Keywords for Management Resumes!

Keywords are precise words used to describe a specific profession or industry and serve two purposes while searching for a job.

For example, when a potential recruiter reads the keyword "sales", then he will assume that you have experience in business development, service or product presentation, negotiations, customer relationship management, sales closing, new product introduction and much more. Keep in mind that one keyword can have numerous meanings. Be sure to clarify everything.

Keywords are Vital



If a corporation is looking for a chief financial officer, then they might do a keyword search via numbers of resumes to find out applicants with experience in treasury, tax, cash management, foreign exchange and currency hedging. If you do not have those words on your resume, you will be passed over.

Let's check some keywords that employers use to find candidates:

• P&L Responsibility
• Strategic Planning
• Performance Optimization
• Budgeting & Finance
• New Business Development
• Corporate Administration
• Crisis Management
• World Class Organization
• Organizational Leadership
• Multi-Site Operations
• Profitability Improvement
• Joint Ventures & Alliances
• Consensus Building and Teaming
• Best Practice and Bench Marking
• Decision making

Although one may presume keywords are usually just one word, they could be phrased as demonstrated above.

How or Where to Use the Keywords?

It is good to use keywords in your entire marketing communications, comprising resumes, interview follow up letters, cover letters, executive profiles and more. You should carefully add them into the text, where and when required, to be sure you’re conversing a comprehensive message of who you’re and what knowledge or value you bring to the corporations.

There are few ideas on where and how to add keywords in your resume:

• Summaries are the best section to emphasize your most noteworthy keywords and you could do this either in a listing of bulleted items or paragraph format. By doing so you are hastily communicating your main credential for instant impact.
  
  
• In the job description you should use the keywords to write project highlights, powerful action statement, accomplishment and more.
  
  
• Although optional you might choose to recapitulate your keywords in a detach section titled Executive Qualifications or Professional Qualifications.

Moving Forward:

You should get a duplicate of your resume as well as review it cautiously. You also need to incorporate all the keywords that are most appropriate to your industry and profession.

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