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How to Write Letter Resume and Test and Evaluate Your Resume?

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Summary: Your resume letter is also referred as cover letter of your application. This is your first official contact with your prospective employer. This is written to introduce yourself, your capabilities and your accomplishments. Here you have to be very precise and to the point. This letter is written to make an impact on your employer and force him to read your resume.

How to Write Letter Resume and Test and Evaluate Your Resume?

Letter Resume



Each letter resume is prepared individually for a specific target. This is a good resume to use in response to an advertisement or to send to someone referred to you by a networking contact. Use the list of achievements you have in your achievements file or notebook to write the resume. You can write it in standard letter paragraph form, or use the structured pattern. In the regular letter form, you begin with a statement expressing interest in the job and a reason why you're a good candidate for the position. Continue with the accomplishments, background and experience you have that meets or exceeds the requirements for the position.

As an alternative, write your letter resume in much the same form as you would a standard resume, but with a letter heading, a subject line indicating the job you're applying for, a summary statement (like a thumbnail) specifically mentioning the background, strengths or experiences asked for in the advertisement, plus other strengths you possess that might be valuable to them. Then, list your accomplishments, work experience and education much as you would in a regular resume. End with a paragraph expressing interest in the position and asking for an interview. Finish with a standard closing ("Yours truly" works just fine), and your signature.

Biography

A biography is not strictly a resume. However, if you are looking for work as a consultant, or have decided to try short-term projects on your own, a biography is an extremely useful leave-behind document.

In a biography, you refer to yourself in the third person. You write the biography as though you had interviewed yourself and wrote it for publication in a newspaper or magazine. The biography begins with your name, in large print and centered, as a title.

Testing and Revising Your Resume

A resume is ineffective unless it's well presented. It should be imaginatively conceived. It should advertise what you have to sell.
  1. Does the experience section read smoothly, continuously and logically? Or do some of the statements seem
    • Out of context, as though they belong some other place?
    • Irrelevant to the theme of the resume as a whole?
    • Too technical, too precise or, conversely, too general and imprecise?
  2. Does the person behind the resume become increasingly clear as you read? Or is the image blurred from time to time by statements that don't seem to fit the rest of the picture?
  3. After you read the resume, do you have a single, clear picture of you as a person? Is this the image of someone you'd like to meet?
  4. Did your resume meet the acid test? Is it apt to open doors?
Evaluating Different Parts of the Resume

Now, come back and look at each part of your resume by itself. Leave the beginning-the thumbnail sketch-until after you've evaluated the other sections of the resume.

Achievement Resume: Begin by reviewing the Selected Achievements section. Evaluate each statement in the section, using the following criteria as a checklist:
  1. Do your accomplishment statements begin with action words? Does each statement include the result? Do the results include measurements of success (dollars, time, qualifying adjectives, percentages, other numerical values)?
  2. Does each statement list only an accomplishment and a related result? If you've included more than one accomplishment in a statement, consider splitting it into two or more accomplishments. Or use subdivisions under the main statement to show that a single activity resulted in multiple accomplishments and results.
  3. Have you written the statements in forceful, simple language? Or do they contain jargon, technical words or abbreviations that might not be universally understood?
  4. What about the order of the accomplishments? Do you have a strong accomplishment at the end of the section as well as at the beginning?
(Some knowledgeable recruiters read achievement resumes from bottom to top because they believe applicants put their lesser achievements at the end.) The usual order is to put the best achievement first, the next-best second, the third-best last and distribute the others evenly in between.
  1. Do you have too many or too few accomplishments? Somewhere between five and eight is about right. If you have more solid accomplishments than these, you may want to write different resumes emphasizing different aspects of the job. (Whatever you do, don't throw away any good accomplishment statements. Save them in your notebook for possible reuse in writing cover letters or letter resumes.)
  2. Do your achievement statements match the type of position and the industry for which you will be applying? Example: A programming achievement is inappropriate if you will be applying to manage an information system. An accomplishment related to installing/directing the operation of a management information system would be appropriate.
After you've finished the Selected Achievements section, go on to review the other sections, which are similar for most kinds of resumes. (Turn forward a couple of pages to find how to evaluate these sections.)
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