If you are serious about securing a position, then you must be prepared to re-write your resume for every position that you go after so as to focus clearly and directly on each of the employers you are targeting. Gone are the days when all you had to do was make endless copies of the same old tired resume and distribute them all over the place.

Today's resume is a personal marketing tool that is vital to your landing a job interview and ultimately the position that you crave with the company or business that you have set your eyes on.

With the rather intense competition in the job marketplace, your resume has to be re-written every time to focus on the current agenda of you employer. This will require you to stop thinking like an employee and instead start thinking from the employers' point of view. What this will do is enable you to see clearly what your prospective employer's requirements are which will greatly help you to "push all the right buttons" to attract lots of attention and interest in you from your prospective employer. This will cause you to stand out above the crowd and thus dramatically improve your chances of landing the position, even if competition for it is high.

Besides it is not too difficult these days to rewrite a resume. Especially if you know where to find online resume resources that will make the whole exercise a breeze. Computer word processing software also enables you to prepare and retain several different versions of your resume that you can always quickly retrieve, make changes and deliver—many times via email.