The resume is the professional YOU on paper. It is not just your work history. Is not a story that tells how did you spent your last 2 or 5 or 15 years.

Now the employers are more selective and so are the employees. The average time your resume is read by the hiring manager or supervisor is around 30 to 45 seconds. Imagine that he has around 30 to 200 resumes for a certain position. The employer will not interview 200 people for a job, that is why they have to select 10 people that seem right for that position.

First let's go through what is a hiring manager looking when he is looking at your resume:

- Do you have the skills required by the job?
- Do you have experience in performing similar tasks?
- Do you have what it takes to fit the role of the position?
- Do you have the ambition and the internal motivation to succeed?
- Have you succeeded before?

So, a employer is looking for people who already proved that they can be successful, they are looking for people who won't offer them surprises after they land on the job.

So, before writing your resume you have to decide for what position application you will use it. It is not ok to have a resume that looks like the room of a messy teenager, filled with all kind of jobs you did in your life. You need to know what kind of information you need in your resume. And to know that, we must first decide for what position we will use the resume for.

After you know which is the required position, do some research over the internet to see which are the main qualities required for such a position. Of course that a store manager must be nice, have the ability to communicate with people and to be able to solve the conflicts.

A stock exchange broker must have the abilities to persuade and to have strong economic skills. He also has to be calm in extreme situations and also to have the ability to analyze information and to see the opportunities before others do.

So, let's make a revision here.

To be able to write a resume we need to know:
1. The position we will apply for.
2. Which are the qualities required for such a position.

Once you have this info you can begin your resume.

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Og Lee

Og is the most positive guy you ever met.

He is working as a electrical engineer and is always looking for things and ideas to make his life better.

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