Employment Tips from JobSearchConnection.com

By Anthony Angellotti
Email: aangellotti@jobsearchconnection.com
Website: www.JobSearchConnection.com

Resume mistakes can cost you - and you will never know how much.

One of the most common résumé mistakes is giving the reader (in some cases not ever a human being) a listing of you duties while at your previous employer. Remember, the new employer wants to know what you are going to be able to do for his/her company. Not only what you have done, but specifically how you bettered the company. Did you come up with a new way to make widgets more economically?

What are the contributions you made to the company while you were there?

The next most common mistake is not discussing your skills and what level they are. Just saying you are “comfortable with a computer” is not going to cut it anymore. Talk more about the specific computer software you are comfortable with and what you are doing to keep up your skills. What training have you had, and have you obtained any specific certifications.

In today’s job market many applicants have degrees in this or that. But with so many training schools and on line facility’s the future employer does not know to what level you have been trained. Just because you have a “degree” does not automatically mean you know how to program the latest or the greatest new system.

So, keep it short and choose your words carefully. The resume is only a tool with which you will hopefully get an interview.

Anthony Angellotti has been a career job search professional for more than twelve years and is the President/Owner www.JobSearchConnection.com. His accomplishments include: Certified Job Search Trainer, Member Adult Career Development Network, Member Association of Job Search Trainers, Former Director of Career Services for two Career School Campuses in Northeastern Ohio, Featured Speaker and Trainer at Career Fairs and Expositions for the last five years, and a Contributor to “Ask the Expert” as featured the Akron Beacon Journal.