How to write a resume well

What is a resume? Simply put, a resume is a written introduction to an individual's job-related knowledge, ability, skills and work experience, which is convenient for the recruiting unit to make a preliminary judgment on the job-seeking direction, technical scope and position level of the job seeker. In most cases, resume is the first way for employers to get to know job seekers.

What does a good resume look like?

First of all, before answering this question, it needs to be clarified that a good resume is based on a good professional experience. I used to be a headhunter. I met the head of a foreign company in China, a well-known person in the industry. I asked him for his resume. He gave me his LinkedIn link, and in a few simple words, I printed less than a piece of A4 paper. This resume was given to the recruiting client, and the client was ecstatic after getting it. For such a person, his reputation has long been well-known in the industry, and his strength has long been recognized by the industry. There is no need to take pains to write a resume. But for most ordinary people, their professional experience is relatively average, and they can only try their best to write resumes according to their personal situation.

So what does a good resume look like? According to the author's nearly 10 years working experience as a headhunter and corporate recruitment manager, I think a good resume has the following characteristics:

1. Concise: I don't recommend a lengthy resume. For candidates with a little shallow work experience, there is actually nothing to write. In this case, a resume of about 2 pages is enough. For executives with 10 working experience or even more than 20 years, a 2-4-page resume is actually enough. The recent experience can be written in detail, and the early experience can be left aside. I have met many executives who earn millions of dollars a year. I have only written two pages (one side) for more than 20 years of work experience. For such a well-known candidate in the industry, the resume is too detailed, but it is self-deprecating.

2. Clear organization: It is not recommended to write your resume too fancy. In fact, it is boring for HR to process dozens of resumes every day, so the time spent on a single resume is generally 1-2 minutes. Therefore, a clear and concise resume can facilitate them to browse quickly. On the other hand, if they can't stand it, they are likely to be eliminated.

3. Focus: Focus on the job you are applying for and highlight the corresponding knowledge, skills and experience that the job seeker has mastered. Let HR make a choice as soon as he sees the resume. If HR knows enough about the job requirements, if he can't make a judgment after reading a resume for 2-3 minutes, then the resume is likely to be shelved and then forgotten or passed.

4. Simple style: I don't recommend a resume with gorgeous style. Ordinary A4 paper, printed in black and white, in song style is enough. After all, most occupations are serious. In the case of resume aesthetic fatigue, even if it is specially designed, it is difficult to attract the attention of HR. On the contrary, such a resume will make HR feel that the candidate is vain. Unless the position you are applying for will have some special requirements for personality or aesthetics, such as related positions.

In short, a good resume can not only reflect the advantages of job seekers, but also enable employers to make a preliminary judgment quickly.

1, a good resume is the facade of a job seeker, which determines the employer's first impression of the job seeker, especially the logic, organization and professionalism of the candidate, which is easily reflected by the style of a resume;

2. A good resume can simply and intuitively show the technical level and job-seeking intention of job seekers;

3. A good resume can enable the employer to make a preliminary judgment quickly and lay a foundation for further work exchanges.

Generally speaking, a complete resume at least includes basic information, job hunting intention, self-evaluation (technical expertise), education experience, work experience (performance), project experience and so on. Next, I will explain in detail how to write the following part.

I. Basic information

Many job seekers, including HR, feel that basic information is not so important, so they don't care much. However, in this case, basic information is very important, that is, when basic information is missing. So the basic information seems unimportant, but it is an essential part. For example, I found that many times, the candidate did not leave his mobile phone number on the resume sent to me by email, which led to the situation that he could not contact the candidate in time when he saw a good resume. The basic information mainly includes the following contents:

Name, this must be written. If it is inconvenient to write the full name for the sake of confidentiality, you can at least write Mr. X or Ms. X, and some people write English names, but considering that we are basically applying for jobs in China, it is better to write our own Chinese names at the same time. Some candidates with uncommon or polyphonic words in their names can write pinyin at the back of the words, which is convenient for employers to read and avoid embarrassment, and can also reflect the occupation of job seekers.

Gender, especially if the name is neutral or misleading. Although the current laws and regulations prohibit gender discrimination in recruitment, and employers dare not blatantly ask for gender, the recruitment of many positions still pays great attention to gender. So write down your gender to avoid misunderstanding and delay your job search.

Contact information: at least write the mobile phone number and email address. Writing down the mobile phone number can facilitate the employer to contact him in time, and writing down the email address can facilitate the employer to send an interview invitation or send a job introduction. It should be noted here that many job seekers are looking for jobs while working, so it is probably not convenient to answer the phone during office hours. In this case, you can note the time of answering the phone after the mobile phone number, or leave a WeChat or QQ number to facilitate online communication.

