I hate reading resumes that are too similar. Sometimes I read a lot of resumes, the format and content are basically the same. This resume of thousands of people is really disgusting. I made the same mistake when I graduated. I took someone else's resume, formatted it and changed the content. There are so many resumes that recruiters are embarrassed. I can't see any difference between them. How to choose? It is often eliminated in batches.
But for graduates, it is inevitable that their resumes are similar. Everyone has similar experiences and resumes. But some graduates can write the same thing in different ways, which is the level.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone: Don't be afraid of trouble. From the perspective of the recruiter, make a unique resume with your heart.
I wonder what format your resume is? From the recruitment in recent years, I have concluded that a general resume should look like this:
1, cover. At the top is the name of the school, often accompanied by a photo of the school landscape, mostly the main teaching building. Below the picture are some simple information about yourself, such as name, major, etc. There may be an epigram at the bottom. We seldom pay attention to aphorisms. I think many of them may be translated temporarily by graduates, which may not really be the motto we have always kept in mind. You can write, at least it will make the cover look less empty, but you must remember that epigrams should be something that makes people feel comfortable. I once received a resume with the motto: "Go your own way and let others talk!" "It's not appropriate. This graduate probably wants to tell us that he has a great personality, but do you dare to recruit such a prickly employee?
2. cover letter. Many of them are full of compliments and their own ambitions. Of course, their own advantages are also indispensable.
3. Resume text. Including their personal basic information (including their contact information), job hunting intention, study experience, work experience or social practice, scientific research achievements, awards, courses, foreign languages and computer skills, specialties, etc. Should be more comprehensive.
4. English cover letter. Not to mention this, it should be translated from the main content of the Chinese application letter.
5. English resume. I won't say much about this.
6. School recommendation letter (if any) and transcripts.
7. Copies of various certificates. Including CET-4 and CET-6 certificates, scholarship certificates and certificates of various honorary titles. I have also seen a copy of my driver's license.
Many resumes I have seen are the same routine.
In fact, there are many things that don't need to be added. Next, I will help you slim down your resume.
Resume skills: Do resumes have to be colored?
The reason why I want to talk about this problem first is because I often receive a color printed resume, a thick one, beautifully bound and often accompanied by photos. You can see at a glance that job seekers are very attentive to their resumes. Needless to say, the cost of this resume must be high. Every time I read these resumes, I will throw them into our trash can, which is always a little reluctant and a little wasteful. So, let me talk to you about this problem first.
Why do job seekers type their resumes in color? I just want to send us a signal that I am very interested in your company. In fact, there are many ways for job seekers to send this signal to us, such as chatting with recruiters at job fairs. The easiest way is to send us your resume. When we receive the resume of a job seeker, we always have a potential assumption: the job seeker has a strong interest in our company. I'm afraid another reason to color your resume is to make it different, so that people who look at it can shine at the moment and have a better chance of being selected. Is that really the case? I can only regret to tell you that winning the lottery is not as important as you think.
Few companies will notice whether your resume is in color or black and white. We pay little attention to this when recruiting, and we will not take a look at your resume just because it is colorful, and put it aside to appreciate it slowly; You won't just glance at your resume or throw it away just because it's black and white. We are here to select candidates, not to collect resumes of job seekers. We pay attention to the content of the resume. We will use professional judgment to judge yourself through the content of your resume and decide whether you are the person we need, rather than relying on the exquisiteness of your resume to decide whether we need to turn you into our working partner.
It's hard to say how much attention a colorful resume can bring you. I often feel this way in the process of screening resumes. After resume screening, I didn't notice that there were many bright colors in the eliminated resumes, and it seemed that I was suddenly color-blind during the screening process, and I didn't have any impression of these colors.
Here, I tell you frankly that whether you will be hired or not, your resume will eventually be kept in the trash can, and we will not spend any manpower, material resources or financial resources to keep your resume. Don't believe such nonsense as "Although you haven't been hired, we will put your resume in our talent pool". The so-called talent pool is for internal employees, and the talent pool of external personnel is a trash can.
