tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80900998899148558712024-02-21T12:23:24.764+11:00Char Mesan Job Search TrainingEmpowering jobseekers to submit quality resumes and use smart jobsearch strategiesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-79967495556966031872015-10-31T17:33:00.002+11:002015-10-31T17:34:49.629+11:00Video: Adam's Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Story about a real jobseeker, named Adam, who only achieved job search success after enrolling in our Create a Functional Resume 'Just the Essentials' course, which I created for The Savvy Jobseeker Academy.<br />
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If you need a resume, and think the functional format is the best format suited to your background and personal needs, then enrol in the course today! <a href="http://yescourse.com/store/course-how-to-create-a-functional-format-resume-just-the-essentials-version/?ref=22bb" target="_blank">Click here to learn more</a> about the course.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-77756058626738252262015-10-29T13:44:00.001+11:002015-10-29T13:44:50.327+11:00Where's Char?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've received a few emails over the last month asking where I have disappeared to. Thank you for your concern. I have sort of disappeared, haven't I?<br />
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That's because I injured myself and am in constant pain (until I can have surgery - which could still be a few more months away). Unfortunately, my injuries (and the pain) severely limit my ability to write and type at this time.<br />
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I can handle having injuries, but this not being able to do much writing or typing is absolutely killing me! I've tried speech recognition software, but unfortunately, my voice and the software have not yet become a compatible match, because what appears onscreen is nothing like what I actually state, so I can't 'cheat'.<br />
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So, thank you for asking. I drop by occasionally to do an update or post when I'm up to it, and once I've had the surgery and recovered I'll be back with renewed motivation. Until next time, happy and frustration-free job seeking!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-24521694890716052392014-12-20T14:21:00.000+11:002014-12-20T14:21:16.882+11:00New Ebook Released!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hot on the heels of releasing my first ever book, <i>Right</i> Your Resume: Fix or Create your Resume Content, which is available in PRINT and EBOOK versions, today my book, The Job-Seek Motivator has been released exclusively on Amazon Kindle.<br />
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The normal price for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00R7V9PKQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00R7V9PKQ&linkCode=am2&tag=chameswri-20&linkId=EEUJSFYHNXTFWQRA%22%3EThe%20Job-Seek%20Motivator:%20Bite-sized%20tips,%20advice%20and%20wisdom%20to%20enable%20you%20to%20push%20through%20the%20hard%20times%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=chameswri-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B00R7V9PKQ%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank">The Job-Seek Motivator</a> will be USD$1.99, and is available for immediate purchase and download to your Kindle device or App.<br />
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But, for those who like a true bargain and receiving presents on Christmas Day, make sure you find the time to visit Amazon - because it will be FREE on the days listed below.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-81703485818180567472014-12-04T11:05:00.001+11:002014-12-04T11:05:41.501+11:00Jobsearch Mistakes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I found this BRILLIANT Halloween-style Infographic from CareerLeaf - I wish I found it 2 months ago - on the SCARY mistakes jobseekers make in their jobsearch.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-74465163953053007172014-12-03T12:52:00.004+11:002014-12-03T12:52:53.370+11:00First Impressions in Jobsearching Groups<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've mentioned this before, but I'm still seeing many jobseekers violating this simple rule in online jobsearch groups that will help them gain a job: <b><i>be nice, be positive</i></b>. Employers might not comment, they might not even have a vacancy at the present moment, but they <i><b>are</b></i> watching and taking mental note, and in doing so, they are forming an impression about your behaviour, your personality, your potential suitability for vacancies they have (now and in the future).<br />
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I hope it is a good one?<br />
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But, don't just take my word for it. Publishers advise this same thing to authors, teachers advise this to students, parents to their children.<br />
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And, author Jonathan Maberry worded in a way that had Smashwords CEO reiterate it on his blog:<br />
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Do you want to be the person that onlookers form bad impressions of? Do you want to be the person that misses out on a job simply because two months ago you got into an online verbal tassle with another jobseeker or shared your negative personal tirade on 'the state of things' because you were having a bad day?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-60392655186064413762014-11-21T15:55:00.000+11:002014-11-21T15:55:17.762+11:00Book Release!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today, I became a published author! And I'm feeling rather elated at this.<br />
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I've set up a designated blog relating to the book, entitled <a href="http://rightyourresuem.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Right Your Resume</a>, where you will find information about the book and soon to be released bonus content.<br />
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The book is current available on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00PVA6QQQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00PVA6QQQ&linkCode=am2&tag=chameswri-20&linkId=2J6AZLPX5MSC5JKM%22%3ERight%20Your%20Resume:%20Fix%20or%20create%20your%20resume%20content%20so%20you%20stand%20out%20and%20impress%20the%20Hiring%20Manager%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=chameswri-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B00PVA6QQQ%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank">Kindle store</a>, and the paperback and other e-book formats are coming soon.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-33674632883376849302014-07-17T15:10:00.001+10:002014-07-17T15:10:35.964+10:00Stop with the Excuses!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sorry, need to vent again, to get it out of my system... <br />
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I've seen a number of jobseekers in a couple of different jobsearch groups all post to the group wall the last couple of weeks that they are looking for work, or are in need of advice, only to then slam down the suggestions given as 'already done it', 'no, I don't want to get that type of work'. Or worse, they then give excuse after excuse as counter argument to every idea and suggestion people trying to help them give.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Etiquette, jobseekers!</span> <br />
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If you ask for help, accept it. If you can't do that idea or suggest for a LEGITIMATE reason, then simply say, 'Thank you. I'll look into that' and then just hope that you get a few more suggestions from some other nice, helpful people. <br />
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But if you don't have a legitimate reason, <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">stop with the excuses</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">!</span></span><br />
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"<i>Can't... I have kids</i>." Yeah, so do a lot of the other mothers who are looking for work.<br />
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"<i>Don't want that type of job</i>" - <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>why not?</b></span></span> Didn't you just say you are <i>desperate</i> and will do <i>anything</i>? If you are that hard up financially, then guess what? Doing that type of work, although not appealing - and if you can get it - will help you pay the bills <i>until</i> you find something better. If you are desperate, then you can't afford to be picky and choosy.<br />
