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Revamping the Resume
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
There is no such thing as a perfect, all-purpose resume that can be used for every PM job you apply for. Ideally, every resume you send out should be tweaked so it addresses the specific qualifications each employer is looking for. This particularly applies to PMs who take on wide-ranging assignments in different industries.
Generally, your resume can always be improved. If you think your resume is perfect just the way it is, you’re starting off with a bad attitude.
A recently released study by staffing firm Spherion Pacific Enterprises, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., reported that nearly half of the IT work force plans to change jobs over the next 12 months.
That means that at this very moment, thousands of resumes are being edited, rewritten and updated for either open positions or ones that just might pop up on a job board or in a newspaper recruitment ad tomorrow.
Once again, here’s more practical advice to help you create a resume that yields interviews.
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Target your resume to the job you’re applying for. Sounds obvious, yet recruiters complain about getting generic resumes bloated with irrelevant information.
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Follow the rules. Writing a resume is easy if you follow the rules. You’d be amazed at the number of job-hunters--many have incredible backgrounds--who don’t follow this simple commandment. All you have to do is meet the …
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