Whenever I see so many colorful resumes thrown away, I always feel a little unbearable. How can I put it? I also came from the student days, knowing that it is not easy to be a student, and I don't know the parents of the students. A graduate got a colorful resume and had to stomp a few feet to save some rations, but we threw it away so easily. But there is no way, although it is a pity, but the eliminated ones have to be thrown away, and the ones that have not been eliminated have to be thrown away. Sometimes I want to return those beautiful resumes and let them continue to play a role, but it is just an idea. It's impossible. Now I feel more numb after reading more colorful resumes. My suggestion is not to color your resume, save two pieces of silver and buy some new year's goods for your parents.
Besides, in the recruitment process, I have seen many graduates prepare two kinds of resumes, one is color coded and the other is black and white. Needless to say, the colored ones are for big companies, and the black and white ones are for companies like us that job seekers think are chicken ribs. This is understandable, but when you submit your resume, you must take out your resume in advance. I met many such students during the recruitment process. As soon as I submitted my resume, I pulled out a bunch of colorful black and white ones, and the whole family was turned out, and then handed us the black and white ones. In fact, you have no idea how much we want you to hand us the colored ones! For a narrow-minded recruiter like me, what do you think when you see such a situation? Can only be normal. So I suggest that when you submit your resume, you must divide it in advance, and don't always seduce us with beautiful resumes.
Resume skills: The first page of every graduate's resume may be a cover letter. If we only look at the resume text of the job seeker, then we can't even see the cover letter. To tell the truth, when I look at the resumes of job seekers, I usually turn to this page and rarely read them. Why? It seems a bit perfunctory to have no time to answer this question. But it's true. To put it mildly, I'm just not in the mood to watch it. Actually, it can't be our fault. Every job seeker should ask himself how to write your cover letter.
The content of the cover letter I have read is roughly like this: first say hello. Please note that there is not even a company name here. It's hard to believe that this letter is dedicated to us. Then I will say that I admire your company (very polite) and kiss your company's ass from time to time. Then I said my personal situation, this experience, that experience, this advantage, that specialty. Finally, I hope to join your company, such as what can give me a chance to surprise you and develop together with your company.
There is no need to say hello. Time is pressing, so there is no need for so many formalities. What's more, I won't be moved if I can't hear you say hello here. If I have this intention, I'd better leave it for the interview. The admiration for "your company" is endless. I want to ask, do you really know your company? Throughout, I only saw some gorgeous words piled together, but I didn't see an example, or even a number related to "your company". By the way, if you really know "your company", why don't you put the name of our company on the table? One bite at a time will always make people wonder how much you really know about your company.
Personal situation, the resume text behind the cover letter is much more detailed than what you said here. The ability of job seekers involved here, such as teamwork spirit, is too empty. What is team spirit? Why do you feel that you have team spirit? You're not just saying that.
The last expectation, needless to say, of course, we know that you want to get the opportunity to grow up with us, of course, we know that you don't want to play with us when you have nothing to do, and we want to recruit talents by accepting your resume.
So I personally think that since most recruiters don't read your cover letter, it doesn't matter if you have such a aimless cover letter, unless you are particularly good at writing, can write articles that make people cry, or write a targeted cover letter for the company. Moreover, once there are typos, typos or inappropriate sentences in your cover letter, it will affect our judgment on your expressive ability.
I saw such a cover letter at a recruitment special session. As I said before, I seldom read the cover letter, so let me explain why I read this cover letter first. One of the main reasons is that it is pasted at the back, and the traces of the paste are obvious. At first I thought it was because the child was too careless to forget this page, but soon I didn't deny the idea. This page is enough to arouse my curiosity, and I want to know why this cover letter and resume are not combined, but the job seeker has not re-bound it. In fact, after reading the cover letter, I found that the job seeker was very thoughtful and seemed to know that we wouldn't read the letter, so I didn't use a stapler to staple it, but found glue to stick it on the cover to attract our attention to the letter. He got what he wanted, and he took me away. I read this application letter carefully, and found that it not only has the name of our company, but also all the contents are aimed at our company, which makes our company's development history, operating conditions and achievements clear, as if I knew more than I did. Finally, the job seeker wrote honestly at the end of the letter: He doesn't know much about our company either. He saw this information from our company website, thought the company was good and wanted to come.
A cover letter gave me three signals: first, children pay special attention to doing one thing seriously. Second, children have a special heart and know how to attract others' attention. Third, this child is particularly enthusiastic about our company. He can attract our attention with such good intentions, which shows that he really wants to come. What reason do we have to refuse such a child? So I decided to accept his interview without hesitation. Therefore, different cover letters can also bring you different results.