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If you ask for help or ideas, don't shut people down, don't dismiss them - not for the weak reason that you don't want to do that. There are LOTS of things about job searching that we don't want to do - but those are often (well, from what I see, anyway) the very things that actually help you get a job. Don't bury your head in the sand, or dismiss good ideas because you don't want to; or you'll soon find people aren't going to want to help you. They'll keep their good ideas to themselves next time!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-58335186978905546662014-06-17T11:30:00.000+10:002014-06-17T11:30:22.559+10:00The Marketing and Sales of Jobsearch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been working on creating some rather time consuming non-article stuff for my business lately, and was watching a couple of videos earlier today on how to create better looking PowerPoint presentations over at <i>www.m62.net</i> when a small section of their "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Why Present</a>" video - aimed at salespeople to deliver better public presentations - I watched got me thinking: some of this translates as really good advice for jobseekers!<br />
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In one of the other video's I watched earlier it discussed that businesses and salespeople need to understand the difference between 'Marketing' and 'Sales' presentations, and as the presenter gave his explanation, I first connected the difference being the same within the job searching process thinking: 'The application phase of jobsearch is the equivalent to marketing, and job interviews are the equivalent of sales opportunities" - where the purpose of <b><i>marketing</i></b> is to <b><i>find potential customers</i></b>, and the purpose of <i><b>sales </b></i>is to <i><b>generate a purchase transaction</b></i>. Umm, the purpose of jobseeking is to find potential employers and then generate their interest in hiring you for their vacancy, right?<br />
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The particular section of interest within the video "Why Present" (which you can <a href="http://www.m62.net/presentation-theory/presentation-objectives/why-present/" target="_blank">view here</a>) discussed that all businesses, no matter what their 'wares', compete in the marketplace on a possible three things: <b>price</b>, <b>service</b> and or <b>value</b>. And once again, I started thinking: the same is true for jobseekers.<br />
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How is that true, you ask? <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Price</span> </b><br />
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Although there are many positions in which the employer determines what rate they pay to position holders, there also exist employers and jobs that negotiate the starting rate or salary with the candidate too during the job interview or at the job offer. Of course, it depends on the type of job and industry you seek work in whether the employers pay fixed rates or are based on negotiated amount, but this is one of the things you should research when you look at applying for the type of work you want to do.<br />
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You could compete on price (accepting slightly less in order to snag the position away from a competitor wanting higher, or go for premium because 'they won't get any better than me! And I deserve to be paid more for my expertise'). The Employment Services industry had both fixed rate positions and negotiable ones depending on whether the company was not-for-profit or private enterprise.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Service</b></span><br />
When businesses go into business the ultimate service they provide to consumers (whether that is business to business or business to consumer) is the particular products or services they deliver. To be successful in their business operations, the business has to possess the right skills, knowledge, experience, abilities and licenses etc to be allowed to and capable of attracting customers to earn the income and achieve the desired profits. And, the more capable the business is of delivering to its customers what they need and want (building strong relationships and service expectations), the longer the business continues to trade and the higher the profits the business gains.<br />
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Again, I see that there is little difference between a business and a jobseeker, where the individual needs to possess the right core skills, knowledge, experience, abilities, qualifications, licenses etc to be allowed to and capable of doing specific tasks at a competent level, thus enabling the business to earn the income and achieve the desired profits. But, an individual also needs to be a 'good fit' within the business to make the employment relationship last.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Value</b></span><br />
Businesses that strive to beat their competition succeed in doing so when they focus on providing value to their customers. That is, it is the <b><i>additional factors</i></b> that separate them from their competition that they willingly 'give' to their customers to encourage those customers to purchase more, remain highly satisfied with the business, product and transactions and or to return to the business in the future so that their business reputation and standing continues to grow.<br />
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Jobseekers don't always realise it, but looking for work / gaining a job is essentially always been about how they provide value. Those that take the time to think about the additional skills, knowledge, experience, abilities, and attributes etc and demonstrate them to their prospects usually gain work quickly, because they inadvertently demonstrate their value just in the act of striving to beat their competitors. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Value Proposition</b></span><br />
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Back to the "Why Present" video, the message the company was imparting was Marketers need to present a clear message to their target audience with a value proposition: a "What's in it for them? and How will they benefit?" For every feature the product or service has, good marketers must demonstrate how those features will benefit the prospective purchaser to make their life easier, reduce time or costs; and provide the justifications to help move the prospect towards a sales opportunity. The marketers goal is to find the right customer, so a sales opportunity is gained and the sales presentation can then helps the customer to consider buying this particular companies product or service over that of their competitors.<br />
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During your jobsearch, you need to act and present like a Marketer. That means, your job applications need to present a clear message to the target employer with a value propositions: "What skills can you bring to the business? and How will that benefit the employer?". <i>Your</i> goal is to find the right type of customer - that is, the type of business who will want and need the service you offer; so you can move the prospective employer / hiring manager towards a sales opportunity.<br />
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The job interview IS your sales opportunity. This is where you switch from marketing to sales and provide <i><b>justification</b></i> to enable your prospect to make the purchase decision to choose you over your competitors.<br />
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According to m62.net, there are only <span style="font-size: large;">4 types of Justifications</span>:<br />
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Can we use them in jobsearching? We sure can, and do!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Testimonials</b></span> are where other people who have used a businesses products or services declare, either written or verbally, in statement of appreciation and or recommendation the character, conduct and or value of the product or service received. In job searching, we call such people our <i><b>Referees </b></i>and <i><b>References</b></i>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Process</b></span> is where the salesperson explains to the prospect how the product or service they offer delivers the value stated - the how and why they should believe it. In job searching, the answers we give to interview questions like 'give an example of a time when...' is us fulfilling the 'process' justification.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Technical</span> </b>uses intellectual property to deliver a benefit. As jobseekers, we can't copyright or patent our trade secrets - like KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices, or Dyson's cyclonic vacuum system - but we can demonstrate our proficiency is using technological tools such as computer programs or providing evidence of qualifications and licenses held.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Logical</span> </b>is proof provided from reasoned argument, and as jobseekers, we can think about our skills and abilities and discuss how these provide benefit to the prospective employer and use what we say to show credibility and suitability.<br />
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So before you send off your next job application, review your resume and cover letter and think like a Marketer:<br />
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<i><b>Who is your audience?</b></i> Easy: the employer(s) for the specific type of work you are seeking to gain.<br />
