33 life hacking for the job, which will double your salary

Listen man, who in his career looked over 100,000 resumes and really understands how to make a resume more attractive. By the way, my profile in LinkedIn, convince himself: mpritula.

But let's agree right away: no cheating in the summary. Only honest information. How to do without cheating your CV really tough - this in my life hacking.

IN article seven simple ways to get an increase in their salary search new job I put in last place. But it often happens that the further development is possible only after the change of work. How not to miss the chance to get a really cool job offer - and I want to tell you about it. I believe that the wages - is displaying values ​​employee. And everyone would have to find work with a maximum wage. This will mean that:

• you really need this company;
• the company was able to appreciate you;
• in you will continue to invest, as investing in a decent amount of money you will want to get the maximum efficiency;
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• You found my dream job.

In his course on career coaching, I talk about the model of three spheres in the career:

• love for his work;
• qualification;
• payment.

When a person is the same all three areas, it is his ideal career:

In this model, it is often the salary is the indisputable fact that allows us to say that you have the perfect career.

1. Understand: The summary is not a ticket to the interview, and the bill

Some people believe that, say, a summary - a ticket to interview. Its main task - to receive a call. This is a very erroneous opinion, which killed a large number of professionals. Man thinks that if he worked at Microsoft, Yandex, Google, it does not matter what his resume - it is important to specify the place of work. In part he is right: such a summary, of course, interested recruiter, but no more.

The main task of resume - to show the real value of you as a professional. If you do not immediately showed his true value is in the interview this will make it harder.

Early in his youth, recruiting many times I have come across a situation where I have a great candidate, with whom I recently conducted an interview. I understand that this is the one who needs my customer, refer to the customer summary, mentally losing scenario of their future communication, recruitment and my candidate for the award. But here I send a resume and in response received: "Something confuses me his resume, let's look for more." So burned more than one prize, until I learned to work with the candidate to send his resume to the customer.

That's why I like the comparison summary bill: it should look like a million dollars.

The recruiter is interested to resume look as expensive as possible. If the recruiter is working in the agency, his income depends on the candidate's income, which he finds on the customers' job. If a recruiter works for the company, he is interested in is to close the job the best candidates, it gives him hope for the award. Why am I writing about the recruiter? It gets recruiter resume first, and he decides that it will happen next.

And then I'll talk about how to increase the value of your resume at least twice.

2. Think, how to market your resume

The summary should be such that the recruiter wanted him to "buy". To recruiter resume - this is one of the main tools of his work. You, of course, not all the same, which interface in programs or design of the site with which you are working. You'll avoid the interfaces that you do not like. The same thing happens with a recruiter if he does not like the interface of your job, the desire to work with your resume from a recruiter below.

An experienced recruiter if he likes filling your resume, redo CV and make it more selling, but it is the exception rather than the rule. The next, who will look after the recruiter your resume will be the hiring manager. Thus resume is double, and sometimes triple check. A good summary I want to read in full and read again.

3. Score maximum points from the recruiter

Recruiter day receives 100 to 300 resumes. To view each resume it takes only 5 to 10 seconds.

During this time, the recruiter's eyes pass on the main sections separately: photo, name, date of job change, company names, and positions, and education.

The recruiter does not grasp the meaning of each job, his gaze jumping on the main blocks in the search keywords that interest him. of focusing point on the resume look like this:

Each resume passes the internal scoring (Scoring) of the recruiter. If the resume is gaining the right amount of points, the recruiter starts working with him: calls you, invites you to the interview, your resume transfers to the customer and further along the chain. In addition, each section of your resume can either add new points and collect previously accrued.

4. Kastomiziruy resume under her profession

Universal resume all no jobs. For each profession are important different types of resumes. The task of each type of resume - show what's most important to the profession. For example, for the selling profession it is important to show how you earned money for the company. Technical and IT professions is very important to show the presence of different skills and knowledge, marketing - implemented projects and so on. Full list of standard occupations, indicating what needs to show summary:

5. Show the recruiter your success

Your resume - this is not a collection of individual units of your work, education and training. Summary per million - a resume that is built into a success story. What is the success story? This is when it is clear how to contact your education, career path, all kinds of training and certificates, personal qualities and position you seek. If there is no logic, the recruiter will miss your resume in these elements.

