5 Signs that you slow your CV

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By Alison Green

If you are looking for a job, there's nothing more frustrating than sending dozens of resumes for positions that you know you interviews are not always qualified for and. If that is what happened, you can be your resume holding you back in some way.

Of course, in a tight labor market like this, it can be difficult to know if the problem is simply the market and are the lot of competition, or if your resume is in itself puts you at a disadvantage. Here are five of the biggest indicators that your resume is probably the problem:

1 They will ask many jobs where the requirements are met, but not always interviews. Most people, even exceptionally well qualified, do not get interviews for any job are applying for. But if you are applying for dozens of jobs a month - jobs for which they do not really qualify - and never hear anything again, it is very likely that your application is responsible. Your CV is probably not even half of the interviews jobs they apply. But if not register because of a successful 10, which tells you that you should check what to send you.

2 you feel like you are far more valuable than the coal shovel workers Many people think for themselves. "If I only get an interview, they would see that I have a perfect fit." But if you feel so, your resume is not his job. If you are a great employee - that was the task to show your resume that is - someone with experience to achieve at a high level in the previous work. Otherwise you have to write your resume until it reflects why an employer should be happy to speak with you.

A common answer to this question is: "But the kind of work I do is hard to pass on a resume," but to get the results for your employer a valuable employee, and there is always a way. describe these results in a summary. Not as quantitative as "sales increased by 20 percent" or "promoted twice in two years", though these are to understand great benefits if they are true be. Instead, it could be something like "the go-to source department has quickly and precisely to resolve billing discrepancies", "a good reputation for effective work with and dissatisfied customers" or "inherited a fixed delay of four months in three weeks . "Whatever you have done an excellent job for you is that your resume should convey. Otherwise, it will open many doors for you.

3 If the resume you imagine a person with a history of similar work, but a poor job, does not seem very different from you., Your resume should the activities you take for each job not just listing. Instead, you should say, as you have done. Hiring managers are unlikely to be particularly impressed by their job descriptions. What matters is if you have excelled in the role.

If you do not give your resume better than the other guy who had a similar job, were there nothing to be done, an employer that you are the person interviewed sentence. The way to approach this is. Due to the concentration on your resume, what you have achieved in each function and how excellent, not just a list of functions

4 It is three or more sides. Seekers protest regularly with lengthy summaries that can not fit your entire message history on two sides. However, many highly qualified for the next stage, candidates regularly not on two pages (and sometimes a page) remain CV. So if you do not exceed two pages, most hiring managers see you as someone who can not change, I do not know what is the most important information and do not respect your time. Are you really ready, just so you do not have the results to accept cut off your text?

5 Where you get the interviews, the researchers seem from some of the information you give them be surprised. If your partner seems from one execution of the work or training is surprised at the interview, it may be something that have been on your resume should first life.

Similarly, if the interviewer seems to learn disappointed that, for example, his last job was only a few hours per week and only lasted a few months, it is an indicator that the CV can be clearer. You may wonder why you should be more clear about the things you could be disqualified, but otherwise you could be rented your time interviews for jobs that not a good candidate and not very happy.

Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog where she gives advice on career, job search, and management issues. She is the author of "How to Get a Job: Secrets of a" Director of Human Resources, co-author of "Managing to Change the World: The Manager's Guide charitable status, to achieve results," and the former Chief of Staff of a nonprofit for success, where he managed the daily staffing organization.