Quality over quantity
质比量重要
For starters-and this might seem counterintuitive when you’re feeling desperate to land a job-be selective.
首先——这看上去可能和你急着找工作的焦虑情绪南辕北辙——就是，要有所选择。
"No one should be applying for thousands of jobs. Or even hundreds," said Mary Ellen Slayter, a career expert at online job-search website Monster.com, in an email. "It's simply unlikely that someone would be qualified for that many positions to begin with. You're setting yourself up for disappointment."
“谁都不该申请上千份工作。上百份其实也没必要，”美国在线人力资源企业巨兽公司的职场专家玛丽·艾伦·斯莱特在邮件里说道。“根本不可能有人能胜任那么多工作。你就是自找苦吃。”
Instead, focus on whether you have the right skills and training for the jobs you actually want.
你该做的，是看看自己是否具备了心仪工作所需的技能和培训。
“If not, it's time to find ways to develop them, even if it's through more education or volunteer activities,” said Slayter. “No (resume) formatting tricks can overcome a lack of provable skill.”
“如果没有，那要花些时间提高自己这方面能力了，即使这意味着提升学历，或是参加志愿者活动，”斯莱特说道。“(简历)写得规范可不能弥补你在技术上的缺乏。”
Peppering doesn’t work
简单的美化技巧?过时了!
Many people make the mistake of simply peppering their CV or resume with keywords, thinking that will be enough to get them through the applicant tracking system (ATS) software that 75% of large companies use to screen applicants.
现在75%的大公司都用求职者追踪系统(applicant tracking system，简称ATS)软件来筛选人才。因此，很多人想当然地以为，只要用关键词美化一下简历，就可以让自己通过求职者追踪系统。
But keywords alone won’t work, according to Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass, a Boston-based job market and career analytics company. ATS software has become much more sophisticated over the past few years – and applicants need to adapt their applications to that. Newer search technology offers a more "holistic evaluation" of your resume or CV than in the past, according to Sigelman. Therefore, your resume should not be a list of facts but rather a narrative that tells a story.
就像波士顿人才市场和职业分析公司Burning Glass的首席执行官马修·希格曼所说的那样，光有关键词还不够。ATS软件在过去几年已经得到优化，更加复杂——而求职者也要顺应这一改变。希格曼表示，比起以往，进步的搜索技术让你的简历受到“全面评估”。因此，你的简历不应该只是陈述一列事实，而是要化身成一个说故事的叙述人。
"A narrative resume is essentially what every resume should aspire to be, that is, something that tells the story of your professional life in such a way that it’s clear that this new job — the job to which you are applying — is the next chapter in that story," Sigelman said.
“每份简历都该朝着叙述式简历的方向迈进。以这种方式陈述自己的职业生涯，清晰明了。而这份新工作——你正申请的这个职位——就是故事的下一章，”希格曼说道。
Instead of writing a generic job description for each of your work experiences and leaving it unchanged no matter what job you are applying for, a well-written narrative would adapt each job description (and other sections too) so as to emphasize the specific experiences, skills, and vocabulary that the employer is looking for, Sigelman said.
希格曼说道，不要每个工作经历的职位介绍都千篇一律，不管申请什么，都丝毫不改地提交。一份好的叙述式简历是能根据不同的职位描述(及其他部分)，做出相应的调整，突出自己的特殊经历、技巧，以及雇主希望看到的“特殊词汇”。
"Really your resume is an elevator pitch: why you are a great for this [particular] job," he said. If you have been working as the director of sales and marketing, for instance, and you want to apply for a position as vice president of sales, describe the work you have been doing in a way that emphasizes the sales experience that the vice president job demands instead of the experience you have accrued. "Similarly, you may want to reshuffle what you include in any skill lists on your resume based on what you think would be of value to this employer," Sigelman added.
“你的简历其实就像一份简报：为什么你是这份工作的不二人选，”希格曼说道，比如，如果你之前一直都是销售和市场营销主管，你现在想应聘一个销售副董事长，在描述工作经历时，你应该着重于副董事长这份工作所需要的销售经历，而不是自己过去的经验。“同样的，你可能要根据公司的价值需求，把简历上的技能重新编排一下，”希格曼说道。
Do your homework
做好准备
Mary Goldsmith’s biggest pet peeve when she was an executive recruitment consultant was applicants "who didn’t bother to edit their resume to reflect the needs of the organisation, or role requirements, even when a comprehensive position description was available."