Were you lucky enough to start your own business that had success for years, but now find yourself looking to step into corporate world at the executive level? There are a lot of entrepreneurs who have successfully made the transition, which is good news for you.

Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs downplay the importance of a good resume, and this can be fatal when applying for executive level positions. So before you get started on your journey, take a look at the following resume tips …

Maintain a Tunnel Vision Focus

One of the main focal points of writing a resume that shows a shift from entrepreneurship to an executive position is using tunnel vision when writing. Just because you’ve been a successful entrepreneur, a company can’t assume that you’re automatically a good candidate for an executive job. As an example, say that you were the sole owner of your business–while you might have gotten quite a bit accomplished in terms of workloads, products delivered, and time frames met, you might not be able to claim experience in management or customer service work.

So as you write your executive resume, you want to spend time really looking at the position you’re applying for then looking at what you did in your position as business owner to determine your qualifications. When jotting down your experience and accomplishments, be sure to quantify as much as possible (how many people you’ve managed, how many products you sold, revenue, etc.). Your new role’s responsibilities should line up with your accomplishments as an entrepreneur. If the employer sees you’ve been able to deliver like an executive, it will be easier to envision you in the position you’re applying for.

Create an Executive-Level Title for Yourself

When creating your resume, it’s also a good idea to create a title for yourself that reflects your executive-level ambitions. Ever hear the old business adage, “fake it til you make it?” It’s sort of like that, except that you’re actually pooling your skills and accomplishments and creating a title that reflects them all in the executive realm.

For instance, if you were the CEO of your company, but also handled the responsibilities of an Executive Sales Director, you could use this as your title. You would be able to provide plenty of experience to qualify your title and also offer insight into the role you plan to take on in a corporate position.

Add Keywords

Since you’ve been working for yourself for some time, you may be out of the resume-writing loop. If this is the case, it’s important understand keywords and their importance. In order to weed out unqualified resumes, many businesses use keyword software that searches for relevant phrases in every resume received. For instance, if you’re in marketing, “trade shows” is a good industry-related phrase. To find keywords and phrased related to your industry, simply Google “resume keyword phrases” to get started.

It’s good to know that transitioning from entrepreneurship is possible with determination and a good resume. Using the tips above can give you a strong foundation for your executive resume and your new career.

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How many times have you picked up a magazine while waiting for an appointment and flipped through the hundreds of pages of articles? How long did it take you to decide whether or not to turn the page? Studies show that most people make this decision in less than 5 seconds.

This is the exact same scenario with your resume—it can be discarded within a matter of seconds. An example I always use to highlight this reality came during my experience as a recruitment agent in London. I was to fill a new job opening as an equities trader for one of the most prestigious investment firms in the UK. I was asked to select the top 10 resumes to forward onto the hiring manager. I advertised the job on a Monday and by Thursday I had over 300 resumes sitting in my inbox. I did not have the time to sit and read through every line of each resume sitting there, let alone the hundreds more that would follow. I had to “scan” the resumes and eliminate the weak or moderate ones right away. This is a very typical scenario, especially in this current economic climate. Your resume needs to be convincing from the start.

When applying for jobs, you can bet that 50% of all the other applicants have similar skills and knowledge. So how do you make your resume stand out from the others? How do you ensure that you’re at least given the chance to present yourself in person?

Your resume is a marketing document, a convincing reason to want to meet with you for an interview. Without an appealing and marketable resume that contains information employers require, you will not get the job you want. Of course, never forget the complementary role a cover letter plays. A cover letter goes hand in hand with the resume.  Good resume and bad cover letter end up in the same place—the trash bin. 

Remember, your resume is the greatest asset you have—don’t forget this!

Find below a list of my top 10 resume tips:

• Professional

Keep it professional. Your resume is a business document, so it must be professional. Your resume is no place for gimmicks, pictures, or funny email addresses. Although you may think you look great in your picture or that your email address is funny (yes, I have seen love_homersimpson@hotmail.com), this is not required on your resume. You may think it looks great, but your employer may disagree. Stick to the facts and keep it professional!

• Targeted

The more targeted your resume is, the better you have at landing an interview. Employers want to know exactly what you can do for their company. It is important that you tailor each resume to each job (it will only take a few sentences to do this). Get rid of any information that is not required for a particular job. This will alleviate the tendency to overcrowd your resume with too much irrelevant information.

• Well-written

A well-written, concise resume will make a greater impression with your employer than a long winded “padded” resume. Use positive action words such as: enhanced, influenced, restructured, and attained. This will add that extra boost to your resume. On the same hand, avoid everyday buzz words. Remember, your resume needs to focus on your key skills and achievements. Words such as “hard worker,” “reliable” and “ambitious ” can have a more detrimental effect on your resume as these words are seen as adding no value to resume.

