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                                  Resume Tricks to Help Hide Resume Flaws

If you're job hunting, the last thing you need is a weakness in your resume. Any negative information can keep you from landing your perfect job. Issues such as lacking a college degree or little or no job experience don't have to hider your efforts. All you need to do is work a couple resume tricks. What follows are some tips to help you create a winning resume.
Format
So, you've been unemployed for the past several months. The last thing you want to do now is draw attention to those dates. Instead, focus your resume to highlight your abilities. By listing your skills over your experience, you're highlighting those areas are most important.
Types of Resumes
There are basically three types of resume formats: chronological, functional, and combined. When trying to hide your flaws, avoid the traditionally used chronological format that is organized by your employment gaps or limited work history.
There are two formats that will conceal resume weaknesses well: functional and combination.
A functional resume lists skills categories and accomplishments over dates. Instead of listing past job experience, the resume would present categories relating to skills. For instance, if you are a medical transcriptions, you could list "Transcription" as one of the categories and detail your words per minute and your accuracy record. You might also list your computer skills, and which programs you're especially proficient in. While this style works well to hide weaknesses, employers typically get frustrated while reading them because they can't figure out where or how you gained your experience and abilities.
The best alternative is the combination resume, which is a resume style I use quite often. It combines the chronological and functional resume styles by presenting your knowledge and abilities gained from work experience in a reverse chronological order that most employers are accustomed to reading while emphasizing your applicable skills.
How to Stand Out from the Crowd
What makes you unique? If you're talented in unexpected areas, bring these to light on your resume. Whether you spent years as a file clerk, or flipped burgers, you still have skills. Highlight these. How did you contribute at past places of employment? Detail your achievement and honors.
Do you speak any other language? Can you troubleshoot a faulty computer? Do you have the ability to soothe ruffled feathers? These are all assets and should be listed as such. If you love to spend hours surfing the Net, detail your researching skills. If you enjoy a good conversation, play up your people skills. Surely, there are plenty of ways to set yourself apart from the competition.
If you just graduated from school or don't have much in the way of employment experience, fear not—you still have skills. At which courses did you excel? What papers received high marks? Did you win the high school Best Matelote? These are all worthwhile resume contributions.
If you want to be called in for an interview, your resume has to stand out. Even if you don't have as much experience as your peers, or a mottled work history, you can still make this happen!
Outline of a Resume – A resume Writing

Blueprint
Are you bogged down with information overload or just where to begin?
Are you frustrated with trying to write your own resume?
You need a plan, a guide to assist you in writing your resume.
You need a resume outline!
When a person needs to build a house they use a blueprint. It contains all the information needed to construct it from the print.
When a person needs to write a resume they need to use an outline. The outline of a resume is the blueprint to resume writing success. It centralizes all of the information needed to write a resume making it easier to target them to specific job announcements.
Generally speaking the majority of resumes contain the same basic information as outlined below:
Outline of a resume ................
Top of Page (usually centered)
Your name
Home address
Home phone number
Cell phone number (or other contact#)
Email address (make sure it is a professional email & not a nickname)
Objective statement should be targeted to a specific job announcement for which you're applying.
Example: Seeking a position as Volunteer Coordinator for McKenna Humane Society
Qualification/Career Summary  (optional, but Highly  recommended with all resumes)
Over ten years experience in production management.
Adept at meeting organizational objective while meeting the needs of employees
Proven ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure
Education (list all relevant education)
Degrees (highest 1st)
Certifications
Training
Work Experience/Employment History
Current listing pertinent work experience
Activities & Associations
Organizations
Associations
Student government
Community activities
Special Skills
Foreign language
Typing
Computer/software
Any other skills that "fit" the specific job description
Honors & Awards (formal recognition you've received)

• Academic
• Professional
• Community

Set aside at least 2 or more hours when writing your resume outline.
Don't forget !
      Materials needed:

1. Current and past employment data,
2. Education information degrees/certifications,
3. Reference information (names, addresses, phone numbers), and ant
4. Job announcements for which you plan to apply.

Spending the necessary time up front will save you time in the long run. Your resume outline is the blueprint to success containing everything you need to.

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