Jul 06 2009
Work at Home Resume That Will Put You To Work
STOP LOOKING and GET WORKING Did you know that a resume for a work at home job is quite different than a traditional resume?
In order to cover all the areas of a good work at home resume, the article I wrote on the subject had to be fairly long. But in order to cover everything for someone really looking for information on creating a good resume, it had to be. This information comes from the many years of management and hiring experience I’ve got under my belt. Just in the past 3 years, I’ve personally looked at thousands of resumes from people seeking work at home jobs. Here are some additional tips that are not included in the following article but I recommend for a great wah resume:
- Keep your resume to 1 page
- Keep the formatting and design simple
- Use lots of white space (means basic margins, space between sections)
- Keep clean, crisp and professional looking as it may be faxed or copied
- Save as a basic doc (MSWord) and save copies in pdf, HTML, and ASCII formats.
- Use lots of related keywords throughout your resume as many are scanned for keywords
- Keep the content updated and current. In today’s World Wide Web, it really doesn’t matter what you did years ago, what can you do today?
- Think your resume looks good? This is an old publishing trick & one of my favorite tips of all times.
Tape it to the wall then step back about 6-10 feet and now just look at it for an overall impression. Does it look balanced and still look clean and uncluttered? Are there visual gaps or spaces that look out of place?
Do the wrong things stand out? Use this little trick and you will have a ‘good looking’ resume no matter what the content contains. Add great content and you got yourself a winning resume.
