Resume Templates for Word - 2016 Bundle of 3 Best-sellers

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Do you hear your friends complain about not getting callbacks after sending out their resumes to hundreds of employers and recruiters?

You don't want to follow that same road?

Then you need to do it different than the rest and let your personality shine through with our carefully crafted Resume Templates for Word!

If you're seeing this offer it means you're in luck because the pricing is something you won't even see on our own site Resumeshoppe.com and we are purely doing this to test out a few things. Just as a fair warning: We can retract the deal anytime.

1 Template goes for $9.99 on our own site (and that's a steal even), but with this bundle deal you are getting 3 of our best-sellers for the price of 1.

About the Word Resume Template Bundle

After ordering you'll receive a zip file with 3 of Resumeshoppe's most popular resume templates:

• The Isabella Resume

• The Barbara Resume

• The Shane Resume

You'll receive several versions to make sure the templates are compatible with your version of Word. We've included an A4 version for Microsoft Word & Word for Mac and a US Letter version for Microsoft Word & Word for Mac. Also included are instructions on how to edit (this is really easy) and how to install the custom fonts (hint: it's just a click :)).

Testimonials

You might be wondering what other people think of our CV templates. Here's what two of our happy customers wrote on our Facebook wall:

- John Wesley Crider (link to review)

- Jenni Meiners Davidson (link to review)

Some background

With the 2016 job market being as unpredictable as it is, it is perhaps more important now than ever before to have a good resume. Job satisfaction is low and many are looking for opportunities outside of their current jobs, while many more are just entering the market with new skills and education to compete. As such, a solid resume is an important weapon to have in your arsenal. However, writing a resume can be a tiresome, long-winded, and stressful task including a number of challenges which can make it very off putting. But it is no less necessary because of this.

Resumes in a nutshell

Everybody has some idea of what a resume is, or at least thinks that they do. In its simplest form, a resume aims to condense your collective educational experience, professional experience, and achievements down onto paper. This document, along with various other supporting documents, presents you to prospective employers and recruiting agents, giving them an idea of who you are as a person and a professional.

As you can imagine, boiling your entire life down onto a couple of pages is not easily achieved, and even less easy to achieve is a resume that ends up making you stand out to an employer.

Resume writing is a skill that has to be learned quickly in the professional world, as a good resume can often be the key to getting noticed by employers and landing the job you want. There are a few things that a resume needs to embody in order to be successful:

1) A resume, at its core, must contain a concise summary of your experience up to the current moment. It lists your academic and professional experiences, your skills and achievements. These build up a profile of you as a candidate, and give an employer and idea of your aptitude for the job for which you are applying. Within the space of a couple of pages, a creative resume needs to give an employer a clear impression of who you are, where you have come from, and what you can offer to the position.

2) Simply writing all of this information down in a list-like format will end up with a cluster of information that is difficult to read. As such, you need to make sure to properly format your resume in a way that keeps it legible, interesting, and representative of you and your personal style. The formatting of a resume can give an employer insight into the working methods of an applicant, and this means that it is important to format yours in a way that fits the position you’re applying for. Chronological listing, categorical grouping, or a mixture of the two can be used to neatly and attractively gather the information together.

3) Attractiveness is not something to be overlooked. While a resume is a professional document, its aesthetics should not be ignored as it is also a document that is designed to attract employers to you. Creating a resume from scratch is an option, but it can be time consuming and often you will find that there are better options than what you can necessarily create. By making use of modern resume templates, you can create a resume that reflects your abilities, experience, and personality.

A Good Looking Resume

While content is of paramount importance on a resume, content alone is not enough in 2016. The presentation of information is almost equally important to the information being presented. Something that is well presented is much more likely to attract attention and keep it than something that is cluttered and random. In the case of written information, organization and attractive presentation are paramount in ensuring engagement and interest, as no employer will be bothered to look at a disorganized cluster of text.

Recruiters and hiring managers are busy people, often looking through hundreds or thousands of applications over the course of a hiring period. Because of this, employers tend to scan resumes and quickly throw them away with the whole process only taking a few seconds of decision making time.

In 2016, it’s not enough to be adequately qualified for a position - as you will have to assume that many other applicants are - and instead now even a basic resume must hold the attention of the reader long enough to convince them to read through the information contained therein.

A well-designed Curriculum Vitae containing the same information as a poorly-designed one will invariably receive more attention, and so it is important to make sure to factor in design when writing yours, and the same holds true for your cover letter of course.

So how can you make sure your resume holds a hiring manager’s attention? What qualities does a resume need to embody in order to achieve this balance of attractiveness and professionalism? Making yourself as a candidate noticeable and prominent is of critical importance. A resume that does nothing but list in painful detail the many exploits of your life without actually addressing whom you are as a person and professional fails utterly at its task, and will find itself cast aside.

However, thoughtfully and neatly arranged, categorized information which concisely and attractively presents relevant information is likely to catch the eye of the reader. You should be sure to make the most pertinent information the most visible, listing relevant experience and education first. This will help to highlight these qualities during the first cursory scan over the resume.

That being said, however, there is such a thing as over-designing a resume. Making gratuitous use of art, color, lengthy words or overly compartmentalized organization can make your resume appear cluttered and too busy. There is a particular balance to be struck between attractiveness and professionalism.

Making Use of Resume Templates

So how do you strike this balance? Possibly the best way to go about designing a resume that embodies everything discussed so far is to make use of a resume template. A resume template is quite simply a structured template that is designed to be the foundation of a resume. Elegant and professional, templates save a huge amount of time and stress by giving you a head start on designing your resume. Templates are consistent, professional, and attractive in their appearance and presentation. Microsoft Word is not the only editor where you can use templates, you may also choose for Powerpoint, Google Docs or Apple Pages to create your professional resume.

There are some recruiters who warn against the use of resume templates, stating that the overuse of generic free templates - particularly in 2016 when so many have been around for so long - results in these templates being seen as dull and unappealing. This is certainly a risk if you pick out a template, particularly a free one, and use it as it comes rather than adding a personal touch or tweaking the design.

Failing to personalize a resume template can result in your resume being seen as generic and thrown out without much consideration. For this reason, you should always build upon the template to make it your own, as adding a personal touch is perhaps the best way to get noticed.

Premium Resume Templates 2016

While there are many free resume templates available in popular word processing software such as Microsoft Word and Pages, and many more available after a quick web search, these are amongst the most widely used and generic templates available. Similarly, searching for templates on the web will bring up a huge number of results, many of which won’t fit your needs.

Making use of a premium template is a sure-fire way to boost your chances at getting noticed in 2016. Premium themes feature more design options as well as superior layouts and - due to the fact that they are not free - are less likely to be used by a large number of applicants as free templates are. This page contains a wide range of premium templates for you to choose from that can be modified to give your resume a distinct, personal, and professional touch that is sure to land you that dream job.

How to Pick a Template

Picking a template is a matter of meeting criteria. Here are some things to consider.

1) Is the template you have selected one that fits your industry? Templates are designed differently to meet the specifications and requirements of particular industries such as creative and business-oriented, so it is important that you find one that fits in your field.

2) The position you’re looking to apply to should have a hand in deciding your design. The design you pick should emphasize the particular qualities that a recruiter will be looking for in a candidate and so picking a cv template which prioritizes this information is key to making sure that you give the right impression.

3) You should like the template you choose. After all, this resume is a reflection of you: the person and the professional. As such, the design you choose should be something that resonates with you and should be a design that you think properly highlights your achievements and experiences. With the many premium designs to choose from, you can be sure you’ll find a template that not only will you love, but that will help you in securing the job you are seeking.


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