Is ur resumes missing these "5 must haves"?

Your resume could be missing out big time

Making sure your resume is a powerful marketing document is a wise investment in your career. It can set you apart from your competition, maximize the amount of interviews you land and ultimately play into how much a company offers you.

After all, you are negotiating with potential employers from the moment you connect with them to the time the offer is made. So everything that happens in that window of time plays into your offer…including how well targeted, well designed and compelling your resume is.

Here are five elements you will want to make sure your resume has:

Number one: Targeted Format
Your resume must be compelling for the type of position you are focusing on. If you are a sales executive of course you are going to want to quantify your sales skills in terms of territory development, revenue generation, and types of skills associated with sales and secondary support skills such as client management customer service, public relations and marketing.

Number two: Value Proposition Statement
Under the heading of your resume you should have a value proposition statement. An example of a value proposition statement is a 3 to 4 sentence overview of your focus and your strengths. Here’s an example of a VP Statement for a technology executive's resume:

Innovative and highly competent business and technology leader with 15+ years experience developing creative technology solutions that enhance performance, effect change, drive profits and growth. Proven reputation to:

Note: A value proposition statement is different from a personal objective statement. A personal objective statement is not the best to start out with on a resume simply because it’s a statement about what YOU want. Rather, share with your potential employer what skills and strengths you have to offer THEM.

Number three: Quantifiable Achievements
This is one of the most important components to your resume. You need to communicate in your resume not just what you do, but what HAPPENDS when you do what you do! This technique also helps employers envision you working with them, helping them with similar challenges and issues.

Number four: Key-Word Rich Content
Key words organized in a group called something like “core competencies” for instance, will do two things for you. It serves to potentially qualify you for more interviews, assuming those companies you are submitting your resume to use key word scanners. Second, key words. i.e., your strengths that stand alone allow the reader to view your competencies independent of any past company associated with it. This has a positive psychological affect as again, it enhances the reader’s ability to picture YOU in the position they are working to fill.

Number five: Two Resume Versions
You are going to want two versions of your resume. One in ASCII text format and one clean word version. Your ASCII text version is one you will use for all your electronic submissions. This plain text format will hold it formatting and thus look much cleaner on the receiving end. Once you save a copy of your resume in this format, you will want to go in and clean up all the symbols and spacing so it’s readable. Your word version is your clean word copy you can both print out as a hard copy or attach as a word document in an e mail.

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The Power Of Words

The Power Of Words Over Water

Can water be affected by our words?



Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese scientist, believes so. And he has proof.

Dr. Emoto took water droplets, exposed them to various words, music, and environments, and froze them for three hours. He then examined the crystal formations under a dark field microscope. And he took photographs. The results were totally mind-blowing. Here’s a photo of ordinary water without any prayer spoken over it. The molecular structure is in disarray.


The photo below is water after the prayer was said. It’s simply breathtaking. (I now have a great respect for praying before meals! More on this later.)


Dr. Emoto also exposed water to Heavy Metal music. Here’s how it looks like. Looks sad if you ask me.

Here’s water exposed to classical music and folk dance music.. Looks much better, right?

Next, Dr. Emoto stuck a piece of paper with these words: “You make me sick. I will kill you.” Here’s how the frozen water droplets looks like under the microscope…


Below is how water looked like with the words “Love” over it. The difference is amazing.

This is Polluted water…
This is water from Lourdes, France. Utterly beautiful, right?

Wait A Minute— Aren’t You Made Up Of Water?

Yes! 72% of your body is made up of water. Imagine how your words affect your own body.

When you say, “I’m a failure,” or “I’m hopeless,” or “I won’t get well,” imagine how these words weaken your health. Make a choice to say the best words out there.

Say often, “I’m wonderful,” “I’m beautiful,” “I’m God’s child,” and “God has a great plan for my life!” It’s not only water.

Dr. Emoto also experimented with cooked rice.He placed one cup of cooked rice in two airtight jars. On one jar, he wrote, “I love you,” and on the other, “You fool.” Everyday for 30 days, Dr. Emoto would say these words to each jar of rice. After 30 days, the “I love you” rice was still white. But the “You fool” rice was so rotten, it was black. How can you explain this?

Just as a side note:

When I was a child, my mother taught me to pray before meals. Now I realize it wasn’t just a nice thing to do. When I pray over my meal, I know a material transformation takes place in the molecular level of the food that I pray for. I say, “Be blessed,” to the water and food on the table—and I expect it to be blessed. I encourage you to speak words of truth. Dethrone the lies in your mind. Say, “I’m beautiful.” Say, “I’m a wonderful person.” Say, “I have a great future.” Say, “I’m anointed. I’m strong. I’m blessed.” Use your words to create your desired reality. May your dreams come true!

