My favorite personal finance blog, GetRichSlowly, recently posted an excellent article about was to rescue your rotten resume.
I particularly liked the comment about the purpose of a resume. Your resume is not for you...it's for them. You want the company to see what you can bring to them, so you want to make sure that the qualifications they are asking for are highlighted in your resume somewhere.
A great way to pull out the keywords from a job description is to copy and paste the description into Wordle. Wordle takes out all of the basic words like 'is' and 'the' from the pasted materials and compiles the big words into a cool piece of artwork. Not only is it fun to play around with, but it really helps you strategize and market yourself appropriately to future employers.
Image Source: 'Design Book Proposal Through Wordle' CC juhansonin
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