You Deserve an Awesome Insurance Resume!

Your insurance industry resume is a promoting report.  It is not work history.  You are advertising your abilities, accomplishments, and goals to communicate a message to future managers with respect to the job for which you would like to be considered.  This resume is a professional assessment where the foundation you have shown are suitable ranges of abilities and experience for the position.

Standard advice suggests that you only have 20 seconds to make a solid first impression and only 7 seconds of the initial screening of your resume to be considered.  There are four groups that could review your resume.  These are a screener, a recruiter, a future boss, and company software.  In the event that you do not get the reviewer inquisitive about meeting you within the upper section of your resume, you will miss out.

With this in mind, here are a few tips on writing an effective resume.

Use a professional summary, not an objective statement:  There is no need to occupy significant resume space with a pointless objective statement.  Instead, use a professional summary of no more than four lines to highlight your accomplishments through your career.  These four lines should include achievement action words.  This needs to showcase you as an ideal candidate and removes word fluff and fillers.

Concentrate on value-added statements:  Your resume should demonstrate that something improved, progressed, or changed because you were there.  You increased, delivered, or optimized the company’s business through a combination of your skills, your experience, and your personality traits.  You will make a bigger impact if you show facts about performance outcomes that you have accomplished rather than describe actions.  The more specific you can be, the better.

Break the rules only if necessary:  Grammatical mistakes and typos are disqualifying with most hiring managers.  Your resume language should be compelling and precise.  It should have content that matches the job description in terms of responsibilities, must-haves, and preferences.  Keywords and common themes should match with the most relevant aspects listed first, but do not go overboard.  There is no reason to show many skills that most people use daily in job performance.  Concentrate on the aptitudes that make you different than every other person applying for the position.  Your resume should be brief and try fitting your work experience on one page.  Should your work experience be broad, two pages ought to be adequate.

Keep in mind that your resume is to present a list of qualifications to get a meeting, not to be hired on the spot.  It should have an attractive layout, be professional, modern, and complimentary to your marketing message.  You have worked hard to become a professional in the insurance industry; now is the time to showcase your talent with a great resume.  Let me know if I can help!