8 Essential Resume Dos and Donts

8 Essential Resume Dos and Donts8 Essential Resume Dos and DontsYour resume is an essential tool when it comes to job hunting. Get it wrong and youll likely face frequent rejection. But get it right and youll be snapped up in no time. And so, to help you get it right (and impress recruiters), weve compiled the most important dos and donts when it comes to creating your resume.DO highlight your most relevant skills and experienceTo write a good resume, you should tailor it to every role you apply for. Your resume needs to demonstrate that you have the relevant set of skills, experience, and accomplishments necessary to do the job. So, by highlighting your key skills, you make it easier for the hiring manager to binnensee why youre the right fit.DONT overload your resume with keywords and phrasesWhile its good to pepper your resume with a few keywords and phrases to help beat Application Tracking Systems (ATS), never go overboard. Dont ever just copy and paste the job description in yo ur resume as it looks disingenuous and can be spotted a mile away. Instead, take a look at the job description to identify the essential skills and experiences required. You can then scatter the words carefully throughout your resume always and consider using different phrasing.DO use facts and figuresIncluding a few figures in your resume can help a recruiter to understand the scope of your current and previous jobs. While every resume should include career achievements, it will be strengthened by including numbers to quantify the impact youve had on the company. For example, if youve managed a budget, how much was that budget? Do you manage a team? If so, what size? Do you manage any reports? If so, has this improved business outputs? Add in the figures that showcase these. Figures can also help a recruiter to see how youve progressed in your career and if you provide them up front, youre making it easier for recruiters to select you.DONT make your resume longer than two pagesTwo pages is often considered the perfect length for a resume. This is a recommended length for those who have established themselves in their career. Most people will fall into this category, as it gives you plenty of space to include a summary of your main responsibilities, and show off your accomplishments, achievements, strengths, and skills, without the need to waffle. A short strong resume is always better than a long unnecessary one.DO spellcheck your resumeIt might sound obvious, but youll be surprised how many resumes get sent out with spelling or grammatical mistakes. Dont let yours be one of them. Proofread and proofread again before asking a friend or family member to also take a look. A second pair of eyes never hurt your chances.DONT try to hide the gapsNever try to glaze over any gaps on your resume, as it could look suspicious. Instead, just be honest when it comes to explaining your career breaks and unemployment periods. Regardless of why you werent working, always try to look for any possible skills you may have achieved in that period of time. Its likely that you would have gained a few, so feel free to mention them.DO get creative with your resume (within reason)Resumes often have a little wiggle room to be creative. You can certainly modernize your resume by using fonts such as Calibri and Arial that will allow space for your relevant skills and experience. Formatting can be tweaked and tailored, so long as what you include is relevant and doesnt distract the employer from any crucial aspects. And if you have a website or portfolio that you would like to share, you can also hyperlink a few key words in your resume that will encourage recruiters to view your work.DONT ever lie on your resumeIt sounds obvious, but anything on your resume considered untrue should be excluded. Never feel the need to lie, as it could harm your career.Resume-Library is one of the leading U.S. job boards. Upload your resume and use their advanced searching tool to b rowse jobs in over 50 different industries.

Double Dose of Humor for the Job Seeker

Double Dose of Humor for the Job SeekerDouble Dose of Humor for the Job SeekerDouble Dose of Humor for the Job SeekerSince its Wednesday and it may seem like an eternity until the weekend, or if youre unemployed and your job search is bumming you out, Ill bet you could use a ersatzdarsteller shot of humor right now.Ever thought about applying for a weird or offbeat job? If you have writing or editing experience, can write comedy, and have a keen awareness for such topics as politics and pop culture, The Huffington Post is looking for a comedy editor. Just think about making people laugh and getting paid for itDoesnt suit you? No worries.Yes, some of these jobs come with high levels of personal risk, but if you like living a bit on the edge, why not get paid handsomely for it?Not interested in those either? Well, at least enjoy reading the job descriptions.Resume bloopers to avoid. Here are plenty of reasons why you need to proofread your resume and have someone else read it before yo u send it. This post from the Landing on Your Feet blog offers a list of resume faux pas, from References to be executed upon request (Ouch) to this noted career achievement Won $17,334 at the dog track.

Better Fusion Reactors on the Horizon

Better Fusion Reactors on the Horizon Better Fusion Reactors on the Horizon Better Fusion Reactors on the HorizonMark Cappelli, professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, is a parte of work that will hopefully propel the future of fusion reactors. We are able to create this plasma jet and impinge it on surfaces to study interaction to see how it degrades a surface creates stresses in surfaces, he says. All of that is relevant to fusion machines because when we eventually have to try and engineer these machines you hope the maintenance part of the machine wont be high or it wont pay itself back.Getting TestyAccording to Cappelli, they realized six to seven years ago that the plasma that accelerated (high energy, high velocity) is similar to the plasma jets that form in the peripheral part of a fusion machine.The curious thing about these machines is when you think of them as large spheres and about being close to the wall of the spheres. Theres a strong magnetic field and the field prevents the plasma from being in the proximity of the other wall, like a barrier, he says.A 50W helicon discharge for use in microsat propulsion. Image StanfordOne problem is that the curtain that is the strong magnetic field becomes leaky. Plasmas become unstable and squirt through the magnetic field, says Cappelli. This plasma rocket we were developing presents the same kind of conditions you see in a fusion machine. We took an interest in how these plasmas accelerate and what happens when these plasmas strike a wall that is designed to protect a plasma vessel, he adds.Their work started off with something involving space propulsion and ended up moving towards fusion. With regard to the device that creates the jets, we start out with the means of storing tremendous amounts of electrical energy then take that energy and release it into what some would call a can, he says. Think of it as an inductor. It creates a magnetic field. This plasma jet squirts it out of this balloon inflated with magnetic energy and into inductance into this balloon storing this magnetic energy. It pops and produces this high velocity and the relatively high temperature jet of plasma. We dont understand the popping part well and thats something were working on.The capacitor used is several cubic ms but the device itself is about half of a meter in size and about one-fifth of a meter in diameter. He compares it to a cannon. The device is essentially a cylinder with a center electrode in the cylinder, he says. When that magnetic bubble breaks, there are conditions that are comparable to the core of a fusion reactor. We think this can be intriguing but, again, our interest is on the jet thats accelerated, the plasma compressed to very high temperatures.Cappelli has learned important lessons from the testing thus far. For my work, what Im realizing is that just one disruption event, meaning just one firing on our machine, can have a huge effect, he says. What we find when we look at the surface it strikes and damages are cracks and ablation. You have to ask, If I fire this thing a bunch of times what will the surfaces be like?Another problem is where the surface ends up. It has to go somewhere and can go into the reactor. The core of the reactor is bringing in hydrogen and this material which is largely tungsten is very disruptive to the fusion process, he explains. Its an impurity which is very difficult to mitigate against and wreaks havoc on fusion reaction. I believe the investment has to be made in understanding what causes these events that will eventually degrade the walls to where maintenance on the machine might not be sustainable. Think of us as crash test engineers continuing to try to help improve the first wall, that part of that wall that faces the plasma.Eric Butterman is an independent writer.Learn about the latest energy solutions at ASMEsPower Energy Conference and Exhibition For Further Discussion Think of us as crash test enginee rs continuing to try to help improve the first wall, that part of that wall that faces the plasma.Prof. Mark Cappelli, Stanford University