10 Tips to write an Effective Resume for Engineers

1.Keep it short.The Effective resume is preferably one page,two at the most.If you've written a novel,tear it apart and whittle it down to one or two pages.

2.It must be easy to read.That means the effective resume is well organized with clear headings,brief statements of responsibility,bulleted points for emphasizing achievements.

3.It must avoid overly specific professional jargon.Keep in mind that your resume is likely to be read first by someone in the HR department who may not have a clue as to what you're talking about. Take care to craft a resume with universal appeal so as to at least get to the starting gate.

4.Curb your design enthusiasm.That means limiting your font selection to one or two.Use the traditional and popular Times New Roman if you prefer lettering with a serif,or consider Arial,Helvetica or Verdana if you prefer san serif fonts,lacking the slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter.Go easy on the bold and the underlining. Limit your paper selection to white or beige.

5.The Effective resume is tailored for a specific position.Granted,that may mean cranking out slight variations of your resume every day of the week to target different job postings.Nobody said a job search was a walk in the park.

6.Portray yourself as a problem solver.

7.Quantify your accomplishments with hard numbers whenever possible.

8.Don't mention your expected salary on the resume.

9.Don't mention too much personal information,like whether or not you have kids,how many kids you have,whether or not your hobbies include golf or listening for extra-terrestrials with the modified ham radio contraption in your garage.Especially that last one.

10.Check,Check,Check for misspellings.Don't ever,ever,ever submit a resume or post it online without doing a spellcheck.In fact,take it a step further and have one or two friends or colleagues proofread the resume for speelling and grammer errors.Do this because an automated spell check program will not know that you erred by using a verb in the present tense when referring to a project in the past tense.None of this may seem that critical to you,but it's critical to the hiring official.