5. Keep updating your resume often
Always keep your resume updated. This serves two purposes
a) If you get a call from a very good company; you can immediately provide your resume and you don't have to spend your time updating it,
b) You never forget your small achievements. It's always the small achievements that are forgotten. But various small achievements could mean a big thing to some employers. Therefore, always keep your resume updated before you forget some of your achievements.
Here is another secret of how search engines of job sites work. If you keep updating your resume; your resume is featured higher in the search result as compared to if you update it after a while. Therefore, if you are desperate to seek a job and have nothing to update either, I recommend that you log into your account and just hit the update resume button. This will ensure that your resume is always in the first three pages of search results (depending on the keywords used)
There are other things that you should update as well on your resume, i.e. your contact information. Whether or not you look out for a job; keep updating your contact information. Ask yourself, what if a big company wants to meet you and offer you a job? If your contact information is out of date, then you lose a good opportunity!!!
6. Think like an employer
The last secret is to think like an employer. Once you have finalized your resume; leave it for a week or so and send that resume to yourself. See your resume from the eye of an employer; would you call yourself for an interview looking at your resume? Or, would you ignore your own resume. Be very honest and carry out this exercise. I know this sounds a bit absurd, but try it; you will soon start identifying shortfalls in your own resume. The moment you find shortfalls; fix them.
