Résumé Process

1- Define your résumé objectives by learning what you reader wants.
2- Plan your résumé by thinking creatively about your qualifications, deciding how long your résumé should be, and choosing the type of résumé you will prepare.
3- Draft your résumé text to highlight the qualifications that will most appeal to the employer.
4- Revise your résumé to increase its impact and to eliminate errors and inconsistencies.
5- A reader -centered approach to writing your job application letter.

1- Define your résumé objectives by learning what you reader wants.
Wanting to get a specific job means to identify objectives a person need to write to attract the attention of the reader, not just from the writer’s perspective. The perspective of the reader-centered approach. Identifying who is the reader, what the reader wants and the reader’s goal, must importantly how to help the reader find that information within the résumé to decide that the writer is the best person to fill the vacancy.
2- Plan your résumé by thinking creatively about your qualifications, deciding how long your résumé should be, and choosing the type of résumé you will prepare.
Deciding on what to write depend on the qualifications the company of looking for, what to include about education and experience for the readers to focus on.
The information provided should be the one that match the employer’s need and goal, while creating a list of the writer’s abilities, and experience that match with the qualification the employers is looking for. In deciding about the length of the résumé, it is mention that it should be as short as possible, but to include all the qualifications. But it is also important to decide on the two types of résumé, the experiential résumé or the skill résumé, while the first one is for the less experience college student, the second one is for the professional
experience.
3- Draft your résumé text to highlight the qualifications that will most appeal to the employer.
Since employers need to find information about the writer, the writer needs to present it in a way that the information should be found fast, without lengthy explanation, and the description of the qualifications should be clear, specific, and relevant.
4- Revise your résumé to increase its impact and to eliminate errors and inconsistencies.
The emphasis on the importance of a résumé, and to take the time to review and revise it. To include other people with other perspectives from your own to review it with information provided of the job qualification. Adapting the résumé for different employers, this information is not provided on an Army class about résumé writing before retirement. But since it is important to learn about the company and the different position that the job seeker is trying to apply for, and the qualification variations, the résumé should reflect changes and be adapted to a particular position.
5- A reader -centered approach to writing your job application letter.
The job application letter is not optional, and it carriers a relevant weight as the résumé and may be even more important, depending on the company where the application is placed. The application letter is the one that can open the door for the résumé to be read or even taken into consideration.