The document discusses the importance of effective resume editing in today's job market, highlighting that individuals frequently change jobs and must present their skills concisely. Key strategies include condensing resumes to one page, creating engaging profiles, emphasizing achievements, showcasing professional development, and routinely updating the resume. It emphasizes the need to tailor resumes to appeal to potential employers and presents examples of how to do so.

1. Leverage Your Skills Through
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2. • Gone are the days when a person could or would spend 30 years building a
career at one company. Now, workers change jobs every two to four years.
Unfortunately, for those who struggle to represent their core self in a single
page, this relatively new phenomenon means resume editing and lots of it!
• Everyone has compiled a list of skills, jobs, schools, and professional
affiliations, but very few know how to leverage that information. Here are
essential tips to polishing your resume, a task that’s never been more crucial,
not with a 7% unemployment rate countrywide.

3. • 1. Pare down your resume (to one page).
• Human nature being what it is, we grow bored quickly. And large clumps of
text are more difficult for us to follow, particularly if we’re scanning. Most
potential employers will scan tens or hundreds of resumes to make a short list
of individuals they will then interview. At that point, they’ll give your resume
a closer look.
• You need to make it through that first pass, and the best way to do that is to
eliminate everything that will not appeal to your target audience and make
the rest easy to absorb with bullet points, bolding, and lots of white space.
• What do you keep? You need to include jobs where you completed the tasks
your new employer will expect of you, where you contributed the most added
value, where you rose the highest, and where you stayed the longest.

4. • That said, I’d avoid the chronological resume style. Instead of using
“Employment” for your jobs, use something like “Teaching Positions” to
indicate that these are the jobs applicable to the position. I’d also pare down
your list of job responsibilities. Highlight leadership and core tasks.
• 2. Create an interesting profile.
• Another way to capture a potential employer’s attention is by creating a
“Profile” section near the top where you summarize yourself in almost the
same way you would in a personal ad. Incorporate the basics (years of
experience, profession, and special skills) as well as trivia.

5. • Take the following as an example: Ivy-league educated professional editor and
proofreaders with 10 years’ experience and proficiency in French and Italian
who routinely catches spelling and grammar mistakes in The New York
Times and published books. This is much better than a run-of-the-mill
objective.
• 3. Foreground successes.
• Within your list of responsibilities, include (in bold) your achievements. How
did you improve the company’s bottom line? Did you decrease complaints
through quality control? Save the company money? Or increase its earnings
substantially? If you’re a teacher, what pass rate did your students achieve on
the Regents? When possible, use numerical data. That’s much more striking.

6. • 4. Highlight professional development.
• Employers want to know not only what you’ve done well in the past but also
what you might be capable of in the future. Thus, you should include any
conferences, workshops, or classes you attended to improve your industry
knowledge and hone your skills.
• 5. Perform resume editing – frequently.

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