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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Your resume has to be unique from the point of view of the employer for that one vacancy you want to fill. Your resume is your sales brochure. Its single purpose is to get you in for an interview.

For a perfect match to occur you need to go through the job advertisement with a fine tooth comb and ensure you have addressed all the must-have features but also the nice-to-have ones.

Sometimes the bar is set so high that you may wonder if there is a job at all for you out there. So how do you get an advantage? Ring the employer before you apply. That's right. You would be surprised at how many people apply for jobs blindly like mechanical robots without any regard for the background of the company involved. They have resigned themselves to look for a job just to pay the bills - not a career to find fulfilment in the workplace -and that is exactly what they are getting...

If you are enthusiastic about your field of work and have an eager desire to find out everything there is to know about it - it will ooze out of you! Employers are looking for people like that who are self-motivated and can spread a positive attitude around the place. A boss will be positively impressed by someone who has done their homework about the company where they want to work and who is asking questions to qualify more about the role. Guess what - your name will be remembered out of the scores of candidates when the resumes start flooding in.

The plot thickens when you are no longer a graduate that people are willing to train on the job and pay entry-level wages. Once you have been in the game for a few years some changes of direction will appear in your employment history. Your breadth of expertise will be hard to leverage if people only focus on your last assignment and put labels on you.

The ideal candidate from an employer point of view is someone who has held exactly the same position and is willing to continue doing the same old thing for the next foreseeable future. Most companies are very risk-adverse but hiring someone who worked for a competitor may mean employing someone who is disloyal and bored.

Your advantage is to re-prioritize your work history to show the most relevant assignment first. It is a lot of work to re-write your resume for each position you are applying for. That's why the smart candidates use a web based software tool to roll-out a perfect match resume for each job. Find out more at Current Trends in Resume Writing.

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