Self Realisation of your resume - Chapter 5

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Resume Blaster Tips - SAR

Writing resumes based on

Situation

Action

Results

Examples....

Resume Blaster - Don'ts in a Resume/Profile/CV

Resume Don'ts

• Making your reader dig for information is a crime.
• Don't tell everything you've ever done, this is going make your profile big.
• Using incomplete sentences which reflect your lack of details to attention.
• Don't include personal information, such as age, race, health status, its not needed while searching for a job (until and unless its specified)
• Making your resume too dense, busy or cute will lead to disqualification.
• Use a small font. 
• Using a fancy fonts that are hard to read will be a 100% NO

Resume Blaster Tips - Social Media Identity

Its a digital world and we all are available in Social Networking sites, so make sure all your identity matches and updated. 

Remember you are tracked.

Resume Blaster Tips - Interest & Achievement

A influencing section in Resume would be about writing your interest and achievements. 

Look at some tips

Using bullet points in resume

Using bullet points will help to convey your achievements in a strong and precise manner.  Time is the key and hence we need to convey about our achievements in a clear way.

Resume Blaster Tips - Be Influential

having a great influence on your profile will market you.  So make sure your profile act as a key for the interview

Resume with the Right Keywords

Many companies use a automated resume filtering software that looks for specific keywords in a resume. It is crucial that your resume has the keywords that the HR department is looking for. Read the job description carefully and include the details that the recruiter wants to hear from you

Resume Blasters Tips - Understanding of Resume Sections

There are many section in your resume and understanding which section stands for what is really critical, below image provide a fair idea.

Resume Blaster - Not getting interview calls

Thinking about what to do to stand out in the crowd. no more worries, you have reached the right place.

Resume Blasters - a unique way to get a new Job.

Resume Blaster Tips - Don't say it, Prove it

Don't say your accomplishment but use action words to prove your accomplishment. Refer the image

Resume Blaster Tips - Understanding the job cycle

Job search all starts with understanding the why factor. Image represent the job cycle.

Resume Blaster Tips

What to include in work experience...

Resume Tips

• Resume doesn't get you the job. It gets you the interview.
• People are busy. Your resume will be skimmed.
• Lose the objective. We know you want the job.
• Education: Don’t include anything before college. Only include GPA if it’s impressive.
• Move education to the end.
• It’s not what you know. It’s what you’ve done with what you know.
• Highlight your accomplishments, not your job duties.
• Use past tense. Coordinated vs Coordinate. Designed vs Design. Planned vs Plan.
• Relevant Experience
• Internships, summer jobs, Volunteer work, Research projects, Clubs/orgs.
• Customize your resume to the job. Pull words from the job description and use them in your resume.
• Review all of the experiences on your resume. Think of 3-5 accomplishments per experience.
• Accomplishments don’t have to be groundbreaking.
• Make/save money for the company?
• Increase productivity or save time for the company?
• Events, activities, and projects you planned and implemented? Their Results?
• Involved in notable projects? Notable clients? Results of the team?
• Did you get to use your writing skills? Purpose of writing?
• Action/Benefit Statements
• Action = Responsibility
• Benefit = Results
• Quantify your statements.
• BEFORE: Supervised staff of retail employees and planned promotions to grow profits.
• AFTER: Managed 20 employees, planned and executed 30 promotions, consistently generating 30-35% gross profit.
• Legibility is your goal. Don’t over stylize. No more than two fonts. Avoid ALL CAPS. Minimize underlining.
• NO TYPODS!
• NO TYPOS!
• Have somebody else read your resume and proof it.
• Narrow down the contact info. You don’t need address, email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blog, website, cell phone, mom’s phone…
• “ The only people who get paid enough, get paid what they're worth, are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.” - Seth Godin

Resume Blaster Slides

The All Time Classic Dos And Don'ts in Job Interview

Job Interview: The All Time Classic Dos And Donts
By Bernard MarrInfluencer
Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and Leading Business Data Expert

DO:

