KBW Financial Staffing & Recruiting suggests following the following suggestions

• Maintain and update your resume constantly. It is far too difficult to remember cost savings or other performance measures from past projects that you were involved with or led.
• List multiple contact numbers on your resume. Be sure to include the numbers or email addresses that you monitor frequently. You don’t want to miss an important call about an opportunity.
• Be specific when providing a Summary or Objectives section. Don’t waste the space if you are going to fill it with business clichés.
• Prepare multiple versions of your resume. Long resumes covering everything you have ever done in explicit details simply do not get read. You must tailor your resume to the specific job you are applying for.
• Don’t be lazy and submit a resume online for a specific opening without considering the specific job details and amending your resume accordingly. Unless you are applying for the same job you currently have at a similar company, it won’t open doors for you.
• Don’t state Objectives if you’re open to a wide variety of opportunities. An objective may limit your chances if the reader thinks it’s not applicable for their opening. For example: My ideal company is a small to mid-size firm where I can…. If your resume ends up in the hands of a hiring manager for a large company, even for a contract/temporary opportunity, they can easily pass on your background since they know the company isn’t for you in the long run.
• Pay attention to details. Spelling and grammatical errors are costly. Be on the lookout for incorrect words spelled correctly: "to" and " too", "which" and "witch", "affect" and "effect", etc. Click here to read more about Commonly Confused Words.
• DON’T MISREPRESENT YOURSELF.
• Don’t use catch phrases like jack-of-all trades or School of Hard Knocks (it’s not an accredited institution)
• Watch out for complex sentences and eliminate articles - a’s, an’s, the’s. (i.e. replace “trained the staff” with “trained staff”) OR “Validated and communicated the process understanding, the testing procedures, and the analysis of the testing results to the clients”
• Learn to make use of indentations, bullets, tab alignments and columns (especially if you list MS Word as a skill set). Don’t use the spacebar 14 times to align something properly – learn to use the ruler.
• Don’t start comments with “I ….” The resume has your name on it. Of course it’s about you.
• Format suggestion:
  • Company, location, dates of employment (tab alignment to end of ruler).
  • Title, dates position held (tab alignment to end of ruler) Short description of company, industry, revenue size, local/domestic or international exposure
    
  • Value added proposition 1: Led project team on implementation of company wide… resulting in annual savings of $x.
    
  • Value added proposition 2: make use of bold and underline of action words
    
  • Standard Responsibilities: save these for last
    
  • Rinse and repeat as necessary based on resume length.
    
  • Definitely list a separate Software Skills section. Candidate searches are conducted using key words and Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, Great Plains, etc are all skill sets employers value. List them multiple times and your resume will end-up seeing more air time.