IN summary It should contain your successes (achievements) for each job. Unless the job titles and companies that you changed is not clear, you went on the rise, this should be seen in the description of duties and accomplishments.

Good summary - this summary, which has been written and rewritten. Throughout its history (from the first to the last place of work) summary can be rewritten up to 20-30 times.

In addition, first-class resume - a summary of where each phrase adds to the cost.

6. Take an example from pages lendingovyh

You probably have met on the Internet cool lendingovye page. Your resume should be no worse.

A good summary of fun to read, want to read to the end. Every sentence in the summary increases the desire to buy it. In it is a very simple and clear navigation (sections). In addition, the resume must conform to generally accepted standards. Therefore, if you are not a designer and are not representative of the creative profession, no background images in the summary.

7. Use only the spoken language of business

I always pays great attention to the language of the summary.

The summary should consist of simple words and phrases should not be formalism (the very words copied of your job description), your sentence must be written by you personally, and not copied from the Internet. All proposals must be short enough without slozhnosochinonnyh and slozhnopodchinonnyh designs.

In this sense, I really like the book by Nora Gal "Word of the living and the dead."

Here are some quotes that apply to your resume:

• "In the vast, vast majority of cases it is better to replace an official or a word book - colloquial, long - short, complicated - simple, erased, featureless - concrete, imaginative ...
• ... So what is it, the Office? He has a very precise signs, general, and for the transfer and for the national literature.
• This - the displacement of the verb, that is, movement, action, participle, gerund, a noun (especially verbal!), So - stagnancy, immobility. And of all the verbal forms of addiction to the infinitive.
• It - piling nouns in oblique cases, often long chains of nouns the same nominative - genitive, so it is no longer possible to understand that what is true what is at speech.
• This is - an abundance of foreign words where they may well be replaced by Russian.
• This - the displacement speed of the active passive, almost always heavier, cumbersome.
• It is - hard, confusing system of phrases abstruseness. Uncounted clauses, doubly heavy and unnatural conversational speech.
• It - dullness, monotony, stortost stamp. Poor, frugal Dictionary: the author and the characters speak the same dry, breech language. Always, without any reason and need, choose a long word - a short, formal or book - colloquial, complicated - just a stamp - a living image.

In general, I recommend reading the whole book.

Also, you should be very careful if you write a resume in English. Otherwise, it may come out as in the good old anecdote:

8. Follow ideal structure

I've seen a lot of structures and summary information presentation sequence. In my opinion, the ideal sequence of the location information in the summary is as follows:

• First and last name (first name is not necessary, it vestiges of the past).
• A photo.
• Contacts (only phone and the city, the home address is not specified, the recruiter will not go home to see who lives there).
• The goal - that the position for which you pretenduesh. And no need to sample "to find a company where I will be able to realize their potential to the maximum benefit for both the company and for themselves." This crap no one seriously still will not accept.
• Key competences - a part for experienced professionals. The recruiter may not want to read all the summaries, but he looks core competencies. Here you need to specify the expertise and achievements, as well as specify the number of personal qualities.
• Education.
• Trainings.
• Experience (at the top - the last place of work, lower - earlier).
• Additional information (language, knowledge of the program, the availability of rights).

9. FORMAT: Font Calibri or Arial, size 10 or 12 without tables, single spacing between lines

• Here everything is very simple. Every resume should be familiar to all of the font. Previously, the default Microsoft Word offered serif font - Times New Roman. But then the fashion changed and became popular sans serif fonts - Calibri and Arial. Therefore, I recommend you do resume in these fonts. If a recruiter sees the resume with the font Times New Roman, he considers it the old junk.
• All resume should be one font. As an exception, allowed registration of the sections ( "Education", "Education", etc.) increased by 2 points font.
• Furthermore, I am categorically against the tables in the summary. Very often the resume goes through the various recruitment programs that recognize elements of CV and is stored in its own format. In such cases, move out of the table, resume looks very presentable.
• The list of duties and other lists drawn up in a bulleted (as designed this section of my article).
• If in your resume there are references to the portfolio, use the services of creating short links (eg, goo.gl).

Here is the near-perfect resume:

The full version can be viewed at link.

