When being a freelancer or a freelance consultant, you are compelled to seek new jobs all the time. That's why you need a hell of a good resume.

To help you avoid things like this (though it's quite funny in the end), I decided to give you a few tips I learned in my long experience of job searching.

Here are the key to write an efficient and attractive resume :

1. Don't write a mission statement, job title or stuff like that
You don't know what the person who will receive your resume is looking for, so why eliminate all the leads he or she may have in mind. Be a generalist kind of guy rather than a one job's man.

2. Don't put your photo on it
Apart from you, everyone knows you are ugly, disgustingly repulsive and that your photo is not an asset to find a job. And even if it is and you are right about it (but please do consider that 99% of common people overestimated their physical attractiveness), finding a consulting job is not a beauty contest. You don't want to be selected because you look like the sexiest pet, do you ?

3. Focus on what you can bring to your client
The guy who is going to provide you with your next job or mission is not especially interested in all your experiences. He wants to know how you can make his own job easier or how you can help him to make more money. That's all. The rest is bullshit to preserve appearances. If you can't answer these questions in your resume, then spreading lots of skills and knowledges like jam on a slice of bread is not much worth for anyone.

4. Lie, lie, lie and lie.. but don't get caught
You want the job so hard, so why not change in your resume just the little bit needed to become THE perfect applicant ? Everyone does it.. Invent references, give friends phone numbers for recommendation calls, write down good training or education, people barely verify.

But be realistic because you don't want to raise suspicion, which will lead you to get busted.

5. Don't talk about your hobbies or centers of interest
Because you don't have much room on your CV, and every room you can use to market yourself is better employed than chitchating about the books you read or your passion about building bridges with matches. And surely because your future client won't give a damn about it.

6. Design your CV
Even if you are not a designer, do spend some time to make your resume looks great. Some managers receive hundreds resumes every week. You need to stand out of the pile.

Get out the grey and boring CVs style everyone is falling into. You can use color, headlines, different typos, bold or italic ... everything that can make you stand out of the crowd of the boring ones. Why do you think people prefer reading magazines rather than newspapers ?

But don't go in the clowny paper however. You are not going to be hired for making sea-lions juggling.

7. Don't put contact details
If you have done your job properly so far, the reader should be yelling hell for being in urge to contact you and not managing to.

Why do you make this first "mistake" on purpose ? You need to create frustration. The reader should be desperate for getting in touch quickly. Ok some will reply to the mail you sent, but in most cases, the CV is printed and the mail erased (mainly because they are sure you did put your contact information on your resume). To be attractive, you must be hard to find.

That's why, when you do call to have some news, you can look like the savior himself, providing relief to your new client to a point he would consider you like THE solution for his company (even though you created the problem).

Of course, there are lots of other tips to write a killer cv that are pretty good. And you can find some good advices on the web. Most of them are valuable but don't forget that most of people that write articles on CV are in most cases haven't been searching jobs since a long time ago.