A Strong Yet Ethical Résumé, Fast

A Strong Yet Ethical Rsum, FastA Strong Yet Ethical Rsum, FastYoure dreading writing your rsum. Thats tempting you to buy rsum Forensic accountant with strong reviews seeks new position because job was offshored. Want to change careers? Use something like, Successful benefits specialist seeks transition into ombuds work.Highlights. What three things about you would most impress your target employer? Be specific, for example, Two promotions in three years as medical device marketer. Avoid puffy adjectives such as gruppe player and dynamic, let alone awesome. Employers tend to view those as horse puckey.Work experience (volunteering and internships go here too). A skills or functional rsum wont fool em. Most employers have long wised-up to the moldy oldie trick of using a non-chronological format to hide employment gaps. Employers often toss such rsums unread.So list your jobs in reverse chronological order, and for each one, list two to four accomplishments or highlights that would mo st impress your target employer. You may need to adapt those to best fit a particular employer. Each bullet should be stated in 20 words or less, ideally much less.But what to do about an eons-long employment gap? Part II, which will appear next Monday, offers some innovative answers to that plus tips on how to optimize the rsums other sections.The San Francisco Bay Guardian called Dr. Nemko The Bay Areas Best Career Coach and he was Contributing Editor for Careers at U.S. News. His sixth and seventh books were published in 2012 How to Do Life What They Didnt Teach You in School and Whats the Big Idea? 39 Disruptive Proposals for a Better America. mora than 1,000 of his published writings are free on www.martynemko.com. He posts here every Monday.