Hard-working and high-producing loan officer with years of experience dealing with multiple loan types and customers. Expert proficiency with financial analysis and accounting software, interpersonal communication and persuasion, and complex calculations. Excellent history of production volume, customer rapport, and repeat business.
As demonstrated above, our resume writer did an excellent job of organizing his work experience in reverse chronological order, with the most recent and relevant position at the top. This is crucial because it serves as a first impression of your document, and it’s what hiring managers are going to see first.
A hiring manager’s ability to skim your resume will play a large factor in the length of time they’ll spend reading it. If your document is dominated by large blocks of text, hiring managers are more likely to scrap it and move on to the next one. This resume uses bullets and brief statements for organization, making it easy to absorb its information quickly.
It’s highly likely that our resume writer has had more than three jobs in his lifetime, but only the most recent (and relevant) three were included. This is crucial to the success of your document. Your experience at your local McDonald’s is likely not going to inform hiring managers of your value as a loan officer.
It’s crucial that hiring managers gain an understanding of the soft skills you offer from reading your resume. But simply listing them in bullets isn’t always the most effective way to communicate them. An important aspect of your resume is how well it communicates these soft skills by example rather than a list. Take a look at some of the resume writer’s work experience. Notice the inclusion of certain achievements with each position. Our resume writer “adhered strictly to customer security procedures” while working as a member service representative (teller) at Mountain America Credit Union. This clearly illustrates our resume writer’s commitment to company rules and procedures without listing “obedient” or “highly compliant” as soft skills.
While soft skills are important to one’s success in a new position, it’s next to impossible to land the position if you lack the required hard skills. These must be clearly outlined on your resume. See the skills section of the resume near the top? Our resume writer explicitly demonstrated his expertise with the relevant software for the position, as well as his knowledge of relevant subjects like economics and accounting.