The Chronological Sales Resume Format
Make sure that you use the correct resume format for your sales resume. Essentially there are three recognized resume formats, but the one that you'll use is a chronological resume format. A chronological resume format presents your work experience in chronological order starting with your most recent position (that's your current job if you are in employment) and then working back in time.
This is the format that you'll be using for your sales resume. The chronological resume format has the following basic make-up.
1. Header
2. Personal Statement / Executive Profile*
3. Professional Experience
4. Qualifications & Training
5. Awards
6. Affiliations
7. Keywords
*The Personal Statement / Executive Profile have slightly different formats and it depends upon the level of the position of that is being applied for. Essentially it's one format for entry level personnel or non-executive sales positions and another for experienced personnel and executive positions.
You can explore this in more detail by considering these seperate examples of a sales resume:
An Entry Level Sales Resume, a Sales Representative Resume and a Sales Manager Resume.
Moving on then you have a view as to your resume content (tip 1), you appreciate and know how to sell yourself into a vacancy, and now you have the correct format. Now you can start writing your sales resume. As you get started, take into account the following basic resume writing principles...
Resume Writing Principles - Get the 'Basics' Right In my experience as someone who has spent a lot of time reviewing resumes, I can tell you that there are a lot of people who write sales resumes that do not understand the basic rules for resume writing.
The 'basics' as I refer to them are a set of simple set of writing 'rules' that simply enable you to present useful information in your sales resume to the reviewer in a format or presentation that they most readily relate to. I have distilled these basics into 17 principles that you really should adopt. There may be more than 17, but there is certainly not less. Simple things, but many people just don't do them.
At the very least, as you write your sales resume, be concise. Keep it relevant and don't include material that is off radar. Write in the present tense for your current job. And write in the past tense for previous jobs.
What you are doing is presenting your assets - your capabilities for the vacancy that you bring to the table - in a manner that most resonates for them in the most readily accessible manner based on the requirements of a particular job vacancy.
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