When looking for a job, no document is more important than your resume, and that is why it always stumped me when I was a hiring manager to see so many awful resumes.

To know that hiring managers spend about 5 seconds previewing a resume before deciding to read further means that your resume has one purpose only. Your resume should be geared toward getting you an interview.

To recount your entire job history, to input unnecessary and often detrimental information are signs of inexperience.

You resume is the only thing that stands between you and an interview.

Your resume is your proxy. The small 8 1/2 x 11 inch single piece of paper must be you. Advocate you. Speak for you. And convince a hiring manger to want to interview you.

There is no secret formula to it like the coke a cola recipe, but if you are an amateur writer, you will surely miss the mark and chances are that your resume will be overlooked in the first five second review.

Your resume is your advocate. Because of its small size, it can fit through doors, sit on desks, get passed from person to person. In other words, it can get into doors and make introductions that you yourself can not gain entrance into. Yet.

Your resume equals your work quality. At first glance, your resume is your work. No matter what industry you work in, writing and presentation of your resume equals your work quality whether it be automotive assembly, legal writing, or java coding, your resume tells your future employer many things about your work ethic, quality of work, and responsibility.

when it comes to writing your resume, make sure it is your best effort. If you are an expert resume writer, most likely, don't need to read this. If not, get a book, review the tips and tricks in this site, or best yet, spend a few bucks and let an expert resume writer do the work for you.