Why almost perfect? Here are 10 tips that I could give in this summary:

• Make a photo on plain background (white or gray).
• Remove one phone. Why recruiter to think about where to call?
• Change an email to a personal, not some company.
• Remove marital status.
• Combine competence and experience of the key. Offers cut to 7-10 words and take the form of a list.
• Remove recommendations.
• Correct an error in the word "company" in the last place of work.
• Reduce duties up to 10 lines.
• Make a short link (bit.ly, goo.gl).
• Reduce the overall volume of resume to two pages.

Make a resume more

Now let's talk about what makes a resume more expensive. I advise people on how to improve their resumes. Send me your CV representatives of different positions from ordinary sellers to company directors. All make the same mistakes. There was not a single job, for which I could not write 10 tips on how to improve it. Below, I have compiled the most common advice that I gave upon submitted resume.

10. Combine several work places in one

The norm is, if a person is working in the company for 2-3 years. If he changes jobs often, it can be called a job hopper. Such people are, recruiters do not like, because about 70% of the customers refuse to consider such candidates. And it is quite natural.

Man after a year is just beginning to benefit the company.

Of course, everyone has the right to make mistakes, and a good summary can be a couple of places where the candidate worked for 1-1.5 years. But if it all looks resume, then its value is very low.

However, it often happens that a person changed several positions working in the same company or passed from company to company within a holding company structure. Or engaged in project work, in which replaced several employers.

In such cases (and wherever possible) I recommend to register it as a place of work, with the same name and the dates of the general work. And within that block can be unobtrusively show the shift positions, but so that visually a cursory examination resume did not feel the frequent change of jobs.

11. Keep a perfect summary of the volume

I believe that the ideal amount of resume - is strictly two pages. One - too little, it is allowed only for students, but three - one too many.

If one page is clear - a resume looks like a budding professional resume - then with three, four and so on all the pages are not so obvious. And the answer is simple: the recruiter will look only two pages in 80% of cases. And read only what you have indicated on these two pages. Therefore, no matter what you have written in the third and subsequent pages, it will be left without attention. And if you're there you will write valuable information about yourself, the recruiter will know about it.

12. Share your achievements

If my article you will remember only one sentence, let it be about the achievement. This immediately adds 50% to the cost of your resume. The recruiter is simply unable to prosobesedovat all who sent in resumes. Therefore it is always to win the one who pointed out their achievements and thus was able to interest the recruiter.

Achievements - these are your measurable progressWhich are expressed in figures, dates or significant qualitative changes in the company. They must be specific, measurable, impressive and match positions.

Example of achievements:

• For the three months increased its sales by 30% TV (store manager).
• Brought to market a new product in four months, which helped earn 800 thousand dollars for six months (Marketing Director).
• He held talks with suppliers and increased the grace period of 30 days, saving the company on loans - 100 000 dollars per month (buyer).
• Reduced staff turnover from 25 to 18% by working with involved staff (HR).

13. Tell us about your personal qualities

Now more and more attention is paid to the selection of candidates for the personal qualities of the employee. If we analyze what you will have to assess in the interview, it is likely to be as follows:

• 40% - professional knowledge;
• 40% - personality;
• 20% - motivation (desire to do exactly this work is in this company).

What is personality? This is the personal qualities of the person contributing to the effective implementation of their duties.

These include: energy, openness, teamwork, initiative, proactive, and so on. And this is not just empty words, the interview more and more often you hear the question: "Tell the situation in which you have to take responsibility, and how you do to her I managed. " That it is called assessment of competencies.

Therefore, your personal qualities, especially if they correspond to those required in the job, it is extremely important. And if earlier it was enough just to list them, but now this is not enough. Now we need to confirm their availability, so I recommend writing them so (examples, of course, leads his, a mandatory rule: they must all be real and from the past):

• Initiative: the department has developed and implemented an exit strategy from the crisis, when the left head.
• Energy: the amount of my sales for 2014 were 30% higher than the average for the department.
• Stress resistance: conducted successful negotiations with a client who refused seven managers, and concluded a contract with him.
• Leadership: held five training sessions on management and has cultivated 10 CEOs from line employees.

It is important not to write a lot of quality, and the quality of the examples. That is, examples are more important than quantity.

