21 Feb 10 A Job-Search Guide to Help People Over 45 – XIII
In the last couple of posts, we talked about résumé and the role it plays in building your case for your employment. We will continue this discussion in two more posts. In this part, we will see what all you can do to fine-tune your résumé.
Wear your Employer’s Shoes
Well, not literally. What I meant was you need to have a fresh look at your résumé to see how a person on the other side of the table will look at it. Put yourself in your employer’s shoes and see if you would have called a person carrying this résumé for the interview? There is no point for being right, so do not lie to yourself. This exercise is done solely to find problem in your CV.
See what is the flavor of the market
Tight fitting, camel toe revealing outfit might be a huge fashion in yesteryears, but today if you wear it you will look funny—I am not a fashion person so I might be wrong here. But, I know I am not wrong when I say you need to use the format that looks modern. See what format is used these days, and follow that trend. You may be 45, but your résumé should not look that old. Dress it up like youth does!
What’s the new lingo
In your youth, hyperlink and HTML would have meant nothing, but today it does. There are many similar changes in terminology of almost every field. Find out what words got omitted and what got added to your field in last couple of years, or from the time you last checked. Embrace the change, at least in your résumé. It will tell your employer how much you are unlike your age, I meant up-to-date with current trend.
We all new to adapt and evolve with time, this is the only way we can sustain ourselves. Keep on working, and keep on evolving.
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23 Sep 09 Writing A Resume In A Recession
Part of surviving in an economic downturn, is knowing how to adjust your job hunting tactics. Part of that is adjusting your resume. As your resume is your introduction, or pre-interview to a job, you have to know the right direction to take in an economic recession. If any company does happen to be hiring, they’re going to be more discriminatory than before to applicants that don’t meet their qualifications. Meaning you’ve got a much larger wall to climb, in order to get your foot in the door.
The number one step in this plan is to keep your resume as current as possible. By frequently updating your resume with your most recent accomplishments, or work history, you ensure it’s current and very reflective of you. Beyond that you want to customize your objective to tailor to the company to which you are applying. Your objective should not be a bland description of what you want out of a job, but rather what you want to put into a job. Specifically focused on the company to which you are applying.
Highlight your stability from previous jobs. By emphasizing that you are a worker that is reliable, and also with a fair amount of loyalty, you make yourself an asset to an organization. Companies are looking to people that they can count on if they’re actually hiring during a recession. Highlight the fact that you are dependable, and that a company would do well to hire you for that fact.
Finally, make sure that you personalize the resume for each company. You need to have a job specific resume each time, so that you are presenting yourself as an interested party. By making the resume count for them, you look interested and ready to commit to the position. The work you put in before you actually get a job will pay off on your road to getting hired.
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