Resume Writing Part Two --- Can you do the job or not?

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As we mentioned in the previous post, the only thing that an employer cares is Can you do the job or not?

By sending a resume to the employer, you are sending an advertisement to him and trying to persuade him to "buy" you. And in the advertisement, you can talk about a lot of things, but all of them should only serve one purpose --- showing him that you can do the job. This is extremely important, and you should keep it in mind all the time while you are writing your resume.

To provide the employers with the proof is actually not difficult at all. You can do it in two steps.

1. Make a list of skills you have (anything you can think of)
2. Fill out the following template: Used skill A to do Task B and get result C. (Get result C is not always necessary)

For example: Created a web service (A) as a wrapper to expose the functionality of BLL components (B), so that the data generated from the other java application can be sent to the .NET application (C)

By the time when you finish, you will have a lot of "Used skill A to do task B and get result C", and those are actually the backbone of your resume. You can simply put them in your resume under the working experience section or highlight of skills section.

Sounds simple, isn’t it? Anyone can do it, right? But the key is to make it as attractive as possible just like I mentioned in the post What is job hunting? --- looking for a job is like selling, so you should at lease surf the internet and get some idea about sales.

I myself is a software developer, to a software developer, a state of the art skill can be attractive, if you have these kind of skills and they are related to the position, you will definitely have a better chance to be sold. But if you don’t have any fancy skills, you can still make your resume attractive by putting whatever skills you have in a state of the art context (a project); If you have never worked on a fancy project, then you should at least make the project sound complicated.

I hope you already got my idea. :-)

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