14. Throw the functional responsibilities of the job description in the trash!

Functional responsibilities, which indicate in summary - it's usually the most banal and boring thing. In 30% of cases their copy of their job description, in 50% of cases - from foreign resume or job descriptions, and only 20% of really high quality write their own.

I always recommend to write it responsibilities, and not the area of ​​responsibility, and describe them as actions that you perform. It's like with the achievements, but this is not obligatory figures, duties may not be as impressive, and, of course, is not one-off actions.

Before writing them, I recommend reading a few vacancies to imagine what all worth writing. Next, write out the duties in order of importance: in the first place the most significant (strategy development, budget planning, The output of new products on the market), and the last - the least (preparation of reports).

15. Sell ​​the job title and company

Titles and a list of companies - is, in fact, is exactly what the recruiter is looking for in a resume first. It is the buyer slips through the eyes of a shelf in the store in search of his acquaintance brands (Nescafe, Procter & Gamble, Gallina Blanka, Mars, Snickers, Tide). It is for these lines forms the initial cost recruiter resume in his head, and only then begins to search for details.

1. Job title should be accepted. In our countries for a long time there is a gap between what is written in the workbook, and how the position is called inside the company. But many people are afraid to give his normal position in the resume is not as it is called in the company. For example, if you worked as a manager of marketing a certain product, it is logical to call you a brand manager in the summary. Everyone will understand what you did, and the name of "brand manager" sells more than "marketing manager". If you were the head of the sales department, subordinated to the General Director, you had 100 people on the team and you have negotiated with key customers, you're the commercial director.
2. If you were head, Be sure to write in brackets, as were subordinated to you. Mention the number of subordinates and always makes your resume more expensive.
   
3. The name of the company:

• Write only the common name. If you work in the company "Nails and screws", which is the official dealer of Coca-Cola, then write a Coca-Cola. Believe me, the legal name of the company is not interesting.
• In brackets write the number of employees, such as: IBM (3000 employees).
• Under the name of the company in a brief write 7-10 words, what she was doing. For example: it is in the top 5 in the area of ​​consumer credit.
• If the company is a little-known, but works with well-known brands, be sure to specify it. For example: "Avtosuperpuperlizing" (leasing partner BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Honda). The name of well-known brands around an unknown company will greatly enhance the perception of the company.

16. Remove the template phrase from the section "Purpose"

Immediately after your contact details in the summary there is a section called "Purpose". Usually in this section, write formulaic phrases such as "to realize their potential ...". Here it is necessary to enumerate a list of positions that you are interested in.

17. Always check spelling

Typically, about 5% of all viewed my resume contain errors:

• elementary grammatical errors (there was no spell-checker);
• Errors in spelling of foreign words (Russian only configured to check spelling);
• errors in punctuation: space before a comma, the comma between the words without spaces;
• in the lists at the end offers are different punctuation (ideally they should not be; point is placed after the last item on the list).

18. Keep resume DOCX format and nothing else

• Not PDF - many recruiters make their own changes or notes (expectations for salary, his impressions about the candidate, information that was obtained during the interview) to resume before sending it to the customer in PDF they should not be able to make.
• Not ODT - may fail to open on some computers.
• Not DOC - a sign that the resume comes from the past (up to Office 2007).
• Not RTF - usually weighs more alternatives.

19. Use convenient recruiter resume file name

The name of the file summary should contain at least the name and the desirable position. It is more convenient recruiter will look at his resume on disk, send it, and so on. Little concern for the recruiter will necessarily marked. Again, in the eyes of the recruiter does resume a bit more expensive.

20. Shows his favor in the cover letter

There are different opinions on the cover letter. I always say this: good cover letter in 20% of cases can add value to resume if it is spelled correctly. But it is not always necessary.

If you decided to write it, then here's a simple structure:

And if you show by example what it might look like this:

Errors in your resume

Along with the secrets of increasing the value of CV, there are things that make a resume is much cheaper. Let's talk about some of them.

Now many job sites allow you to download it separately created. In this case, they will in a resume add your logo and different fields for information that is not needed to resume. For example, the floor. These resume look like a real cheap stuff, so I do not advise never to do so.