• Self-promoting

Your resume is a marketing document. Promote and sell yourself! Do not be scared to sell your skills, accomplishments, and abilities. If you don’t tell the employer, no one else will. Focus on what you can offer the business rather than what the business can offer you. Emphasise your skills, especially the ones the job is asking for. An employer wants to know that you have the relevant skills for that particular job. If a coffee shop is hiring a barista, and you’ve already worked as one, make your skills stand out and take centre stage. Just like with the example of skimming over the magazines, you need your employer to take one glance at your resume and want to read on.

• Tailor your resume

Very important – one size fits all approach does not work here. Every job is different, and depending on what the job is, you need to make sure you tweak your resume (and cover letter) for that particular job. Ask yourself, “What job am I going for, and does my resume have the skills and strengths required to present to my future employer?” Tailoring your resume to the specific job you’re going for will show the hiring manager that you are serious about working for their organisation.

• Quality, not quantity

Quality not quantity! Your resume is not a life story. Stick to the facts— using irrelevant data, waffling, and padding your resume are detrimental. Let your skills and experience do the talking for you.

• Simplify

Forget about fancy fonts or clever uses of italics. Keep it simple. Your resume is not meant to be a work of art to be displayed on the wall. Not only can it be hard to read, but there are multiple scanning software programs that might be unable to read it, meaning it will end up being deleted before even being opened.

• Spelling /Grammar/Punctuation

Every word program these days has spell check—USE IT! Poor spelling and grammar will immediately land your resume in the “deleted items” box. It is a hard enough to get an interview—do not let yourself down with basic spelling mistakes. Re-read every word yourself, and get someone else to read it as well.

• Consistent

Be sure that your resume is written in a commonsense way—in order, logical, and easy to read. Be consistent throughout your resume with your margins, fonts, and line spacing. Don’t be scared to accentuate your skills or achievements with a different style of font or by using a bold font (but remember keep it simple. There is a fine line of going overboard when using different font styles). Consistency shows professionalism.

• Do not mention money

Unless you are directly asked about money, do not mention it. Keep your cards close to your chest. Do not rule yourself out before you even begin because of money.

Author: Gavin Davis                                                                                                                                                                 http://www.redstarresume.com

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Human resource professionals track a good bunch of human capital associated costs. There is cost per hire, cost of a vacant position, cost of a bad hire, and, there are returns from a recruit who goes on to be a long-term success. This article looks at components of cost of hiring and how to reduce cost per hire by 70 – 80%. The obvious part of the answer is Internet, but where in the www?

According to an Employment Management Association study in the USA, average cost per hire is USD 3,295. How does one bring this down to around USD 300-500 without collateral damages spiraling to a quarter of a million or more?

There are two crucial indirect cost elements (possible collateral damages) to cost per hire: (1) Cost of a vacant position – if you took a lot of time to complete the hire, more is the cost of the vacant position (2) if you rushed into the hire; there is possible cost of bad hire. As simple as these sounds, the associated costs (and damages) can be staggering. Business costs from a genuine vacant position can go up to a million dollars in a month – if your customer facing team is missing a smart manager. Vacancies in one team can have a cascading impact throughout the company. Cost of a bad hire for a USD 100,000 per year position can be as high as USD 150,000 dollars based on Dr. John Sullivan’s cost of bad hire formula. The odds are not too high for losing a quarter million in the process of hiring a mid level executive – there are ways to avoid these.

Having outlined the pain areas and described the ticking HR time bomb in hiring, let us get to some solutions:
1.    Do not go mass circulated print advertising unless you have a quantifiable reason to do so – traditional print advertising is one of the biggest contributors when we say cost per hire is USD 3,295.
2.    To begin with print ads bring in time consumption – remember your cost of vacancy is ticking as you sort through a bunch of relevant and irrelevant responses to your recruitment ad in print
3.    Your cost per hire would go up in terms of communication, travel and re-location as print ad responses are not “mapped” to your job order by any means
4.    Before you jump on to online recruitment and a “resume database” – do remember that you could rush into a flooded mail box of unmapped responses, and incur costs of bad hires
5.    What you need is a job position to resume mapping platform that can also enable effective recruiter to candidate interactions

The time has come to stop paying for accessing a resume database for three reasons. One, passive quality job seekers are exiting job boards and passive job seekers do not like their mailboxes flooded with poorly mapped job opportunities. Two, resume sourcing is not a challenge anymore for, most recruiters and hiring managers have a decent archive of resumes on their own. In addition, there are enough and more passive resumes in the www. The third and most important reason is that the resume database + flat file search approach to hiring is just the entry into a time black hole. The problem is that job boards (resume databases) do not recognize the difference between resume sourcing and talent sourcing. Resume sourcing is the beginning of the game and, talent sourcing is the target result. An effective (read cost per hire efficiency) online recruitment solution needs to source resumes, organize it, map it, rank it, and enable meaningful exchange of information between the recruiter and the candidate.

