From the course: Resume Makeover (2018)

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The key skills section

The key skills section

From the course: Resume Makeover (2018)

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The key skills section

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- Are you wondering where to load up all those keywords that you now realize the Applicant Tracking System is going to come a looking for? While you can and should use keywords throughout the new résumé, creating a separate key skills or areas of expertise section right near the top will help ensure that this baby is loaded with goodness. In the ATS, it's looking for résumés that are loaded with goodness. So this section will also give the human reviewer a very easy and quick way to see the stuff that you know how to do. At jobjenny.com, we construct résumés with the following goal. If the person who reads your résumé never gets any further than the summary section and the areas of expertise, they should have a darn good idea of who you are in what you specialize and the stuff that you're good at. For sure, we want them to keep going to the end of the résumé, but we know that most recruiters and HR people have a…

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