想让你的简历给老板留下深刻的印象吗?
假如你正在挖空心思想以一个匠心独特的方式抓住招聘官眼球的话,不妨从 Aleksey Vayner身上得到一些提示而且还可以浏览您的个人视频。
Vayner是一名耶鲁大学的学生,立志成为一名投资银行家,他曾给自己想去的公司的老板上交了一份7分钟长的视频简历。
在这份标题为“没有什么不可以”的电子简历中,Vayner展现出了他非常的身体素质,例如抓举一个大约500磅重的杠铃;跟一名俏女郎在练功房跳舞;以每小时140米的记录打网球;
尽管里面的内容有点老套,但是视频简历这个方式还是比较新颖的。在接受纽约时报的采访时Vayner说视频简历可以让他从众多的求职者当中脱颖而出而且他还相信自己对于身体素质的追求在银行生涯当中是很有用的。
招聘官建议求职者个人视频简历不是不能接受的。但是,简历应当尽量简洁明了,应该与追求的工作本身联系紧密。
Moines公司的首席高级招聘官员Trish Stueckradt说,如果一份简历在头15秒钟不能吸引她的话,她觉得同样也不能够抓住招聘经理的眼光。
Stueckradt指出:“不管你什么时候发送简历,都是别人从你那里得到的第一印象”,它同时可以反映出你要申请的那份工作的特点。
“越简洁越好”人力资源管理领域的专家Tom Darrow如是说。他指出:“最好的方法就是按照公司要求的去做。”Darrow也是Talent Connections(亚特兰大的一家招聘公司)的创始人和董事长。
招聘官对于简历制作有以下提示:
该做的:
1.列举事例要用文字段落描述,不要一句话概括;前后要一致,包括时间(比如用年或是年月都用),字体格式和字间距;在简历开头对自己的技能做一段总结,根据自己的工作经验和教育情况,包括自己获得的一些特别的证件或是通过了哪些考试。她说,现在的毕业生可以在简历的开头注明一些学分方面的信息。有工作经验的求职者应该把这些放在简历的最底下;
简历中应包括一个特别的事实。用感情强烈的动词,比如:“命令”,“管理”,“发展”,““遵从”,“战胜”和“建立”等来表明“你”是一个善于行动的人,不仅仅是一个光知道努力的人,而且是一个有成果的人。”从事招聘行业20多年的Darrow建议到。
2.包含一些行业术语让你的简历更受欢迎;
3.检查你的语法和拼写错误;
4.按从新到旧的时间顺序列举工作经验;
5.保持简洁,简历最多不超过两页;
如果是以电子方式发送简历的话,可以以 e-mail附件的方式发送。
Stueckradt建议使用 Word文档,因为很多公司都是用这种软件的。
不该做的:
1.邮寄CD 或是 DVD,因为要占用招聘官很多时间,精力。除非你申请的是一种影视或艺术方面的工作,并督导明确。
2.做假;公司会检查你是否真正获得过这个头衔或是学位,假如被查处,你会死得很难看;
3.包括你的爱好;
4.列举你在哪里上的中学;
Principal Financial 集团的IT招聘经理Andrew Haning说:越来越多的公司使用网络招聘,因此语言独特丰富是更为重要的。求职者在发送纸制简历之前,都必须先进行网申。
“假如你使用电子版格式的话,保持简洁,”Haning说,“这样就能够更加简单的把你的简历剪切和粘贴到网上正式的格式。”
他说有一个新趋势就是求职者上传自己的图片,他指出:“我们不需要这个,我们是要为这个职位找到最合适的人选,我们不需要视频看这些与工作无关的东西。
When it comes to resumes, remember less is moreWant to impress a potential boss with your resume?
If you’re contemplating a creative, quirky, unique way to grab a hiring manager’s attention, take a hint from Aleksey Vayner and skip the personal video.
Vayner, a Yale University student and aspiring investment banker, submitted a seven-minute video resume to a potential employer. (Check it out at )
In the video, titled “Impossible Is Nothing,” he showcases his physical abilities — grunting with exertion while apparently bench-pressing nearly 500 pounds, performing a suggestive ballroom dance with a scantily clad woman, and hitting the tennis courts with supposedly a 140 mph serve.
The video eventually found its way to YouTube, and the rest is history. He thought the video would help him stand out among applicants and that his success in physical pursuits would prove useful in his banking career, according to an interview in The New York Times.
Recruiters told WorkBytes that under no circumstances are personal videos acceptable — ever. They said resumes should be concise, detailed and relevant to the job you seek.
Trish Stueckradt, senior recruiter with Executive Resources in Des Moines, said if a resume doesn’t grab her within 15 seconds, then she knows it won’t catch the attention of a hiring manager, either.
“Any time you send a resume, that’s the first impression that a client receives from you,” Stueckradt said. It can also foreshadow what the quality of your work will look like, should you get hired.
“Less is more,” said Tom Darrow, an expert with the Society for Human Resource Management.
“The best way to do it is the way the company wants you to do it,” said Darrow, founder and principal of Talent Connections, a recruiting firm in Atlanta.
Recruiters gave us resume dos and don’ts:
Do:Use bullets with phrases, not sentences.
Be consistent. That includes the format of dates (like using only years, or listing months and years), and uniform font and spacing.
Include a summary of skills at the top of the resume. Follow that with job experience and education, which includes specific licenses you have or tests you’ve passed. She said recent college graduates can include information such as a grade-point average (anything over a 3.0) at the top of a resume. Seasoned workers should put that information at the bottom.
Include a specific objective in your resume.
Use strong verbs. Verbs such as “directed,” “managed,” “developed,” “coordinated,” “overcame” and “fixed” show that “you’re a person of action … a person of not just effort, but accomplishment,” said Darrow, who has been in the recruiting business for nearly 20 years.
Include keywords specific to your industry to make your resume “pop.”
Check your grammar and use spell check.
Use reverse chronological order when listing job experience.
Keep it brief. Resumes should be no more than two pages.
If you’re sending your resume electronically, send it as an attachment to an e-mail. Stueckradt suggests using Microsoft Word because many companies use that software.
Don’t: Send a CD or DVD. They’re too much time and work for recruiters. Unless you’re applying for a video or graphic arts job, steer clear of them.
Lie. Companies will check whether you really had that job title or have that master’s. You will get caught.
Include hobbies.
More companies are requiring candidates to apply online, making polished language and detail in resumes even more important, said Andrew Haning, IT employment manager for Principal Financial Group. Job seekers who send paper resumes, he said, are referred to the online application.
If you’re using an electronic format, keep it simple, Haning said. That makes it easier to cut and paste the resume onto a form online.
He said a new trend is for applicants to send head shots of themselves.
“We don’t need that,” he said. “We always hire the best person for the job. We don’t want to take those things into account for pre-screening.”