GoRecroot does not charge you for the resume database. Your access to a rapidly evolving enterprise grade resume database goes FREE with your subscription. We understand that as recruiters you are all tired of hearing clichéd “we have millions of resumes in our database.” We join you in asking the question, “so what?” We understand that resumes do not fill positions, recruiters and hiring managers do. At GoRecroot, you do not waste your valuable head hunting and networking time in data management and resume searching. You create a job order, post it in GoRecroot and get mapped resumes that are ranked for fitment. Now, you are a couple of clicks away before you have a list of phone numbers and email IDs to get in touch. When it comes to efficient information exchange between recruiters and candidates – GoRecroot leaves no stone unturned. Recruiters infuse voice clips and video slots in their job advertisements and job seekers respond in multi media. Resumes have photos, audio and video. GoRecroot is your job position to resume mapping platform that enables multi media enabled interactions. The result: 70 – 80% savings on cost per hire and a better hire at that.

Before you go look for a video recorder – STOP. Just turn on the mic and the webcam in your PC and go to www.GoRecroot.com. At GoRecroot audio – video recording is brought to your browser.

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For recruiters, GoRecroot (gorecroot.com) focuses delivering functionality value primarily through (1) recruitment ads (2) employment branding solutions (3) jobs to talent mapping (4) recruitment community value additions. Multimedia (audio, photo, video) enabled, multi modal (browser access, mobile access and downloadable thin client), multi geo (covers 100+ main geographies around the world), multi domain (over 40 business sectors and over 5000 sub sectors). GoRecroot payment processing is secured and powered by Google and PayPal. Subscription pricing is linked closely to functional value delivered. Recruiter subscriptions now open at USD 40 for a year.

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The creators of GoRecroot have been in talent sourcing and mapping since the 90s and have worked closely with recruiters and job seekers around the world. The intelligence behind GoRecroot is derived from hands on experience fulfilling scores of different job positions. The creators have their ears to the ground and have been listening closely to recruiter pains and tribulations. GoRecroot intends to continue its close-knit association with recruiters and thrives to play an active role in getting more progressive recruiters to the big biller club.

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If you are still stuck on the habit of searching job ads on the newspaper then you are certainly missing the great wonder of technology and Internet that makes job search easy, convenient and successful. Through the idea of postings your resume online, you are into great career opportunities that would come to your way. Here are the 5 essential guides on posting resume online.

1. Resume Posting is a service where job seekers post their resumes to an online job search site for employers and recruiters to find. Employers or recruiters usually find you within the resume database, of an online job search site, using key words will put up the chances for most of the applicants to find easily by the employers and finally call for a job interview. However it depends on how you select appropriate keywords for your resume and remember that this service is usually offered free for job seekers.

2. Use a word processing programs such as MS Word that have basic and advanced tools to create and format your resume. You should also create an electronic friendly version of your resume by making a back up data in MS Word based resume to a Notepad. The former application will convert your resume into ASCII text which allows your resume to be read in email format.

In order to ensure that the employers can find you, your resume should contain key words that is strongly related to the position that you are applying for.

3. The primary advantage of posting your resume online is that your resume will be available to a wide array of employers and recruiters in the shortest period of time. Presumably, you will gain access to a large number of job opportunities compared to the access you will have by viewing employment advertisements, company web sites, employment web sites or the newspapers. And it is easy, fast and rather practical.

4. The biggest advantage of online resume posting is also its biggest disadvantage because it makes your resume along with your personal information available to the public. It can result to numerous phone calls from headhunters, agencies, employment consultants or even telemarketers. Its a reminder for everyone to not give too much personal information in their resume online, be careful and wisely before putting any remarks that might become a problem.

5. You should choose your resume bank wisely. Some offers their service for free while others have a monthly free. Aside from the service cost, you should consider the scope of the service that you choose. Some resume bank offers national exposures while others might be run by professional association or network of businesses. Weigh in the pro’s and con’s before finally submitting your resume online to avoid regrets at the end.

Posting resume online through resume banks or job search sites will certainly help you form a wide network in your career search. The key reminders are: prepare a strong resume, search for the best resume bank based on your needs, post your electronic resume and prepare yourself for the great career opportunities that awaits you. Build a confident before and after meeting with an employer and be sure to take all the charges when it comes to present yourself professionally and elegantly.

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