Build an impressive resume

Your resume is the most financially essential document you will ever own. As the technological advancements have revolutionized corporate hiring, it is important to know what it takes to draft an outstanding resume for today's job search. Recruiting managers receive tons of resumes for each job opening. Only the short, simple and substantial ones manage to grab their attention. Resumes that immediately convey candidate's value are taken into consideration. A resume should be treated as a springboard to an interview, not a comprehensive record of your career. Keeping this in mind, here are some resume secrets, suggested by Seekcareerz, that give you a leading edge.

1. Do not mass-forward

Forwarding the same resume for every single job is not appropriate. Your resume should not be treated as a one size fits all. You must have a working draft or in other words a baseline resume. The resume can be two to three pages long but not more than that. If you are mentioning about opportunities during training, make sure that you cover all the essentials in the working draft. When you find a suitable job opening, remove the bullets that don't refer directly to that position.

2. Be future-oriented; don't reiterate the past

Recurrently, resumes are packed with Cliff Notes of previous job descriptions. This is where the recruiter sets expectations. What you were expected to do and what you actually did often becomes two different aspects. Your job description specifies what you were hired to do, if you really did it—and ahead of that, if you did it well. It signifies the value you added to the organization as an individual.

3. Professional Skills

The skill set you bring to a target job is crucial to your first impression on the hiring manager. Subsequent to your Job Title and Performance Profile must be a Professional Skills or Key Competencies section.

4. Don't depend solely on technology

A grammar and spell checker isn't always your friend. Sometimes the spelling and grammar checkers will not highlight the mistakes you made in your resume. Take time to examine your resume and have other professionals do so as well.