In the article titled “Build the Resume Employers Want,” different recruiters talked about what they look for in a resume. Some preferred education to be placed at the top while others preferred work experience. What they both agreed on was that these elements of the resume need to be communicated clearly to the recruiter. The article told me things I already know about a resume, that it should be presented in a professional manner and include things like my name, address, email, etc. It also taught me to put more detail when writing about job experiences. It encouraged me to add some of my leadership roles to my work experiences to make my resume look more attractive.
The next article divides the elements of a resume into things they actually care about and things they don’t bother to read. It gives us helpful tips on what to stress on in a resume and how to go about it. It mainly targeted the resume from an engineer’s standpoint and showed us the importance of communicating yourself to a recruiter in the best way in such a limited amount of time. As the article says a recruiter takes on average 30 seconds to go through each resume, so that time should be used wisely and efficiently.
Both articles agreed on many things including the details of the job descriptions, the need for differentiation in styles and clarity of presentation. They differed in the fact that in “A Glimpse and a Hook” they said that the objective is useless and usually discarded in comparison to the article “Build the Resume Employers Want,” where a recruiter stated, “We like to see some kind of objective or summary statement.” They also disagreed about the skills section. The “Glimpse and a Hook” article said it should be incorporated into the job description while the other article noted that it could be placed at the top of a resume if it seems significant enough.
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