Searching for the right job in the highly competitive web market is never easy. In the eyes of a company’s HR person, the resume acts as a “first impression” medium. Going over sometimes hundreds of resumes a day, the HR person needs something to stand out and capture his attention, this is what this article will help you, the job seeker do.
This article would help you create a more impressive and organized resume by the use of a pre-designed resume to act as a template. The template would help you stay focused while writing the resume and yield a more impressive out come with almost zero effort.
You can view the final result in a PDF format here.
3 Steps for a good resume
Step 1
- Download the resume template and open it for editing.
- NOTE: In order to open and edit the resume template document you’ll need to have OpenOffice installed or any other word processor that supports ODT (Open Text Document) format.
Step 2
- Duplicate or delete the different section items (Places of work, Skills, etc) as you see fit.
- Fill in the empty spaces with your professional resume.
- Make sure to be short and to the point. Try to avoid passing the 2 page limit if possible.
Step 3
- Make sure everything you wanted to say was said and that it couldn’t have been said better.
- Save the document as a PDF document (File -> Export as PDF).
Good Luck!