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Is the Resume Telling All?

Back to Basics. Write an Effective Résumé.

Your résumé is your calling card and first impression to a potential employer. You have less than 10 seconds to grab a reader’s attention.

Every line a reader see’s when your résumé is viewed on a screen will influence the decision to call you.

You may want to format your resume like this:

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A good resume can be most effective. But is the resume telling you all? Do the facts on the resume correspond to someone’s actual history?

You will never know until you conduct a pre-employment background check. this is why Corra urges every business to run the criminal check, at least, and the education and employment verification checks as well. If your candidate is driving for you, then the MVR Driver’s Report is also a must.

Check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.