Recruiters spend only 6 SECONDS reviewing your resume. How can you make the FIRST PAGE of your CV stand out?

Create an "Experience Summary" that lists quantifiable skills and the key information required to even get a shot at the job.

Thanks for taking part with useful contributions. I must get this off my chest, as it is becoming too much.

I posted this question originally in the following FIVE specialties: Human Resources, Recruitment, Marketing, Sales, Writing. Someone must have found that the last three specialties were irrelevant to the question so they were changed. I bet the best answers to this question would come from Marketing, Sales and Writing specialists, since making a CV attention-grabbing using a combination of text, design and research is per definition the task of selling it + marketing it + (re)writing it properly and compellingly, wouldn't you agree?

Well, "alas", and according to the one who changed the question tags, Marketers, Sales Profs and Writing professionals are deemed to have no business at all, answering this question expertly.

Now, I myself am a fervent supporter of trimming questions and aiming them at the righteous specialties to avoid misuse and enable fair gain of relevant specialty-points. BUT, to alter the specialties I, knowingly & deliberately, allocated to a certain question, of which I am the AUTHOR and the answers seeker, whether it is the job of a community manager or not is similar to wrongly accusing me of bad judgment that I did not have in this specific case, as this question specifically is very much related to the specialties: Sales, Marketing and Writing. Besides, HR professionals do not react to their specialty-questions as others do, around here!

Please, broaden your views in terms of moderating question and in terms of interpreting the aims of such questions and avoid making rigid short-sighted moderating judgments that jeopardize the interaction spirit in this forum. In most cases, we, too, have brains to know what specialty is relevant and which one is not!

Ps: please, alter the question tags again and ad [Bayt.com feedback] to them this time! That would make a more useful alteration of tags OR delete the question altogether. Thank you!

I believe, the first impression that makes a resume stand out of others is the professional look, formatting and text placement/alignment. If a resume gives a professional look, the next thing that attracts the employer is the skills and experience he is looking for, the rest are to view at later. So its best to keep your specialities / expertise / technical skills at the top and then your professional experience related to those skills in the market. 

Skills summary in your resume is the first thing  grap the recruiter attention, compare the skills in the job you are applying for with the skills  you have and try to highlight them in the skill summary section in your resume.  always make sure the skills summary is the first section in your resume!! best luck 

Mohammad Obeidat

Attractive Resume is the connection between candidate & recruiter. Resume should be in order wise as follows.

1.Relevant Skills

2. Work in chronological order

3. Be clear and structured

4. Avoid embellishments

5. Be concise

 6.Only mention relevant training

Good Day!!!

The cover letter of your CV should be developed in a way that "precisely" covers all of your education, total experience and specific experience of the "position applied for" in first2 paragraphs.

Show skills, experience and qualifications and so on ...

As I belong to this field. I feel I can provide best possible answer to this question...

Contact details are mostly placed at the top of resume or cv and thats the area where first eye contact is made by a recruiter with your cv. 

Thats the first step to impress your recruiter by writing your contact details in professional way. For example.

Mr. Miss. Mrs. Ms should written in front of your name, because there is a chance your employer or recruiter might not belongs to your country, religion or cast etc without mentioning Mr. Miss. Mrs. Ms.  your recruiter will be unable to judge you that you are male or female, because recruiter may not be familiar with your country names :).   Lets say your are recruiter and you have received a cv from a Chinese person Name: Bo. Being Pakistani I don't know Bo is name of a person or not... if it is a name so next question comes into mind that male or female? isn't it very confusing? What if it is written Mr. Bo? Now i think its fine and you will have an interest to give look to rest of his resume or cv. 

Always try to provide or make professional email addresses. Do not apply for any job with email address like. or or or . Lets say if you get a call for interview.. how will you prove that you are a professional person?? you even don't have time to make professional ID for your self... 

Always try to write cell phone details with country code. 

2nd and Most important thing recruiter see in your resume or cv is the relevancy you have.... Relevant skills, qualities, achievements. Question is HOW TO IMPRESS RECRUITER HERE???  

So simple always try to modify or make new cv for every single job you are applying for. Yes for every single job, you should modify your resume or cv as per job requirements. 

If you are applying for100 jobs you should modify your resume or cv100 times...... 

3rd important thing. 

always check for grammatical mistakes. Run text (Justify) option in Ms. Word. Do not select cheep font type. Arial font type is mostly used in cv or resume writing. always use standard font size, not too much big not too much small.10 or11 is good font size for Arial font type. Through out your cv use same bullets or numbering format. 

Hope that was useful answer for all of you.