1. Sell yourself! List your top accomplishments and your biggest successes that will wow prospective hiring managers.
2. Write for the reader not you! Include the information that the employer wants to know and is interested in.
3. Keep it clean! Don't include gimmicks, graphics, or goofy photos.
4. Double Cheque your speling and gramma! And double check again! Spell check can only cheque so far and can only Czech if it knows.
5. Referrals and recommendations are worth more than a resume going in cold to a recruiter.
David Couper is a career coach and writer who for the last twenty years has worked in Europe, Asia, and in the USA with major organizations including the BBC, Fuji Television, Mattel, Sony, and Warner Bros.
He has successfully coached individuals at all levels including CEOs of major companies wanting a new challenge, frustrated souls wanting to make their dream come true, and front-line employees laid off and desperate to get a job.
David has published seven books. His works on interpersonal skills, counseling in the workplace, and management issues (published by Connaught, Gower, HRD Press, Longman, Macmillan/Pearson Publishing, Oxford University Press) have been translated into Swedish, Polish, and Danish, and published in the UK and the USA.
David has a degree in Communication, a postgraduate qualification in education, is certified in a number of training technologies, and has a Masters in Psychology. He is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, Society of Human Resources Professional, Writers Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television.
He has dual US/UK citizenship and speaks French and Japanese.
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