Get Your Resume Out of the 'No' Pile

• Use your bullet points to demonstrate how you used your technical skills on a project (like we’re doing).
• Don’t misrepresent your work history by listing skills or accomplishments you don’t have.

Yes, this takes time. But you want a job, right?

• Highlight your most relevant skills and experience
• Cater your resume to the job you want without misrepresenting your technical skill.

• It’s a myth that you need to keep your resume to one page. Resumes for IT professionals with several years of experience, should usually be 2-3 pages long.
• To keep it to this length, summarize your last 2-3 years in detail.
• Unless your accomplishments from an older job are directly related to the job you are applying for, only list your job title, the company you worked for, and the technical environment.

You don’t want to be eliminated from consideration simply because your resume is 8 pages long. Keep it down to the appropriate length for your relevant experience.

A resume with spelling, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization errors should never see the hands of a recruiter, HR person, or hiring manager. Here are a few specific things to keep in mind:

• Don’t use informal language, symbols (&) or ‘etc.’ (IT acronyms are OK.)
• Use present tense for your current role and use past tense for everything else.
• Catch words that shouldn’t be capitalized. Note: spellcheck probably won’t catch this. Absolutely no spelling mistakes.
• Employ consistent punctuation. Either always include the period at the end of the bullet point, or never do.