 years. i.e. Use a formal tone in choosing words for your CV, but don't let the scrutinizer read the whole text.
3. Try to avoid bullets for lists, because bullets itself attracts the eyes of the scrutinizer and words get least highlighted. i.e. Give more emphasis on words, not graphics or bullets. One of my favorite is the table form categorization.
4. Try to mention your career objective (specific to the job you are applying for), strengths & qualifications, educational & professional brief, achievements or portfolio, and especially contact information on the cover page.
5. Give reference where the employer (next person after the scrutinizer) can get further information to the statements you provided in the cover page. e.g. "Please refer to Item # 5B for more information about Language Proficiency". Moreover, please give indication at below that this is a cover page and there are more.
6. To attract the scrutinizer, submit the CV in different color paper that can easily be granted as formal color, like off white, cream, pale sky, and other very light colors. If everyone is going for this strategy, then go for plain white color. No matter what, your CV/Resume should look different than others so that the scrutinizer can easily pickup your CV in the first look and be interested to give your CV/Resume substantial amount of time.
7. As for staying different than others, don't use words that everyone is using and don't make your CV just another boring CV for the scrutinizer. Use your creativity in choosing formal words. Try to give the scrutinizer the worth of his time.
Employer Level:
After being scrutinized, the CV/Resume reaches the hands of the employer.
1. The employer has about 60-90 minutes for reading your CV/Resume so you should prepare the CV/Resume considering this fact.
2. Don't make your CV too long and boring to read because employers are very busy people. Most of the time, these people spare their important work time to read your CV/Resume. Again, don't make your CV/Resume too short so that your employer thinks that you have less to tell about yourself. This is a fact that, those who work hard, can tell a lot about themselves.
3. Have a nice looking CV/Resume site for yourself. If you want to say more about yourself, try refer to specific page in your CV/Resume site for more information, but provide only a brief in the CV/Resume. This is quite helpful when you mention Publications. Prepare PDF files of your publications and upload them to your CV/Resume site. And refer them to your site.
4. Try to push less important information at the back and most important information (that can influence the employer in making decision) at first. e.g. Keep Personal Information and references way back of the CV.
5. Make the CV specific to the job. e.g. you might have a list of about 25 extracurricular activities, but list only a few that you think can get you the job.
6. Try to avoid the word "Hobbies" instead you can use "Freelance Activities". These are not activities like "Extracurricular Activities" that has expired, rather activities that you do quite often. e.g. Camp Leader in Summer camp, Blogging, developmental reading (like-how to books), etc. Movies, music, etc. as hobbies can make you weaker.
7. Rather than highlighting your duties, highlight your challenges and how you have overcome them while mentioning your achievements.
Achievements are more important than your qualification and most of the time not related to your qualification.
I hope these tips will be helpful for you and not too long and boring to read.
About Author
Asif Anwar ( http://www.asifanwar.7p.com ) is a professional copywriter and Search Engine Marketing specialist in Bangladesh. Currently working as Manager (Marketing & Sales) of Color Experts International (CEI) http://www.colorexpertsbd.com : Clipping Path (Photoshop Masking or Image Outlining), Graphics Design, and Prepress Services Outsourcing Company based in California, USA with an Offshore Design Studio in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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