In addition, it should be pointed out that the targeted application letter is not just about writing the name of a company, but the key is that the content of the letter should be targeted, otherwise you can't fool the thief's bright eyes by changing the form.
Resume skills: with or without photos, everyone is relaxed.
For those candidates who are outstanding in appearance and want to see more, attaching a good photo will give you a lot of impression points. That's what happens when I turn over my resume. If a photo of a beautiful woman pops up in any resume, I can't help but look at it more, and then I hope this resume can pass the exam and give myself a chance to know this girl. Don't forget me too much, it's human nature. Isn't that what candidates want to achieve by posting photos?
Don't post any photos for plain-looking people. Such photos often have the opposite effect. Let's deny all your advantages through photos. Let's go somewhere else. If you were me, would you like to have a look at someone who has no characteristics? Instead, don't post photos, give us an imaginary space and concentrate all your energy on your resume.
You might say, I am a second-eye beauty. Some people are like this, and the more they look, the more they look. This idea is also wrong. We're not dating. We have to look at you again and again. We are pressed for time and have no time to stare at your photos. Look around, see more if you like, and go there if you don't like. You might say, I can just take a photo of Zhang Mingxing and make myself beautiful! This will be a big taboo. Originally, we looked at such a beautiful photo and thought about it, but when it came to the interview, we found it was another way. The gap in the interviewer's mind needs you to make good use of it to make up for it.
Such a thing has never happened before. One year when I saw a resume, a young man was particularly handsome, and the leader immediately liked it and was full of praise. I found this person ugly when I was waiting for the interview. I just feel that there are two people in the photo, just like that photo is someone else's photo, and I don't know where this person came from. In addition, the child was a little nervous and didn't play well, so he was naturally eliminated. This is a good example. The leader's opinion is that the child didn't play well. I think it is more likely that he was disappointed to see that the child looks different from the photo. In fact, in my opinion, the child looks good, but in the end it was eliminated. The one who was not as handsome as him was hired instead, which has a lot to do with that kind of photo.
I also met a situation where an applicant posted a photo of a long time ago on his resume, which made us feel like children. When asked why he didn't get close to the photo during the interview, his answer was that he thought it was a good photo. We are banks, and banks should give people a stable image, but you should stick a little truth, which obviously runs counter to our corporate image. If the child hadn't written "Band Six" on his resume, he would have been eliminated in the primary election. Another example is that a candidate posted a two-inch photo of himself. This is unnecessary. Why did you post the photo? Is it to let us know you? Of course not, and we will even consider getting to know you before we decide to hire you. Since you posted a photo, it shows us some of your characteristics, such as the beauty and generosity of girls, such as the steady sunshine of boys, and you posted a two-inch photo, we can't see any information from it, but we can only be a plain person. This is not worth the loss.
To sum up, how to post photos on your resume:
First, you are very attractive in person. You can definitely attach photos.
Second, photos should reflect your true colors, and you can't deliberately beautify yourself with star photos.
Third, photos must be able to show your current personality and characteristics, and can effectively convey what you want to express to recruiters through photos.
Fourth, don't choose the most beautiful, it will make people expect too much.
Resume skills: first talk about the specific content of your resume.
1, personal basic information
Name: Must be written. There seems to be no doubt about it. Write your name, you have to let us know that you are Zhang San, not Li Si, or you will be interviewed and don't know what to call you. You can't let us say, "OK, when shall we interview tomorrow?" We have done this very well, and we have never met anyone who forgot to write his name. We dare not hire a man who forgets to write his name. There is a simple reason. Even he can forget his own name. What else can he not forget?
Gender, write. In the process of recruitment, most of them are girls who don't write gender. We guess they may be afraid of being known for sexism. I suggest that it is better to indicate gender. I don't want to discriminate against everyone, but I feel a little embarrassed not to indicate gender.
Age, I don't think it matters. Write if you want, and it doesn't matter if you don't want to. How old can a college graduate be? Besides, we're not auditing. Some graduate students may be older when they graduate, and they are often discriminated against by age because they are over 35. Therefore, it is recommended that these graduates do not write their age, otherwise they will deny all your other advantages because of their age, and even have no chance to interview.
Education, degree and major: it must be marked, which is the key word we pay attention to.
