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17th March 2016 By Stefanie Leave a Comment

Resume 101: How To Make Your Resume Even Better Than It Is

Thinking about brushing up your resume? Read this first.

All accomplishment-based resumes should contain:

  1. Contact information
  2. Objective Statement
  3. Specific skills
  4. Measurable achievements and accomplishments
  5. Employment history
  6. Educational background

Communicating well-defined and transferrable accomplishments is where you have the chance to set yourself apart. Writing down your professional accomplishments becomes the answer to, ‘Tell me a few good things you’ve done that would make me want to hire you.’

Each of your professional accomplishments should consist of four parts:

  1. A description of the event
  2. What made it important
  3. What you did to make it happen
  4. The measurable results

Examples:
Created a volunteer group to organize a viable thrift store operation. Scheduled a team of volunteers to better organize donation intake, sorting, pricing, and staging of merchandise for resale. This initiative ensured consistent workflow among 15 trained volunteers and contributed $6,000.00 quarterly to support a variety of beneficial community projects.

Recommended process and updated procedures for quarterly review of a document control database. Discovered omissions and corrected serious duplication errors in original database, thru improving the accuracy and efficiency of the database. As a result, the company improved its customer service reporting capability by 100%.

Remember:
Avoid vague or windy statements such as “resulted in a large savings of time and money,” or “led to increased sales.” If you can claim that sales increased, you must estimate the amount of the increase and make sure it is reasonably accurate and could bear investigation. Sometimes there is simply no way to put a figure on your results. But you can still demonstrate the value of your work to the employer:

Example:
Served as the Treasurer for the local school’s Parent-Teacher Advisory Board. Established a formal accounting system for expenditure records and created a new process for tracking petty cash and receipts. This effort improved the integrity and efficiency of the bookkeeping function and led to 100% accuracy in reconciliation of funds.

Be sure to include as many specific action verbs, such as the ones listed below, in your statements. This will make your writing more descriptive and efficient.

Action verbs:

achieved                       analyzed                      built
conducted                     created                       designated
established                   finalized                     increased
motivated                     negotiated                 obtained
resolved                        tested                         trained
wrote

Filed Under: CMI Tips Tagged With: job change, job search, job search methods, job seekers, networking, reemployment, resumes

24th November 2015 By Stefanie Leave a Comment

More than 1 in 10 working Americans are looking for new job opportunities

Most job seekers are using traditional means to find reemployment, so educated networking that leads to informational meetings is clearly essential to every successful job search.
Recent surveys show that 12.1% of full-time employed U.S. workers are currently exploring or actively seeking new employment opportunities. With that number of people looking for positions in the marketplace, your search efforts must be consistent and persistent.

Networking is the way for you to connect with recent co-workers, customers, bosses, those you’ve met at conferences or events and colleagues and friends who you may not have been in contact with since you left your last position, or even before you separated.

FACT: Decision makers are more likely to talk to people who have been recommended by someone they know and trust. The more you concentrate on building and using your network, the more opportunities you will be aware of and the more you can expand your network.

Networking should not be a one-way street. Keep these networking basics in mind:
1. You must have a good reason for talking to a person
2. Offer to assist others and return the favor whenever possible
3. Ask for advice but not for a job
4. Don’t pressure others to get involved in your job search by sending your resume around

It is a good idea to have a presence on LinkedIn or other appropriate professional online forums. Create a profile and make sure it includes your most recent measurable accomplishments that you worked on with your CMI counselor. Industry and alumni groups are good places to make connections and uncover leads and jobs. Responding to a position posted by a group is often more effective than applying for the same position on a job board.

NOTE TO CMI CLIENTS: If you are networking and have had 15 networking meetings without getting a referral, be sure that you and your CMI counselor are analyzing your meetings to determine how to improve your results. We are here for you. Your success is our success!

Filed Under: Career Management International News Tagged With: employment opportunities, job opportunities, job search, job seekers, networking, reemployment, U.S. workers

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