Resume objective or profile.

• You need to specify the job title you are seeking.
  
• Show your most prominent strengths.
  
• Does it use action oriented words?
  
• Indicate the type of responsibility you can hold.
  
• Show how you will specifically benefit the employer through your contributions.

  Professional Qualifications

• Does this section show major strengths?
  
• Have you described each qualification clearly allowing the reader to understand the benefits of your achievements?
  
• Are all of the qualifications/achievements related to the career objective?
  
• Do you properly use key action words that connote your sense of qualification?

  Experience

• For each job, have you listed the job title, Function and Employer's name?
  
• Do you use jargon that is widely used in your targeted industry?
  
• Will the reader understand the level of responsibility that you had from reading the information?
  
• Do you try to quantify your accomplishments or does this section talk about accomplishments and not about responsibility?
  
• List non-paid accomplishments that you may have achieved for an organization. Don't be timid!

  Education

• Does the section begin with the highest academic achievement and work downwards?
  
• Did you include other training (even if it is non-academic) that might be relevant?
  
• Have you listed credits that might be irrelevant?

  Professional Organizations and Community Activities

• List only those items that have specific relevance to your career objective.
  
• Do you have any organizations listed that doesn't present a professional image?
  
• Will these organizations give your prospective employer an advantage with your contacts and business relationships?
  
• Does it refrain from personal information

  Overall

• How does your resume look? Have you highlighted or boldfaced titles, subtitles and other important information?
  
• Is there enough white space - does the text flow for ‘easy reading’ ?
  
• Does the resume use the word "I" - it shouldn't.
  
• Don't include references on the resume.
  
• Would you consider this resume to be an excellent sales tool for your performance and past accomplishments?
  
• Has the resume been checked by you and at least two others for spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar? Have you checked it at least 10 times?
  
• Does the body of the resume complement the career objective?
  
• Does the resume focus on what the employer wants to see?

Print it as needed on a laser printer if you have one. Avoid paper colors other than white or ivory. Modify the resume for a position that you are keenly interested to personalize your specific advantages.

Tips & Techniques

A resume should never be longer than two pages. It’s your job to get noticed not the interviewers to find out what matters on your resume.

If you have worked for Blue Ribbon companies use a resume format that highlights employers. If you had interesting assignments, then highlight experiences with resume format.

Replace job objectives with a power statement that describes your area of expertise (e.g. "Organizational Design Specialist" not "Human Resources Generalist"), demonstrates what you do (e.g. "align HR systems with organization strategy "not" design and develop . . .") and how you do it (e.g. "value - added consultative style")