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2.  Resume is summary of your educational qualification details
 It highlights your skills and experience relevant to the field
 It highlights your objective and accomplishments
 Its purpose is to get you an Interview call
 A resume should reflect more than just work experience
 It should consider your extracurricular, and leadership qualities

3.  Occupational resumes
 Chronological resumes
 Functional resume
 Combination resumes
 Curriculum vitae (CVs)
 Online Resumes

4.  Business Analyst Resume
 Insurance Manager Resume
 Sales Agricultural Resume
 Bank Manager Resumes
 Sales Retail Resume

5.  Commodity SpecialistResume
 Tax Accountant Resume
 General Laborer Resumes
 Elementary TeacherResume

6.  Key components of Chronological
Resume
 Identification
 Job Objective
 Key Accomplishments
 Education
 Professional Experience
 Affiliations/Interests
 References

7.  Key notes for Functional Resume
 Should include personal details like name address.
 Objective describing position you seek.
 Profile giving summary of your talents and experience.
 Experience listing your position, employer and dates.
 Education details and Training Undergone.
 Lastly Awards and Recognition received.

8.  The hybrid resume balances the functional and
chronological approaches
 Itstartswithskills, accomplishments, andqualifications ofthejobapplicant.
 Second page isreverse chronological ordering of your work experience.
 This format allows the reader to first match your qualification against job
opening.
 It showcases your work experiences in the most marketable fashion.
 It highlights your both job skills and accomplishments.

9. Name / ContactInformation
Education
Honors /Certifications /Licenses Held
Careers Skills / Knowledge
Career Achievements
Work Experience

10.  Acurriculum vitae(CV) provides anoverview of aperson's experience and
other qualifications.
 It istypically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview.
 an outline of a person's educational and professional history.
 A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications.
 Itisanapplication formthat isdesigned tobringout theessential
information and personal qualities that the employer requires.

11.  Looking for a highly challenging and dynamic work environment,
where I can transform my knowledge to valuable work experience
and which can refine my research, managerial, &learning skills.
 Totake achallenging position in an esteemed organization with
devotion and determination, so that it can enhance myskills and
knowledge in the best interests of the organization and for my
personal and professional growth.
 Toobtainameaningfulandchallengingposition inahealthy,
friendly and competitive atmosphere that enables metolearn and
excel. Believing that good team leadership and a hands-on
approach to management brings increased standards of services.

12.  Personal details
 Education and qualifications
 Work experience
 Interests and achievements
 Skills
 References

13.  Benefits of online resume.
• You cansubmit your resume onany online jobportal website which will
manage your resume and make it visible to employers.
• You can update your resume online anytime and anywhere.
• Add your "resume page address" into your e-mail's signature.
• Attach files such as Certificates, Word documents, PDF, and databases.
• Add up to 5 different photos.
• Very easy-to-use and it is Free.

14.  Career Change Resume
 Entry Level Experience Resume
 Public Information Director Resume
 Quality Review Auditor Resume
 Writer Resume
 Dispatcher Resume

15.  List your technical knowledge first, in an organized way.
 List your qualifications in order of relevance, from most toleast.
 Quantify your experience whereverpossible.
 Begin sentences with action verbs.
 Highlighting all of your strengths.
 Beconcise resumes reflecting fiveyears orless experience should fiton
one page
 Omit needlessitems.
 Have a trusted friend review your resume.
 Proofread. Be sure to catch all spelling errors, grammatical weaknesses.

16. • List your activities
 Write aboutactivities
 Pick items tohighlight
 Create resumesections
 Format yourresume
 Study ResumeExamples

17.  Paintsapositive andfactualpicture of
YOU.
Setsapositive tonefortheinterview.
 Guides the interviewer in what to ask.
 Influences others who approve the hiring.

18.  Chooseajobtarget(alsocalleda“jobobjective”).
Anactualjob title works best.
 Find out what skills, knowledge, and experience are
needed to do that target job.
 Make a listof your 3 or 4 strongest skills, abilities,
knowledge that make you agood candidate forthat
target job.
 Foreach keyskill,think ofseveral accomplishments
fromyourpastworkhistorythatillustratethatskill.
 Describe each accomplishment inasimpleaction
statement that emphasizes results

19.  Make a list of the primary jobs you’ve held in
chronological order. Includeunpaid workthatfillsagap.
 Make a listof your training and education that isrelated
to the new job youwant.
 Choose aresume format that fitsyoursituation—either
chronological or functional.
 Arrange your action statements on your resume
according to the format you chose.
 Summarize your key points at or near the top of your
resume in about five short lines.

20. FOCUS: The people who have the hardest
time finding a job are often the ones who
insist onwriting a“generic” resume that
lists everything they ever did. They
HOPE some employer will figure out what
job will fit them….but employers won’t do
that; they’re looking for people who know
what they want.