<i><b>How do they currently think and do?</b></i> What are those employers looking for in their ideal candidate? What basic skills, knowledge, experiences etc will they want the person to possess? <br />
<i><b>What do you want them to think and do after seeing your resume and cover letter? </b></i>You WANT them to invite you to an interview! You WANT them to believe that you might be the right 'product' for them. You WANT them to grant you a sales opportunity, so you can convince them to accept your brand. So they need to ask you questions; they need to phone you and invite you to meet with them. So, knowing the answers to the first two questions, you need to carefully consider: what details do I need to include / exclude so that they will want to interview me?<br />
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Examine your resume and cover letter - right now!<br />
Do you have the right information in your resume and cover letter? If you were your audience and received your resume and cover letter, would you want to invite you to an interview?<br />
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No? Make substantial changes. If yes, are you really sure? Have you been getting invitations to interviews?<br />
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When you get a job interview, this is the chance to pull out your best salesperson skills and sell your product: you, as their ideal employee. Would you purchase a product from a salesperson who is late and isn't well presented? Would you purchase a product from a salesperson who doesn't answer the questions very well, who doesn't instil you with confidence that they are trustworthy, likeable, will do a really good job.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-2389137211883717202014-06-10T18:02:00.000+10:002014-12-19T17:21:18.942+11:00Jobsearch Application Tracker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Jobsearch Application Organiser / Tracker</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are you struggling to manage your jobsearch? Do you need a spreadsheet so that you can keep yourself organised?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I now have two spreadsheets available for purchase: a basic and a premium version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">But first, a little background story...</span></b></span><br />
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<i>I first created a jobsearch application log spreadsheet for myself about five years ago when I was working in a role that took me over an hour to get to each way. With the long work hours and then the additional travel time on top of that, I found myself feeling constantly tired and exhausted as well as missing spending time with my family. So, when I had been with the company for twelve months, I started looking for another job closer to home.</i><br />
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<i>Actually, I became so tired at one point that I completely forgot about a job interview that I had been invited to attend - even though I was interested in the job - because the potential employer invited me a week and a half before they wanted me to attend, and I got so busy it slipped my mind. When I realised I had shockingly missed the interview, I couldn't believe it: my friends and employers are usually the first to say that one of my key strengths is how well organised I am! And, in my job, on a daily basis, I streamlined procedures and created tailored Microsoft Word documents or Excel spreadsheets to increase mine and or the team's efficiency in relation to often repeated work tasks that consistently earned me good staff performance evaluations from management, workplace recognition awards and or small bonus gift payments. So how could I, Miss Organised, miss out on attending a job interview I wanted to go to!?!</i><br />
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<i>After </i>that <i>embarrassing mistake, I was determined to never let an oversight caused by my fatigue ever occur again! And that weekend created a jobsearch application tracker for my own use in Microsoft Excel. Once it was up and running, I emailed to myself so that I could apply for jobs during my lunch hour at work and or on weekends in the comfort of my own home - so I would never miss out on what could have been the perfect, higher paying work that I like doing (more than the current role) only five minutes away from home like that missed interview role had been, and so I could enter in the information as I applied for the roles.</i><br />
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<i>When I first started using it, I had just started with a single worksheet to track the applications I sent off. But before long, I had created additional worksheets so that I could keep a record of other aspects to my job searching as the ideas and needs came to me. These included a To Do list section (I always write and use one!), copies of job advertisements (so I could write a tailored cover letter without having to print out the job advertisement) and even record the expenses I incurred in relation to my looking for work. I used my jobsearch application tracker, and then once I gained my new job, I simply stopped using the file (though, in hindsight, I should have kept on using it - but more on that later).</i><br />
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Then, a month or so ago, a couple of jobseekers from the groups I participate in as well as a few of my resume clients all happened to mention to me at around the same time their struggles in staying organised within their job searching. Naturally, being someone who easily just creates forms and spreadsheets whenever I need them, I suggested to each of them that they should just create a jobsearch applications tracker spreadsheet to help them manage themselves like I had once done. But, my suggestion was met similar horrified exclaims of, 'I barely know how to enter details into an Excel spreadsheet, let alone know how I would go about creating one from scratch!"<br />
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And finally - yes, I was a little slow in making the mental connection - I realised that perhaps I should just recreate the spreadsheet I once used and offer it as yet another resource within my business. I have since spent the last couple of weeks creating, formatting and testing out the spreadsheet to get it to a point where I am happy with it. <br />
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So, today, I am finally releasing two versions of my Jobsearch Application Tracker - a <i>basic</i> version for those who aren't really good with computers which just contains the absolute essential worksheets so that they can track their submissions, create a to do list and manage their contacts, as well as a <i>premium</i> version for those who do know how to use a computer and or who want to manage as much as they possibly can related to their jobsearch, like expenses, weekly goals, interviews, online accounts and so much more on top of the basic version inclusions.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Basic Version</b></span><br />
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Filtering allows you to drill down your information so you can see what applications you need to send off, what you jobs and people you need to follow up with, and what applications have been finalised. If you are in receipt of unemployment benefits, you can print out a record of your applications quickly and easily to demonstrate you are meeting your looking for work requirements.<br />
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Password protected, you can enter your personal information with the piece of mind that family and friends can't view your information if you don't want them to - and you can take store the tracker on a USB to use on any computer such as at your Job Network Provider without risk of your private and confidential information be accessed by unauthorised person's.<br />
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To purchase the basic version, simply click on this Buy Now button for instant download.<br />
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The premium version, on the other hand, is a lot more powerful than the basic version.You not only get everything that is in the basic version, but you also get ten more useful worksheets.<br />
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Like the Basic version, you get worksheets that have a 2014 and 2015 Calendar and to help you manage your Goals and Jobsearch Achievements, there is a weekly Summary & Goals worksheet that you can print out.<br />
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There is a Printables tab, which has two forms that you can print out (if you are with a Job Network Provider) to firstly carry the details of any interviews you have been invited to but not yet attended, so you know exactly where you need to go and who you need to ask for on arrival. The other form is the essential information that your provider will require when you gain a job.<br />
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In short, the premium version allows you to track your submissions, calls, interviews, accounts, contacts, and expenses, and allows you to filter your results so you make the most out of your time spent towards job searching.<br />
