How To Prepare A Good Resume ????

Creating Your First Resume

 A resume is a one or two page summary of your skills, education, experiences and accomplishments designed to capture a prospective employer's interest. A resume is a tool to get your foot in the door. It serves as a letter of introduction to get you considered for a position.

Will this candidate add value to my company?

If your resume answers this question effectively - by clearly communicating your strengths - employers will want to meet with you. Its really that simple.

What to Include on Your First Resume

Many students and recent graduates worry that they don’t have enough experience to create a compelling resume. Don’t be concerned. Once you start to really think about your background, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to speak about yourself. The content of your resume will be determined by your own unique experiences, skills and background.

The key is to emphasize those things that demonstrate your value and to leave out those things that don’t.

 As you organize your resume, keep the following points in mind:

• Write a clear objective statement. Knowing what you want and what the employer is looking for can help you write a clear objective. Also, keep in mind that you do not want your objective statement to be too broad or too specific.
• Make it easy for the reader to pick out specific skills by selecting appropriate categories, presenting relevant experience and skill areas higher on the page, and using underlining, boldfacing or capitalizing.
• Present information in reverse chronological order within categories.
• Good quality writing and clear communication are critical. You might be the most qualified candidate out there, but that is not the message you will be sending if your resume is disorganized and ambiguous.
• Use job titles and skill headings that relate to and match the jobs you want. Employers make quick judgments when reviewing your resume. If they see unrelated job titles or skills, they are likely to make the assumption that you are not qualified for the job.
• Adjust the specifics of your resume and cover letter so that they address each employer and position individually.
• Be as succinct as possible while still conveying all important information. Try to consolidate everything into one page if possible.
• Although the design and appearance of your resume matters, the content is what is really important.
• Be sure to double and triple check your grammar, spelling, formatting, etc. A mistake in this area says a lot about you as a candidate!
• Do not misrepresent yourself in your resume or cover letter.

As you work on your resume, keep your reader in mind and remember his/her basic concern: will this candidate add value? If you answer effectively by highlighting relevant skills, personal characteristics and accomplishments, your resume will open the right doors and generate interviews.

Resume Design

Many people are surprised to learn that resume design is just as important as content, but it’s absolutely true. Research suggests that your resume has less than 20 seconds to make the right impression, so it must be eye-catching and easy to read

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Identify and Deal with Your Shortcomings

Self improvement requires an initial self assessment, and identification of those characteristics or shortcomings that you want to improve.

Once you have improved your self confidence, now you need to learn to be modest, insightful and self critical. Mostly we know those aspects of our character that we would like to change, but, modesty aside, it sometimes helps to get some feedback from someone else. 

So first of all, see what sort of list you come up with by thinking about what you believe you need to improve on. At work, of course, it is sensible to consider what it is you do well, but also where you might fall short a little. What is it you need to work on to give you the best chance for promotion?  Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the things you are good at will be sufficient. It is always worth improving your skills, and you never know how important that might be for your future.

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Learn Self Confidence

Self-confident people inspire confidence in others: their audience, their peers, their bosses, their customers, and their friends. Confidence in yourself will influence how other people see you, and the extent to which they trust you both as an individual, and as a part of a team.  And gaining the confidence of others is one of the key ways in which a self-confident person finds success.

The good news is that self-confidence really can be learned and built on.

If you can put aside self doubt, and mistrust, and stop thinking that you ‘can’t do this or can’t do that', you are on your way to self confidence and success.

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Positive Steps for Personal Development

Plan of Action for Increasing Your Positivity and Confidence

Why is it that we think we don’t have to continue our self development once we have finished our education?  Maybe it is because we equate learning and development with the educational institutions that we have spent so much time in during our early years.  Of course, we continue to develop throughout our lives, and continue to gain new skills and attributes throughout our working lives and our lives as partners, parents, grandparents, and our involvement with our communities.

If we get to the point of thinking that we no longer need to improve, we are showing how closed our minds are, and how entrenched our attitudes. This approach to life doesn’t allow for change, and doesn’t allow for development. To be a fully rounded and healthy person, it is necessary to be able to respond to changes in our lives, in our environments and in our hearts and minds.

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