Age/date of birth: basically all positions will require the age range of the applicant, which must be written.

Country, nationality and place of origin: under special circumstances, it is recommended to write it down. For example, foreigners or residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Second, the job intention

This is very important, but it is just that many job seekers and recruiters don't pay much attention to it, which leads to a lot of time and energy wasted in the job recruitment process. As far as my experience is concerned, the more experienced professionals are, the clearer their job-seeking intentions are, and the more white or fresh graduates are, the broader and more confused their job-seeking intentions are. Excellent job seekers are basically people with very clear job intentions. Job hunting intention reflects the job seeker's planning and thinking about his future career, which is also called "extra-poetic kung fu". Whether a resume can be written well depends on whether we are good enough, but as far as writing a resume itself is concerned, we can still work hard on the intention to apply for a job. Job hunting intentions generally include the following aspects.

Expected industry: for candidates with unclear industry direction, you can write down unlimited or interested industries.

Expected occupation: write according to your own clarity of career planning, and try to write clearly. For example, if you want to apply for a hiring manager, write down the hiring manager. If there is any module in HR, please write HR Manager/Recruitment Manager/Training Manager. Many recent graduates, who don't know their future career direction, can write a broad career direction here, such as marketing direction, but remember not to write several different expected career directions on a resume, such as writing sales positions and development positions at the same time. In this case, it is best to write two different resumes.

Work location: Beijing and Shanghai are big cities. Because of big cities, the cost of working in different places is too high. Therefore, if you have special requirements for the workplace, you can indicate the expected general work orientation in the workplace. For example, along Line 4, Zhongguancun &; Wudaokou & Shangdi and the like;

If you have other special requirements in job hunting intention, you can indicate a line below and explain it in detail. Some people can't accept jobs that travel frequently because of family reasons. It can be written as follows: because the child is still young, he can't accept a long-term business trip at present. Please forgive me ... so as not to be disturbed unnecessarily.

Of course, for some professionals, the position and industry direction required for job hunting are more professional, and the job prospects are very clear. You can mark the job expectation in black under the job intention. For example, at present, only NLP algorithm engineer positions of first-line/quasi-first-line Internet companies such as Beijing BAT are considered, and the best location is in the north.

The more accurate the description of job hunting intention, the less time and energy job seekers spend on job hunting.

Third, self-evaluation (technical expertise)

The self-evaluation part focuses on describing your professional advantages. The content must be related to the professional position, and suddenly you have an advantage in the job application. For some technical positions, the self-evaluation part can completely write its own technical expertise.

The resume I have read, the self-evaluation part is easy to write, and many people don't know how to write it, especially in occupations where the ability level is not so good to quantify. Write a good self-evaluation, job seekers can confidently show their ability circle, and recruiters will be impressed by job seekers. Poor writing is just a waste of pen and ink, and even makes recruiters spy on the weakness of job seekers. In fact, most of the failed self-evaluations are empty, such as the self-evaluations intercepted in the following sales resumes:

What can we see from these self-evaluations? In fact, what I saw was just some empty talk, especially the last paragraph of self-evaluation, which made me see the guilty conscience of job seekers facing reality. I can't leave any impression on this candidate after reading it. It can only be regarded as a waste of pen and ink. Most job seekers don't seriously think about their strengths and weaknesses. Interviewers who met a dead end before asked job seekers to give evidence in one sentence in their self-evaluation, and job seekers were embarrassed. What characteristics should a good self-evaluation have?

1, which focuses on personal advantages related to the applied position. It can be the skills the applicant has, the resources the applicant has, the applicant's relevant experience, etc. The content should be specific and there are many dry goods;

2. Focused and relevant to the position applied for;

3. It is best to have proof of relevant ability. For example, personal patents, papers in an important publication, personal technical blogs, works, work achievements, etc.

Let's take a look at the following self-evaluations. Comparing the above, let's see how the effect is:

This kind of self-introduction mainly highlights one's own industry sales experience, industry resources and product background. After reading this self-evaluation, you can quickly match the favorable position of the candidate.

This self-evaluation shows that it has highlighted its own experience advantages in the sales field of communication industry operators. Then use some historical achievements and awards to prove their strength. Good self-evaluation.

This self-evaluation first labeled itself as a "domestic senior product marketing expert", and then listed his main work experience, career highlights and achievements corresponding to each experience. This is a very good self-evaluation.