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Ultimately, those that invest in the time to keep their jobsearch organised usually find that they are able to save time in the long run, as they can identify important events and tasks.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-82531148313298706792014-06-02T16:09:00.000+10:002014-06-02T16:09:04.404+10:00Protect Yourself from Scammers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sadly, there are people who will go to extraordinary lengths to rob another person of their money and or identity. These people don't care if you are 'down and out'.<br />
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After a spat of scammers posting false job opportunities within the groups that I participate in, this post contains three graphics to help you avoid becoming a target...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-76315220897808844382014-05-27T15:10:00.001+10:002014-05-27T15:10:12.130+10:00Answering Interview Questions: How do you respond to working under pressure?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In continuation of how to answer interview questions, today I'm going to look at the question, "How do you respond to working under pressure?"<br />
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If you've read my previous articles on answering interview questions, you should realise by now that there is a little bit more going on behind the scenes when it comes to why interviewers ask these questions, and this working under pressure one is no exception.<br />
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The question is asked firstly to gauge what your view of what 'working under pressure' means, and secondly your answer provides insight as to whether you possess the composure, skills and personal attributes to remain calm, focused and in control when faced with working under difficult, stressful, time pressured conditions.<br />
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Your answer can hint at laziness vs pro-activeness, able to handle such situations vs not being able to: do you blow your top, rant and rave resentfully and then cut corners or throw your hands up in the air fuming 'this is unfair!' or 'this is too much!'; or do you stay calm, roll up your sleeves and work until the task is done or your shift is over. Do you love the thrill of meeting deadlines and challenges, or do you just want to go to work, do what you have to and then go home and not have to think about work until your next shift? (Can you see the different personalities in this last paragraph? By the way: each of these candidates all believe they are suitable for the vacancy; see how the different possible responses can help employers determine which ones best meet their requirements and business culture?)<br />
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The way top career advisers recommend jobseekers answer this question is by providing <b>a specific example</b> of a time when they worked in a stressful situation, and talk about the actions they took and the results they achieved.<br />
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I agree: you could discuss what you did / do that helps you keep it together - do you use breathing techniques, pick up the pace to match demand, that type of thing.<br />
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When answering, I recommend that you use the <b>E.A.R model</b> - which stands for Example, Action, and Result.<br />
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With <i><b>Example</b></i>, you briefly describe the scenario - it could be a one-off circumstance or a regular occurrence - in which their was great pressure to meet a deadline. Once done, you then move on to discussing the <i><b>Actions</b></i> that you personally take, and then end with a <span style="color: red;"><i><b>positive</b></i></span> <i><b>Result</b></i>. <br />
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Be consciously mindful of the impression your words and actions make before, during and after an interview, and strive to ensure that they always portray you as confident, capable and professional.<br />
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Although you don't know which questions will be asked at a job interview (or why the the company has specifically chosen them), you are able to reduce any interview nervousness you might experience by practicising answering some of the commonly asked questions in preparation for when you start getting invitations to attend interviews well ahead of time.<br />
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If you haven't already done so, check out the other posts in the Answering Interview Questions series, which you can access by clicking on the post titles listed below:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-42403846571348668892014-05-10T16:47:00.000+10:002014-05-10T16:47:01.576+10:00Your Online Behaviour in Jobsearch Groups<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Jobseekers,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No matter how much
you would like to tick someone off, share your negative opinion or criticize a
person or post for whatever reason, when in a public forum where jobseekers and
employers congregate ALWAYS present yourself in a positive and favorable
manner. It can make all the difference between you getting a job or not, now
and into the future: Employers often lurk inside the group well before they are
ready to reveal their presence or vacancy. And they are paying a lot closer attention then you do.<br />
<br />
Will YOUR in-group words or behaviors come back to bite you on the butt? Are
YOU going to miss out on job simply because an employer noticed how or
perceived you to have pestered other forum members, asked ridiculously petty
questions about vacancy listings, and consistently demonstrated your negative
personality traits?<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2BD0Vbactcc/U23KWpShBEI/AAAAAAAABTs/wDRky_3lumE/s1600/Jobseeker+Rants.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2BD0Vbactcc/U23KWpShBEI/AAAAAAAABTs/wDRky_3lumE/s1600/Jobseeker+Rants.png" height="400" width="398" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How many of this audience is an employer, or is a person who could refer this jobseeker to a job?</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">No matter what the position level and type you are hoping to gain, ALWAYS act
like a professional: the ONLY time and place to vent or grumble is OFFLINE and
ONLY to close, trustworthy family and friends.</span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-90473063474737438322014-04-30T12:48:00.000+10:002014-04-30T12:48:09.762+10:00Weekly Tip: Saving your Resume<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VhRoGpf-7JQ/U2Bi-SwTYwI/AAAAAAAABTI/h_2jy04ISyc/s1600/Saving+your+Resume.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://charmesanjobtraining.blogspot.com.au" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VhRoGpf-7JQ/U2Bi-SwTYwI/AAAAAAAABTI/h_2jy04ISyc/s1600/Saving+your+Resume.png" height="300" title="Saving your Resume" width="400" /></a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-80227098068456596032014-04-23T19:10:00.002+10:002014-04-23T19:10:20.796+10:00Motivational Quote<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"<i>There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: yesterday and tomorrow. Only today you can be happy, smile, dream, love, feel and be thankful.</i>"<br />
- Pablo</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-63838313518081513352014-04-16T13:15:00.001+10:002014-04-16T13:15:18.356+10:00Motivational Quote<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them."<br />
Charles D. Gill</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-52279588992559723862014-04-11T12:56:00.000+10:002014-04-11T13:12:08.221+10:00Answering Interview Questions: What are your strengths<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As I have stated in other posts on <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Answering Interview Questions</b></span>, understanding the reason behind why the question is asked provides guidance on how we can answer them.<br />
<br />
What are recruiters looking for when they ask you the question:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> "What are your strengths?"</span><br />
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Like other questions, this question <b>serves a couple of purposes</b>. Your answer can show recruiters how well you know your skills and abilities (<span style="color: red;">self-awareness</span>), as well as allowing them the opportunity to gauge what you are particularly good at so they can determine <i>if</i> and <i>how</i> those strengths would fit within their business and the position (<span style="color: red;">job</span> and <span style="color: red;">personality-profile</span> <span style="color: red;">matching</span>).<br />
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With the purpose now understood, we can now think about what and how our skills and experiences gained in former employment, education and personal situations match the requirements of the position and company.<br />
