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15 Cards in this Set
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Identify your Key Selling Points |
- Create resumes and cover letters that serve your long-term career interests - Evaluate career ambitions and qualifications - Identify career goals: 1) helps frame your resume and cover letter to project career hopes 2) Helps you evaluate how well your abilities and attributes prepare you for desire career |
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Abilities |
- skillsandknowledge that can be applied to accomplishing work tasks. |
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Attributes |
- personaltraitsor characteristics |
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Completing a Thorough Job Search Process |
- Use all resources available, and fit a job that is a good fit for you - Contact and get involved with professional organizations and visit organizational websites to learn about options |
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Setting up Resume and Cover Letters |
- university students: single page
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Resume |
Major sections: Name block, Career summary or objective, Education, Experience |
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Principles of effective resumes |
- Emphasize accomplishments with action verbs - Quantify accomplishment where possible - Position your most important contributions first - Group and label information to increase ease of reading - Remove irrelevant details - Avoid buzzwords and jargons - Be exact and avoid any errors - Format to distinguish between pieces of info - Select simple yet visually appealing layout |
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Getting the right TONE, STYLE, DESIGN for Resumes and Cover Letters |
- The tone, style, anddesign mustbe perfect - How canyou make sure that potential employers rapidly understand yourstory: the unique abilities and attributes thatwill deliver value to them? |
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Emphasize Accomplishments with Action Verbs |
- Withoutexaggerating,choose verbs thatmake yourkey abilities and attributes jump off thepage. - Avoidverbsthat undersell yourabilities and attributes |
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Chronological vs Functional Resumes |
Chronological Resumes: presentthe information grouped by work and education over time Functional Resumes: presentthe information in terms of key skills. |
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Developing a Reference List |
- Develop relationships with potential references over time - Contact your references ahead of time - Thank your references - Complete a consistently formatted, Well-Detailed reference list |
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Constructing Cover Letters |
- TheCover Letter Often Forms the First Impression -ClearlyIdentify thePosition You Are Applying For -BeFocused and Concise - Showa Confident and Enthusiastic Tonewithout Exaggeratingor DisplayingArrogance - TailorYourCover Letter to the Job Posting and Needs of the Employer - Adaptingfor UnsolicitedLetters |
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Interview Questions |
-Respondto Questions Strategically, Confidently, andConcisely -BePerceptive about What Hiring Managers Are Evaluating -Tell Success Stories - AvoidCriticizing YourFormer Organizations, Supervisors, and Colleagues -AskQuestions |
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After Interview |
- Send a thank you note - Express goodwill and interest in the position |
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Leaving an organization |
- You shouldinform your supervisor that you are leaving immediately, preferablyin person -You maybe requiredto writea formalresignation |
