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.
Tags: Camel Toe, Current, Cv, Exercise, Fashion, Fine Tune, Fresh Look, Hyperlink, Job Guide, Job Help, Job Search, Lingo, Search People, Shoes, Yesteryears
13 Sep 09 5 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Writing is an art, and like every other art you need to practice hard to improve it. What would you do if you want to be a piano player? You will take piano lessons and then will practice as much as you can until you perfect the art. The same holds true for writing, but writing has an upside. Unlike piano, we do not need to take special classes for writing – unless you are a non-native who never got taught English in your school and college – all we need to do is practice this art as much as you can. I am sharing here 5 valuable tips that will help you become a better writer.
Become a Blogger
Blogging is to writing novel what net practice is for a FIFA World Cup. In both the cases, you practice, practice and practice to fine tune your skills, and you do it daily.
Use self-imposed word limit
Do not become verbose. Gone are the days when people had ample time to spend idly, and hence they loved long, very long fictions. Now the time has changed, and even if it had not, a well-written work is never verbose. Put a strict word limit and follow it.
Let the criticism help you grow
Critics are your worst enemy, and like any enemy a critic will find the weakest spot in your defense, in this case writing, and will attack you there. What to do to stop them from attacking you? Remove the weakest spot, and for that you have to listen to critics to know your weaknesses.
Read, re-read, and re-read your works and fix the problems that you find.
You are not required to read all your works, if you write profusely. Just pick a piece or two every week and do as instructed.
Your friend and relative is your best reader
No one outside your close circle will like to read your work until you are Sir Salman Rushdie- I suspect, no one even in your close circle will like to read until they are forced to- hence they will need a little pushing before they agree to read what you write. Ask for their honest feedback as it will make you a better writer.
In the next blog post, I will show you 5 more ways to improve your writing.
Tags: Ample Time, blogging, Fifa World Cup, Fine Tune, Honest Feedback, Novel, Piano Lessons, Piano Player, Salman Rushdie, Word Limit, Worst Enemy
05 Jun 09 How to make People read Your E-mails
How often has it happen to you that you sent an important mail to someone, and the person did not reply? When you called up to enquire, the person confessed that he or she has not read the e-mail sent by you. If this rarely happens to you then it is the reader who is to blame for his or her laxity, but if this happens sporadically then maybe it’s the e-mail writing behavior of yours that is to blame. Whatever might be the case, the fact is your message went unread. In this post I am suggesting your some ways to fine-tune your e-mails to improve its readability.
Subject Line: This is the most important part of an e-mail. This is the window that gives your reader a glimpse into your mail. Make the view worth exploring.
Call to action: Most of the time the users need guidance. They need to know what response is expected of him.
Inverted pyramid structure: Write the most important thing at the top of the mail and then write the second most important thing followed by the third one.
KISS it: Keep it Short and Simple (KISS). The mail should be short, and simple. No one wish to read an epic in the mail.
Run a spell check: Typos not only put people off, but it also makes the message lose its meaning midst all the errors. Check the spelling before sending an e-mail across.
Check the recipient: People often commit this error and do it quite often. Check if the recipient’s address is written correctly.
Tags: E Mail, Epic, Fine Tune, Glimpse, Guidance, Inverted Pyramid Structure, Laxity, Mail Check, Midst, People, Read Mail, Sending Mail, Simple Kiss, Spell Check, Spelling, Subject Line
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