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To answer, <b>choose your top <i>relevant</i> strengths</b>. For example, if your greatest strength is an ability to interact with people then this is not the strength to be highlighting to employers offering a non-customer contact role, where they would most likely prize your ability to complete administrative tasks and would become concerned that your interacting with people might cause you to be unproductive in the role and or cause you to want to move on quickly to another company or role. On the other hand though, if you are interviewing for a Sales role where talking with people and building trust and ongoing relationships is crucial in reaching performance targets, then stating this as your strength aligns well.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">One 'trick' </span>to answering interview questions, even when you know the purpose and self-awareness, is to answer the question by <b>providing a clear example</b> of how you previously demonstrated that strength in your past roles and then tie this to how it will be useful to you in the role.<br />
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So, for our Sales role example above, not only would this person be able to state that interacting with people is their strength but they would need to back this 'claim' up by describing a specific example of an occasion in their past - employment, education or personal - to <i>show </i>this strength in action (including a result), and then conclude their answer by saying (directly or indirectly) how this strength would benefit them (and or the company) within the role on offer.<br />
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For example, the Sales person might answer the question "What are your strengths?" with "<i>That would be my ability to interact with people. I've always had a natural gift to be able to talk with any person I meet and often end up talking to complete strangers in and out of business situations. Like yesterday, I was lined up at the supermarket and struck up conversation with the person behind me in the queue. Our conversation started out by me just responding to the person's frustration that the line wasn't moving, and this lead to us chatting about a range of subjects for the half hour we waited. During the conversation I mentioned that I am a Office Photocopying Equipment Sales consultant and the person turned out to be the office manager of a transport company in need of upgrading their outdated and problematic equipment. I always carry business cards on me wherever I go, so I gave the person my card, and wrote down on the back of another card his contact details, and I arranged to call him first thing on Monday. I followed through on that and called on Monday as promised, resulting in our setting up a business meeting, which led to that business purchasing $30,000 worth of equipment for their 8 branches. So, I would have to say my strength within a Sales role starts with my ability to interact with people and is the reason I reach my performance targets.</i>"<br />
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So, hopefully you know what your strengths are for the type of work you are applying for, and can think up some great examples from your work, education or personal history that you can use to back up your claim that this is your strength.<br />
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Happy, motivated job seeking everyone!<br />
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Char<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060223815555660649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090099889914855871.post-17473273101853229482014-03-26T14:39:00.000+11:002014-03-26T14:41:20.831+11:00Keep your Expectations in check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi Everyone,<br />
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I'm writing this following yesterday my having to try and comfort an inconsolable jobseeker, who found out that they weren't the successful candidate as they had pinned so much of their hopes on gaining.<br />
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For a lot of jobseekers, not just that jobseeker, looking for work can be a long and frustrating process. Day in and day out, for weeks and sometimes even months, they send off application after application with little result.<br />
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And then, all of a sudden, they become super-excited, like my client, when an employer contacts them and invites them in for an interview.<br />
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Unfortunately, in my role as Employment Consultant, I watched too many occasions of longer term jobseekers coming away from the Interview feeling elated, like my client, because it was the best interview they've ever had, and start to look forward and zero all their attention on this one opportunity, this one source of hope: <i>this</i> time they might just be offered the job! And so that is all they focus on.<br />
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I love it as much as my clients do when their great efforts pay off and they receive the call advising that it is them that has been successful, too; but, the part that makes it so difficult, for me, is knowing that as part of the recruitment process most recruiters interview more candidates than they have positions on offer, so their remains the greater possibility that for most of the interviewed candidates that the call or email will actually be a 'sorry, not this time' answer. And this is the part that those with elevated hopes have those hopes and dreams dashed; it is so painful to witness such jobseekers go from such a high to such an incredibly intense and devastated low.<br />
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I, too, used to get a bit like this early in my jobsearching - and I have first-hand experience in knowing how those low blows can be soul- and confidence-destroying!<br />
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But with experience, I learned, there is a way to avoid going from such highs to lows so that you are able to not lose heart or motivation.<br />
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What I learned to do (over time) was to 'distance' myself from the result (as much and as best I could). I attended the interview, gave it my best, and then deliberately and consciously attempted to let go of holding any expectation that I would be the successful candidate; in other words, I came, I interviewed, I left, and now it was time for me to focus on the future and find the next opportunity, the next employer who will want to interview me, rather than my standing still or putting life or jobsearch on hold waiting around to learn the outcome of that one past opportunity already seized. And doing this greatly helped me to keep my expectation in check, so that when I received an eventual 'I'm sorry but you haven't been successful on this occasion' call or email, I didn't experience such a strong shift in my emotions.<br />
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Now, I don't say doing this is at all easy. As humans we <i>like </i>mysteries being resolved, we like to 'close the door' by learning the outcome. One only has to look at the recent disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 and the extensive world media coverage to see how we as humans are gripped by the details while authorities from different countries all unite in attempt to answer that pressing question of 'what happened?' for us, so that the families, and world, can gain closure on the matter.<br />
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The trick, for me, was to lose or lessen my 'curiosity' to know 'what happened' about the interviews I attended, and to embrace instead the fact that I had controlled every part of the jobsearch process that I personally was able to control (and had indeed done my best, at all times, to create and maintain a positive impression throughout the process so that the employer may decided that I was the best and most suitable) but now I must let the recruiter control the parts that only they are ever meant to control.<br />
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By consciously doing my best to detach from the outcome, and to focus on my moving 'forward' (which most times I was successful), it came as a unexpected delight when I received news that I was the applicant being offered the job, and it allowed me to feel less crushed when I was advised that I wasn't. Because in my mind, I had already completely moved on from that opportunity, and their call or email only served to 'pull me back to the past' for a short while enabling me to either ask for feedback on how and where I might have gone wrong in my application with them (so I could improve for future opportunities with them), or to calmly make a decision whether to accept the job or not once I had had time to assess if the opportunity and all its terms and conditions was really right for me.<br />
