Too little experience?

Young people, including recent graduates, often have difficulty in getting the jobs they want since employers will often hire someone with more experience. This can happen even for entry level jobs.

Skill Oriented or Functional Resume

In this case, you may want to emphasize your adaptive skills that would tend to overcome a lack of experience. EasyJob’s features a “skill-oriented" or functional resume that you can chose from the resume maker, which constitutes the right solution to student resumes and entry resumes.

Functional Resume Writing Tips

You should also consider expressing a willingness to accept difficult or less desirable conditions as one way to break into a field and gain experience. For example, "willing to work weekends and evenings" or "able to travel or relocate" may open up some possibilities that might appeal to an employer.

The reader of your resume must quickly know through your Profile, that you are young, well-qualified, full of enthusiasm, and capable of easily integrating with a team. Use phrases like:

• “hardworking"
• "extremely reliable, considerate, and organized”,
• ”learn new things quickly"
• "well developed skills in...,"
• "skilled at evaluating options and generating solutions”,
• “comfortable working with all personality types".

"EasyJob Resume Maker" provides you with thousands of such skill-phrases and other resume wording samples that you can paste into your resume.

Skill Mining: a must for job seekers with little experience

You should also look for anything that might be acceptable as experience and emphasize it. This might include volunteer work, education, training, military experience, or anything else that you might present as legitimate activities that support your ability to do the work that you feel you can do.

Most job seekers have far more valuable skills and experience than they realize, and fail to present those 'employability assets' in their resume. In our competitive job market, this is a mistake you can't afford.

EasyJob's Skill Mining techniques will help you find those skills and present them in a sharp, focused, assertive and pro-active way with a winning resume.

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