Electrical Engineer Resume – 8 Tips On How To Engineer An Incredible Resume
It’s not enough these days to be a great Electrical Engineer with vast experience. Now you need to know how to play the resume game as well. With more and more Electrical Engineers specially in the fields of mining, and modern computing you’re competing with a growing number of hungry job seekers.
How are you going separate yourself?
Here are the top 8 things you can do with your Electrical Engineer management resume to make it rise above the rest.
1. Are you clear enough about your experience?
Can a recruiter clearly tell what jobs, roles and responsibilities you’ve performed instantly? Can a recruiter easily tell what projects you’ve worked on by skimming through your resume? Don’t assume a recruiter will work hard to find out about you. Make your experience clear and give the recruiter your information on a silver platter. If a recruiter can’t quickly tell what you’ve done in your recent career you’re dead in the water!
2. Make the first page “scannable”
Recruiters scan resumes. They quickly read over the first page looking for keywords relevant to the job they are seeking a candidate for. If you aren’t placing important keywords into your first page you’ll simply fail to get a call. Think about putting keywords like safety compliance, qualifications, leadership, bills of material, wiring diagrams, research and development (if applicable) and electrical engineering on your front page.
3. Make Safety And responsibility Stand Out
Safety, especially in electrical engineering is highly important. Unlike many jobs, employers want to feel confident you’re not irresponsible or a risk. Make sure you weave comments about your impeccable safety record into your resume at every point you can.
4. Project Management
Don’t be afraid to say you worked on impressive projects. Why not quote some big numbers. If you don’t know the project budget look for any media or company documentation relating to the project you worked on and quote those figures.
5. Create a career achievements section
Create a section titled “career achievements” and list one career achievement per line in this section. Again, don’t be afraid to pump it up, pull out all your big impressive statistics. The larger the statements the better, you want to encourage the reader to read the next line.
6. List your Certifications in the career achievements section
Regardless of your beliefs about experience vs certifications, know that the more certifications you have the better off you are. However, sometimes we tend to list courses and certifications in the back section of our resumes, bad. There is a more important place to put them. On the front page!
7. Don’t point to any websites
Pointing to a personal or portfolio website can spell disaster. It’s just too easy for someone to post negative comments, negative pictures or links on your website. Recruiters also don’t have the time be looking at website, put everything you want to show in your resume.
8. Use a current Electrical engineer resumes template
A current template provides you with the following benefits:
* Helps you to apply for jobs faster as most of the work is already done, you just need to populate it
* Ensures you’re submitting documentation in a current format
* Allows you to spend your time more productively on writing instead of fighting with Word.
These 8 simple but powerful changes to your resume will add that extra oomph to your resume ensuring that a recruiter knows they are dealing with a true professional.
