7. Additional Headings
If you have additional personal or professional skills that are not mentioned in the primary sections of your resume, you may include those in additional headings at the end of your resume.
Possible additional headings are Professional Associations that you belong to, Publications (Articles, books, and research papers that you have authored or co-authored), Presentations and Participation in congresses or workshops or Awards/grants supporting your job objective or special computer skills. Depending on the nature of the job posting, you also may include a section with “Personal Interests” like sports, computer, travel, political or others.
It is recommendable to include these personal interests only if they add to your qualifications as a candidate for your job objective as quite half of the personnel manager don’t include these additional headings in their resume evaluation.
8. Salary and References
Do not include salary information, unless this is specifically asked for in the want ad. Including salary pretension you run the risk of either pricing yourself out of a position or limiting your earning potential. List references only upon request. A simple 'references upon request' at the bottom of your resume will suffice. Preferably you bring a list of references and letters of recommendation with you to the job interview.
9. Style and Format
In order to capture the readers interest immediately you need to have a winning format and writing style! If your qualifications are presented in the right format and concise summarized key-word style, the recruiter can identify you as a worthy candidate in less than 10 seconds. It is right that you should present a resume with a personalized style but you should diverge from the norm only when you believe that approaching design (photographs, cartoons, quotes, horizontal formats, unusual fonts, etc.) or humor will make your resume stand out in a positive way. If you are not sure whether your creative outburst will help or harm, leave it.
Apart from the most commonly used chronological style, you also can use the so-called functional style or numerous variations of these two basic versions. These two basic forms vary mostly in the way that they lay out and prioritize work history information (see templates for chronological format and functional format).
As a general rule, you should consider as your first choice the chronological style (still the preferred version among most Human Resource Managers) and only if you believe it is better to prioritize your accomplishments rather by impact than by chronology, use the functional format. In this format you present your experience under skill headings, giving you the freedom to prioritize your accomplishments by impact rather than by chronology and to list your work history very concisely in a section separate from your achievements. The functional format in particular is recommendable if you need to emphasize skills or experience from an early part of your work history, you are not very successful in your current position, you are changing careers or re-entering the job market or you want to highlight some other relevant experience.
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