Optimize Your Career Opportunities for Success in 2024!

Start off your new job search in 2024 the right way with a brand New Resume that outlines your work experience and skills to get excellent work opportunities at Top Companies that are actively looking for candidates with your skills.

1. Contact Information and Job Title

Start with a fresh new look by adding a pop of color blue is always a great color that stands out really nicely. You want to really utilize the entire 1-2 pages of your resume and maximize the use of that prime real estate at the top of your resume.

2. Professional Summary

So after we learned who you are, where you live and what roles your interested in we want to now know what type of professional you are, your years of experiences, highlights of projects, products or services that you have managed or contributed to in 3-5 high impact sentences. Provide a brief overview of some of the technical details about the work that you have done and the teams you've worked with.

3. Areas of Expertise, Core Competencies & Keywords

Perhaps one of the most important sections on a resume is the trifecta your Areas of Expertise, Core Competencies and Keywords. Adding all that information in this section will instantly 10X your keywords and optimize your resume so when the Applicant Tracking Software Systems scan your document you will be more likely to go straight to the top of the list for qualified candidates.

4. Professional Experiences

Your professional experiences should always be listed with your most recent experience first then everything else after. Be sure to include the company's name, your title, city/state, month and year from the time to started to present or when the role ended.

You can also utilize the STAR Method to structure your sentences:

Situation What was the problem you were solving or product/project/service you worked on?

Task What were you specifically tasked with doing?

Action How did you actually do it the steps, technical information, any software or hardware that you use and quantifiable data?

Results Any outcomes, results achievements and successes?

This method will help to guide you thinking about what information you will need to provide about the work that you have done and the details.

5. Education

List your education history showing what schools, institutions and programs you attended for degrees, certifications and courses that you have or are currently completing. Include the name of the school or program, city.state and dates attended.

6. Awards & Achievements

List out any significant awards, certificates or notable achievements from employers, schools or organizations.

7. Technical Skills

A section that is oftentimes overlooked and neglected by many candidates. So what do recruiters want to know about your technical skills, your level of proficiency

Additional Tips:

Always check your font size, spelling, grammar, sentence structures etc. Be sure to remove any outdated or irrelevant/unnecessary information to reflect a current, modern and active work history showing your professional progression.

Using the right keywords can actually get you a job much faster so don't under estimate the power of those high impact keywords, a good job title and quantifiable numerical details.

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