When an interviewer asks you to elaborate on the accomplishments you’ve listed on your resume, he/she is listening for specifics to determine how you match the demands of the job and how well you would communicate with colleagues and clients.

In this article, John D. Spooner, a wealth manager and best-selling author, offers some interesting suggestions on what you can do to your resume to get it noticed.

The tips include:

The best way to prevent errors is to not rely on spell-check to find all your mistakes. Some of the most common mistakes are simple typos such as typing “manger” when you meant to type “manager”. The spell-check function will not pick up on this error.

You should always strive to be a great person to be around at work. Understanding your coworkers, their strengths and weaknesses and how you can help them will help you become a better coworker. Follow these steps to establish yourself as a good coworker and contribute to a healthy work environment.

Including bullet points under each work experience is the best way to effectively highlight your work experience. Keep the bullet point to 1-2 lines anything longer can look like an excessively long run-on sentence.

If you are contemplating a new job and making a list of your transferable skills that you can use to market yourself, do not forget to showcase your soft skills. Your ability to communicate with teammates, your knack for solving problems, and even your basic manners can go a long way when a hiring manager is looking at your resume or interviewing you.

Once an interviewer identifies you as a strong candidate, the tone of the interview will shift. Meaning, the substance of the interview will be less about determining whether you are qualified for the position, and more about why you should work for this company.

Survey after survey highlights the importance of getting the first few seconds and minutes of your job interview right:

• Six in ten managers say an interviewee’s dress sense has a big impact on their employability (source: monster.co.uk survey).

Recruiters and hiring managers do not have lots of time. They are not going to waste time interviewing someone they feel is not a good fit If your interviewer speaks with you beyond the allotted time, it speaks volumes as to your potential as a candidate.

When sending an email rethink these 9 common responses and how making a slight change makes your answer sound professional.

Job seekers can take a self-interested approach when interviewing and searching for their next position. Remember, it is not always about what the job can offer you but what you can offer to the job and company.

We all know this past year has been challenging to say the least. When interviewing, consider asking a COVID question such as: “I know the pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption for many companies. How are you, as a manager, doing?”

As we approach a year since many workers started to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic more an more people are finding it hard to separate their work life from their home life. Its easy to do one more email or one more call and before you know if another hour has passed.

When trying to get your resume noticed, do not use bright colors, lines or shapes. This can detract from the message you are trying to send. It’s best to keep it simple with black text, consistent font and clean lines.

When looking to make a career change, make sure you can talk as to why you are leaving your current industry and how your skills will translate into a new job.

If you knew that an effortless gesture could not only change a person’s day but also create a deeper connection between people, wouldn’t you do it? Well, that is what a simple smile can do.

In today’s world, we are all dealing with more demanding work issues and some work from home situations that are less than ideal. Try every couple of weeks to have a complaint-free day. Think about all of your blessings and good things going on around you.

With our days filled with e-mails, calendars, post-it-notes and to-do lists it is easy for our brains to become scattered thus taking away from our insightful and creative thinking.

A recent study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found "increasing the diversity of leadership teams leads to more and better innovation and improved financial performance." After studying 1700 companies in 8 different countries, they found that the diverse management lead to 19% higher revenue due to innovation. So not only is diversity a metric to be strived for, but it is also important to generating revenue of a successful business.

It’s okay to worry or feel uncertain, but do not allow it to take over your life. The only “right” path is the path that feels right to you. You might accept the new job offer and realize that it wasn’t a good culture fit or that there were far more responsibilities than you were prepared to take on.