A good resume is one that gets you hired and gets you interviews.
It's a well optimized landing page built with SEO keywords, think of it like that.
People want to interview you usually, but not always ... when they think you might be a good hire (or fit.)
So your resume needs to convince its readers that you'll be a good hire. And usually beyond that a much better hire than the millions (if it's a fortune 500 company) of applications barraging their HR team.
In general, a resume touting your best achievements & attributes *in relation* to the open position at hand is the way to go. If you can find out what a given reader is going to look for, you can tailor it even more.
Once you find a position you want - hopefully after learning that its employer is one you want - draw up a list of your best achievements & attributes *in relation* to that position and put them in a beautiful, easy-to-read template, and get a current/ex-employee there to hand it in for you internally.
Here are some examples.. [continue]
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