A good resume should be attached to a cover letter. The reason? The cover letter is a document that shows the interviewer why you can become valuable to the company.
It also does something that your resume cannot do: It is more personalized and focuses on the needs and characteristics of the company in question.
It should not be written in a general way that only allows you to change the address of the company but rather has the following characteristics:
1.- It must show why you are interested in the company.
2.- It must show why you can be interesting for them.
3.- When are you going to follow up on your resume with a call to schedule an interview.
4.- That it is directed towards the person who would be your boss. The fact that a letter is addressed "To whom it may concern" can take away many points. Take care to write in a correct way the name and the position of the person, if not all the effort can be counterproductive.
The reason why almost no one likes to write a cover letter is because they don't know where to start. The opening paragraph should create empathy and engage the reader. If you were referred by a third party, please indicate who contacted you. If you saw the advertisement for the vacancy in a newspaper, indicate where. If you read an interesting article about the company and that is what invited you to write to them, mention it. Anything that makes the person reading it feel that the company in question is special and not part of a massive campaign to find work is welcome.
Since you made your first paragraph to create empathy, in the next paragraph indicate why you should interest them. What characteristics do you have, what is your experience, why can you perform well the job that the vacancy requires.
The third paragraph should mention what your next step is, when you plan to call them for an interview. Don't leave the next step up to them. You take the initiative in everything you can. However, by your phone so that they have the option of calling you before if they wish.
Now the resume. The curriculum follows three formats: The chronological, the functional or by functions or a mixture of both.
The chronological shows your jobs in order of seniority, from last to first with a description of your activities and relevant achievements in each job. This type of resume is more convenient if your experience is linked to the type of job for which you are applying and shows how you have progressed in your job./ The functional resume emphasizes experiences relevant to the position for which you are applying and it does not focus on dates as the main parameter.
This type of resume is appropriate when a person has had varied jobs in their career path.
The type of resume that is a mixture of both types. It begins with a summary of the main and relevant achievements to the job that is being requested and then continues with a chronological part where the dates of the jobs that have been had are given and a brief summary of the most relevant activities in each job.
Since you decided which format to use, you can start writing it. Since the curriculum should not consist of more than 2 pages, you should keep it short and avoid giving long explanations. For example. Words like: I increased, I produced, I reduced, I developed, etc., are very convenient because they help to specify what was done without the need to resort to long explanations.
Use terms of the industry you want to apply for in your resume to show that you know your work environment, however avoid making it so specific that a translator is necessary to understand it.
Finally, you want both the resume and the cover letter to be easy to understand and in light language. We don't want the recruiter to push it aside after reading just 2 lines and ending up with a headache.
