4 Surefire Ways to Writing an Effective Resume for Fresh Grads

Have you just graduated from college? Looking for career opportunities is most likely one of your priorities after attaining your degree. Aside from finding it difficult to look for a decent job within a short period, you might also have a hard time selling your services due to lack of experience.

While experience is one of the deciding factors that hiring managers consider in finding the right person for the job, you can always turn the tables to your advantage by impressing your employer with your resume. Read on below as to how exactly you should do such strategic move!

1. Obsess over the tiniest details.

Correct minor yet alarming mistakes such spelling errors, email address blunders and incorrect punctuation.. One of the common mistakes that fresh graduates commit when drafting their resume is using emails that sound unprofessional. Take naughtyboy69@hotmail.com as your primary email address in applying for a teacher post. No hiring manager will contact an applicant with an email address like that.

2. Evaluate your experiences in school - from accomplishments to awards to duties and responsibilities.

So what if you do not have the necessary experience yet? You can downplay this disadvantage by focusing on what you did back in school by highlighting events where you single handedly led a team or assumed a role which required you to have a large set of responsibilities and display reliability. The following are good examples of pre-employment experiences that fresh graduates like you can parlay on:

- internships, part-time jobs, volunteer work and entrepreneurial work; - campus leadership; - campus events which highlighted your technical, leadership and/or communication skills; - honors, awards and any form of distinctions; - teamwork roles such as in sports; - community service.

3. Forego unsupportive information.

Weed out information which doesn't seem to help you sell yourself to your prospective employer. Do not include skills that don't support your competencies, skills and experience. However, if an exhaustive and thorough search of your previous activities, hobbies or accomplishments has not generated anything worth writing into your resume, focus on your educational background. Go into it until you come up with something for your elevator pitch.

4. Don't skip on the references.

Your references will be a huge help once your prospective employer has shown interest in the skills you've enumerated in the first portion of your resume. These references could include your college professors, internship boss, deans or department heads. For fresh graduates, many employers call their references and find out their school performance.

In conclusion, your resume as fresh graduate should not just point out your college jobs, your grades, the seminars you've attended and the course you too. It should be a document magnifying your skills and the things you did which surpassed expectations.

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