Tip Number Five: Let your resume B-R-E-A-T-H-E.

Proper spacing and proper margins are essential to making your resume visually flow and easy to read. Too often people mistakenly believe they should make every effort to shorten their resume by having wall-to-wall text with little spacing and ultra small margins. The reality is that a longer resume that flows and is easy to read is far preferable to a short, tightly packed resume that is painful to read.

Tip Number Four: Add relevant data and facts throughout your resume to strengthen what you have to say.

Inserting a moderate number of relevant facts makes your resume more powerful. Facts that describe the size and scope of the companies you have worked for, the roles you have held, along with data that in some way measures the achievements you have made, all help provide insight, perspective and understanding. Without such facts it’s difficult to have a clear picture of who you are and what you have achieved.

Tip Number Three: Maintain a flow to your resume by putting the information in the order that the reader will naturally ask for it.

By ensuring your information flows naturally allows the reader to focus on the details of your resume instead of focusing on finding the information they’re looking for.

Tip Number Two: If you can’t stop yourself from inserting subjective assertions - limit the number.

Too many subjective assertions make the reader doubt all of your assertions. Ideally subjective assertions should be relegated to those for which there is no data or information to substantiate them. Thus making it the only way to convey them.

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Tip Number One: Lead the reader to make the assertions you would like to make.

The most powerful resumes share one trait, they lead the reader to make the very assertions the writer would like to make without ever mentioning them.

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