22 Dec 09 Handling The Hobby Section Of Your Resume

The hobbies section of your resume can be a tricky one. Because the main importance and the way you are being judged is resume wording and style, hobbies should be handled carefully. While most people will be scared off adding a hobby section to their resume, you really shouldn’t be. As long as you know what to write, the hobby section can be another way to sell yourself. Another great little window into why you’d be a better employee than the other applicants as it were.

You should absolutely use your hobbies to illustrate skills that you have that can come in handy on the job. So only use hobbies that apply to your career, so to speak. If you play videogames a lot, you’re going to have trouble making that one come through, so an employer gains more interest in you. So stay away from hobbies like that, and stick to outgoing proactive hobbies. Anything that gets you out, as a positive force, and that likely showcases your leadership or problem solving abilities.

Remember to keep your hobbies job related, otherwise you’re just wasting space and an employer’s time, with content that doesn’t matter to them. The idea of this section is to help them learn about you, and why you would be a fantastic employee. So limit your hobbies to 2-3, so that you have a short but informative section. This is just a little place to sell yourself, don’t drone on for too long.

That can’t be stressed enough, you absolutely don’t want a large hobby section. Otherwise the rest of your resume will look worse off because of your hobbies. Also, never let your hobbies section be the reason your resume spills over to a second page. You want to keep your resume at page length, and if you can’t do that with a hobbies section, it’s better to go without.

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17 Sep 09 Writing A Business Email

Knowing how to properly format a professional business email is very important. Not knowing how to do so could result in you appearing unprofessional, or under qualified, or unfortunately just unintelligent. The business email format follows a fairly strict set of rules, to stay professional, and to flow so that your point is made immediately. Oftentimes you have to write and answer dozens of these every day, so the importance of getting ideas across quickly is invaluable.

Start of by knowing your audience. The format of an email to a colleague, opposed to one directed at your boss, you’ll find are written a different way. Think about how well you know the person, as well as how they fit into the company ladder, as each point will affect your tone throughout the email. But no matter how well you think you know a person, never get too informal. Don’t compromise your professionalism for anything.

Know what you’re writing about, before you compose the email. If it’s an answer to a question, make sure that you know the answer forwards and backwards. The worst thing you can do is give an incorrect answer when someone has come to you for help. So do your research!

Keep the purpose of the email in mind, and stay on topic with that purpose. You want the email to just be a quick question or answer. Something that a person can read with ease, take what they need, and then move on to getting more work done afterward. You don’t want your email to serve as a distraction, not at work.

Address everyone formally, and never make the email about your personal issues. The last thing you want to do is drone on about something that’s making you angry at work. Just stay on topic, keep it short, and remain professional and courteous.

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