Including a qualifications statement enhances your resume.
A resume is a short document, usually only a page long, that potential employees write and present to interviewers and other potential employers. They often include personal achievements, awards, previous occupational experience, educational achievements and more. Resumes are often reviewed quickly and the presentation of these documents determines whether candidates are considered for the available positions. Including a personal qualifications statement ensures that your intentions, goals and achievements are summarized, easily visible and obvious to interviewers or employers.
Instructions
1. Compile a list of your achievements, work ethics, experience and credentials. This list should include any information that makes you seem desirable to employers, but the information should also be accurate, factual and relevant. For example, if you are applying for a job as a statistician, it may not be necessary to add that you were a ballet dancer for four years in high school.
2. Write three to four short, to-the-point sentences that include the most important facts from the list you compiled. The sentences should be poignant and purposeful. Include the information that you think the employer may consider useful and intriguing. Try to avoid information that may demean or belittle your qualifications. Write confidently, but don't be arrogant, and be sure to be factual.
3. Proofread your three to four sentences. Check for grammar and spelling mistakes. Check the sentences, which will become your qualifications statement, against the rest of your resume. Make sure that there are no contradictions and that your qualifications summary accurately represents who you portray in the resume.
4. Add your qualifications statement to your resume. It should be one of the first things on the resume that the employer reads. Print the document and proofread again. Often, proofreading a second time will help you to catch mistakes and errors that were not as obvious the first time. Have a friend, colleague or expert read your resume. Having another opinion on the content and grammar may reveal problems, inconsistencies and mistakes that you did not see.
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