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Resumes and Beyond…. What Will a Resume Do For Me?. Ultimate goal: To gain an interview! A marketing tool to answer the employer’s question: What can you do for me?. What do employers look for when reviewing resumes?. RESUME STYLES. Chronological. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Resumes and Beyond…
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What Will a Resume Do For Me?
•Ultimate goal: To gain an interview!
•A marketing tool to answer the employer’s question:
What can you do for me?
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What do employers look
for when reviewing resumes?
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Chronological • Lists work experience beginning with the most recent
• Highlights career growth and development
• Emphasis placed on duties and responsibilities related to each job
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Functional • More focus on qualifications and less on
past employers or job progression
• True functional resume contains no dates
• May be beneficial to someone just entering the job market with little work experience or not wanting to make their age obvious
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Combination• Focus is on the skills and abilities that
you have gained that would relate to the job you are applying for
• Combines the flexibility and strengths of the chronological and functional resume formats
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Scannable Resumes
• Text Based-no bullets or symbols
• Employers use a database to quickly and efficiently match job openings with qualified applicants
• Employers search by using keywords or phrases that describe the skills and education required for the position
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How Do You Paste Your Word Resume Document Into a Website Resume Box for
Online Applications?
http://www.sutteronestop.com/pdf/ScannableResumeInstructionsSamples.pdf
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The Nuts and Bolts of Your Resume
• Font: Traditional business style-Arial, Courier, Times New Roman
• Point size of letters should be 11 or 12 for most text and 14 or 16 for headings
• Bolds, italics, underlines, bullets and capitalizations should not be used often
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Content of Your Resume
• Name
• Phone Numbers
• Education
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Resume Don’ts• Personal information such as height, weight,
age, date of birth, marital status, sex, race, health, or social security number
• The word “Resume” at the top of the page • Statement of when available• “I” or “My” statement s• Reasons for leaving previous positions• Photographs • Graphics
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More Resume Don’ts• Exaggerations/Lies• Jargon/Slang• Abbreviations not easily identified• Salary History or Salary Expectations• Inaccurate dates of employment• Reference Names• Religion, church affiliations, political
affiliations
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Transferable Skills• The skills you have acquired throughout your
life-jobs, volunteer work, classes, hobbies, sports, parenting-that can be used in your next job
• Think of everything you have done in terms of how it is transferable to the job you are applying for
• To know what skills to emphasize:• Research the company and the job of interest
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Soft Skills
• Skills related to your attitudes and behaviors that will show your potential for growth and team work skills (personality and social characteristics)
• “People Skills”-not technical skills
• Employers want to know: Do you “work and play well with others?”
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What is a Summary of Qualifications?
• Three or four brief statements that say why you are the right candidate for the job you are applying for
• Statements should include experience and skills (transferable and soft) that relate to that particular job expressing your value to the employer
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Accomplishment Statement
• Highlights experience you have had in your work or volunteer activities where you were successful
• Informs an employer of actions you took to handle a situation and the results that you achieved
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References
• Don’t bother with generic “letters of recommendations”
• Never list names of references on your resume
• Use good judgment when choosing references
• Get permission• Collect all the details for each reference• Keep you references informed• Thank your references
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Applications
• Read and follow directions carefully• Have your own black ink pen• Always carry a copy of your resume• Fill in all spaces; use N/A if it does not
apply• Salary-use “company policy”,
“negotiable”, “flexible”
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Applications
• Be positive on all employment information-include gaps in employment and reasons for seeking employment
• Always state specific job title instead of putting “anything”
• Always go dressed as if you would be interviewed
• Review for accuracy
• Do not put “see resume” on employment history section-complete all information requested!
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Tips for Ex-Offenders• The first question most often faced on an application form is:
“Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If yes, give details.”
• Recommended best response: Be truthful by putting “yes” and then follow up by putting “will provide details at the interview.”
• Include a reference who can testify to how you have turned your life around-such as a prison minister, education officer, parole officer, psychologist
• Seek jobs with employers who are known to work with ex-offenders
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Cover Letters• Any time you send your resume to an
employer it should be accompanied by a cover letter
• Acts as an introduction for your resume
• A sample of your writing skills
• Should not repeat what is in your resume
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Cover Letter Tips
• Target the letter to the specific job
• Business letter format
• Send to appropriate person
• Use as a tool to highlight skills
• Check spelling and grammar
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Tips for Individuals with Disabilities
• Volunteer activities can lead to paid employment and can provide good work experience to be included on your resume
• Consider staffing agencies to obtain work history and experience
• Identify the most critical work-related barriers to employment to assist in deciding what jobs to apply for
• Identify your strengths and focus on jobs in which you can use these strengths to benefit the company you are wanting to work for
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Career Ready 101 • Keytrain Career Skills :
• Effective Resumes (Writing an Electronic Resume)
• The Application Process (Applying Online)
• Finding Your Career: Writing a Resume
www.careerready101.com/
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National Career Readiness Certificate
• Nationally recognized certificate that allows an individual to show employers that he or she has the basic skills they are seeking
• Needs to be referenced on resume in Education section
• Three skill areas: • Reading for Information • Applied Mathematics • Locating Information
• Skill levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum
• Keytrain Practice
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Online Resources
• www.quintcareers.com
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu
• www.rileyguide.com
• http://careeronestop.org
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QUESTIONS
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WRAP UP/REVIEW
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What’s Next?Developing Your Resume in the
Action Lab
www.onetcodeconnector.org
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AB&T WISHES YOU MUCH SUCCESS