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We’ve all been in this situation - multiple resume submissions, and needing to update our resume to make it personalized for each company. What’s the best way to go about doing so?

It’s actually easier than you might think. To update your resume quickly and easily, consider a simple reorganization.

Begin with your basic resume information - the details of your jobs held, skills acquired, and accomplishments. Type this out in a text document, and add strong power verbs. Make the individual bullet points stand alone, so that each can be cut and pasted at will. This technique assumes that you’re using a skills based or functional resume.

Next, begin a new resume document for each employer. Start with a strong objective statement, customized to the employer, explaining why you are seeking a job with their company. Then move on to highlighting your skills.

Here’s where the easy part comes in - simply cut and paste from your list of strengths and skills, in the order most relevant to the position.  This list will vary from job to job, creating multiple unique, yet similar documents. Each employer receives a customized resume, tailored to the position you’re seeking within their company. You, on the other hand, put in a few hours worth of work, as opposed to a few days.

Brilliant!