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Once you’ve refined your resume and used to get secure an interview, your next task is to prepare for the interview.  As we repeatedly stress in our articles, your resume layout does not need to tell your entire career story. Instead, it only needs to convince the employer to call you in for an interview. Once you’ve landed the interview however, your work with your resume isn’t done. You need to carefully prepare for the interview and you can do that in part by studying your resume from a different point of view.

Try to put yourself in the shoes of the employer conducting the interview and imagine the questions they might ask after reviewing your resume. For example, in the experience portion you may mention that you “delivered $150,000 in cost savings by qualifying a more efficient assembly machine”. After reading this, its reasonable to expect the interviewer to ask questions such as “how did you qualify this machine” or “how did you calculate the estimated cost savings”.  In doing so, you will be able to anticipate the questions and have your confident, well worded answers prepared ahead of time.

The key is going through line by line of your resume layout and asking what questions the interviewer might have about this particular point. As you may already have guessed, you can also specifically place things in your resume or word it in such a way so as to cause the employer to ask you a particular question. For instance you may want to impress them with the overwhelming amount of training you’ve received in a particular area, but you don’t want to bring it up out of the blue. By hinting at this experience in your resume, you may be able to peak their curiosity and cause them to ask the question to which you have an impressive answer ready to go.

As hopefully we’ve demonstrated here, your resume is a valuable tool not only in acquiring an interview but also in ensuring that you make a great impression once you’re there. For other useful tips stop by Resume Layout Advice.