students resumes need to be carefully prepared
A student resume is rarely among the exceptions, but you should appreciate that EVERYONE finds it difficult to write an outstanding resume; and afterward everyone has doubts about whether they have included the correct things, while omitting what really are irrelevant issues as regards each particular job.
When you are applying for a student position you would like your skills to stand out in the best way possible. You need your skills to be exactly what the prospective employer is looking for. You want your strengths to be obvious, and your weaknesses and flaws to be buried so deep that no one will be able to notice them.
But most of all, it’s important to realize a couple of things about your student resume.
First, the student resume has ONLY ONE GOAL – and that is to give your prospective employer enough knowledge on your background, skills and abilities that they will want to meet you in person. Put another way, it’s TO GET THE INTERVIEW. Its purpose is not to get you a job, or for you to tell everyone who reads it how good you are. It’s aim is to get you that interview, and that is all.
Secondly, you should know that knowledgeable recruiting employees will often make 3 passes through a mound of student resumes, and if there were any specific, stated requirements (for instance, a particular college degree) … do you satisfy the condition or not? If not, your carefully written resume is probably headed for the reject pile.
Then there is your job history – there are a LOT of things to be learned from your employment history, and many of these can disqualify you. There are some subtle issues here, but they are too specific to go into right now.
On the second pass through the student resumes, through those that haven’t already been disqualified, they are looking for your abilities and knowledge, and evaluating them against what they asked for or seek. Your student resume is classified at this time in one of three categories, either as a good fit, a maybe, or not a fit at all, and is then placed in the appropriate pile.
Pass 3 is the detailed resume review, but this is still a stage of disqualification – for example, too many spelling mistakes, or too many buzzwords can still beat your knowledge and abilities and see your student resume moved to the “no fit” stack.
Now, we could go into much more depth on all the issues we’ve touched on here. .. but there is a secret you should know. A secret to having the best shot and opportunity of having your experience and skills and abilities safely passed through the minefield of the 3 pass review.
And it’s quite straightforward; shell out the $100 – $200 it’ll cost you to have your student resume professionally written by resume writers who automatically know the phrases to make use of, the formatting to adopt, how to stress your strengths and disguise your weaknesses, who know what the hiring professionals are hunting for, and who also know how they review student resumes.
Just take a couple of seconds to consider the leverage you could gain with this; $100 or $200 improves your chances (dramatically, in our experience) of you getting a job that pays you thousands each year. To be blunt, unless you’re in such dire financial straits that you simply cannot find the money for this, and in this economy that is certainly possible, then you are paying a ‘stupid tax’ when you decide to prepare a student resume yourself and inevitably you will lose out on some chances you could otherwise have won, and maybe even that perfect job.
Whatever you decide to do about your student resume, we wish you all the best.
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