Making Your Resume Stand Out

By Minerva Guzman-Lopez

Database/Business Development Manager

CASINO CAREERS ONLINE

Making Your Resume Stand Out

Marketing your talent is the key to a successful job search. It starts with your resume. Your resume is a snapshot of your professional experience, achievements, accomplishments and abilities. It's your selling card and should differentiate you from other candidates. The following suggestions are tailored to enhance the resume you create on Casino Careers Online, but many of them apply when you post a resume to other job boards:

Professional Profile and Career Objective

Positioning yourself is key in this opening statement. You should create a clear, precise description of your level of experience, diversification and competencies. Your career objective reflects the specific position(s) you are seeking. You may list as many as you like, as long as your experience substantiates them.

Salary

Your salary specifications reflect the minimum you will accept for one or more of the position(s) you are seeking, based on the “ideal” situation (i.e. geographical location, benefit package, etc.). The maximum salary depicts what you think is fair if the position you are offered is of greater responsibility, the area to which you must relocate isn't your most desired location, etc.

Job Profile

This is your personal search engine. It is what results in search matches when a Corporate Member is looking for a specific candidate. To maximize your matches, we recommend that you create a Job Profile for every position you've held that is the stepping stone (or is identical) to the position(s) you are seeking. You may create as many Job Profiles as you like.

Career Timeline/Work Experience

List the positions you have held in chronological order, i.e., the most recent job title will be first. Provide a different description for each position. Go back as far as is necessary to demonstrate your professional experience and knowledge to support the position(s) you are seeking, or to differentiate yourself from other candidates. Cite reporting lines if they highlight your level of authority (whom you report to, as well as who reports to you).

Under Job Responsibilities summarize your general assignment and specific responsibilities. Include your most important accomplishments in each position. For example:

· recruitment and training

· policy/procedure development

· improvements in operational profitability

· effective scheduling resulting in payroll savings

· customer service programs/enhanced guest satisfaction

· employee retention/motivational programs

· successful marketing programs

· demonstrated improved efficiencies

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