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So if you are a jobseeker who has been experiencing great highs and lows in your jobsearch and are finding this eroding your confidence and motivation, try to shift your after-interview attitude, and once you have performed an honest self-evaluation about your performance at that opportunity, don't allow yourself to remain stuck on that one opportunity, and start actively seeking out getting your next interview invite.<br />
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Happy, motivated jobsearch, everyone! I need to go and buy a replacement box of tissues; was just glad I was in a meeting with the client when they received the upsetting phone call.<br />
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Char<br />
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have been receiving a lot of resumes for assessments over the past few weeks from ‘older’
workers (people over 30+ years of age), who are making the common mistake of listing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everything</i> they have ever done since they left school, including
their childhood after-school job and details of the subjects completed and
grades received at school.</span></div>
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just want to make it clear that you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aren’t</i></b> meant to include your full
life story within a resume; you need only include details about your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">employable
skill</i></b> history <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relevant</i></b> to the type of work you
will be applying for.</span></div>
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for a moment</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, that every new skill, personal
attribute, value, knowledge, interest and experience you gained from when you
were, say, 15 years of age onwards, magically recorded itself on a 3 cm by 2 cm
piece of paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Using
this fanciful scenario, as we progressed through life, every time we learned
something new, the magic would kick in to self-write that new skill, attribute,
value, knowledge, interest or experience on the topmost piece of paper from a huge
stack that lay ready and waiting to be used, and once written, the little note would
then float across and drop itself in an open-topped glass jar (that was just for
us alone) for its category it belongs to (i.e. skill, an attribute etc.), so
that when the day came for you to write a resume, everything employers ever needed
to know about you was ready and waiting for you to go through each of the cups
and pick and choose which details to give to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As
you could imagine, the older you got the more little pieces of paper would fill
each of your glass jars!</span></div>
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there is no way you could ever fit every single little piece of paper from each
of your jars onto only two or three A4 sheets of photocopy paper, is there? So,
you would have to become picky and selective about which little pieces of paper
to stick onto the A4 paper, wouldn’t you?</span></div>
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guess is that, you would immediately start looking for the little pieces of
paper that the employer would be <i><b>most impressed</b></i> by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When you came across the piece of paper that
said you learned how to walk, you’d think something like, ‘Yeah, yeah, employers
will probably assume that I am able to walk,’ so you would make the decision that
you can leave that little skill aside so that you could stick on the, ‘Can type
at 80 w.p.m. now’ that you find instead, because, well, the job you really want
to get involves typing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As
jobseekers, we might not have the luxury of having lots of little pieces of
paper sitting in magical glass jars to help us create our resume, but we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can</i> use our memory to think about the
type of job we intend applying for, and then trawl through the memory of our
past experiences, examine our skills, knowledge, personal attributes, our values
and interests, and then include only the most necessary of details that will
aid us in causing employers of that type of work to look at our application and
think we might be suitable. </span></div>
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what can we do to ensure that we are sticking the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right</i> details in our resume?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Research (investigate) the industry, employers and the
job role as much as possible – to enable ourselves to better understand the
requirements of that job type intimately, which will lead us to knowing what
details are relevant to include and which ones we can omit because they are not.</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SHj-Llner2o/UyqFBut_x-I/AAAAAAAABKU/taPF7L8DXrk/s1600/Crystal+Ball.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SHj-Llner2o/UyqFBut_x-I/AAAAAAAABKU/taPF7L8DXrk/s1600/Crystal+Ball.png" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Keep our resume details to no more than
ten years in age, where possible (so we are assessed fully on our merits and
not eliminate due to our age). Things change; just because we did something a
couple of times twenty years ago, doesn’t mean we are fully capable of doing
that now. Employers <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prefer</i> candidates
with skills that are current, so you may need to refresh old skills, if
necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Realise that a resume (and cover letters
for that matter) are not a listing of your full personal life story, it needs
to be a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">work</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">related</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">future oriented</i>
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to create employer interest in you as a candidate (so that they want to meet
you in person!). Too little, or the wrong, information will result in you
failing to generate employer interest; but beware though, too much information
can lead the employer to making a decision without meeting you – that decision
is always ‘no’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
a world where we can’t just wave a magic wand to make things happen instantly
for us, unfortunately we have to do things the harder way and work these things
out for our own selves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, I hope you
have found today’s article a little bit ‘fun’ as well as informative about in its message of: <span style="font-size: large;"><b>tailor your resume to the position</b></span>.</span></div>
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motivated jobsearch!</span></div>
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I received a lovely message on Facebook by a person who liked my Ebook cover, a writer who wanted to know who or where I got my book cover design from, and asked if I wouldn't mind sharing the designer's details. <br />
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Sorry, but I didn't hire someone to create it for me: I made it all myself, using, as impossible as it might sound, just <b>Microsoft Word</b> and <b>PowerPoint</b>!<br />
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I have a few Ebooks projects planned for helping jobseekers - some started, some waiting for me to finish existing projects before exploring the idea further - and because of this, I wanted to create a couple of common elements within my book cover designs so that when readers see the book covers they will be able to tell that the Ebook is by me, just like publishers do for authors who write book series.<br />
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(Go have a look at the Harry Potter book covers and you'll see that the covers, even with their different titles and images, still have a consistent look to them - both the children's book releases and the adult covers). The common element for my Ebooks will be how I've stylised my name as well as its positioning on a solid, pastel colour.<br />
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At some Ebook cover design places I found on the internet charging over $500 as a starting point, I simply could not justify hiring a book cover designer, which would significantly negatively affect the pricing of the resources I intend creating, when I have some excellent computer and word processing skills. So, I decided to give designing my own book cover a try and visited Amazon.com and carried out a few different book searches to learn what I liked and disliked about the differing cover designs from the thumbnail view on the search result pages from books that were both fiction and non-fiction in nature. My observation led me to work out that there are two very distinct types of Kindle book covers: professionally designed looking ones that enticed me to want to read more about the title (and sometimes distracted me away from what I had gone on to the site to do), and some very amateurish looking ones that looked cheap and did nothing to entice me to want to 'look inside' the Ebook to see if the book was right for me.<br />
