Ace Employment Services - Temp Agency » Job Opening http://www.aceemploymentservices.net Winnipeg's Newest Self Help Temp Service Agency Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:14:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top 10 Checklist for an Effective Resume… Surviving The Screening http://www.aceemploymentservices.net/273/top-10-checklist-effective-resume-surviving-screening/ http://www.aceemploymentservices.net/273/top-10-checklist-effective-resume-surviving-screening/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:38:46 +0000 admin http://www.aceemploymentservices.net/?p=273 Painful fact: the hiring official at Acme Wingnuts–-or any company, for that matter–would rather not read your resume. Don’t take it personally. He’d rather not read anybody’s resume. Labored, unexciting text, pat phraseology, fluff and puff exaggerations. It’s torture. Still, he’s going to read the sorrowful lot of them because it remains the best (only?) way to get warm bodies in the interview chair. And when there’s a job opening that has to be filled, warm bodies need to be seated in that chair.

But don’t expect him to like it. In fact, expect him to do everything in his power to get rid of your resume as fast as humanly possible. His immediate goal is to eliminate you from further consideration in the placement process. The more applicants he eliminates and the faster he does it, the sooner he can get back to the life he prefers–regaling his subordinates with tales of fly-fishing in the Rockies.

Resumes Are For Screening

The lesson to be learned here is that resumes are first put to use toscreen out candidates from further consideration. Those resumes that don’t screen out their owners are effective - simple as that. To keepyour resume from screening you out of the running, to make your resume effective, you must do a few basic things right from the beginning. Compare your resume to the following checklist to ensure you’re resume is an effective resume.

Top 10 Effective Resume Checklist To Survive The Screening

1) Keep it short. The effective resume is preferably one page, two at the most. If you’ve written a novel, tear it apart and whittle it down to one/two pages.

2) It must be easy to read. That means the effective resume is well organized with clear headings, brief statements of responsibility, bulleted points for emphasizing achievements.

3) It must avoid overly specific professional jargon. Keep in mind that your resume is likely to be read first by someone in the HR department who may not have a clue what you’re talking about when you say… “Chaired brain dump resulting in a turnkey solution to improve customer’s ROI.” Rather, talk like an earthling and state it plainly: “Boosted customer sales 20%.” Take care to craft a resume with universal appeal so as to at least get to the starting gate.

4) Curb your design enthusiasm. That means limiting your font selection to one or two. Use the traditional and popular New Times Roman if you prefer lettering with a serif, or consider Arial, Helvetica or Verdana if you prefer san serif fonts, lacking the slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter. Go easy on the bold and the underlining. And limit your paper selection to white or beige with a weight of 22 or 24 lb. Black type.

5) The effective resume is tailored for a specific position. I understand that may mean cranking out slight variations of your resume every day of the week to target different job postings. Nobody said a job search was a walk in the park. Jump over to Job Resume Objective for more on this.

6) Portray yourself as a problem solver.

7) Quantify your accomplishments with hard numbers whenever possible.

icon cool Top 10 Checklist for an Effective Resume... Surviving The Screening Don’t mention your current, or expected salary on the resume.

9) Don’t mention personal information, like whether or not you’re single or married, whether or not you have kids, whether or not your hobbies include golf or listening for extra-terrestrials with the modified ham radio contraption in your garage. Especially that last one.

10) Check, check, check for misspellings. Don’t ever, ever, ever submit a resume or post it online without doing a spell check.
In fact, take it a step further and have one or two friends or colleagues proofread the resume for spelling and grammar problems. Do this because an automated spell check program will not know whether you meant to say “principal” or “principle.” Both are spelled correctly but mean totally different things. It will not know that you erred by using a verb in the present tense when referring to a job in the past tense.

None of this may seem that critical to you, but trust me, it’s critical to the hiring official.

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Of course they don’t exist to help you plan or execute a career. Most of the organizations with booths are bottom fishing, looking for enough willing and able employees to fill established gaps in their companies. This is hiring on the hoof, wholesale filling of average jobs with people trying to be average. Planning a career at a career fair is a little like looking for a soulmate at a singles’ bar.

And fair? Hardly. Because there are no average people, right? There are average jobs, certainly, average in that they require people to fit in, do what they’re told and follow the manual. I’ll grant you that those jobs need to get done, but I’m not sure they have to get done by you.

By the time a job opening hits the career fair, it’s a job you don’t want. And by the time a job seeker is walking down the aisles, standardized resume in hand, it might be too late for her to find a job that’s worthy of her.

Here’s to a new, better sort of career fair, one that’s selective, interactive, long-term and both career and fair.

Now what are the implications for networking , social interrelationships and perhaps even social networking and networking sites on the internet

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    • Blog Traffic Exchange Related Websites ]]>     http://www.aceemploymentservices.net/197/job-fairs-networking/feed/ 0     Basio Letter Types in Communication for Job Openings http://www.aceemploymentservices.net/188/basio-letter-types-communication-job-openings/ http://www.aceemploymentservices.net/188/basio-letter-types-communication-job-openings/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:28:11 +0000 admin http://aceemploymentservices.planmywinnipegwedding.com/?p=188 It can be best and easiest said that the “job letter family” is easier and easiest to understand if the grouping is made simply into 2 basic sections and setups

    1) Reactive Job Letters

    - letters in this grouping are written when you know a job opening exists.  These are termed reactive letters

    2) Proactive

    - action letters that truly start and initiate leads

    letters in this set are written in the hopes that inquiries  as well as other steps will bring about a possible job opening

    You might well term these – initiates  or startup letters

    lastly also in this category can be termed and included “thank you ” letters and notes as well as other letters that are really not essentially required but that a person as a job seeker writes as a means of following up on leads and other potential job and career openings as well as opportunities

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    1) Those that are reactive.  The action letter is a response to a specific need .  Letters in this group are written when you know that a job opening does exist.  These can be said to be “reactive” letters.

    2) Proactive letters:  Proactive letters are letters that initiate leads.

    Letters in the group of  “proactive letters”  are generally written to inquire about a possible or potential job opening.

    A sub group of the proactive letter are “thank you” letters and other letters that a job applicant or other person are not required to write. but are initiated  as both a ways and means to follow up on a possible job opening or job employment openings.

     

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