1. Make sure that the first page of your mining resume will quickly catch the employer’s eye. A potential employer will spend 2 1/2 to 20 seconds on your mining resume.
2. Have a small introduction of yourself on the first page of your mining resume with what role you are seeking and what your goals are in the mining industry and have it linked to your cover letter which will be in more depth.
3. Font size should be no smaller than 11 point and should be a consistent size throughout the mining resume. The mining resume needs to be easy to read and text should be spread out evenly though out the resume. Use the same size and type of font for each heading used. Sounds easy but surprising how many people do not do this.
4. Remember that this is the first impression that make with your potential employer, so make it a good one. Consider taking up a professional mining resume service if you feel you will not give justice to yourself in writing your own mining resume.
5. Font type should be consistent throughout your mining resume
6. Try to keep the information in your mining resume relevant for the mining position you are applying for.
7. Make sure the referees know that you are using them, so when someone rings the referee they know straight away who you are and haven’t forgotten you. It pays to ring them in advance to tell them that you are using them and that you are applying for mining employment, so they may get some phone calls over the next week. Plus a good way to catch up on your mining contacts/friends. Aim to have at least 2 and maximum of four. Also include how you know the person and state whether it’s professional or a friend referee.
8. Birth date is optional in mining resumes.
9. Keep the mining resume positive and honest as you will be found out later on if you enhance your resume too much.
10. You only need to put down the last three or relevant jobs you have had.
11. List the duties involved in each job, the responsibilities and the machinery and tools used.
12. List the licenses you have like your driver’s license and tickets and qualifications you have. For example Marcsta, MWHS card, HR license, MR licence, dump truck course, boiler maker ticket, Fork Lift Licence, Provision of Qld Mining Generic Induction (surface Coal & Metalliferous), Senior First Aid. List the dates that these expire as this will show you are work ready.
13. You only need to put down the qualifications and work experience that is relevant for a position. For example if you are wanting a cleaner position in a mining camp, it pays to show that you have experience in this field, so list previous jobs that have similar duties. If you are after a unskilled mining job it pays to include previous work history that shows the similar characteristics as the mining job requires.
14. With your qualifications and tickets state where you obtained them, Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie or Perth for instance and include the state in which you were trained for example Queensland or Western Australia or North Territory. Also state how long the qualification took to obtain.
15. Identify keywords that mining companies look for in their new employers; this can be done by reading mining job advertisements that you are interested in and then make sure you are stating them with examples of your experience related to them in your resume and cover letter.
16. Keep your resume to the maximum three pages if not two. Mining companies what to quickly check that your suitable for the role with the correct experience and skills and the interview will enable you to explain parts of yourself in more detail.
17. Check that your email is a good for potential future employers to read. Too many times people have a email address like (angryman(at)hotmail.com, which gives the potential employer a chance to stereotype which can affect your chance.
18. Personalise your introduction statement. Too many times people use an introducing statements which looks like it come straight of the internet. Write in first person, so it should start off with for example using (” I am” a competent worker) not in second person like (“A” competent worker)
19. Successful resumes used for obtaining employment in the mines are different than resumes that you would use for jobs back in the city. Using a resume format and structure that is not normal for the mining industry is going to cause you delays in obtaining mining employment.
20. Its pays to get a second opinion from a friend or from a professional resume service provider that your resume gives you justice and is suitable for the mining industry and that there isn’t silly spelling mistakes that you haven’t picked up yet.
21. If you are living in New Zealand or and out of the state and applying for a mining job in Western Australia for example. Include your area code and the international code for New Zealanders in your resume contact details. (+64 international code for NZ)
Too many people that we come across are failing to obtain a mining job in Western Australia, places like Kalgoorlie, Port Hedland, Leinster, Raventhorpe, Tom Price, Karratha, and in Queensland in area like Emerald and Mount Isa.
Simply because they have tried to save money by doing the resume writing themselves which in the end has cost them lot more as they are missing out on high paying mining jobs before taking up our service.
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