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From this research, I decided that I wanted my cover to look as professionally designed as I could possibly make it and noticed that all the Ebooks published by a traditional publisher that I looked at had both the title <i>and</i> the author name readable even at thumbnail size (whereas, many of the self-published titles didn't), so this greatly influenced my design.<br />
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Now because I am a writer and have aspired to be a published author for many years, and as well as having an interest in using great presentation within my documents, I long ago learned of a neat little trick called a <b>Swipe File</b>. This is where, when you see a design or design element that you like, you keep a copy of it and store it in your Swipe file - the file can be hard copy or electronic. I've previously done this when creating templates for business clients as a Typist. You don't infringe upon someone else's copyrighted material at all, but you use what is in your Swipe File to help you come up with ideas and explore element placement.<br />
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I took screenshots of different book titles that I liked - it could have been how the designer had created the title, or how they had angled an element instead of placing it 'squared on', and I happened to see in a Food & Recipe book a pink and white stripe background which gave the feeling of pink candy, which nicely tied in with the book being about sweet treats, so I started out just by playing around with using different coloured stripes.<br />
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As you can see, my Ebook cover idea grew from there. I had soon 'stepped' my 'fence' and added 'signage' to the fence posts - which just happened to fit each letter of the word 'resume' nicely on top. As my design started coming together as I was building it in the word document, I knew I wanted (and needed, now) to find and use the image of a construction worker - preferably a female one. I didn't have to look very far. Microsoft Word's Clip Art had just the image I had in mind!<br />
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I didn't want to use the background details, and this is where using Microsoft PowerPoint came in: because it allows you to alter existing clip art that is a .wmf image. <br />
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I converted the clip art into an image I could alter (a Microsoft Office drawing object), which then allowed me to '<b>Ungroup</b>' all the images various parts and then add, remove and alter to create the image I wanted. As you will see between the original image and the final result, I removed the background, added the girl to wearing jewellery, gave her a 'V' neckline and added some pinstripes to her trousers. <br />
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I also added the word 'resume' to the plans she is reading, and added the 'yellow screws' that she used to bolt the signs to the fence posts and the name plaques to the fencing and wall.<br />
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She was positioned to be level with the bottom of the fence posts so that nothing fell into the area where my name would eventually go, and I added the light blue slanted rectangle <b>Shape</b> (the shape called, <i>Flowchart: Manual Input</i>).<br />
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The word 'D.I.Y.' is a <b>Text box </b>in which I have reformatted to remove the line border.<br />
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Because I liked the colour my construction worker was wearing and felt that it didn't clash against my use of pastels, so I kept the original colour of her top.<br />
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When I had finished and was happy with my design, I 'shrunk' my word document in Preview mode, so that I could see the entire page and then took a screenshot which I pasted into PowerPoint, and then cropped out all extra background so that I could create the thumbnail images used in this blog post.<br />
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All up, it took me about four hours to create my Ebook cover design. And, I am very happy with how it turned out!<br />
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Thank you to the reader who messaged me to ask where and who I got my Ebook cover design from, it pleases me no end that you thought I used a professional service to create it for me. It means I have succeeded in my goal to create a cover that doesn't look home made! Thank you.<br />
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Today I wanted to discuss a couple of basic rules about using Fonts in a resume.<br />
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An issue I have been seeing lately while assessing resumes has included a number of jobseekers who are going for mainstream employment are trying to make themselves stand out in a crowd by using fancy fonts in their resume and cover letters. <br />
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I want to clarify: the only way to '<i>stand out from the crowd</i>' is to submit an application (cover letter and resume) that demonstrates to an employer that you have the skills, not do things that are gimmicky and metaphorically have you jumping up and down shouting 'Look at my resume, look at my resume!' Trust me, <i>those</i> latter resumes are the first to be culled.<br />
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Too many jobseekers appear to have misinterpreted advice that they need to stand out in a crowd with 'do something different'; the trouble is, everyone is trying to do the same 'differences'. In a stack of resumes riddled with fancy fonts and other such trickery in attempt to be looked at, one thing becomes very clear to the person a doing the culling: a professionally presented resume and cover letter, when it is presented. And when that plain, neat resume then also contains - from the short skim read that is given to it - information that is completely and fully relevant to the position, employers and recruiters <i>want</i> to look at that resume in greater detail because they think 'we may have a winner here.'<br />
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I personally have found that less than ten percent of all resumes received are written and presented in a professional style, and this made it easy for me to eliminate ninety percent of the applications without too much effort. My job as a recruiter was/is to find the best candidate possible. Your job as a candidate is to cause me, the recruiter, to think you might be that best candidate.<br />
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But back to <b>how to use fonts in a resume and cover letter</b>...<br />
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The only time <i>fancy fonts</i> are needed in a resume is if you are applying for a job in a Creative field, where using non-standard, non-commercial style fonts can showcase your creative 'eye' and design skills. But these people aren't going to use just one non-standard element though; they will put all of their advanced design skills into practice and use layout, colour, design, and placement to name a few to create their attractive but creative document.<br />
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I believe it is particularly important for anyone seeking to gain work in an office environment to use <i>standard business format</i> - page size and margins, standard commercial fonts and font sizing and simple yet effective element word-processing highlights, such as bolding text, to make your content stand out in a good way.<br />
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So what are some standard commercial fonts? I'm glad you asked!<br />
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Serif* fonts, include: <br />
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<li>Times New Roman - yes, as hated as it is amongst designers, plain text can look great with this standard font.</li>
<li>Garamond</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>Cambria (the font you are reading now on this blog) </li>
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Sans Serif fonts, include:<br />
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<li>Ariel</li>
<li>Verdana</li>
<li>Calibri</li>
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(*Serif fonts have those little strokes, where as sans serif don't - because sans means 'without')<br />
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The next 'rule' to follow is to use a font size for your body text that <b>makes reading easy</b>: size 12 pt. Any smaller and people with vision problems will struggle, and even people with good vision can develop eye strain from prolonged reading at a smaller size. Yes, the reader can use Zoom feature to enlarge the text to a more comfortable level. But most won't, and even those that do might notice that they are having to do so <i>because</i> you have made it difficult for them, which is not what you want them to notice about you.<br />
