RESUMES

“It’s a Job seeking jungle out there…don’t botch your chances with incorrect resume headings and info!”

Resume headings are cause to some of the most common mistakes made on resumes.

When composing your resume understand that the headings you use and the way you use them will play a vital role in establishing your firs impression as either positive or negative.Using these resume heading tips will set you apart and ensure that your first impression is one worth remembering.

It goes without saying that the most prominent item on your resume is your name and contact information. Don’t fall into the trap of trying to emphasize your name in some fancy font. The employer might use different software and your resume formatting might show up differently on their screen. Keep it simple and easy to read by using standard fonts like Arial or Times New Roman. Point size 14 or 16 are large enough for your name, other headings should not go over 10 or 12 point.

Your mailing address should contain your email address, and a phone number where you can be reached. Use your physical mailing address over a P.O. mailing address if at all possible. Don’t make the mistake of including your email address at your current place of employment. A tip on listing your email address: Include your name in your email address, this is far more professional and speaks volumes as far as forethought and planning go. There are many places you can set up a free email like this (Yahoo email account) While you’re at it you might as well set one up to receive mail from your job search efforts.

Be sure to list at least one phone number, and indicate whether it is your home or cellnumber. You can list your address to your website but, be doubly sure that the content on your site is not of a too personal nature.

Both the chronological and functional resumes need to be separated by headings. This is where the saying “Less is More” comes into it’s own.

Include The Following Titles On A Chronological Resume.

* career objective
* professional summary
* professional experience/work
* experince/experiences
* pubkicarions/special
* achievements/(if any)
* qualifications/skills
* references/portfolio

Include The Following Titles On A Functional Resume.

By nature the functional resume headings will depend on the skills you are wanting to highlight. However, the following must be included:

* Career objective
* education
* Professional skill/professional qualifications (here you would include sub-headings related to specific qualifications that you are highlighting, like customer relations, communications, work experience and management etc.)
* work experience/work history (stick to the dates, titles, companies and locations – don’t list respnsibilities.)
* Volunteer work (if any)
* References

Remember to stick to the basics, don’t get fancy with the fonts and layout in order to try and stand out. The only thing you will achieve is “standing out” as un-professional and childish. A professional clean, sleek and error free resume will get your foot in the the door which means you are one step closer to getting the job you want.

A consultant is a person who is responsible for providing the consultation to the inexpert employees. He handles the entire consultation departments, hires the efficient employee, improves the unskilled staff, collects the resume, contacts the business partners and also organizes the meeting and interviews. He consults with the customers and department in order to define the requirements and problems. For the job description like above, you should need to write an effective and impressive resume objective in your CV. Here is a sample of the resume objective. You can write it in your resume.

I want to seek a respectable position of a consultant in an organization where I can utilize my 8 years progressive experience and also my dynamic skills and knowledge for enhancing the profit of the organization. I believe in quality. The perfect mixture of good sense of humor and abilities enable me to accomplish the predefined goals of the organization.

Brief explanation of resume objective
It is an important section that introduces the job seekers to the interviewer to judge whether the job seeker is perfect for that particular position or not. For this main reason, every seeker must give the proper time and consideration to establish a well stated resume objective. The job seeker must highlight his abilities, strengths and qualification to match with the position he is trying to apply for.

What to include in it
As most of the people know that a good career goal plays an important role in getting a good job. Therefore it should be written with full consideration. All the job seekers are advised to write an effective resume career goal so that an employer will be highly encouraged to read some more about the candidate. If a job seeker is looking to change the career and have not enough experience then he must do something to attract the interviewer’s focus. It is always essential that you highlight your achievements, qualities and abilities.

Structure of the resume objective
The first sentence of an objective should be able to explain the employer why you are the best candidate for the particular post and what do you want to do something good for the organization. If you mind all these things, it will be beneficial for you because every organization wants to select a person who is able to share the innovative ideas with them.

You career goal says a lot about your personality, so you should pay proper attention towards writing it.

A well written nursing resume is the key to success for Nurses in finding work that rewards them appropriately. And yet, I find that many resumes for nurses do not include basic information.

