Please critique my resume

certexpert

Hello, I am a first time poster. I think my resume needs fresh set of eyes. Please help me improve my resume and in return I will critique yours. We can discuss resumes over here. You find out mistakes in mine, I will point out problems in yours. What do you say?


I have uploaded my resume on GoogleDrive. I hope you can access it. Let me know if there are any problems.

Here it is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B73TIJj0AUp8Z3lHbVJKTzFQRWs/view


Thanks a billion

srabiee

The resume has a nice clean format and is fairly easy to read. I don't see any problems there.

The objective section should be replaced with a professional summary. Objectives are outdated and redundant. I will link you to some good examples of how to write a professional summary.

You career highlights section contains a bit of fluff, such as "A methodical approach with an eye for detail" and "Commitment, drive, and initiative." I would remove some of this fluff and reduce the size of this section considerably. Or better yet, cut the fluff and then convert this section to a competent professional summary. (which will allow you to delete the career highlights section altogether)

"Highly skilled in MS office products (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS FrontPage)" should be moved to the technical skills section.

The problem with a technical skills section is that your list of skills doesn't tell me how proficient you are in said skills. I would much rather see you incorporate these skills into your experience section and show me HOW proficient you are in these skills, what you have done with them, etc. Then you can delete the skills section altogether.

Within the work experience section, each job description should begin with a high-level overview detailing your daily duties and responsibilities, commonly used technologies, etc. Then you can use bullet points to highlight key accomplishments, projects, promotions, etc. Don't rely solely on bullet points in this manner. Again, I will link you to an excellent example of how to properly format and write this section.

Each bullet point should begin with an action verb. Use varied language and try not to use the same action verb too often. The thesaurus is your best friend in this regard.

You job headings looks messy with the dashes. "Electronic Government Directorate

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Islamabad, Pakistan

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2006 – 2007" I would find another way to format this data without using a bunch of dashes.

The other facts section serves no purpose and should be deleted.

This is optional, but it would not be a bad idea to move your education section to the top of the resume underneath the professional summary section.

This is an excellent resume guide with example resumes, a huge list of action verbs, sample summaries, etc:

http://www.filedropper.com/resumeguide

This thread contains a fantastic example of a properly formatted and written resume:

http://www.techexams.net/forums/jobs-degrees/91333-resume-time.html

certexpert

Thanks a gazillion Srabiee.. I love you mate! I am going to do the changes your suggested.