effective resume &cover letter
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Purpose of your Resume The Employer’s perspective Targeting your resume to match
Employer Needs Resume styles & Formats Tips for Resume in the digital age Effective Cover letters Resources
05/03/23 2syed Sohail Ahmed
Myth: “The Purpose of a resume is to get a job”
Fact: The purpose of a resume is to get an interview!
05/03/23 3syed Sohail Ahmed
The recruiter who is interviewing new graduates knows that these young people don’t have work experience yet so they won’t be looking for them.
What they will be looking for are knowledge, skills, and specialties.
Specialties and knowledge are defined by course subjects and academics
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05/03/23 4syed Sohail Ahmed
Employers will usually take, at most, only twenty seconds to look at one-page representation of yourself before deciding whether to keep or discard it.
The 20 second rule To ensure that you will make it past that initial screening, you should design your resume in such a way that employers can read the document easily and process information quickly
05/03/23 5syed Sohail Ahmed
Tell it . Worked as network
administrator with responsibility for administration and troubleshooting
Sell it. As network administrator,
created in excess of 750 user scripts, installed 16 workstations, administered security codes to 350 clients, supervised installation of company-wide Microsoft Office 2007 Pro, and regularly solved stress-causing malfunctions in operating system and software.
05/03/23 6syed Sohail Ahmed
Should You Use a Chronological Resume?
resume usually contains an objective and/or career summary statement and a chronological listing
Should You Use a Functional Resume?
A functional resume is particularly useful for people who:
Have gaps in their work history.
Are reentering the workforce.
Have frequently changed jobs
05/03/23 7syed Sohail Ahmed
http://studentsofpakistan.com/resources/cover-letter-writing/
http://www.resumebucket.com/sample-cover-letters/computer-science/sample-computer-science-cover-letter2489/
05/03/23 8syed Sohail Ahmed
https://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/article/cv-presentation-in-the-digital-age/
https://www.gcsaa.org/gcm-magazine/2014/september/applying-for-a-job-in-the-digital-age
http://studentsofpakistan.com/resources/cover-letter-writing/
05/03/23 9syed Sohail Ahmed
