Make business card with name, job type or job objectives, competencies, telephone, fax, URI, and email {job documents}. Add qualifications summary on back.
For story {accomplishment story}, state activity/responsibility/problem/situation, difficulties that you faced, your action, and quantified results. For statement {accomplishment statement}, state action and result. Such statements/stories define your skills, knowledge, and roles.
Activities are solving problems, starting new system/procedure, managing people, deciding, planning, participating in team, and writing report or other publication.
Results are increasing efficiency, accuracy, money, productivity, or morale; decreasing cost or time; and getting bonus, compliment, honor, or promotion.
Summarize your career {career profile}.
summary
List ten favorite things that you did. List ten things that you liked least. List locations at which you can work. List industries and companies. Note company sizes and styles. List job types. List ideal job and company. List compensation that you want/expect. List long-term objectives. List objective risks/constraints.
resume
List knowledge and skills. List all jobs in chronological order, from most recent back. List education and training. List credentials and licenses. List honors. List publications and creative works. List community activities. List recreational activities. List languages. List references.
At letter {cover letter}| top, write name, address, email address, and telephone number. Write date. Write recipient name, title, organization, and address. Write salutation to "Manager". State job title and location and where advertisement was. Talk about company. Match job description/requirements to your experience, competencies, and skills. Optionally state your knowledge of, and value to, company. State that you enclose resume. State that you will call or email and ask for interview at set time. Thank reader for time and attention. Close with "Sincerely," and your name.
State what happened at company over last year, then state that you are looking for new opportunities, in company type, in job type {exit statement}. It answers the questions "Why did you leave your job?" and "Why are you looking for work?".
At letter {followup letter} top, write name, address, email address, and telephone number. Write date. Write recipient name, title, organization, and address. Write salutation to interviewer. Thank interviewer and state job title and location. Review how job description/requirements matched your experience and skills. Correct errors, add requested information, and add new thoughts. State that you will call or email. Close with "Sincerely," and your name.
Write a plan {marketing plan} to market yourself. Plan has job objectives and preferences within that objective, Positioning Statement with competencies list, Target Market, and Target List. Have two plans and pursue both at once.
State achievements that you want to accomplish in life {mission statement}.
State your competencies, skills, and knowledge, with experiences and personal characteristics {positioning statement}. State company types, sizes, and cultures. State what you see as your unique strengths in competency or skill. Positioning statements answer the request "Tell me about yourself."
State name, title, department, company, and telephone number {references}|. People check references before or after last interview. Businesses check references mainly by telephone. References can be co-workers, supervisors, subordinates, customers, suppliers, association members, team members, and project members. Do not use friends or non-work-related references. Always state relationship. Ask permission and give them resume copy. Keep in contact with references.
Job applications can include education, skill, experience, and objective summaries {resume} {resumé}|.
types
Resumes have heading, objective, summary, work history with responsibilities and bulleted accomplishments, education, training, skills, memberships, languages, licenses/credentials, military, and publications.
Chronological resumé lists work history from recent to former and is for same type job, in traditional companies. Functional resumé emphasizes qualifications and is for career changes or returns to career.
purposes
Resumes show that you have education and experience in industry, company type, and/or job.
length
Use one or two pages.
look
Make it typewritten. Use 12-point font. Use 65 characters per line. End lines with returns. Do not use tabs. Use asterisks for bullets. Separate sections with dashes. Do not use bold or underline, only uppercase. Check for spelling and grammar.
Email resume to yourself and check it.
style
Do not use "I", only verbs. Use short paragraphs. Do not abbreviate.
parts: heading
At top, write your name, address, email address, and telephone number.
parts: objective
Write short description, including company type and industry, of job for which you are applying.
parts: qualifications summary
Summarize your qualifications and career highlights.
parts: skills
List your skills for this job, such as training, with number of years, and languages.
parts: education
List school name, degree, field, year, and honors. List credentials you have that job requires.
parts: experience
List employers, addresses, dates, job titles, and job descriptions, including responsibilities, activities, achievements, honors, and promotions. For jobs, state problem/project/responsibility, your solution, and quantified results.
Show continuous work history, with no gaps. You do not need to use months, only years.
parts: organizations
List professional societies, clubs, honors, community work, hobbies, and sports. Give military record only if required.
parts: references
State that references will be sent on request, or, if required, list three references, including name, address, and phone, using one teacher, one employer, and one character witness.
parts: publications
List publications.
leave out
Do not use photographs, age, marital status, children, or other personal information.
Summarize your experience, skills, and competencies {summary statement}, using job-description and target-market keywords. First state job title, responsibilities, and traits in one paragraph and then list your competencies/accomplishments.
List 50 companies at which you want to work {target list}. State company size, by revenue or employees. State organization style or culture. Include name, address, email, phone, URI, contact name and phone, size, and financial status. Concentrate on managers that can hire you. Read about target company needs, products, services, finances, history, customers, workers, locations, sizes, and cultures. Add, subtract, and prioritize targets. Talk to people in organizations and send resumes/cover letters, read printed and online newspapers, journals, and databases. Check target competitors.
Write company type, job type, challenges, excitements, honors, and achievements {vision statement} that you expect in next five years.
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Date Modified: 2022.0225