The use of testimonials in a resume can have a powerful effect. For example: “John Smith played a key role in the implementation of our new SAP R/3 solution, an implementation that prior to John’s arrival, had been plagued with delivery issues. John not only brought the project back on track, but delivered within the revised date and under budget. A fantastic job…thanks John”. D Williams, Managing Director, ABC Ltd Notice how the above statement (when integrated into the resume) will serve as a major enforcement to the candidate’s resume, capability, expertise and above all, their hire appeal. Don’t include a testimonial on a resume for the sake of having a testimonial. The testimonial should be there to enforce your…..
Resume – Testimonials
April 27th, 2012Resume Cover Letter Networking
January 28th, 2012Article: Resume Cover Letter – Networking They say that “all is fair in love and war,” but in the current job situation they can also say that all is fair in job seeking too. Now, we are not advocating sabotage in the least, but we are saying that you can become a very active prospector and job seeker by using passive tactics. This brief discussion is going to introduce you to the fine art of writing a cover letter and sending in a resume even when a company is not currently hiring. By putting yourself into the “head” of the appropriate office or manager, you are likely to find yourself at the top of their “to call” list when an…..
Resume CV – targeting your Resume CV
January 28th, 2012If you could travel back in time to the 1980s you would see that many people began a job search by sitting down with a professional resume writer or CV writer and creating a single document. This would then be sent to a printer’s, where the owner of the resume would get a few hundred copies of the document to attach to each and every application. This sounds like a completely foreign approach to the process in the modern era of Internet applications and paperless documentation, but it is also outdated on principle as well. What does that mean? Well, the idea of a single resume (for all levels including executive resumes) used for all of the job applications is a…..
Resumes – assessing job response or lack of
January 28th, 2012You have sent out more than ten resumes in the past two weeks and have zero responses to show for it. You know that the job market is very competitive, but you are beginning to worry that it is your resume and not the market. How can you tell? We suggest you use the following list of pointers to see if your resume has some weaknesses that can be eliminated. Using passive instead of active words – one of the primary ways that you “lose” the reader of a resume is to enlist passive words to describe your education, abilities, and interests. For example, you “monitored office staff and managed schedules” instead of the far more active “supervised coworkers and…..
Resume – strategies
January 27th, 2012Resume Strategies How do you go about getting your resume noticed? One of the simplest ways to answer that question is to warn you about things that will NOT get you noticed or that will cause a potential employer to stop reading the resume too soon. For example, if you include tables or graphics in a resume it is a warning sign to a reader that you are either hiding something or too focused on being creative to ensure that the information in the document is read by the recipient. So, rule one is to avoid inserting unnecessary graphics into the resume. This leads to the next issue, and that is formatting. Because word processing programs are universal, it is…..