16. Oct
2008

Effective Resume

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Effective resume is depend on the quality of it. Quality in the sense of how it was prepared and the chronological orderliness content of the resume. Resume is one of the important tool of a job hunter in order to seek for a job. Its the soul of his personality that refer to his skills, career experience, and education. Resume is a document that contains a summary or listing of relevant job experience and education. It is closely related to a similar document, a curriculum vitae, which focuses more on education, publications, and other accomplishments. Both are typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment. There are many acceptable resume formats and methods of preparation. An effective resume is one who have found continued success. Effective resume pertains to a goal such as speak for you when you’re not there, serve as marketing tool, highlight your ability in doing jobs, and chance to get interviewed. A resume also is an advertisement of who you are in terms of your competencies, accomplishments, and future capabilities. It is your chief marketing tool or calling card for opening the doors of prospective employers.

A resume is a brief summary of your qualifications, skills, and background that represents your education and experiences in terms relevant to the employment place. Its purpose is to obtain an interview, at which time you will have an opportunity to describe in person what you can contribute to the company you want to work with. However, it is important for a resume to represent in a clear, well organized, and easy-to-read style. Here are the guideline that you must do in order to have an effective resume. Use letter size paper or 8-1/2″x11″, keep your resume briefly descriptions of your legible personal information. First thing to indicate is your identifying information such as your name, current address and telephone number, permanent address and telephone number, e-mail address, and optional if you have Web page address. Next is the objective, indicate your objective for having an advantage of telling the hiring manager the type of position you are seeking. You can state your objective through stating the desired position, position and interest, or through skills and organization type. After the objective, next is Education background. Indicate your educational attainment from elementary level up to Tertiary level and state what is the degree you’ve been finish and state also the year graduated. You can indicate also the honors and awards you receive and your average grade same with your grade in a board exam if you have. Next is Experience which includes the title of position, name of company or organization with the address, dates of employment or involvement in the said company, and the description of responsibilities beginning with action verbs. Another one is additional information, other responsibilities or skills and talents, and the references. That is the guidelines in making an effective resume. It is useful also to prepare two resume’s, one for scanning purposes which scan-format and detailed information. And the other one is for people to read during a face-to-face interview. The second could include a more creative layout, chronological content, enhanced typography, and summarized information. In preparing your resume, all you need to do is this guidelines and indicate only what is true into your resume don’t indicate any information which is not true. This will effect your personality. Make an impressive way of detailing your resume in order to get interviewed by recruiter or HR manager. But despite of those excellent resume, it was became effective if you are already hired in the job you applied for.

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5. Jun
2008

Behavioral Interview Questions and Answers

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What is a behavioral interview? Behavioral based interviewing is interviewing based on discovering how the interviewee acted in specific employment-related situations. The logic is that how you behaved in the past will predict how you will behave in the future i.e. past performance predicts future performance.

Traditional Interview vs. Behavioral Interview
In a traditional interview, you will be asked a series of questions which typically have straight forward answers like “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” or “What major challenges and problems did you face? How did you handle them?” Read more…