21. about it.
Find thatinformation injobads, in
employer’s job descriptions, or from
someone workinginthatfield.
 Informational interviewing is one of the
BEST ways tofind outexactly what skills
the job requires. Visitsomeone whodoes
that kind of work and ask them to tellyou

22. Examples taken fromresumes:
Target job : Customer Service representative
Relevant skills : verbal skills
problem solving skills
computer skills
customer care skills
Target job: Department Manager
Relevant Skills : Personnel Management
Budgeting/Financial Planning
Supervision andTraining

23. Examples taken fromresumes:
Job Objective: Electronic Sales Representative
Direct Sales and Product Demonstration
 Set sales recordfor 3 consecutivemonths.
 Exceeded quotas andincreased salesinlargest
territory
Job Objective: Merchandising display
Display
 Setupeffectiveretaildisplaysofbeverages i
n
supermarketsand package stores
 Inventoriedandreordereddisplaymaterials

24. Thinkaboutwhatproblemexistedin
your workplace.
What action did you take to resolve
the problem?
Whatwerethebeneficialresultsof
your action?

25.  Increased account base by 50% at two locations.
 Developed friendly, supportive relationships with coffee
shop customers, building a loyal base of repeat
customers.
 Advised callers on how to make connections.
 Designed and presented hour-long weekly orientation
program; doubled membership
 Assembled materials and reports.
 Developed greatly improved filing system saving time.
 Transformed a disorganized warehouse into asmooth-
running organization; saved $250,000 in recovered
stock.

26. • List your most recent job first, then your earlier jobs.
• Include ALL jobs IF you are young and have very
little work experience
• Include ALL jobs that show experience related to
your job objective
• Include unpaid work if ithelps to prove you have
skills and experience or it fills in a gap.
• Omit jobs that were very brief UNLESS they are
needed to show how you developed your skills—or to
fill in a skimpy work history.
• Round all employment dates to years.

27. • Eliminate the earliest jobs; go back only 10-15 years
• If you did roughly the same kind of odd job repeatedly,
you could create your own job title and callyourself self-
employed.

28.  If you’ve worked with alot of staffing services, here’s how tohandle
that gracefully. Listtheagencyasthe employerandpickonejob
title that covers most of the temporary work. Then list the specific
assignments, accomplishments, andthe experiencegained.

29.  If you are CURRENTLY unemployed, it
would help a LOT to find an immediate short-
term opportunity to get some unpaid
volunteer work experience, preferably in your
line of work, and put that on your resume
now. This will look better than being
unemployed. Don’t use the word “volunteer”.
Rename the category “Work History”.

30.  If you have gaps in your work experience, tell
what you WERE doing as gracefully as
possible rather than leave a gap.
 Examples:
2007-09 Full-time parent
2009-11 Maternity leave and family
management
2011-13 Full time student

31.  Omit high school if you have academic
credentials fromcollege.
 Mention your college work even if you
don’t plan to get a degree.

32.  Omit this section IF you have no training, no
collegeexperience,andnocoursestolistthatare
in any way related to your new job goal.
 If you completed a training class, list thecertificate
you earned.
 Ifyouonlycompletedpartofthetraining,listevery
courseyoutookthatisdirectlyrelatedtoyour
current job target.

33.  Choose chronological if you’re staying in the
same field and you have an unbroken
employment history
 Chronological means your work experience is
arrange in order by dates of the jobs you’ve
held with the most recent first. This one places
more emphasis on your JOB TITLES

34.  Functional means your work experience isdescribed by
emphasizing the SKILLS involved. Put the descriptive details
into
skill-group paragraphs.
Example:
RELEVANT SKILL #1
-something I did using that skill
-something Idid using that skill
RELEVANT SKILL #2
-something Idid using that skill
-something Idid using that skill
Job Title, Company, City, province, dates
Job Title, Company, City, province, dates

35. category.
 If you chose a chronological format, place
each action statement under the
appropriate job title where the action
happened.
 If you chose a functional format, place
eachaction statement under askill

36.  Keep each summary statement to one line. Include key
points that a new employer will need to know and those
that will make you look attractive and qualified for the new
job.
 Examples:
- How much experience in this line of work
- Training or education in this line of work
- A special accomplishment or recognition
-Your key skills, talents, special knowledge
-Something about your attitude or work ethics

37.  Proofread for grammar and
punctuation.
Check the spelling.
Get feedback from someone
experienced.

38. Parker,Yana Damn Good Resume
Guide, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA
 Parker, Yana The Resume Catalog :
200 Damn Good Examples, Ten
SpeedPress, Berkeley,CA