• Research the company and the position you’re applying for.
• Research common interview questions and practice your answers.
• Dress appropriately for the job you want, be neatly groomed, and dress relatively conservatively. Bring breath mints.
• Map out how to get to the location before the interview, and plan to arrive 10 minutes early. If something happens and you must be late, phone the office as soon as you know that you are running behind.
• Bring all requested paperwork with you to the interview including your resume, an application, references, identification, etc. Extra copies of your resume and a portfolio (if applicable) are also good to bring.
• Be polite and cordial to everyone you meet; you never know whose opinion will count.
• Offer a firm handshake and make eye contact when meeting someone.
• Repeat the person’s name to help you remember it.
• Maintain good eye contact during the interview.
• Approach the interview with enthusiasm about the job and the company.
• Stress your achievements and talents.
• Give detailed answers to questions with examples. Explain how you would go about tackling the assignments and challenges of the position.
• Have an opinion when asked.
• Answer questions like, “What’s your biggest flaw?” intelligently, but honestly.
• Show off any research you’ve done about the company, position, and industry with examples or educated questions.
• Take time to think about how to answer an unexpected question. You can repeat the question to give yourself a little extra time.
• Prepare to answer questions about your salary requirements.
• Ask intelligent questions about the job, company, or industry. It pays to prepare a few before the interview.
• Close by indicating that you want the job and asking about next steps.
• Get business cards from your interviewers, or at least make a note of the correct spelling of their names.
• Write down some notes after your interview so that you don’t forget any details of what was discussed.
• Write a thank you note and send it within 24 hours of the interview.
• Evaluate the interviewer, the company, and the position to be sure it’s right for you.

DON’T:

• Rehearse your answers so much that you sound like you’re just reciting from memory.
• Dress too casually, too flamboyantly or in revealing clothing.
• Arrive smelling (too much perfume, cigarette smoke, etc.).
• Be late to your interview if you can possibly avoid it.
• Arrive stressed.
• Bring anyone else with you to the interview (a parent, spouse, friend, child, pet, etc.).
• Address your interviewer by his or her first name until invited to do so. Don’t assume you know how to pronounce their name, either; it’s better to ask the receptionist to be sure. Don’t assume that a female interviewer is a Mrs. or a Miss; use Ms. unless told otherwise.
• Slouch, fidget, or yawn while being interviewed. Don’t chew gum or bring food or drink into an interview.
• Tell jokes.
• Bring up controversial subjects.
• Be aggressive.
• Be self-aggrandizing, insinuating that you are perfect and have zero flaws.
• Take out any frustrations about the job search process on your interviewer.
• Speak negatively about your current or former company, boss, or coworkers.
• Lie.
• Offer up any negative information about yourself if not asked.
• Make excuses.
• Be afraid to ask for clarification if you don’t understand a question.
• Answer every question with a simple “yes” or “no” answer.
• Bring up personal or family problems.
• Ask personal questions of your interviewer.
• Answer your cell phone, check messages, or text during an interview.
• Act as though you’re desperate and would take any job.
• Act as though you’re just shopping around or interviewing for practice.
• Indicate that you’re only interested in the job because of the salary, benefits, or geographic location. Don’t indicate that you intend the job to be a “stepping stone” to something else.
• Bring up salary, benefits, vacation time, or bonuses until after you’ve received an offer.
• Say that you don’t have any questions.
• Call immediately after the interview to find out if you got the job, or make repeated phone calls.

Inspired and extracted from: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/job-interview-all-time-classic-dos-donts-bernard-marr

Biggest Mistakes in Resume, 

Laszlo Bock, SVP, People Operations at Google

This post originally appeared at LinkedIn. 

I have seen a lot of resumes. Some are brilliant, most are just ok, many are disasters. The toughest part is that for 15 years, I've continued to see the same mistakes made again and again by candidates, any one of which can eliminate them from consideration for a job. What’s most depressing is that I can tell from the resumes that many of these are good, even great, people. But in a fiercely competitive labor market, hiring managers don't need to compromise on quality. All it takes is one small mistake and a manager will reject an otherwise interesting candidate.

Mistake 1: Typos

This one seems obvious, but it happens again and again. A 2013 CareerBuilder survey found that 58% of resumes have typos. In fact, people who tweak their resumes the most carefully can be especially vulnerable to this kind of error, because they often result from going back again and again to fine tune your resume just one last time. And in doing so, a subject and verb suddenly don't match up, or a period is left in the wrong place, or a set of dates gets knocked out of alignment. I see this in MBA resumes all the time. Typos are deadly because employers interpret them as a lack of detail-orientation, as a failure to care about quality. 

The fix? 

