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On the background of the crisis and serious competition in the labor market employees are increasingly using “creative style” of making a resume, adding a bit of spice here and there in order to get the perfect CV. What items of candidates’ professional biographies should be considered carefully and more critically, and how to discover the main lie in a resume?
Work Hours
Personnel “surplus” has allowed employers to tighten the conditions of candidates selection, and the latest, in their turn, are trying to meet new requirements at least in making a resume.
Foreign language skills
This is the second most popular item, which the applicants consider their duty to embellish. Really, it is so easy to convert “read with the dictionary” to “fluent” – the paper will endure everything.
Job Responsibilities
The aim to impress a potential employer, candidates will certainly ascribe a couple and dozens of other duties that they allegedly carried out in the previous job. It is considered to be normal, when an employee lightly “customizes” his resume requirements for the employer, correctly placing the emphasis and highlighting his accomplishments. But in some cases the same person represents his resume as a business coach, then a sales manager and even as an HR-specialist.
Professional achievements
Any resume guidelines advices to describe your achievements as detailed as possible. In many CV-templates “Achievements” are recommended to be added into a separate partition. The most popular among these is the organization from scratch: every second candidate has created a department / project from scratch. It is just a sin to get a job and not to open a new department, which in fact appears to be founded long ago.
Among sales managers, marketing and other specialists whose work results are quantitatively measurable, as a rule exaggerate about the increase of customers, turnovers and attendances in two / three times”.