21. Get incomprehensible abbreviations

When you are a long time working in the company, some made it seem so abbreviations have family that you write them in the summary. But recruiters they are unfamiliar, so lost a very important information. Try to avoid abbreviations whenever possible.

22. Rephrase formulaic phrases

Very often you want to be tempted to stuff in your CV formulaic phrases that can be easily found in any summary or description of the vacancy. Avoid them, since they represent a recruiter empty space.

Such as paraphrasing:

• = Result orientation in his work always think about the result.
• Customer orientation = client for me always the first place = put the interests of clients above their own personal.
• Sociability = easy to negotiate with any clients / colleagues = freely carry on a conversation with clients.

23. Create a normal box

What separates the professional from the child? Professional calls to your mailbox by name, and the child - children's words, the nicknames of the games and forums, the date of birth.

In addition, to find work, I recommend to start a mailbox on professional portals such as Gmail or Yahoo. The others are not suitable.

Still I do not recommend using the mailbox relatives, where in the name address surname or name is different from yours.

Well, absolutely unacceptable to include your work inbox. Recruiter in this case will be treated as this nuance: "I was fired from his job, and so I can not be afraid and send resume with work email."

24. Removes the marital status, he is only interested in visitors to online dating sites

There is only one case in which an indication of marital status can play a positive role if a young girl looking for a job and wants to show that it is not a thing of the decree immediately after the employment. In this case, you can indicate the presence of children.

Variants of "civil marriage", "divorced" immediately reduce the price summary, since there are additional questions.

Option "have children" write very narrow-minded people, as all normal people "raising children». :)

25. To explain the gap in work experience

You can not just take and show a break in the work. I need to write why it arose. Option "will explain at the interview" is not appropriate, as a recruiter to see the gap, think the worst thing that could happen.

If there was a decree between the two works - and write. By the way, if the decree was not leaving for another job, the meaning of his writing in general no. I do not recommend this at the interview as a particularly highlight.

26. Take the end date of service on the last place

This is the only trick in the summary that can be forgiven. It is believed that a person is more to resume firing and after firing just does not update the date. In any case, said the date of dismissal will play against you.

27. Do not write the reason for dismissal

There is no reason why you need to register the reasons for dismissal. What would you Anyway wrote in a recruiter always there is a suspicion about your desire to explain the reason for dismissal. Or maybe you're lying?

28. Do not explain the details of your resume

The summary is not allowed to write explanations, comments, footnotes, and more. Only dates, facts, achieve.

29. Take away the referees

The worst that can be - is the section "Recommendations" and the phrase "available upon request". And the meaning of this section? List of referees - it's too much. No they will not call to interview you. And after the interview and so you will be able to provide this list, if prompted.

30. Get a table and large indentation

The tables in the summary were taken in the early 2000s. Then the whole civilized world rejected them. Shew not a dinosaur.

Also, do not take up much of the resume very large indentation left in the document.

31. The first job to leave her grandmother

For simplicity, I will describe just how will be OK:

• Last job: 7-10 lines of responsibilities and achievements of 5-7 lines.
• Past employment: 5-7 lines 3-5 lines of responsibilities and achievements.
• Before last job: 3-5 lines and 3 rows duties achievements.
• Other places of work: 3 lines + 3 lines achievements, if they are within the range of the last 10 years.
• Everything that once was 10 years ago, only the names of the companies and positions.
• If your career was not relevant current office job - safely remove them. For example, now you're the marketing director, and began 15 years ago as an engineer at the factory or seller in the market.

32. Get PTU

If you study at a vocational school, college, technical school, and then graduated from high school, only shows the university.

33. Do not show the familiar summary of HR-specialists, if not sure of their professionalism

We have a lot of HR-specialists see themselves as gurus and give advice to the right and to the left. Find out how much they themselves have closed positions, how many people a day on average sobeseduyut. What books to read about the recruiting. How many of them were foreign.

If you get the following answers:

• more than 500 vacancies;
• 5-10 per day;
• more than five books (at least!);
• Lou Adler, Bill Radin, Tony Byrne;

... then boldly trust the advice!

I spend a little research, so in the comments to this post and write, which of all the above tips proved to be most valuable to you. This will help me to understand your needs and write another cool article about how to sell themselves dearly during the interview.

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