Read your resume from bottom to top: reversing the normal order helps you focus on each line in isolation. Or have someone else proofread closely for you.

Mistake 2: Length

A good rule of thumb is one page of resume for every 10 years of work experience. Hard to fit it all in, right? But a three or four or 10-page resume simply won't get read closely. As Blaise Pascal wrote, “I would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” A crisp, focused resume demonstrates an ability to synthesize, prioritize, and convey the most important information about you. Think about it this way: the sole purpose of a resume is to get you an interview. That’s it. It’s not to convince a hiring manager to say “yes” to you (that’s what the interview is for) or to tell your life’s story (that’s what a patient spouse is for). Your resume is a tool that gets you to that first interview. Once you're in the room, the resume doesn't matter much. So cut back your resume. It’s too long.

Mistake 3: Formatting

Unless you're applying for a job such as a designer or artist, your focus should be on making your resume clean and legible. At least 10-point font. At least half-inch margins. White paper, black ink. Consistent spacing between lines, columns aligned, your name and contact information on every page. If you can, look at it in both Google Docs and Word, and then attach it to an email and open it as a preview. Formatting can get garbled when moving across platforms. Saving it as a PDF is a good way to go.

Mistake 4: Confidential information

I once received a resume from an applicant working at a top-three consulting firm. This firm had a strict confidentiality policy: client names were never to be shared. On the resume, the candidate wrote: “Consulted to a major software company in Redmond, Washington.” Rejected! There’s an inherent conflict between your employer’s needs (keep business secrets confidential) and your needs (show how awesome I am so I can get a better job). So candidates often find ways to honor the letter of their confidentiality agreements but not the spirit. It’s a mistake. While this candidate didn’t mention Microsoft specifically, any reviewer knew that’s what he meant. In a very rough audit, we found that at least 5-10% of resumes reveal confidential information. Which tells me, as an employer, that I should never hire those candidates…unless I want my own trade secrets emailed to my competitors.

The New York Times test is helpful here: if you wouldn't want to see it on the homepage of the NYT with your name attached (or if your boss wouldn't!), don’t put it on your resume.

Mistake 5: Lies

This breaks my heart. Putting a lie on your resume is never, ever, ever, worth it. Everyone, up to and including CEOs, get fired for this. (Google “CEO fired for lying on resumes” and see.) People lie about their degrees (three credits shy of a college degree is not a degree), GPAs (I’ve seen hundreds of people “accidentally” round their GPAs up, but never have I seen one accidentally rounded down—never), and where they went to school (sorry, but employers don’t view a degree granted online for “life experience” as the same as UCLA or Seton Hall). People lie about how long they were at companies, how big their teams were, and their sales results, always goofing in their favor.

There are three big problems with lying:

• You can easily get busted. 
• The internet, reference checks, and people who worked at your company in the past can all reveal your fraud.
• Lies follow you forever. 

Inspired and Extracted from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140917045901-24454816-the-5-biggest-mistakes-i-see-on-resumes-and-how-to-correct-them?trk=prof-post&_ga=1.47551137.789954610.1412496871

LinkedIn Vs Profile - Comparison

Things Employers Look For In LinkedIn And Resume Comparison

1. Expertise.

Anyone can write on their resume that they have over 10 years of experience in the field of XYZ, but does that really mean you have expertise and knowledge of the practice? Employers will be looking at recommendations received, endorsements to specific skills, groups you’ve joined and even links to any published content you have. In particular, someone with a lot of recommendations and skills endorsements will be contacted first.

2. People in common.

When someone finds you on LinkedIn, they will also see if you know anyone in common. This lets them check references and see the kinds of relationships you have.

3. Employment.

Did you work for the companies you indicated on your resume? Are the dates of employment the same? Did you hold the title of the position stated on your resume? Anything verging from what you have are your resume is a red flag to the prospective employer.

4. Education.

Employers will look at the educational institution attended, areas of study, and if you have indicated receiving a degree on your resume that that information would also appear on your LinkedIn profile. If such information is missing, it would hint at some sketchiness on your resume.

In today’s job market, just about anyone who’s serious about job searching will have a LinkedIn profile. To not have one is telling prospective employers you are not up with the modern age. So, before you apply to any other job openings, make sure your LinkedIn profile is updated to reflect information you have on your resume. It doesn't need to be the same word-for-word, but the basic gist of the information must come off the same. Employers will be looking!

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