Resume Writing Tips - Simplicity is the key

Of all of the resume writing tips that I can offer you, I think the most important one is just simplicity. It just about building a clear, concise, to the point, punchy resume that's void of any information that's not relevant to the role you're going for. I'd say probably 98% of the applications that come through have unnecessary clutter and i'm talking about things like generic career summaries, i'm talking about marital status, number of dependents, your hobbies, generic character traits that people often write down, take that stuff out. If it's not absolutely relevant to the job that you're applying for just simply remove it from your resume. That way what we're hoping for is that all that's left is when an employer or a HR professional or someone in recruitment opens up the resume all they are seeing is just the relevant details to the role that you're going for. The thing is that with majority of roles you typically get 40-50 applications as a minimum and when the HR people or hiring managers have to go through these applications it takes a lot of time and they only give each application probably about 10-15 seconds generally to impress them before they actually decide to read further so if you can take out any of that unnecessary information, particularly if it's on the first page I think that will go a long way to building a successful resume and in turn a successful job application.