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Atricle Dump - The Easy Way to a Stellar Resume
In this article we try to cut through some of the printing red tape and try to provide you with a better understanding of the jargon and the pitfalls, ensuring your expectations are more closely matched to the end product you will be receiving. The following points should be of help,If you want a close colour match between colours on the designs you see on the computer monitor and the printed cards speak to the printer. Depending on the type of monitor you use and the colours involved, there could be a huge difference between how the colour looks on the monitor (RGB MODE) and how the printed colour (CMYK MODE) looks when printed from the printer or when printed using you home of office printer. Also the type of paper used affects how the printed colours look. If you want very close matches the best way to proceed is to send a paper copy of the card with colours on it to the printer. The printer can then try to find the closest matching CMYK colour. If the printer can’t find an appropriate CMYK colour code, he may recommend using another printing set of colours called Pantone (Spot) colours. Pantone colour printing is normally more expensive than CMYK colour printing, but the accuracy to colour match is also better.The most common misunderstanding and pitfall between a customer and a company offering printed services, is when a customer requires his card details or logo to have beautiful and bright colours which they see on the monitor, yet the same colours look a lot duller on the printed business cards they receive.Why does this happen? Qu
Start with your education. Then update the bullet points for the first job or oldest career position that you are going to include. Keep working forward in time, from the end of your resume to the beginning. Pay attention to how the responsibility and experience of each position contributed to the success of the subsequent one.
4. Concise, Precise and Measured
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As busy professionals we are always on the lookout for the best way to accomplish our goals. We want more freedom to enjoy the benefits that being our own "master" provides. As we seek to expand our prosperity and productivity we encounter many individuals who help and support us on our path.But what about when we find ourselves going back again and again for help and ... it isn't working. The "answer" always seems to be one off from the solution that we're seeking. Maybe if we would look at life just a little differently from the inside, we would see a dramatic change on the outside.Often the challenges we face as entrepreneurs, parents or individuals - aren't the real problem at all and we get caught in an endless loop trying to solve the obvious, only to have the problem reoccur again, and again. The next time it may look exactly the same - or maybe it wears a different face.Consider the power you would have if the things that were happening in your life were simply mirrors to encourage you to see yourself as others see you? You have the power to clear the mirror and take a step closer to the freedom you desire.Consider the following; what if you had an awareness of and trusting in the overall plan of life; a broader understanding of why things are happening so there would be less struggle and resistance. What if you could find the source of the petty irritations as well as the major challenges that you face?When you are able to connect with this gift you have the ability to find greater freedom to "be", to "do", and ultimat
1. Create a Personal Portfolio
This is the easy part. Begin by making a list of accomplishments, education and previous positions. This is your own private list. Do not be concerned with the order or the appearance. You can use scratch paper, word processor or collection of documents. Gather, create, collect and document your history with important facts, figures and milestones. Collect the relevant highlights from your life, education and career.
2. Choose a Standard Outline
Select a standard Template to use as your outline. Resist the urge to be creative or unique in the format of your resume. Do not waste time with colorful bullets, images or watermarks. Why? Web sites like Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com provide the option to upload a resume in standard format and can automatically identify job titles with associated accomplishments. Your resume gets cut and spliced into pure text data and loaded into a “Monster” database that can be accessed by recruiters, human resource departments and agencies. Many companies and organizations either use the on-line database application or have similar software for managing the pure text from resumes. These filters do not support colorful bullets, images, icons or watermarks. If you do not want to spend your time copying and pasting pure text for every on-line opportunity, then make your life easy and use a standard template.
Organize the documents and thoughts from your personal portfolio into a chronological timeline and type them into a standard resume outline. Be sure to keep track of the accomplishments that best define your ability. Sample Professional and Standard Outlines can be found at http://www.executiveblueprints.com/executive_jobs.htm
3. Work Backwards
The typical resume starts with a short paragraph about you, followed bullet by points of your highlights, and then lists your career starting with your current or latest job. While that is meaningful to a potential employer to see the most current and relevant information first, it is opposite of the order of events. Most people tend to reflect on their life with greater precision in chronological order, like a story unfolding and progressing through the eyes of your memory.
Start at the end of your resume and work toward the beginning. This will enable you to follow your own career path and build up to the current status. It will make more sense to you as you put it together. Like building blocks of personal development, it will make more sense to someone reading the final product and understanding how you got to where you are today.
Start with your education. Then update the bullet points for the first job or oldest career position that you are going to include. Keep working forward in time, from the end of your resume to the beginning. Pay attention to how the responsibility and experience of each position contributed to the success of the subsequent one.
