爱思英语编者按：现在求职找工作，一份出彩的英文简历绝对会为你加分不少。可能是由于英文不是我们的母语，所以我们得到的一些基础级的建议都只是为了写出一份不出错的简历，如果要写出一份出彩的简历，还是来看看国外求职专家给出的意见吧！

Expert Tips on Writing a ‘Hire Me Now’ Resume

I do hope you don’t have to carry out the suggestions mentioned below anytime soon. However, when your resume needs a cosmetic overhaul, remember the following points.

HR dudes have an attention span of seven-year-olds

The HR department will read your resume with the attention span of a seven-year-old at a DVD rental store. Unless you appear colourful and exciting and yet somewhat familiar, you will never be able to get yourself ‘rented’ at first glance. Since most seven-year-olds don’t care much of mysteries and suspense, they will decide by trusting predictability and past experiences. That’s why they picking the same movies over and over again. They will take one look at the cover and if nothing on it screams ‘WOW! EXCITING! FUN! AWESOME!’ they will either rent Harry Potter for the six hundredth time or lose all interest in movie rentals altogether.

HR executives  sift through dozens of resumes, and act exactly the same way. Your resume will quickly glanced over, and if nothing jumps out and screams "UNIQUE! QUALIFIED! GREAT ASSET", they won’t crib and whine to the  department head to pluck you out of the job market and into their company basket.

For this, you would need a resume equivalent of kick-ass DVD packaging. Sure it needs to inform, but more importantly it should be able to excite your selectors.

Once you've hooked potential employers with a well-packaged resume, it must live up to the initial hype by providing clear-cut concise answers to questions like :

What’s the gist of the story?
Will it make me laugh, cry, or  send a tingle up my spine?
Will it inspire me or make me think?
Will it keep me entertained?

Learn From Hollywood – Strong Punch Lines

Hollywood spends billions on addressing these questions. Lessons from the entertainment can easily be applied to employment.

There’s a reason why the wordy movie summaries are relegated on the back as opposed to the front of the DVD packages. That’s because nobody really gives a @#%$, that’s why. Or at least not right away. The synopsis means absolutely nothing to me as long as I am not taken in by the title, the glossy picture and the headlines which range from ‘side-splitting funny’ to ‘bone-chilling scary’ to ‘massive hooters from the hood’ (not for kids). The point I’m trying to make is that all it takes is a second long glance at the headlines to know whether it’s a movie, I’d be interested in.

Experimenting With Formats

Resumes headlines should be about your strongest experiences and attributes. Forgo the chronological listing of job experiences. Instead, present your strongest experiences near the top of the page. Those trying out jobs in creative fields (copy writers, designers, artists etc) can and should take additional liberties with their resume. I can’t think of a better example than my first resume.

Did I get a lot of calls? I did. I also experimented with the Q&A format by answering common interview questions. Everything from education, to work experience to salary expectations – nothing was left out. Yet the flow was so engaging that when I actually appeared for the interview, the first thing prospective employers did was to congratulate me for the resume. Two different companies hired me only because of my resume.

While this format may not suit the requirements of technical or marketing related occupations, the idea of presenting your resume as an exciting DVD package is bound to get you through preliminary selections.