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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By Deborah Federico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gone in sixty seconds. Recruiters spend less than a minute reviewing your resume. With a stack of resumes to review, recruiters naturally want to make their workload easier, tossing bad resumes right off the bat.&amp;nbsp; Reasons for your resume to be quickly tossed into the &amp;ldquo;No&amp;rdquo; pile: Typos, misspellings, mismatched fonts, a sloppy appearance.&amp;nbsp; Even a resume that&amp;rsquo;s too text heavy or runs onto two pages will get thrown into the discard pile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every time I teach my class on resume writing, I always start the lecture with the question, What is the goal of a resume?&amp;nbsp; Is it &amp;ldquo;to get a job?&amp;rdquo; as most students will answer? To them, I say, &amp;ldquo;No, that&amp;rsquo;s not it. Eventually, someone guesses the real goal of a resume: to get an interview. &amp;nbsp;I make the marketing analogy that the resume is an advertisement about you, and you need to make the most of that 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of paper. Sell yourself to the employer by convincing them that you&amp;rsquo;re the best candidate to bring in for the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, what can you do to increase the chances that your resume will be read by the recruiter?&amp;nbsp; Follow my Lucky 13 tips outlined below, and you will produce a winning resume that not only gains the attention of the recruiter, but also garners his or her admiration.&amp;nbsp; Pretty soon your phone will be ringing with calls from recruiters inviting you in for an interview.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;READ MORE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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