Thursday, February 14, 2008

Get a Job before Pass an Examination.

In today’s competitive job market, a well written resume is one of the most important factors. With little extra effort; you can create a well written resume that makes you really stand out as superior candidate than many people, more qualified than you. Instead of copying others resumes and hiring others to write it for you, you will have to learn how to write it in your own style.
You apply for a job that seems absolutely perfect for you. Plenty of others people also think the same. A job offer often attracts between 100 and 1000 resumes these days, so you are facing a great deal of competition. Your prospective employer glances at a pile of several hundred resumes. He isn’t any more excited about going through these dry and boring documents. After a few minutes, he feels drowsy. Then, he runs across your resume. As soon a he starts reading it, he becomes attentive. The more he reads the more he is interested, awake and turned on.
Your advertisement: Keep in mind the quotation “A person who knows ‘how’ will get the job. A person who knows ‘why’ will be his boss”. It is mistake to think that your resume is a history of your past, and just a bunch of your qualifications and experience. It is your advertisement to your potential employer to win an interview. It is indirectly telling “If you buy my product, you will get these specific benefits”. Hence, focus on ‘what you bring to the employer’, not ‘what you want from the job’. Address the position for which you are applying to make it easy for them to identify. If you don’t have an email address you won’t be taken seriously. It’s a good idea to have an email address that sounds professional rather than a cute one. Provide recruiter with your phone number.
Pay attention to each and every detail. For example if you find the hiring angers name on the company’s website, quote it rather than beginning the cover letter with “dear sir, or madam. It creates more interest. Use a simple, easy – to – read font, correct spelling and grammar. The tone of the letter must be sincere, cordial and truthful. It should include qualifications, honors, academic profile, experience, computer skills and other extra activities. If you are rich in qualifications but little in experience, start the resume with the former and vice versa.
Five tips: there are five important points while reciting your experience. 1. Stress more on your experience, pertaining to the job you are applying for.2. Give more details of your latest experience. 3. Simplify older experiences. 4. Abridge your unwanted job skills. 5. Include all work experience, even if it doesn’t relate to the job you are seeking.
And after getting job, the final tip is: make yourself indispensable, and you move up. Act as though you are indispensable, you move out.
Source: Yandamoori Veerendranath