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Casual Articles - Too Few Resume Responses?-Try These Ten Tips to Improve Results
So to help start the ball rolling, here are ten top ways to get your people motivated. Ten small steps for you to start with. Recognise themRecognise your people as people, by saying 'Good Morning', checking that they're OK and taking a little time with them. Challenge themPeople need stimulation at work, so to encourage growth, build on their achievement of one skill, with the introduction of another. Instruct, coach and then delegate the new task. Encourage funWhilst it is a fine line between having fun and anarchy, it is worthwhile spending the time to understand, define and explore that boundary. Having fun is
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after
Over the years I have heard the frustrations from students about the lack of knowledge when it comes to choosing a job or career after college. They know they should have some type of idea but from what I have gathered most do not. Even though their parents are pushing them to get a job they have no idea what they are suppose to be doing. More importantly they have no idea what they want to do. It is one thing to have a job but it is another thing to have a job you love doing!Therefore, I have put together a plan for college students that should give every student, who sticks to the plan, a guide to help them determine what future career they may want to explore. At the crux of this plan ar
1. The name of your resume document should be in the form: Last, First. Add your middle initial if your name is common. Using resume or tomresume05 or such is certain to cause the recipient to lose it or lose interest because of the time consuming step necessary change it so it can be saved correctly. Make the document name unique to yourself. It should be in Microsoft Word format, not PDF or WordPerfect.
2. The cover letter is basically wasted material. No one reads cover letters with any degree of interest or attention. Make it short and to the point. You are looking for a position in a certain area and your salary needs are $. That’s enough. If you will relocate or not it is a good idea to state that also. Any detailed information will have to be in your resume to do any good.
3. Your resume should have many methods to reach you. Home, cell, work, alternate, these numbers must be at the top of the resume. Your home email and postal address’s are essential. Some firms search resumes by zip code. If you are a student or using a university email then get a free hotmail or yahoo type account for your job hunting. If your email address is drinksalot@yahoo.com or similar nonsense please pick another one instead. Try obtaining last.first@yahoo.com . It looks very professional.
4. Pick a standard type face. Courier New is fine. Use any others with caution. Eliminate any bullets or arrows or pointers in your text. No photos, no graphs, no long lists of two or three words on each line. Print it out and look at it from across the table. Is your resume too dense? Too long? Too much open space? Look at your composition critically on several different computer platforms. Send it to a couple of friends for review. Send it through a virus checker, spell checker, grammar checker and through AOL’s system too.
5. As a recruiter with 30 years experience reading resumes I can tell you that these first four items are the most important basics of increasing resume response. What follows are my personal preferences. Put your best foot forward on the resume. That is not that you have “23 years of experience” in some field. That is certain to cause me to hit the delete key immediately. My client companies are not interested in how many years of experience you have; they are looking for results.
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after
It’s the first day of the week and time to evaluate your current Yellow Page ad. You should realize that this ad has a variety of elements that can determine whether it attracts the right customer or, for that matter, any at all. Each has a specific function that can work on it’s on or support a cohesive theme. But let’s concentrate on the first item that more consumers will see and therefore, the most salient piece of the marketing puzzle.It all begins with the headline. Now, depending on several things, you have already decided that it will be your name because (a) you love it, (b) it’s a recognized company or brand name like Honda or Singer, (c) you’re a company that’s been around for ages, o
2. The cover letter is basically wasted material. No one reads cover letters with any degree of interest or attention. Make it short and to the point. You are looking for a position in a certain area and your salary needs are $. That’s enough. If you will relocate or not it is a good idea to state that also. Any detailed information will have to be in your resume to do any good.
3. Your resume should have many methods to reach you. Home, cell, work, alternate, these numbers must be at the top of the resume. Your home email and postal address’s are essential. Some firms search resumes by zip code. If you are a student or using a university email then get a free hotmail or yahoo type account for your job hunting. If your email address is drinksalot@yahoo.com or similar nonsense please pick another one instead. Try obtaining last.first@yahoo.com . It looks very professional.
4. Pick a standard type face. Courier New is fine. Use any others with caution. Eliminate any bullets or arrows or pointers in your text. No photos, no graphs, no long lists of two or three words on each line. Print it out and look at it from across the table. Is your resume too dense? Too long? Too much open space? Look at your composition critically on several different computer platforms. Send it to a couple of friends for review. Send it through a virus checker, spell checker, grammar checker and through AOL’s system too.
5. As a recruiter with 30 years experience reading resumes I can tell you that these first four items are the most important basics of increasing resume response. What follows are my personal preferences. Put your best foot forward on the resume. That is not that you have “23 years of experience” in some field. That is certain to cause me to hit the delete key immediately. My client companies are not interested in how many years of experience you have; they are looking for results.
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after
What's a Capability Statement?As the name suggests, it tells potential clients what you, or your organisation and staff are capable of. It highlights what your future capability is and reflects on your past successes.Capability statements are usually produced as brochures or booklets and are now increasingly appearing in online formats eg, HTML, PDF and self-executable ebooks. (The Entrepreneur Magazine section of "The Weekend Australian" of 25 Feb 2005 ran an article advising that legal and other professional firms are now using electronic media for their capability information). Include your logo, corporate colours and graphics so that your market develops corporate identity and
4. Pick a standard type face. Courier New is fine. Use any others with caution. Eliminate any bullets or arrows or pointers in your text. No photos, no graphs, no long lists of two or three words on each line. Print it out and look at it from across the table. Is your resume too dense? Too long? Too much open space? Look at your composition critically on several different computer platforms. Send it to a couple of friends for review. Send it through a virus checker, spell checker, grammar checker and through AOL’s system too.
5. As a recruiter with 30 years experience reading resumes I can tell you that these first four items are the most important basics of increasing resume response. What follows are my personal preferences. Put your best foot forward on the resume. That is not that you have “23 years of experience” in some field. That is certain to cause me to hit the delete key immediately. My client companies are not interested in how many years of experience you have; they are looking for results.
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after
Laser cutting is a precision cutting method widely used in industrial manufacturing. Laser cutting allows a level of accuracy unmatched by any other cutting method. A high-powered laser is directed at the material to be cut. The material burns, melts or vaporizes, leaving a high quality finish.Apart from the common materials such as wood, plastic and metal, laser cutting is also widely used in the processing of glass. Glass has become an important component of a large number of applications. Its use is not just restricted to windows and bottles but has expanded to telecommunications and information technology. These modern applications require a higher level of accuracy and precision that cannot
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after
Getting promoted is most likely the best thing that can happen to you at your job (assuming it's accompanied by a raise). If you have a list of goals that you want to accomplish at your company, it is probably not only number one, but bolded, underlined, and highlighted. Taking this one step further, because it's such an important goal there is always somebody looking for a way to get ahead at any given moment. Obviously, not everybody is looking in the right direction, or we would all be working at the same position for the same pay. The question then becomes: How do I make myself stand out and put myself in a position to get promoted?While I can't give you a magical formu
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after the name of each employer with a description of the business they are in. Size of company, number of plants, employee union status, multiple state operations, world wide customer base. These are simple additions that can make your resume stand out.
9. The section describing what you did, found under each employer, should contain a description of what you actually did, not a list of duties lifted from your job description. If this short section contains the phrase “but not limited to” you can be sure I am going to delete your resume. Why? Because that is a phrase from a job description and has no place in your list of outstanding results and accomplishments. I am looking for something I can relate to your skills and abilities that might be useful to my client companies.
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and critique.
Dan Brockman
Professional Recruiter Since 1975
Barrington, IL
847 382 6015
http://www.trainingjob.com
recruiter@trainingjob.com
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