job search & resume
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Team Information
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Contents
1. Organizing information 2. Optimizing your resume3. Ensuring integrating and polishing 4. Persuasive cover letter
Contents What is resume? Preparing for a successful job search
Conducting a successful job search Creating customized resume Organizing information
Optimizing your resume Ensuring integrating and polishing Persuasive cover letters
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What is Resume • In resume these things are include..
Resume
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1.Preparing a successful job search
Knowing your self Knowing the job market Knowing the employment process
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Evaluation your Qualification
What technology skill can you
offer?
Do you work well with peoples?
Do you learn quickly?
Do you speak other language?
Do you communicate
well ?
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Recognizing employment trend in today’s work place
You should also become keenly aware that a career that realizes on yes today’s skills is headed for trouble.
You are going to need updated, marketable skills hat save you well as you move from job to job
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Choosing your path
In choosing an area, you will make the best decisions
when you can match your interests and qualifications with the requirements and rewards in specific careers.
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Where can you find the best career data? Here are some suggestions;
Search the web
Use your
library
Internship
Interview
Visit campu
s
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2. Conducting a successful job search
• you can combine both online and traditional job-search tactics to land the job of your dreams.
•Online job search
•Traditional job search
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Online job-search
• Searching for a job electronically has become a common, but not always fruitful, approach.
Using job boards
Career builder
Monster Keep careful records
Company web site
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Traditional job-search
• you use traditional techniques, you should be prepared to launch an aggressive campaign and you can’t start too early.
Check ads in newspaper
Check organization
announcement
Attend career fairs interview
Contact with campus
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3. Creating Customized resume
• This means you will prepare a special resume for every position you want.
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Choosing Style
Chronological
Functional
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4. Organizing your information
• A customized resume emphasizes skills and achievements aimed at a particular job or company
Main heading Career
objective Summary of qualification
Education Experience
Skill
Awards Personal data
Reference
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5. Optimizing your resume for today’s technology
•Print base resume
•Scan able resume •E-portfolio or video resume
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Tips to maximize scan able resume
Use 10 to 14 point type
Avoid fancy format List each cell
numberAvoid double
column
Name in first line care full mail
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E-portfolio or video resume
Video resume
E-portfolio
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6. Ensuring integrating & polishing your resume
Being honest & ethical
Inflated education or grade
Enhance job title
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Altered employment dates
Hidden keywords
Polishing your resume
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Proof reading
Submitting your
resume
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Submitting your resume…
Words document
Plain text document
PDF document
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Cont… submitting your resume
Company database
fax
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7. Creating customized , persuasive cover letter
• A cover letter has three purposes. • introducing the resume • highlighting your strengths in terms of benefits to the reader• helping you gain an interview
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Cont..cover letter
Gain attention in the opening
Highlight strength in the body
Motivation action in closing
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Send your cover letter
Final tips for cover letter
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Cont… persuasive cover letter..
Solicited letter
Unsolicited letter
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Quotation;
• When you first start working, your take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don’t think about what you’re building.
• ( chris Hardwick )
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