If you’ve even spent 5 minutes looking for jobs in the IT Project Manager market you’ll quickly understand how competitive it really is. Busy recruiters and employers want to quickly sort the professional from the unprofessional, especially when some recruiters receive 20 plus resumes for one job. You may think you have corrected all of the spelling and tightened up all of the grammar, but is your resume absolutely professional? Give your resume an even more professional feel with some of the tips below. 

Do you know your numbers

Professionals know the numbers related to their career. Your resume should answer the following questions:

• The number of projects have you worked on and what was their combined budgets.
• The number of systems have you worked on and how critical to business operations were they.
• How many products have you helped to develop or maintain and was their budget.

Summarise your answers into powerful sentences on the first page of your IT project manager resume. 

Know all the technical lingo

Each industry has its own lingo. The IT industry is no different. Use lingo that your industry knows and is universally understood such as common tools, widely used courses and global accreditations. When someone is reading your resume can they quickly and easily answer the following questions:What tools have you usedWhat techniques do you know and which ones have you usedWhat methodologies are you trained in and which ones have you used.

Could you step up?

When describing each individual job in your career there is an vital element you need to write about. Challenges. Every job is different in that each one by nature has its own set of unique challenges. The type of challenge does not matter, it’s how you dealt with it that does. For each job listed in your resume you need to also describe the unique challenges you faced and what did you did to conquer them. 

Management material

Does your resume indicate your management material? Whether you are going for a manager’s job or not, it doesn’t matter, the more you can display leadership the better. So how can you show your a leader? Through demonstration of decision making and management of people. Even if you haven’t officially managed people, you need to show you interact well with others. Show you have taken the lead in certain scenarios, outline any times you made a decision on your own and display strong communication skills. 

Professionals know what they are doing

The ability to understand the needs of the business are critical in job success. In your IT Project Manager resume make sure you demonstrate that you understand how a solution, project, or product impact the larger business targets. Describe precisely what the benefit was. 

Show all your professional experience

Forget the fact you coach the local baseball team, employers are simply interested in professional experience. List every one of your certifications, accreditations and courses. Just don’t make these up however. Employers can check the with professional bodies that run these courses to see if you actually attended and passed. 

Use these guidelines to make your IT Project Manager resume more professional and really stand out.

Secrets Of A Professional IT Project Manager Resume is a post from: WiredWriter