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Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and write. Read the job descriptions carefully and check whether you are answering their call for the necessary skills stated. Will they consider you to be the ideal candidate after reading the resume. Only add relevant skills and experience and not everything under the sun and need a edit my resume. Think of impact and then draft your resume. Substantiate with sufficient examples. Use the CAR approach that is state the circumstance, the action that you took and the result that it achieved.

Be extremely careful of the grammar, punctuation used and spellings. You don’t want to create a bad impression from the word go.

Do not think in terms of the number of words. What is longer need not be good. Remember only relevant information versus all the information. Highlight your tasks and not the most mundane of ones. Do not mention unskilled jobs that any one could have done. That will not get you hired. The more skilled you are the better are your chances. Do not mention the job responsibilities that you were not happy doing. Do not include your salary, age or references. It is all in bad taste. Use a formal, standard style of writing.