Political opinion: If you are not party member, don't write. Companies like ours still attach great importance to party member, so if you are party member, you must show that under the same conditions, you must have an advantage.
Height and weight: I don't think it is necessary to write. We are not a beauty pageant, and not all bank employees are big. Besides, you are not very tall or light, and you don't look good when you write. Unless you are 1.8 meters tall, we can look up. I came across a resume during the recruitment process. A boy wrote his height 1.6 meters. I can only say that this boy is too practical. He may want to show the recruiter that he is not very tall. In fact, exposing these irrelevant information prematurely is likely to make you lose the opportunity to show your other advantages. There is a simple reason. Not all companies have no height requirements like us.
There are also some graduates who will write their physical condition on their resumes, often just two words: good. Before signing the formal contract, we will organize employees to have some routine physical examinations, so you don't have to write about this. Of course, we have no discrimination against hepatitis B or AIDS.
Some people like to write their contact information in the front. My suggestion is to put these in the back. No recruiter is interested in your contact information as soon as he comes up. It's best to put important information first.
2. Job-hunting intention: The column of job-hunting intention is difficult to write. There are two reasons. First, recent graduates don't know enough about their work and have never participated in it. Of course, they don't have a deep understanding of their work. Many graduates often don't have a clear concept of what they can and want to do when writing resumes. Second, the resumes of recent graduates are not targeted. Many people's resumes are one-stop, and there are countless positions written in job hunting intentions. Some positions span a lot and have no connection. I have seen many resumes like this, even when I graduated. I majored in management. When I graduated, I filled in a lot of contents about my intention to apply for a job: strategic management, marketing, accounting, financial management, human resources ..... maybe more than that. Unfortunately, I can't find my previous resume, otherwise I can take it out and make people laugh. This is actually a confusing practice. It seems like a generalist who knows everything, but what can you do? This mentality of job seekers is understandable, and writing less is afraid of limiting choices. In fact, you can change your practice and prepare several different resumes. Each resume has only one job intention, such as human resources, and the rest of the resume is written around this theme, so that the resume will look more targeted.
One more thing, graduates should remember that companies usually hire you from the grassroots level. As for strategic management, it is better to leave it to those leaders or experienced people.
When we recruit, we seldom look at the job intention of job seekers, and rarely indicate the positions we are applying for in the recruitment instructions. We only look at the professional and professional counterparts, and we will consider whether you have this intention to work. In our opinion, graduates have great plasticity. After the graduate is hired, we will train him for about a year and transform him into the talents we need, so we generally don't care too much about the graduate's job hunting intention.
3. Education/study experience: There is nothing to say about this, just two points. First, some graduates will write down their studies in middle schools. This is unnecessary, just start from college. Second, some graduates may have participated in some relevant skills training at school, and these training experiences should also be included in their resumes.
4. Work experience/social practice: Generally speaking, recent graduates have little work experience, so we don't emphasize this point very much in the recruitment process. As for social practice, you can write down your internship or other experiences in school, such as being a minister in the student union, what you have done, what you have done, what you have gained and what you have gained. Be sure to write in detail, not just in general terms. For example, I am the life minister of the student union and organized a debate contest. This is not very detailed. You should simply say what you did and what role you played in the debate. Remember, this part of your resume can't be made up casually. You think it's perfect, but the interviewer often exposes you in a few words. I met such a graduate in the recruitment process, saying that he had done asset appraisal during the reorganization of a group in Shaanxi. This makes us very interested. After asking a few questions, the graduate said vaguely, and finally admitted that he had just compiled several tables and arranged a page for the tutor.
The most common situation is that graduates will write that they have served as student union cadres, and rarely see those who have never worked. This makes people doubt its authenticity. However, there are exceptions. I once came across such a resume with a certificate of appointment as a student union cadre, not to mention how high the gold content of this certificate is. At least the seal of the student union is much more credible than your lip service.
In addition, work experience or social practice should be focused on, and you can't have a beard and eyebrows at the same time. If it's something, write first, not without priorities.
5. Courses: Graduates often just list the courses they have studied, which is disorganized. We also look very confused and bored, and often have no systematic understanding of the courses we have studied. Graduates are advised to divide their courses into different categories. For example, management students can be divided into management, marketing, accounting, finance, economics and so on when writing their own courses, so that recruiters can see your courses at a glance and be more targeted. When graduates list courses, they should pick out the courses related to the job they are applying for, and don't write down all the courses they have learned. I read a resume, and even wrote my own military training, which didn't help the position you applied for. We don't hire security guards.