This is a typical self-introduction of awards, achievements and patents. Especially for technical posts, it is very effective. In fact, it is also a good choice for technicians to list their own technical points in their self-introduction and attach their own professional technical articles. For example, the following:

Fourth, educational experience &; Training experience

Not to mention the importance of educational experience in resume, it seems that a good academic background may not be very helpful to vocational skills, but a certain academic background is an important threshold for job hunting. Only by crossing this educational threshold can you be qualified to apply for the corresponding positions, especially some foreign companies, state-owned enterprises or well-known enterprises, which have clear educational requirements for external recruitment. Technology-related work in the Internet industry requires higher technical foundation embodied by academic qualifications.

Educational experience can be written from the first degree in university to the highest degree. I often see resumes written all the way from high school education. In fact, when recruiting units screen resumes, no one will care where the candidates studied in high school and primary school. I also met a candidate who wrote about the highest academic experience, such as postgraduate education experience, but the undergraduate experience was lacking. In this case, the employer will generally ask the applicant during the interview. The relatively standard educational experience is written like this:

There are two parts in common resume fraud, one is academic fraud, and the other is work experience fraud. In the recruitment activities, many positions have academic qualifications. In order to get an interview, candidates write false educational experiences on their resumes. Common fraud includes academic fraud, such as writing a junior college degree into an undergraduate degree; There are also non-existent fake academic qualifications and forged educational experiences. Of course, there must be fake academic certificates behind these frauds. At present, the investigation of academic fraud has been very strict, so we just need to check it on Xue Xin. Com or go to the corresponding university to verify it. When I was serving a foreign client, I used these two methods to find out a lot of academic fraud. Faking academic qualifications is a high-risk thing for job seekers.

I once recommended a candidate to a client. He is the first candidate for the position I recommended to the company. His resume is a bachelor's degree, and I specifically confirmed his education with him before recommending it. He told me that there was no problem with his education. The interview went very smoothly and the client quickly decided to hire him. Before employment, the client checked his education as usual, but his education information could not be found in Xuexin.com, so we asked someone to choose his alma mater to issue a certificate. It took him several days to give us the certificate issued by the school. After receiving the certificate, the customer found that there was a problem, so he asked the school for verification. The school says he only has a junior college degree. I have to ask the candidate what's going on. The candidate still insists that he is an undergraduate and gives various reasons. We can only give up this candidate with regret.

Then some people will ask, I only have a junior college degree, but the position I apply for must require a bachelor's degree. What should I do? In this case, we should see the reasons behind the academic requirements. For some large state-owned enterprises, due to the needs of personnel relations, the academic requirements for ordinary candidates will be stricter. If it doesn't matter, you can't get in if your education doesn't meet the requirements. In this case, there is no need to enforce the application.

On the other hand, enterprises have high technical requirements for positions, and it is difficult for a single evaluation method (such as interview and written test) to achieve high accuracy. When selecting talents, enterprises set up multi-dimensional screening conditions. In this case, education is undoubtedly an important screening factor. From the case, a better academic background does not necessarily mean a stronger technical level. But for many technical positions, the technical ability of candidates with good academic qualifications is stronger than that of those with low academic qualifications. Faced with this situation, we can consider the following methods: 1. We can highlight the candidate's advantages over the position in other links on the resume. For example, there are customer resources that recruiters need, such as having done similar projects for recruiters, and just having a certain technology that recruiters urgently need ...; 2. Work hard on the application channels. If you have acquaintances in the enterprise, you can introduce them through familiar people or directly call the HR of the enterprise to state your advantages for the position you are applying for. In short, you should strengthen the confidence of employers in your professional skills through informal application channels; 3. If there is really no better application channel, it is unsuccessful to submit your resume through normal channels. You can get an interview by falsely creating a high degree on your resume. However, if you think the interview effect is good and you have a speculative chat with the interviewer, you must confess in time that you fabricated your academic qualifications and explain the reasons behind it in order to gain the understanding of the recruiter. In this case, the possibility of getting an offer is still very high. I just told an example of a candidate's false academic qualifications. What the candidate doesn't know is that our client didn't ask for a bachelor's degree. In fact, their university degrees are acceptable. In addition, before the qualification verification, if he confesses that he has a college degree in time, the client can hire him, because his experience, background and interview all show that he is really good.

