Resume Tips for Finance Professionals

“When developing your finance resume, focus on skills, areas of expertise, certifications, and specific accomplishments. The resume must convey what you can do for the companies you are targeting. This can be accomplished by illustrating how you contributed to previous employers’ or clients’ fiscal health…”

Recruiters’ Top 10 Resume Pet Peeves

In fall 2002, ResumeDoctor.com asked more than 2,500 recruiters from a variety of industries what they see on resumes that they just can’t stand. Here are the top 10 pet peeves from the survey and some advice from recruiters for eliminating them from your resume.

35 Ways to Land a Job Online

There’s only one place to start you next job search – on the Web. Here’s the ultimate guide to writing a great online resume, posting it on the best sites, and choosing the right job.

How to Decide on Resume Length

Not long ago, the rule of thumb was to never let your resume go longer than a page. But times have changed, and that rule may be a thing of the past. Here are some guidelines to follow today.

Avoid the Top Resume Mistakes

The resume is one place where you cannot afford to make mistakes‚ but unfortunately this document is a landmine for potential errors. Make sure you know what the most common blunders are so you can avoid them.

Career Magic

Useful (though not very pretty) site offers good information about resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, and making your resumes web-ready.

Electronic Resumes

This site provides information on electronic resumes including: guidelines, technical information, and security issues.

Guide to Resume Writing

This site provides guidelines and tips for preparing a resume.

Movin’ On: Tips for Resumes

This site provides information on how to organize your skills, abilities, and experiences in order to create a resume.

Print Resumes

This site includes samples and a brief discussion of chronological, functional, and combination resumes. Review the Resume Proofreading Checklist to catch the most commonly made resume mistakes.

Resume Make Over

This marketing company provides a before and after resume example from an actual client and links to Quest’s Resume Writing Tips.

Resume Tutor!

An interactive workbook to instruct the user on how to write a resume.

Resume Workshop

Detailed information on resume writing by The Purdue University Writing Lab.

Resumes

Offers the following categories: What is a resume? What is the right resume for me? Resume samples, Electronic resume banks, and more

Resumes & Letters (Monster.com)

This site offers sample resumes and cover letters, along with articles on writing a resume such as good job objectives, scannable resumes, and action phrases and power verbs.

Resumes & Letters (UC Berkeley Career Center)

This site provides information on resumes and cover letters. Guidelines, samples, and types of resumes and cover letters can be found on the site.

Showcase Your “Home Run” Accomplishments

Two part guide to writing a resume. The article discusses documenting your work performance by focusing on your work results, achievements, successes, and accomplishments. Offers tips on how to write a resume.

Web-able Resumes

Information on the ways to get your resume on the World Wide Web, including resume databases, scanning, emailing and an introduction to HTML resumes.

Rebecca Smith’s eResumes & Resources

This Web site is NOT about résumé writing. It is about taking the content of an existing résumé and transforming it into electronic form.

You will learn how to become a Jobpreneur: how to use your electronic résumé in a way that let’s you measure your efforts in your job search and job networking activities based on the kinds of feedback that you can generate … [ Read more ]