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Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Crafting A Stellar Career Summary For Your Resume Are you a career changer? Or, are you satisfied with your stable career but interested in updating your resume? Are you a professional who has tried different things but are still searching for the kind of work that best suits you? Whatever your career situation, what your resume most needs is a stellar career summary. Jul 24, 2005, 04:55 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Get a Job! Tips for Organizing Your Resume Whether you're a Vice President of Marketing or a recent college grad, your resume is the 'key' to opening the doors of employment. It is an employer's first impression of you and believe it or not, many hiring officials spend less than thirty seconds reviewing it. With only fleeting moments to make a first impression, it is imperative that your resume be organized. Jul 24, 2005, 03:28 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Resume That Effectively Promotes You! Imagine for a moment that you have created a wonderful product. You are excited at the possibilities of attaining name, fame and wealth marketing this product. You create a business plan and a marketing plan. You plan an excellent packaging and a presentation that would do justice to the benefits the product offers to the world and you get all set to market it. Jul 24, 2005, 03:24 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Resumes OR CV : Get That Job Your resume is your sales document. It tells the world of your achievements, capabilities and roles you have enjoyed. It should standalone and represents you well. To impress your potential employers there are a few guidelines that will help you create an amazing resume. Jul 24, 2005, 02:53 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Resume Writing - Importance of a Professional Summary The Summary is the preview of your entire resume. This may be be the only part that an interviewer or employer might read for shortlisting your resume. This may be the only section an employer reads prior to the interview. Gear up the summary to be the show window where the goodies are lined up to entice the person into entering the shop. Jul 24, 2005, 02:38 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Write Resume Keywords That Gets Your Application Read As children we often used to read stories where magical words can open caves filled with treasures or magicians using words like abracadabra... sim sim.. and magically things appear out of thin air. Jul 24, 2005, 02:05 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Change Your Life, Change Your Career And Get A New Job! Careers dictate resume format. Different careers use different forms of resumes. When you’re working on your resume, beware of services that try to sell you on just one template, regardless of your target career. That’s because formats of resumes really depend on the industry or position that you have. Lawyers have different resumes from professors who have different resumes from actors. Jul 24, 2005, 02:03 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Writing Resumes Use a resume as a foot in the door. When you go to college, they don’t really teach you how to advance your career. In order to get the jobs you want, you need to know how to write an effective resume that will win you interviews. In order to be successful, you need to look at resumes as marketing brochures. Writing good resumes demands that you understand their purpose. They just need to have enough information to attract the recruiter and the hiring manager. Jul 24, 2005, 01:37 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes What Not To Include In Your Resume Do you have a difficult time determining what does not go in your job resume? The rule of thumb is to only put enough information about your qualifications in your resume in order to get the employer interested enough to contact you about an interview. Jul 24, 2005, 00:56 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Who Should Write Your Resume? This is a question we get a lot. It seems rather easy to do it yourself if you have access to a word processing program and printer and feel comfortable writing your job history. Jul 24, 2005, 00:47 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Online Resume Tips and Secrets I manage a website for corporate flight attendants that features resumes prominently listed on the first page of the site. Unlike some careers, corporate flight attendants must promote themselves overtly in order to find work especially if they are contractors. Since adding this feature two years ago, I have learned that an online copy must be arranged differently than that of a hard copy primarily for security reasons. Let's review some of the 'best practices' you need to accomplish in order to successfully and safely promote yourself online. Jul 24, 2005, 00:19 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Five Biggest Resume Mistakes You Can Fix Yourself A career consultant can diagnose and overhaul a troubled resume. But you can check off the basics yourself Jul 23, 2005, 05:25 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Ten Tips to a Powerful Resume A new resume can jump-start your career. Your network contacts may ask for a resume and some industries absolutely, positively demand a resume as the price of admission. Jul 23, 2005, 05:24 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes 7 Steps To A Job-Winning Resume A new resume can jump-start your career. Your network contacts may ask for a resume and some industries absolutely, positively demand a resume as the price of admission. When you begin thinking of your resume as a power source, the results can be astonishing. Jul 23, 2005, 05:22 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Four Simple Steps To Better Results With Your Resume Is every job description you read the same? No. Is every job you submit your resume to the same? Of course they aren’t. If all these job descriptions are different, why do you submit the same resume? Jul 23, 2005, 04:43 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes 5 Ways to Drastically Improve Your Resume in 10 Minutes of Less 5 Ways to Drastically Improve Your Resume in 10 Minutes of Less. Follow these quick and easy tips to build yourself a better resume in under 10 minutes flat. Jul 23, 2005, 04:26 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes History Reports: When Your Resume Equals, "I Did This, I Did This, I Did This" I worked for…” “My responsibilities were…” “My duties included…” Does a prospective employer care about what you “did for other companies”? Of course they do, but that doesn’t mean that’s what they really want to know. Conducting a job search is a marketing campaign, moreover, a sales process, not your personal history lesson Jul 23, 2005, 04:21 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Online Resume Formats There are several types of online resume formats that can be used when contacting potential employers. When you search for job openings online, some companies will have on their websites which online resume format is acceptable. Jul 23, 2005, 03:06 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes How To Effectively Present All Of Your IT Skills Effectively present all of your IT skills with the IT Technical Skills Summary - an exceptionally powerful document that should form part of every resume submitted. Jul 23, 2005, 03:02 Business Articles : Jobs & Careers : Resumes Resumes Aren't Important - They are Everything When it Comes to Getting an Interview Employers and recruiters receive hundreds of resumes for every position they are trying to fill. To select their shortlist of candidates to interview, they look for the most common resume mistakes most applicants make and eliminate them first. Jul 23, 2005, 02:02 More Headlines