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Do you ever ask these questions before? I forwarded my resume to 100s of job openings in UAE but ‘No Calls’? I have relevant experience and skills but my resumes are rejected. If your answer is one among the following, then you need to rebuild your resume.
My resume is not perfect.
There is no magnetic power in my resume.
It is not fit for the advertised position.
Whether you search job in Dubai/UAE or any part of world your resume must need some’ magnetic power’ to attract the employer. These tips help you to draft your job-magnet resume and let the resume speaks for you.
1. Do not avoid the following sections from the resume
Heading (Name, email id, UAE contact number, location)
Introduction
Career summary
Professional Experience
Educational achievements
Personal details
Other information’s (UAE Visa details, driving licence, notice period)
2. Your heading and summary must attract the recruiter
Do not confuse with introduction and Career summary, your introduction is your objective draft a brief introduction.1-3 sentence will be adequate depends on your resume. No to funny email ids like sweetcutee_sara@example.com , try to keep a professional looking email id in your resume.
3. Picture
You can avoid picture when you forward the resume for first time. However, if you are applying for certain positions like receptionist, airhostess etc, where your personality give mark use a professional looking picture.
4. Impressive Career summary
Need your attention in this part, the employer must get an overall idea about your profile from the career summary. Draft career summary with your experience (a brief overview of the breadth and scope), skills, personal threats and mention if you have any skills that the employer is looking for. Make the summary brief, in order and with bullet points.
5. Fonts, Margins and colours
Never move with different fonts in a profile, try using professional fonts, and it’s not looks good when you use fonts like ‘comic sans’ to high light any particular words or sentence. Keep margins and avoid using multiple colours, you can use another colour if required to high light very important contents that mach the job description or make it bold. Use bullets when you highlight your skills.
6. Keep your resume within 2-4 pages
A single page resume will not speak much so move with 2-4 pages resume. A fresher can highlight his/her educational qualification, achievements, project details, internship, skills etc to get the attraction of the employer.
7. Understand the important of keywords
Your resumes are searched by the recruiters in UAE from different portals like bayt.com, monstergulf.com, naukrigulf.com with keywords relevant to the position. When the recruiter search with the keywords like ‘IT manager’, ‘Recruiter’,’ Website designer’ the search results appear with resumes which has this relevant keywords . More keywords greater the chance to appear in the first page of search results. Keep this trick while you upload the CV in job portals.
There is no single format or set of rules in resume writing these suggestions are from my experience and from other proven formats used by professional resume writers. When you get less result in your job search, try changing your CV and apply these tips.
Good luck for your job search in UAE
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