The Interview

BEFORE THE INTERVIEW,

make sure that you do the following:

1. Research the company that you are interviewing with.
2. Be prepared to address any gaps in your resume
3. Ask yourself, “why should they hire me?” and have an answer
4. Practice your delivery. Anticipate possible questions.
5. Dress professionally and conservatively.
6. Brush your teeth or rinse with mouthwash if you are a smoker
7. Avoid heavy perfumes or body lotions
8. Have at least two copies of your resume
9. Leave your home in plenty of time so that you won’t be late
10. Be confident


DURING THE INTERVIEW

1. Be confident – project confidence
2. Make eye contact
3. When you shake hands, shake firmly
4. Smile, smile until your lips hurt!
5. Be honest – do not be deceptive in your answers
6. Be brief – no one wants to listen to long-winded answers.
7. Be positive – do not bash any former employers.
8. Take notes – it shows that you are organized and came prepared
9. Do not discuss salary unless asked. If asked, indicate some flexibility. Be open-minded.
10. Send a thank you note after the interview


AFTER THE INTERVIEW

1. Send a “thank you” note
2. Follow up with a call within a week.

EIGHT WAYS TO MANAGE YOURSELF -Kerry Gleeson

1. Screen non-essential information.:
Learn to identify information that you don’t need and eliminate it at the source. Remove yourself from all distribution lists that stuff your paper & electronic mailbox with useless catalogs, newsletters, and data that have no value to you. Allow only those items which you need to do your job or address issues of high importance to you to get through your filters. Many of today’s e-mail programs (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, IBM’s Lotus Notes, etc.) provide filtering options to send e-mail directly to folders or Deleted items bypassing the inbox. What you do not see you do not need to process. Make it a point to open your mail, both “e” and “snail,” only when you are ready to deal with it and make your “delete” key and trash bin your best friends. If you learn to ruthlessly screen/filter low-value information, you will find that the volume of data you work with will decrease dramatically.

2. Don’t procrastinate.:
When you put off tasks, you only build stress and make your workload seem heavier than it really is. If you tackle your worst jobs first and work on them a little at a time, you’ll find that they’re not as unmanageable as you imagined. Deal with incoming paper and electronic information as soon as you come across them. Don’t set them down or close them without adding value to them, or the result will be a waste of precious time. If you are not going to process your e-mail, don’t look at it! If you look at it, do it then and there! Apply the 4D’s – Do it immediately; Delegate it to the right person, now; Designate the e-mail to a Task, now; or Dump it (file or discard). Finally, you’ll find that doing it now will keep both of your “in” boxes emptier and keep you from losing important documents.

3. Reduce interruptions.:
One work study determined we get interrupted on average every three minutes. Another study found it takes an average of 8 minutes to get focused back on what we were in the middle of doing before being interrupted! In other words wasted time! Try batching communications with those people you work with most frequently to remove annoying and distracting interruptions. Keep a file, paper and/or electronic, for each person containing documents and e-mail you need to discuss, or your notes on subjects you need to ask about. Meet with these people frequently, on a scheduled basis, if necessary, and answer all your questions at once instead of dealing with five or ten interruptions. If you establish this practice with all your co-workers, you could perhaps eliminate 50 interruptions a day. You’ll find that practicing this batching technique that you will improve your concentration and increase your knowledge and work output—to say nothing about improving relations with your colleagues.

4. Get your papers organized:.
It’s important to be able to find everything you need to do your work all the time. Stop wasting time looking for lost documents on your desk or office floor. Most of us keep far too much “stuff” that has lost it’s value. Get rid of what you do not use, do not need or can get elsewhere. Have a defined place for everything that comes into your office by grouping related papers, labeling them, and containing them. Organize materials on an as-used basis.

• Place frequently used files and materials where they can be reached without getting up from your chair

.• Place files that are used occasionally (that is, once or twice a month) in a nearby filing cabinet.

• Archive files that are used no more than once a year.

• Keep your papers organized; work with only one file or project at a time. This will make it easier for you to concentrate and also keep papers from becoming misplaced or misfiled.

5. Establish good e-mail and electronic document storage habits and organizational systems.:
Handle your electronic information as ruthlessly and efficiently as you handle your paper documents. Act on and delete as many messages as possible as soon as you read them. When e-mail messages must be saved, use the hierarchal subject file procedure which migrates from macro to micro subject naming conventions. Organize you’re My Documents electronic documents (any word, excel or other documents) using the same category names you created for your paper files and e-mail folder tree. Under no circumstances should you file documents by “type’ such as Word, Power Point, and Excel. Once purged and the system set up, it is easy to maintain.

6. Use your calendar proactively.:
There is an old time management rule that has stood the test of time! If you want to get something done, schedule it! This may be perhaps one of the most important steps toward gaining control of your workload. You schedule meetings with others all the time, but you probably don’t do the same for your own work. Schedule appointments with yourself, on your electronic calendar, with reminders set, to most effectively concentrate on your priority projects. Peter Drucker, in his landmark book The Effective Executive, says it is best to work in blocks of time, no longer than ninety minutes. Routinely schedule ‘work’ time in your calendar and keep to the routine. Doing so will allow you to focus on your goals and improve your concentration.

7. Develop an effective Task/To Do follow-up system for yourself.:
Too often managers tell us they take a great deal of pride in their memory. We tell them a good memory is not necessarily the skill they need. They need to be able to forget everything they need to do and track. You do not need to “remember” that at 3:00 pm “I have to call Stan.” Instead, set up a system to remind you of a task only when you are to act on it. Keeping a follow-up system for yourself electronically is the best way to remind yourself of important deadlines, actions and tasks to help you keep your goals in sight and make big projects more manageable. Make sure that you use the power of electronics and that your reminders come to you automatically when you want them.

8. Don’t allow meetings to take over your life!:
One client, trying to gain control over his work, analyzed his time and realized he had 50 hours of scheduled meetings per week. As bad as that may be, what made matters worse is seldom did these meetings produce more than discussions. The meetings consumed all the time to actually do anything! Of course, one can tighten up the meeting processes, have an agenda, start and end on time and make meetings more efficient. But many meetings should not be held in the first place. Meetings are not a substitute for management. Avoid ‘problem solving meetings’ – instead go to the place where the problem exists, observe, look, listen and gather the facts to solve the problem. Block out time in your calendar for work. Protect your time. No one else will.