What needs to be added is that for many skilled jobs, people with low academic qualifications are facing higher and higher thresholds in their career development. Even if the technical level is similar, the career opportunities of people with low academic qualifications are far less than those with high academic qualifications. If you want to get more career opportunities, you can work hard in the following aspects. 1, strengthen technical ability learning, only with stronger ability can we successfully have the second best opportunity; 2. Expand the influence of the industry, such as participating in more technical forums, publishing more high-quality technical articles and participating in technology sharing. Recently, I found that many colleagues are digging people through technical blogs. In fact, a high-quality technical blog is not a high-quality resume.

Verb (short for verb) Work experience

Work experience is the most important content of a resume. For positions that require certain work experience, work experience is the most important part of resume screening. Writing work experience needs to pay attention to the following elements:

1. working hours: working hours should be specified for each job, and the time can be specific to the month. HR will pay more attention to the working hours of each job and the time difference between the two working hours when screening resumes.

2. Work unit: Many companies have legal person name, company brand name and company product name. For example, Didi taxi is a product name, and its legal person name is: Beijing Xiao Ju Technology Co., Ltd. In this case, which name is the most popular? If the popularity is not high, you can note the company's main business and industry status behind the work unit.

3. Position: Some enterprises may have their own specific position names, but they can use the position names commonly used in the market on their resumes, and the recruiting units can know what they do at a glance. If you work in a well-known enterprise, it is not necessary, such as Ali. In this case, you can also indicate your level at the back of the position. If you have worked in the same company for many years and experienced many positions, you can describe different work experiences at different times.

4, job responsibilities: job responsibilities should not be too detailed, not too simple, a few sentences can be three or five sentences, try to let peers know the general work content and direction of the applicant, and make detailed positioning for the applicant.

5. Work performance: for functional and technical jobs, you can write successful project experience and project results; For business-oriented work, you can write business receipts, annual sales, etc. Don't write too much, because the interviewer usually asks for specific information during the interview. Work performance must be hard goods, that is to say, the performance you write must stand scrutiny and torture, otherwise it will not help you find a job, but will lower your score. For example, a project sales, he wrote in his performance that he sold 5 million in a project, but in fact he is only a peripheral person in the project sales, just helping to run errands. Such work performance is easy to be questioned.

Work experience is also a high-risk area for resume fraud. With more and more transparent workplace information and more and more back-adjustment methods, it is more and more easy to verify work experience fraud. Some people may take friends around them who have forged their work experience to find a job as an example, but the actual situation is that whether the work experience fraud can be verified depends on whether the applicant is worthy of investigation and whether the employer is willing to investigate. Background checks cost money, HR also has recruitment tasks, and the employing department is in urgent need of important personnel. Therefore, in many cases, since the candidates can still be used and there are no major problems in other aspects, then accept it. Even if there are problems with the candidates' work experience during the interview, there is no need to verify it, or even if there is a bad tone, it is just a formality. However, more and more enterprises are serious about back-tuning, especially high-end jobs, so we need to be cautious about the experience.

For job seekers whose real work experience is really not good-looking, the early work experience can be written vaguely, and the last two work experiences are best described truthfully. On the other hand, employers are most concerned about recent work experience. The reference of ringback tone should also be greeted in advance, and it is best to tell the HR of the previous unit in advance to prevent sudden ringback tone.

Experience of intransitive verb project

Some resumes are written according to project experience and work experience, while others are written independently. There is no problem with both methods. Brilliant project experience can add a lot of color to your resume. Several elements that need to be described during the project are as follows:

1. Project name: fill in according to the actual name of the project;

2. Brief introduction of the project: generally describe the project background, project environment and project objectives;

3. Project position: the role of the candidate in the project;

4. Project responsibilities: the specific responsibilities undertaken in the project and the specific work done to complete the responsibilities;

5. Project achievements and personal contributions

One of the reasons why you can write a good project experience is that you really participated in a good project and played an important role in it. The second is the applicant's summing-up ability, whether he can learn from the project he is engaged in and learn new things. The star interview method commonly used in the interview process, to a great extent, is to ask questions around the projects that the candidates have done.

Interview Methods and Project Experience of Stars

Speaking of which, let me briefly introduce the star interview method. You can refer to the logic of star interview method to write your project experience. The star interview method is written with four initials, situation, task, action and result. You can organize the project logic according to the logic of star interview.

S = situation? Project background and difficulties.

T = task? How big is the project team? How about the division of labor? What is your specific role in the team?

What did you do to complete the task? Did you encounter any problems in the process of completing the task? How is it solved?

R = what is the result of the work?

These are the main elements of a complete resume. Of course, there are personal hobbies, salary expectations and other elements, which can be filled in according to your own needs. However, it still needs to be emphasized that the premise of writing a resume is to do your own job first.