4. Concise, Precise and Measured
Bullet point
When I hand out a business card my response rate is really low. Consider how many times you give someone a card and they never get back with you. There are a few reasons why they don't. Here are the most common in order.1) They don't need your product or services right now.Odds are when you are handing someone your business card their exact need and your timing aren’t perfectly aligned. They are most likely not in the market for your product or service. Forcing them to buy your product or service is called duress and you can be thrown into prison for this. So, as you have heard before don't take their lack of desire personally – sales, really is a numbers game. Sure you can tip the scale in your favor but know that it takes more time and effort to coerce people into buying something they don’t really need right now than it does to just be there for them when they need you. The trick is just being in front of more people and better yet being the one they think of when they think of that purchase. How do you do this? The easiest was is to be the recognized expert which takes some time to do. Be the one people go to for a better understanding of the process or the service or product you are selling -- be the expert. Things that come to mind include; writing articles and getting them published, sending out cards or notes to your prospects possibly including tips or helpful hints and my favorite (because it's free) doing all of the above by sending regular informative newsletters via email. Action Step - begin getting contact informa
2. Choose a Standard Outline
Select a standard Template to use as your outline. Resist the urge to be creative or unique in the format of your resume. Do not waste time with colorful bullets, images or watermarks. Why? Web sites like Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com provide the option to upload a resume in standard format and can automatically identify job titles with associated accomplishments. Your resume gets cut and spliced into pure text data and loaded into a “Monster” database that can be accessed by recruiters, human resource departments and agencies. Many companies and organizations either use the on-line database application or have similar software for managing the pure text from resumes. These filters do not support colorful bullets, images, icons or watermarks. If you do not want to spend your time copying and pasting pure text for every on-line opportunity, then make your life easy and use a standard template.
Organize the documents and thoughts from your personal portfolio into a chronological timeline and type them into a standard resume outline. Be sure to keep track of the accomplishments that best define your ability. Sample Professional and Standard Outlines can be found at http://www.executiveblueprints.com/executive_jobs.htm
3. Work Backwards
The typical resume starts with a short paragraph about you, followed bullet by points of your highlights, and then lists your career starting with your current or latest job. While that is meaningful to a potential employer to see the most current and relevant information first, it is opposite of the order of events. Most people tend to reflect on their life with greater precision in chronological order, like a story unfolding and progressing through the eyes of your memory.
Start at the end of your resume and work toward the beginning. This will enable you to follow your own career path and build up to the current status. It will make more sense to you as you put it together. Like building blocks of personal development, it will make more sense to someone reading the final product and understanding how you got to where you are today.
Start with your education. Then update the bullet points for the first job or oldest career position that you are going to include. Keep working forward in time, from the end of your resume to the beginning. Pay attention to how the responsibility and experience of each position contributed to the success of the subsequent one.
4. Concise, Precise and Measured
Bullet point
We all like to think we are easy to get along with. We don't make our co-workers lives difficult. But, chances are, if you find some of your co-workers hard to work with, someone will find you a challenge, too.You are not a challenge because you intentionally decided to be. In fact, the attributes and skills you consider to be your best strengths may be the very ones someone else finds difficult to deal with.See if you can find yourself in one (or more!) of the following profiles:* You call it decisive, they call you a steam roller. You are the kind of person who can make quick decisions. You size up situations quickly, see the best alternative, and then take action. No use waiting around, you tell yourself and co-workers. They are swept up and away by your pace. They are still trying to figure out the question, or looking at alternatives, and you are finished with the task. They feel run over or devalued; you didn't hear their contributions because your mind was already made up.When working on a team, check in with each of them. Make sure you have heard from all of them before you announce your decision. By asking, even if they say okay, you will make sure they are feeling included.* You know you are gathering consensus, they think you are wishy washy. Even though you are working together, time constraints or project specifications may preclude everyone agreeing on everything. If everyone always agreed, you wouldn't need group input. If you are i
Organize the documents and thoughts from your personal portfolio into a chronological timeline and type them into a standard resume outline. Be sure to keep track of the accomplishments that best define your ability. Sample Professional and Standard Outlines can be found at http://www.executiveblueprints.com/executive_jobs.htm
3. Work Backwards
The typical resume starts with a short paragraph about you, followed bullet by points of your highlights, and then lists your career starting with your current or latest job. While that is meaningful to a potential employer to see the most current and relevant information first, it is opposite of the order of events. Most people tend to reflect on their life with greater precision in chronological order, like a story unfolding and progressing through the eyes of your memory.
Start at the end of your resume and work toward the beginning. This will enable you to follow your own career path and build up to the current status. It will make more sense to you as you put it together. Like building blocks of personal development, it will make more sense to someone reading the final product and understanding how you got to where you are today.
Start with your education. Then update the bullet points for the first job or oldest career position that you are going to include. Keep working forward in time, from the end of your resume to the beginning. Pay attention to how the responsibility and experience of each position contributed to the success of the subsequent one.