A recent survey of the resumes of 16 Nurses identified a number of issues with these resumes. The concerns were:
• Use of Pre-prepared Templates – Most of the resumes surveyed used a template. This type of structure is commonly in use. The use of such templates makes all candidates’ resumes similar. The effect is that all such resumes look similar, fail to convey all skills of a candidate and therefore fail to impress the reader. The reader is left to either read such boring resumes or to discard them.
• Career Goals – All resumes looked at during this survey commenced with a career goal. Some comments in resumes in this area are very common to all resumes. An example is “To expand my knowledge, clinical skills and obtain sound practical experience”. Where an experienced candidate is applying for a nursing role which requires the candidate to have the relevant skills, this type of career goal acts against the candidate. Furthermore specifying career objectives is a better alternative. Most organisations are looking for a candidate that wants to work for them and a clear career goal is helpful.
• Skills and Competencies – In most resumes, this is not clearly defined. When one reads a resume, they have to search for the skills a candidate has. No one has the time to read through a full resume to then identify the skills a candidate has relevant to a role.
• Clinical Placements – The survey found that many candidates include Clinical placement but provide very little detail. Details of where the placement was and what the placement covered are not included. This provides limited information. Where candidates have been rotated between areas for example, providing information on rotation provides a greater understanding of skills.
• Previous Experiences – In many cases, previous experiences recorded have several issues. These include:
o Gaps in period of employment – I feel that one must have few gaps and explanation of gaps must be included.
o Name of an organisation without any explanation – Many organisations are named but there is no explanation as to the complexity of the organisation, the number of Hospital beds, and the type of organisation.
o The role of the candidate – This was often not included in the resumes reviewed as a part of this survey.
o List of Duties – All resumes included a list of all duties of a candidate. Key responsibilities had not been clearly defined and none of the resumes included any achievements of the candidate.

The above are but some of the issues identified through a survey of 16 resumes of Nurses who had applied for work. There obviously are a range of other issues.

To briefly guide nurses in the preparation of their resumes, it is important that some of all of these headings are included in their future resumes:

• Career Objectives
• Key Skills and competencies
• Key Strengths
• Educational Qualifications
• Accreditations and Registrations with Professional Bodies
• Work Experience which should include:
– Position Held
– Dates employed
– Name of organisation
– One sentence on the organisation
– Three dot points on key responsibilities.
– Key achievements

Follow this guideline and you will not go wrong in your resume. A resume prepared by a professional is always important as it covers several areas you have not covered to highlight you

Applying for a new job is entering a competition. That competition is between you and every other person who is applying for the same position. The better and more popular the job, the greater the competition; the greater the competition, the tougher it gets to become selected. It can be a harsh and demoralizing world for the job seeker, so he or she has to do everything possible, at every stage, to increase the chances of selection.

The first impression the potential employer will have of the applicant usually comes from the resume (or curriculum vitae in some parts of the world). The resume is, therefore, at the sharp end of job success; the resume represents you before you have the chance to represent yourself personally. If there are many applicants, if your resume lets you down, that is the end of the road on that particular job journey. You need a resume that gets you noticed, and makes an instant impression as the personnel manager, or team, goes through tens or hundreds of applications for a vacant post.

When preparing a resume, it is important to set yourself apart from the crowd. One of the ways to get noticed as a serious applicant is to have well thought out career objectives in the resume. However, to be effective, career objectives included in a resume have to be very precise, and that may not be in the interests of the applicant if their inclusion rules out job possibilities in the organisation which may have been suitable. Before including resume objectives, you do need to consider if they really will help you get the job you really need.

One of the positive attractions of resume objectives is that they show you have thought about where you want your career to go. This may be especially important for new graduates, who have not had a job before, or those who are changing career. If, on the other hand, you are applying for a new job as part of an already existing career progression, then it may make more of an impact to put emphasis on your already existing skills and experience, which could be of more interest to the potential employer.

Assuming that you decide a career objective is essential to your resume, what should that objective include? The answer to that is: very little. The objective should be very precise, a simple statement of where your career goal lies. It is likely to be a particular job position, which is why objectives in a resume can be too restrictive. If the employer has several positions in the organisation or company which may suit your background, education, experience and skills, you could miss out on those options.

To help you decide whether or not to include resume objectives, find out as much as possible about the employers organisation, and the opportunities that might be available. If there really is one possible route to success for you with that employer, then maybe the inclusion of a succinct career objective will be worthwhile. If you cannot find out such detail about potential opportunities with that employer, then it may be beneficial to omit the objectives, and concentrate on a powerful presentation of your skills, achievements, and training.

Always remember, that the first paragraph or two will have to make an impact to stop your resume being discarded at the first sift. You have to decide which is the best way to do that for each job application, as every one may need a slightly different approach.