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The first step in building a great résumé is to analyze how your skills, experiences and personal attributes fit the job requirements.
To do this, you must first understand what the employer is looking for. Job descriptions provide candidates with information on what they need to be successful in the job. They outline any required experience, education, knowledge, technical and transferable skills well as personal attributes.
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The next step is creating a great résumé that demonstrates how your past experiences qualify you for job you’re applying to.
A great résumé includes a combination of your skills, characteristics and attitude. When you are creating your résumé, the central organizing principle is relevance, how you decide what goes on the résumé and where it goes.
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Once you have developed a clear and logical structure for your document, as well as crafted bullets that convey the relevance of a particular task convincingly, the third step in building a great résumé is to test and refine yours accordingly.
This requires doing a more detailed analysis of the elements that are most relevant in your document, including evidence on how your skills have developed. and most solid evidence for a particular skill set you’re making a claim about.
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