As a social media marketer, you are required to be equipped with a wide set of skills. But it is not enough to only have the skills without being able to communicate them to the recruiters and potential employers.
In this article, we have listed 5 tips that can help you curate the perfect social media marketer resume and help you land your dream job.
So, without further delay read on to find out:
Start by creating a master resume
A resume can help you communicate your professional experience, educational qualifications, any relevant credentials, contact information, required personal information, etc. to the recruiters.
But there are instances when you may miss out on mentioning some not-so-obvious points or details that may affect your resume from being shortlisted by the recruiters.
Avoid any such possibility by creating a master resume that can be used as your master folder to hold all your professional details and information.
Simply create a master folder wherein you can gather all the information of your professional and academic credentials that need to be framed in a resume.
Doing so can not only help you while framing your current resume but it also can be used for making any possible future updates to your resume.
Curate an effective professional experience section
The professional section is the heart of your resume outline that can help you communicate your skills to the recruiters.
Your job requires you to deliver consistently and your resume needs to highlight your work experience to determine your potential as a suitable professional.
Frame one-liner points to describe your professional experience to the recruiters. Then create unique headings under which you can list all the similarly framed points.
Doing so can help you organize your points under the suitable buckets and make it easier for the recruiters to read and comprehend your work statements.
Make sure to bold the highlights of your career and start every framed point using suitable power verbs.
Once you incorporate these factors while curating your professional experience section, the recruiters would be able to easily recognize you as a suitable social media marketer, hence raising your chances of being shortlisted for the targeted job profile.
Create a separate key skills section
The fact that recruiters spend a mere 6 seconds to go through a resume should be remembered while writing a resume.
Your resume can either help you stand out as the most suitable social media marketer or may never end up on the recruiters’ table. It all depends on the approach you take while composing your resume.
Pick out your most significant skills from the professional experience points and highlight them in a separate section.
Another factor to consider is the use of the ATS (Applicant Tracking System) by most recruiters today to filter resumes that meet the requirements of the organization as per the keywords in the job listing.
You can get ahead of this and get your resume parsed by selectively using the keywords that have been used to describe the job profile that you are applying for as a social media marketer.
Doing so can help you rank high on the ATS and take you closer to your dream job.
Provide your active contact details
In case of any likely shortlist, the recruiters need to get in touch with you to confirm or schedule a face to face interview. And to do that they need your phone number and email address.
Provide only the contact number that you actively use without making any careless mistakes because small mistakes like giving out wrong numbers can cost you your job.
Another important source of communication between you and the recruiter is through emails. It is a convenient source for the recruiters to get in touch with you.
Always give out your professional email id that has your real name and not some made-up names for any official purposes. You are a professional and you need to maintain that at all times.
Compose a suitable summary
Summary on resume is the chance for you to market yourself as a suitable applicant by giving an overview of your social media marketer resume.
Frame this at the last step of resume writing so that you can easily decide what to pick and what to skip. It is an effective way to communicate yourself as a suitable candidate for the targeted job profile.
Pick out the most significant highlights of your career from the professional experience section and add some relevant skills from the key skills section of your resume.
This way you will not only give the recruiters an insight into your resume but also effectively communicate your professional potential.
Key Takeaways
We have come to the end of our article and before we wrap up, here is a recap of all the important points that you need to keep in mind and follow while framing your social media marketer resume:
- Always maintain a master folder to gather all your professional experience, academic details, certifications, etc. while framing your resume.
- Frame one-liner points and list the similar ones under relevant buckets. Then bold the highlights of your career to make your points more impactful.
- Highlight all your significant key skills as a social media marketer on a separate section.
- Provide your correct phone number and official email address.
- Give an overview of your resume through a resume summary.