6. Computer and foreign language proficiency: Generally speaking, we do not require graduates to pass computer proficiency. Even if you pass the computer level, it is not necessarily how good the computer is. Many contents of the computer level exam are not used at work. Remember, as long as you master some office software, including WORD, EXCEL and PPT. Foreign language proficiency requires band 4, which is a hard indicator. Personally, I don't think it is necessary to do this. A college student's English level can't reflect the student's real English level, but there is no way. This is stipulated by the industry. When many graduates write English ability, the common word is good listening, speaking, reading and writing ability. This is a very vague concept. You should be specific, such as being able to communicate freely with foreigners, or winning any prizes in competitions. Writing like this will make you more competitive and help us understand how good you are, so don't write empty words on your resume.
7. Awards/certificates/scientific research achievements: All winners should be written down, such as scholarships and outstanding cadres. Certificates, such as attending meetings, will increase your chances of getting an interview. This is why many students are keen on textual research. It doesn't matter if you haven't passed many subjects. Just write down the subjects you have passed. When I interviewed, a graduate said that he had passed all three courses. I asked him why he didn't put all this on his resume. He said that he didn't think it was useful to write them out, so there was no need to write them out. Actually, it is necessary. Don't inadvertently obliterate your own advantages. Scientific research achievements, just write your graduation thesis or published articles, and we don't expect graduates to have any scientific research achievements.
8. Specialty/hobby: Many graduates will list many words here, for example, cheerful personality, enthusiasm, careful work, high work efficiency, hard work and strong organizational skills. We all think that such graduates are excellent and have almost no shortcomings. They are rare talents. In fact, to be honest, we seldom read such a special word. If you want to get our attention, you might as well pick a few words at random and give a simple example to prove one. For example, if you say that you have strong organizational skills, you can say that you independently organized a certain activity, which was well received by the department and praised by the school. For example, if you say that your writing level is good, you can say that you are good at writing practical writing and various reports, which is better than just saying that your writing level is good, which makes us mistakenly think that you are a master of writing prose and poetry, which we don't need. In addition, don't write about specialties and hobbies that have nothing to do with the position. If you say you like football, we won't prepare a football field for you. For example, if you say that you love singing, we are not recruiting singers or opening KTV. These specialties and hobbies need to be displayed in your future work, not in your resume. If you write too many resumes, you will lose focus.
English cover letter and English resume: If foreign companies or companies have no special requirements, this is unnecessary, and we do not require job seekers to attach English resumes when recruiting. My English level is not high, and many graduates' English resumes are not very good. I feel that many of them are translated by a translation software, which is very blunt. If you write an English resume, you must not make spelling mistakes or grammatical mistakes. Find someone who knows English to help you polish it.
School recommendation letter and report card: I personally think that the recommendation letter is nothing more than a blank sheet of paper with the official seal of the school. Many of the above contents were not written by the school, but were compiled by students themselves and written by classmates. The school only fulfilled the obligation of stamping. Be sure to have a report card, not how many points you got in the exam. If you score 60, we won't think that your score is low, and if you score 90, we won't think that your score is high, because the departments are different, the majors are different, the difficulty of the subject exams is different and there is no comparability. We ask you to attach your report card, mainly to see if you have any make-up subjects. This can also explain your learning attitude and hard work from one side. If you have a history of failing, don't attach your transcript.
Copies of various certificates: this is unnecessary. We will ask you to show the original certificate after the interview, which is not more convincing than that copy? There are too many PS experts now. I once saw a certificate of British accounting examination issued by PS, and it was done as it really was.
As for school profile, professional introduction and other things, you don't have to write. If we don't know your school very well, we will ask them during the interview. If you talk about your school very well, and we have never heard of it, your words will be hard to convince.
To sum up, things to pay attention to when writing a resume:
1. Resume should be simple, one or two pages is enough, don't attach irrelevant things, the format should be innovative, and don't make us feel that we are filling out a form.
2. The resume should highlight the key points, and the information you want to convey most must be prominent, so that recruiters can see it at a glance.
3. Don't have obvious word and sentence errors in your resume.
4. Speak with facts and write less empty words.