4. Concise, Precise and Measured
Bullet point
Think out side of the box when it comes to fundraising. The old traditional ways to fundraise were great for your grandmother but now is the time to look for change. We are living in a face paced and dynamic society that expects a lot of fun, glitz and glamour with every thing they do. This includes fundraising. Look for ways to shake up the old school and turn out a new hip and exciting fundraising campaign.Ask your local teens to help. Contact the head administrator of your local high schools and explain your idea. Get the administrator to add in some motivation for the students by applying credit to volunteering or offering a ditch day at a local fun spot for kids. Your kids will be thrilled to help if they know that next month they get to spend the day at the water park instead of at the desk.Look for free venues. If you live ocean side the beach is a great place to start. If you are in the mountains look for a local park or reserve that can stand as your venue. There are a lot of ways to think creatively when it comes to venue. Where would you like to go on a Saturday? Take your own desires and turn them into creative fundraising.Dig out your old game of Clue and look for that for inspiration. Create a murder mystery party or some other type of sleuthing event. Your participants will have a great time playing while you are raising funds. Just be sure to take your time in planning. You want to be sure that all your I’s are dotted and T’s are crossed before you begin.Take some time up front to draft a well written c
3. Work Backwards
The typical resume starts with a short paragraph about you, followed bullet by points of your highlights, and then lists your career starting with your current or latest job. While that is meaningful to a potential employer to see the most current and relevant information first, it is opposite of the order of events. Most people tend to reflect on their life with greater precision in chronological order, like a story unfolding and progressing through the eyes of your memory.
Start at the end of your resume and work toward the beginning. This will enable you to follow your own career path and build up to the current status. It will make more sense to you as you put it together. Like building blocks of personal development, it will make more sense to someone reading the final product and understanding how you got to where you are today.
Start with your education. Then update the bullet points for the first job or oldest career position that you are going to include. Keep working forward in time, from the end of your resume to the beginning. Pay attention to how the responsibility and experience of each position contributed to the success of the subsequent one.
4. Concise, Precise and Measured
Bullet point
What is B2B?B2B stands for Business to Business. B2B e-commerce is the most cost effective way for sellers to reach buyers around the globe.B2B MarketplaceA Business to Business (B2B) marketplace is an Internet marketplace where exporters, importers, traders, traders, brokers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and other business communities from around the world meet for buying and selling. From meeting the customer to fixing the deals along with the payment is held online with no physical interaction. This is the biggest advantage of a B2B marketplace. So a B2B marketplace is a place where B2B trade is carried on. Visit our Home page to have a look at such a marketplace.B2B tradeB2B trade includes posting an offer (trade offer) by company to find buyers for their products. This trade offer includes the details of products that a company is offering and is posted. Then an interested buyer replies to this offer and the online B2B trade is completed with payment from the buyer and delivery of the product from the selling company.B2B AuctionsThis is done in the same way as Trade Offers companies post their products to sell them through an Online Auction. Interested buyers place their bids for the product. When the bidding time closes, the buyer with highest bid gets the deal and the Online B2B Auction is completed with the payment from the buyer and the delivery of the product from the company.To more Visit us: http
Start with your education. Then update the bullet points for the first job or oldest career position that you are going to include. Keep working forward in time, from the end of your resume to the beginning. Pay attention to how the responsibility and experience of each position contributed to the success of the subsequent one.
4. Concise, Precise and Measured
Bullet points with short sentences and specific measurements are excellent. For each job, use a series of bullet points to make your statement. Punctuate the highlights with measurements. “Good sales skills” should be “Increased sales 45% in first Quarter”, “Increased sales 15% year-over-year” or “Directed Regional Sales Growth of 7% in Sixteen Months”. Service related measurements may be related to “Improved Customer Satisfaction from 87% to 95%”, or “Managed a Call Center with less than 2% Abandon Rate”. Accounting and Finance may include estimated average size of portfolio managed, outstanding receivables in days, or similar measurements. Dates, Completion and Milestones are also a method of measurement. The bottom line is that every position can be measured. Identify measurements and provide quantitative details.
Do not make up measurements. Include the data if you have it or you are confident in the accuracy. Do not make up numbers if you do not know them. Use bullet points to be concise, do not use paragraphs. Avoid using “I” or “We”. Use personal accomplishments with supporting data.
5. Select Your Highlights
Select highlight from your personal portfolio. These may or may not be included in your career bullet points. You can emphasize specific accomplishments from your career, or you can use this opportunity to highlight outside achievements. For example, this might be your opportunity to mention volunteer work for charitable contributions. Use highlights to draw attention to specific individual talents, skills and experience. Highlights should also be listed in bullet form, above the individual career descriptions.
6. Keywords and Buzzwords
Above the bulleted Highlights, create a section of bulleted Keywords and Buzzwords. What are keywords and buzzwords? These are common words associated with your desired profession. For example, a programmer might include reference to “UNIX”, “LINUX” or “ORACLE”. An administrative assistant might include expertise in “WORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL”, or the number of “WPM”. If you know which skills, tools, degrees or experience are relative and important for your profession, then be sure to list your capabilities. Do not take this for granted or assume that this is common. The recruiter and employer can not assume that all applicants have the necessary skills, so make sure that you include as many as possible.
Why is this so important? The on-line tools and application filters will search your resume for keywords related to specific jobs, just like search engines search for keywords to identify relevance in a web page or web site. The more matches to keywords, the higher your score. Typically the highest scores are used to select
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