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We
create resumes designed to meet your specific needs.
Our goal is to:
- Provide superior service and reliability.
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with customers who value service.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Some of the most commonly asked questions
about resume preparation include:
- What is the best type of resume
that would adequately reflect and represent
my qualifications?
- Which is best - a one or two page
resume?
Well, although there are several
types of resumes and each has its own value
and significance. There are three basic types of resumes:
The Chronological
Resume
Chronological Resume is the most common,
listing your professional
work experience by starting with your most recent place of employment.
Functional
Resume
Functional is less common and focuses on
the skills, achievements and
areas of expertise based primarily on your past job titles, responsibilities
and positions held.
The Chrono-Functional
Resume
The Chrono-Functional Resume reflects both
the functional and chronological
attributes of your employment history.
Our professional staff can help you
choose the best professional resume
that best describes your skills, accomplishments and background.
Our
professional staff stays abreast with new hiring trends and can
identify
any short comings in your existing resume.
Scannable
and (ASCII) Internet Friendly Format Resumes
Majority of
large companies and most recruiting organizations now use scanners
with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to store and
retrieve resumes. Upon customer request, we can help you
convert your resume into a scannable or internet friendly format.
It is imperative that the resume you slaved over is readable by
today's technology.
Things
to Know About Scannable Resume
- Font
size and type face - Headings should be no larger than 20 points
with the optimal being between 10 and 14.. Stay away from fancy
fonts with feet. Use San Sarif fonts like Arial or Helvetica.
- There has
been much controversy regarding the need for a key word section.
The overwhelming consensus is that if the resume is written
properly, the keywords will already exist and regardless of
where they appear in the resume, will be found.
- Kerning
- Make sure letters do not touch and use no less than .95 between
lines, with 1.0 ideal.
- Now for
the surprise, you can use lines. The lines should be long, not
short, as the software may mistake short lines for letters.
Use single lines, not double and not too thick.
- Put your
name at the top of the resume, but the address and contact information
can be bottom or the next line after your name.
- You may
use bullets, but they should be solid and round. Bullet circles
can be misconstrued as the letter o.
- +, &,
% and mathematical symbols cause problems. Spell out the words.
- Avoid ........
leaders.
- Avoid using
newspaper-like columns.
- Electronic
resumes can be as many pages as is appropriate.
- Quality
- Submit original laser or good quality ink jet originals, not
copies or faxed sheets, as they will have lost sharpness.
- Avoid folding
your resume. The creases can distort letters or even be read
by the scanner as lines of text
- No staples.
The scanner may read the holes as letters.
- Use standard
size paper 81/2 x 11 on white paper
(ASCII)
or Internet Friendly Resume
"Most Career Sites Prefer ASCII Format - Recommended for
e-mailing your resume"
Internet offers
several advantages over traditional means of job search process.
Creating an e-mail resume is straightforward and relatively easy.
Although, e-mail resume is not going to be as attractive as your
printed resume, but it will be highly effective in getting your
qualifications across quickly.
- As most
screens only read 60 characters across, set your page width
accordingly.
- If your
resume uses bullets, replace them with * or - . Remove all tabs
and replace them with [Spaces] by depressing spacebar.
- To format
your resume - use [Spaces] and [Returns] to separate jobs and
paragraphs.
- [Soft Return],
soft return can be achieved by holding down [Shift Key] and
pressing the {Return]
- Only use
keyboard symbols. Avoid em (—) or en (–) dashes. Do
not use smart quotes or mathematical symbols. Remember, if it
isn't on your keyboard, don't use it.
- Save your
file in ASCII format, most word processors support this format.
- To post
your resume on a career, simply copy and paste your ASCII file.
Tip, it always a good idea to send yourself a copy of your resume
to see how it looks.
You are now
ready to enter the job searching world of Cyberspace.
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