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Any larger text - that is not a Heading or Subheading - and it just looks like you don't have enough information 'meat' and are trying to fluff your document out with 'filler' or gimmicks to trick the reader into thinking you have more content than you actually do. Once again, do you really want the astute hiring manager to notice that about you?<br />
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Another 'rule' is to use no more than two different fonts in the same document, one as your body text another type as your headings. The best combination uses a serif and sans serif font rather than serif with serif or sans serif with sans serif.<br />
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But don't just take my word for it: do a web search - Google, Bing, Yahoo, I don't care which search engine you use - and research typography, or creating professional looking business documents and you will find the trustworthy sources will all say the same thing.<br />
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Go on, stand out in a good way: submit quality applications with business fonts and font sizing. You might find that just this small change could make all the difference to changing your jobsearch efforts from no result to having employers phone to invite <i>you</i> for an interview.<br />
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Happy, productive jobsearching!<br />
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Char<br />
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Hi Everyone,<br />
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Last week I wrote a post (<a href="http://charmesanjobtraining.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/resume-content-vs-presentation-which-is.html" target="_blank">which you can find here</a>) asking whether a resumes presentation or content is the more important aspect when sending off job applications.<br />
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Today, I want to give you the result of my small experiment.<br />
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The resume that caused me to receive the most amount of employer was my <b>Presentation </b>resume (it was my mobile phone number that I had to answer most).<br />
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I think the reason for this is that as humans we like and appreciate things that look good. It is why the most attractive actors get the best roles, it is why as readers book covers grab our attention and can lead us to buy without looking inside, it is why beautiful, scenic places attract more visitors.<br />
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Perhaps we can be more 'forgiving' of mistakes when something looks good then when it doesn't - so an attractive looking resume and cover letter will help the majority of employers to overlook a couple of small errors like typos and minor spelling mistakes**, whereas an ugly, inconsistently formatted document, even when 'word perfect' is so unappealing visually, as humans we are less forgiving about the mistakes we see in it and are more likely to judge it harshly.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">**Note. In response to one reader feedback, I would like to clarify: by '<b><i>a couple</i></b>' I mean one or two per application at most, and by '<i><b>small spelling mistakes</b></i>' I am meaning more where words are spelt one way in one country but spelt in a different way in another country and you use the correct spelling of a different country's instead of your own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In Australia, most Employment Service provider's word processing software automatically defaults to <i>American</i> English, when the <i>Australian</i> English is the convention with its different spellings that should be used. Also, as a computer trainer I have found a lot of home users also don't know how to change their default settings across to Australian English, so when they spell-check they end up with the wrong spelling for many other those different spelt words. The majority of employers will overlook mistakes like this - but there are always nitpicking exceptions, and to give yourself the best chance of success, try to ensure your resume and cover letter is as error-free as possible. </span><br />
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Of course, this is just my opinion about possible reasons behind why presentation is so important. <br />
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Now, I know my small experiment didn't produce definitive results like a proper scientific study would get, but it is worth taking a look at your resume and cover letter and assessing its visual attractiveness.<br />
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* Is there lots of white space?<br />
* Do you have consistent alignment?<br />
* Do you use the features like Tabs, Indentation, text alignment to showcase your information, or do you mimic the old days of creating documents using a typewriter and use the space bar to move the cursor thus manually creating space?<br />
* Do you over emphasise text? Do you have a balanced blend of bold text for crucial information, and italic as subtle highlight for important but not critical information?<br />
* Do you balance your details vertically <i>and</i> horizontally on the page, and keep that style consistent?<br />
* Do you ensure you don't have widowed and orphaned text? <br />
* Do you box your information in unnecessary borders, or open up your resumes readability by skilfully avoiding using features that make your documents look 'amateurish'?<br />
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<i>Prime Resume Real Estate</i><br />
When I was culling applications, I <i><b>hated</b></i> resumes that jumped straight from the person's name and contact details into lengthy sentences because it forced me to have to <b>read</b> instead of <b>scan</b> the page. I naturally gravitated to resumes that treated the top two-thirds of the first page as the prime resume real estate it is, i.e. resumes that provided short sentenced bullet listed information that contained details matching the position on offer that guided my eyes downwards. Most recruiters will turn the page and skim the second page if they skim-read beyond the two-third mark of the top page - so instead of throwing lots of long sentences that stop them skim reading that far down, aim to cause readers to read on and use that prime resume real estate - treat it as 'gold and diamonds' - for the details that matter most to the employer. <br />
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<i>Printing</i><br />
The print outs all came out in black ink on white paper, but I could always tell when people had colour resumes - they usually had chosen a bright colour which perhaps stood out on the computer screen but which when printed was faint and hard to read, causing their 'highlight' to be diminished instead of standing out and the text of which was thus now easy to overlook. So, consider how recruiters might read your application and what affect your text emphasis can have both electronic and in print form.<br />
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<b>Hidden information about applicants</b><br />
The way a applicant presented their resume content provided me - provides all recruiters - with <i><b>a lot</b></i> of information about the person, without me (or them) having to read even one word from an applicants resume and cover letter.<br />
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<i>Confidence, or lack thereof</i><br />
For example, I often found women attempting to return to the workforce 'buried' or 'diminished' their name as text the same size as the rest of the document (body text), while younger, 'pushier' fresh-out-of-school candidates often (over)enlarged their name so that nobody in the office could mistake who the resume belonged to even from fifty metres away, suggesting immediate, noticeable, lack of confidence from the returning to workforce mums and an arrogant boldness and attention-seeking quality from the school leavers. Your name should be a bit larger than body text, but not take up half a page either!<br />
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<i>Lack of Skills</i><br />
Resumes that had alignment and consistency problems immediately demonstrated that the applicant didn't possess sufficient computer skills - this was an easy decision-maker for me when those particular applications were for our Administration vacancies: the person clearly doesn't have the basic skills to do the job being applied for and is therefore unsuitable. <i>Thank you, next application!</i> <br />
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The point I want to make here in this post today is that your presentation can either assist or hinder the employer determine your suitability for the role, so even if you don't have perfect wording, do put more effort into making sure you present your information in a clean and professional looking way, so that it encourages the recruiter to want to skim read your resume and cover letter not turns them off from the onset.<br />
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