Top 12 tips for writing an effective project resume

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Top 12 tips for writing an effective
project resume
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Know your audience
Think about the position(s) you
would like to target. What are
the top five requirements? If you
already have a copy of a job
description, you can use that as
a guide. If not, you can run a
search on LinkedIn, Indeed or
another job board to find
positions similar to what you are
targeting. Once you review two
to three job postings, you will
have a solid list of required
qualifications.

Know yourself
Now that the position requirements are
clear, how does your experience match up?
An effective résumé clearly establishes that
you are qualified in each of the primary
desired prerequisites. Your goal is to make
it easy for a busy hiring manager to look at
your résumé and quickly determine that you
are a strong candidate for the open position.
A "one size fits all" résumé never works as
well as one that is customized to a specific
role, because it requires the reader to think
about how other experiences relate to
desired qualifications. Hiring authorities
may not take the time or have an interest in
doing the extra work.

Use your resume to get the interview, not
the job
A quality resume is merely a
foot in the door. Your resume
will not get you a job but
merely introduce you to
perspective employers. Use
this as the first chance to sell
yourself to an employer. The
interview itself will provide
you with another opportunity
to do so.

Back up your qualities and strengths
Instead of creating a long (and
boring) list with all your
qualities (e.g., disciplined,
creative, problem solver) try to
connect them with real life and
work experiences. In other
words, you need to back these
qualities and strengths up, else
it will appear that you are just
trying to inflate things.

Achievements instead of responsibilities
Resumes that include a
long list of
“responsibilities
included…” are plain
boring, and not
efficient in selling
yourself. Instead of
listing responsibilities,
therefore, describe
your professional
achievements.

Move beyond the duties
Most recruiters know the general duties related to
careers within their specific fields. What really stands
out is the impact and results you had within your
career. For example, a sales associate may have duties
of making outbound calls to prospective customers and
documenting activity in their customer relationship
management system. A more unique way of describing
this same position is: "Initiated a minimum of 60
outbound calls daily to C-level professionals in the
software industry. Exceeded company activity
standards with an average connection rate of 20
percent. Planned and tracked sales funnel in
Salesforce.com." Almost every role has a measurement
of success – customer satisfaction, time to complete a
task, volume of activity completed, error rate or even
internal performance measurement rankings. Whenever
possible, list those accomplishments or the impact you
made in the role.

Sell the Benefits of Your Skills
Most resumes provide a list of
duties that each applicant has been
responsible for--without explaining
the benefit of those skills to
employers. For example, a
secretary's resume might state she
can type 80 wpm and is extremely
accurate. This statement lacks an
explanation of how her typing
speed and accuracy benefit an
employer's bottom line. The real
benefit is that the employee can
produce more work and ultimately
save the employer money.

Put the most important information first
This point is valid both to the
overall order of your resume, as
well as to the individual sections.
Most of the times your previous
work experience will be the most
important part of the resume, so
put it at the top. When describing
your experiences or skills, list the
most important ones first.

Resume format
Resumes are generally presented
in one of three formats:
chronological, functional or a
combination of chronological and
functional. While your counselor
can help you to select the format
that will best display your
abilities, which you choose will
depend, in part, on the type of
work you have performed and
whether or not you are going to
continue to do the same work.

List your keys to success
Highlight your strengths, such as
volunteer work, community
service, multilingual language
skills, programming languages,
technical proficiencies, and other
qualifications pertinent to the job
you are applying for. Be sure to
list these qualifications and
technical skills early, especially
if they are immediately
necessary to the job you are
applying for. Employers will not
scour your resume to find out if
you are the candidate they’re
looking for.

Include proper information in your cover
letter
The cover letter is used to inform your
prospective employer of your
qualifications and skills making you
the best candidate for the available
position. If required, this is where you
can discuss what this job helps you
accomplish towards your long-term
career goals. Even if a cover letter is
not required, it may be a good idea to
include one.

Print and review
Make changes, print and review again.
Writing a résumé is not fun. It is tedious and
requires thinking about a tremendous amount
of detail. Furthermore, to give you the
greatest advantage, it requires customization
for each position. However, the beneficiary of
all of this effort is YOU. Hiring managers
look at the résumé as your one chance to
make a great first impression. If you take the
easy way out with your résumé when you are
trying to make the best impression, what will
that mean when you are an employee? Take
the extra time to print out and review your
résumé thoroughly. Have a second person
print out and review your résumé too. Then
make changes and print out again. It is not
uncommon that you may print out five copies
before it is error free and exactly what you
want.

Useful job interview materials:
Resume Creator: http://4career.net/download/ResumeCreator
http://4career.net/top-8-resume-samples
111 project management interview questions: http://interviewquestionsandanswers.biz/111-
project-management-interview-questions-and-answers
http://4career.net/free-ebook-75-interview-questions-and-answers/
http://4career.net/top-12-secrets-to-win-every-job-interviews/
http://4career.net/13-types-of-interview-questions-and-how-to-sovle-them/

Other job interview tips
1. Practice types of job interview such as screening interview, phone interview, second interview,
situational interview, behavioral interview (competency based), technical interview, group
interview…
2. Send interview thank you letter to employers after finishing the job interview: first interview,
follow-up interview, final interview.
3. If you want more interview questions for entry-level, internship, freshers, experienced
candidates, you can ref free ebook: 75 interview questions and answers.
4. Prepare list of questions in order to ask the employer during job interview.
5. Job titles related: project manager, project coordinator, project engineer, it project manager,
project administrator, construction project manager, senior project manager, project
assistant, assistant project manager, project director, project officer, technical project
manager, project analyst, project leader, project planner, project controller, software project
manager, project scheduler, digital project manager, project executive, project supervisor,
project specialist, marketing project manager, project lead, project architect, project
consultant, project secretary, web project manager, project control manager, clinical project
manager, infrastructure project manager, project portfolio manager.
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