Almost 60% of the people working in various industries worldwide seem to be either unhappy or dissatisfied with their work, or are stuck at the wrong job. On studying several such cases it is found that the reason for this discontent is primarily the wrong method of hunting for jobs.

The first step of job hunting involves having a great resume. This is the root channel, which establishes the first and most impressionable connection with an employer. Thus, be very careful while you are making your resume. Few tips that will help you make a descriptive and impressing resume are discussed in details below.

While preparing a resume for your prospective employer, take the job description or profile as the clue and prepare your resume accordingly. It will provide you with an insight into three major avenues of the potential interview. The job description will tell you what the company expects from you, what kind of experience they are looking for in you, and what their qualification requirement is.

While making your resume always put your recent job profile and designation on top of the list of your experience, since your employer will be interested in knowing what you are doing in your current job. Prospective employers always try to link your current acquired skills and profile with their requirement and see if it is of any help to them. To get more clues about the company and their profile go through their website and check out their works and clients. This shall also give you a fair idea as to what they precisely require.

Your resume should speak about you. Provide good information about your educational and professional qualification. Highlight your technical and soft skills generously. The trick here is to be modest, yet to provide a complete insight into your skills and qualities.

The three prime areas of your resume are your educational, professional and personal details, which includes your skills. If you so desire, you might even mention any remarkable achievements and awards that you have received.

Just providing information in your resume is not enough and does not confirm that the employer will actually see all of them. Framing of your resume is equally important. Ideally the content in a resume occurs in the following sequence.

Top of the resume should always contain your name, your title if applicable, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. You can also center align these information to make them prominent in your profile. Experience, educational qualification, skills and awards follow personal details. Some people also like to provide their expected remuneration and write a few lines on their goals and objectives, which is a personal preference though.

There are a few basic norms that should be followed while preparing a resume. The most important factor is not to make your resume too long. Try and concise the content of your resume to fit into one page or at the maximum to two pages. Secondly do not get too creative with your font colour and type. Stick to the usual font and normal text size, which will be legible and attractive too.

The most important step is to do a thorough proof reading of your typed resume before taking a print or sending it across. Possibilities are that you might miss out few point while doing a self check, therefore there is no harm in getting a check done from a few friends before you finally send it across to the prospective employer. One last but essential factor is: do not fill your resume with unwanted and undesirable information.

Keep these tips in mind while preparing a professional resume and there are fair chances that your candidature will be noticed from the rest and carry your forward.

Preetu Misra
Writes for http://www.batchmates.com/