By Erin Kennedy
Erin Kennedy has made these sample resumes available to help you see how you might prepare your resume.
Below you will find descriptions of 12 typical situations faced by job seekers.
For each situation, you will find a description of the problems faced and how the job seekers addressed the situation with their resumes.
Today, a single version of your resume is not sufficient.
For best results, match the requirements in the job description with your qualifications and accomplishments, as you will see in these samples.
Below find sample resumes for special situations (entering or re-entering the job market, making a career change, unemployed, older candidate who wants to look younger, and more) as well as a standard employed job seeker.
Read the detailed explanation for each resume to help you understand the issues the job seeker faced and how they were resolved in the sample resume.
Choose and carefully examine the resumes closest to your situation. Also check out the other resumes to see how different experiences are handled by a professional resume writer.
Because of the impact of technology used by recruiters and employers, we have provided 2 versions of each sample resume:
1. The formal version of the resume -
This is the traditional version of the resume designed to appeal to live humans. This is the resume sent directly to recruiters and members of an employer's staff.
Leverage your word processing software's functions to make it appealing and easy to read.
2. The simpler ATS-friendly version of the resume -
When you look at this resume, you won't be particularly impressed by what you see because this is the simplified version of your resume that you would submit to most job boards and to employer applicant tracking systems (ATS).
Automated systems require a very plain format which can be processed by the software, generating the fewest errors in understanding the content of the resume. These ATS samples were prepared with assistance from JobScan.co.
The challenges faced by these job seekers is explained in the article that accompanies the resume and should explain the particular challenges each job seeker faced. The job seekers range from executive to college student and everyone in between.
Each sample resume illustrates how to resolve several issues that the job seeker had.
Do read the explanation of the situation the resume is addressing before you look at the resume samples. That will enable you to see what "problem" the job seeker had that the resume addresses.
Your resume is an extremely important personal marketing document, essential for job search today. Keep that perspective in mind as you create your resume. A resume must be truthful and focused on the employer and opportunity.
Erin Kennedy is a Master Career Director (MCD), Certified Master Resume Writer (MCRW), Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), and Certified Empowerment & Motivational Coach (CEMC). She has been helping clients since 1999. Erin is also the President of Professional Resume Services, Inc.. Visit her website and connect with Erin on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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