How to Make a Resume - Top 10 Mistakes of Resume Makers

An attention should be paid by the employer and make sure that he should not make any kind of mistakes in his resume and in the cover letter while writing. Some mistakes are carried over while writing resume and cover letter.

So, how to make a resume right? Check the top 10 mistakes that you should always make sure to avoid when you are make a resume. Assign these common career crimes is equal of telling the interviewer that you absolutely do not want the job. The mistakes commonly occurring in the resume making are given below:

* Unattractive layout: One of the reason your resume get unnoticed is because of unattractive or inconsistency of resume layout. The formatting of the layout during a resume making should be as attractive as possible. It can be made by alternating between capital letters and boldface type for separate sections.

* Inappropriate stationery: Using of stationery and writing paper is the real way to express something about you to the employer, but this works only for your personal task but not for the professional one. So make your resume on professional papers with a heavy stock on those papers.

* Too fancy fonts: Like using the stationery elaborately this can go against you in this business, usage of too decorating fonts can also damage your goodwill as a professional jobs seeker. Times or Arial fonts are the best fonts to use in a professional resume making.

* Making Corrections: A perfect resume is a one which contains minimum mistakes or we can say no mistakes. If you are aware of the mistake what you make in your resume, go back and do the rectifications in the document directly, and reprint it instead of making correction on the paper using pen or pencil. No excuse will be entertained to be less than perfect if you know how to make resume being a winner.

* Incorrect and inappropriate Information: The information you entered in the cover letter and resume should be accurate and make sense. If a sensitive interviewer finds any incorrect information on the cover letter it bothers him a lot. In the same way there should not be any incorrect or fake information in the resume. So make sure and check twice before sending it. Inappropriate information should be avoided.

* Typos: One of the major problems encountered often with the interviewer while going through the resume having slew of typos. This reason can be enough to exclude the interviewee from the running. A quick spell and careful edit are the ways this error can be prevented. Software can check mistakes when you make resume.

* Comparisons and Cliches: Always avoid usage of cliches and obvious comparisons while making a cover letter, as it sounds someone else is writing the exact same thing.

* No Signature: Signature is acting as one of the important things which a employer is looking. When you send the cover letter without having signed, it makes an impression in the employer's mind that you are lacking with certain skills.

* Missing Resume: This mistake sound ridiculous, though it seems like to make. Many people send out a cover letter and forget to include the resume in it. This also makes a negative impression in the employers mind on lacking of skills.

Write the main tips covered above. The putting it on paper will help you remember how to make a resume by right way. Start self-made tutorial!

by Oleg Savchenko 

 

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Don't Sweat It

Sweating the small stuff may wreak havoc in your life. But actual sweating – out of control, problem sweating — can turn your professional life into a nightmare and maybe even wreck your career.

There you are, poised to give a big presentation to the top brass of your company. You’ve done all the backup preparation and set up all the equipment. You’re good to go. And then, as the managers enter the room and take their seats, you start perspiring — and it’s not the faulty air conditioning.

You’re running through “what-if” scenarios in your mind. What if they see I’m sweating? What will they think of me? You’re starting to sweat profusely.
Your hands turn gummy and you feel the beads of sweat on the back of your neck. You feel the flush of embarrassment rising up your face and you know that everyone can see it. You start to speak but your voice cracks. Embarrassed by your obvious state of embarrassment, you turn even redder. By now, the sweat is pouring off you. The audience members are shifting uneasily in their seats, drumming on the table, or staring fixedly into space. You’ve blown it.

You hate that you can’t seem to control sweating and turning red .Worse, there’s no way to hide it. It’s a vicious circle: your obvious discomfort in work and social settings manifested by heavy sweating and blushing feeds on itself — making you blush and sweat more. In fact, just the fear of blushing and sweating in social in-your-face situations makes you start to sweat. So maybe you’ll just start avoiding those situations. But that will be devastating to your career; you can’t get ahead by working in a vacuum. Getting ahead depends as much as on your ability to successfully interact with people in the workplace and after hours as it does on your professional expertise.

There’s no getting away from it: to succeed, you need to overcome the fears that are causing you to break out in uncontrollable sweating. But if just the thought of having to give a presentation in front of your peers or hang out with the guys after work and make small talk makes you break into a sweat, you’re in trouble.

Excessive sweating, also known as hyperhidrosis, is an involuntary condition. While any part of the body can be affected, active regions of perspiration are generally hands, feet, or armpits where sweat glands are more heavily concentrated. Heavy sweating, especially in stressful situations, is often accompanied by blushing. There you are, red-faced and perspiring, and totally frustrated with yourself because you think you can’t do anything to make it stop. You’re wrong. It can be stopped — and you don’t have to resort to medication or surgery either. You can solve your excessive sweating or blushing problems through working closely with trained professionals who’ve helped hundreds of people just like you conquer this problem — no drugs, no surgery.
Sounds too good to be true? The free seminar I've prepared offers you the opportunity to hear a successful 27-year-old businessman talk openly and honestly about his near-career bashing condition of blushing and severe sweating — and how he learned to control it without medication or any invasive treatment. Don’t let heavy sweating ruin your career. Take control and don’t sweat it.

by Jonathan Berent

 

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At the Crossroads of Life: Making the Right Career Decision

`You must study only maths and physics’, `Slog hard…u have to aim for IITs and AIIMS’, `Don’t’ idle away your time playing sports…focus only on studies’ ,`What ! You are interested in painting…will this fetch you a lifestyle?’……If you are in the age group of 14 to 18 years, all these phrases must be sounding familiar to you!! These are some of the remarks that will haunt you all your adolescence years.  You are always at the receiving end of criticism, suggestions and advices from parents, siblings, peer group, neighbours and just anyone who comes across you!! Due to the fact that the external world is becoming highly competitive, parent’s aspirations and expectations are rising. To add insult to injury, someone `well placed’ in the family is set as a benchmark and you are supposed to tread the path on which the `achiever’ had trailed. You have no other option but to idolize the `trend setter’ and follow his/her entire behavioral pattern to know how the lady fortune who had smiled upon this person might please you as well!!

At a time when almost everyone has imposed their aspirations on you by telling what you should become, have you ever sat down quietly and done some amount of introspection as to what YOU want from your life? Have you ever analysed your own strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes? If your answer is no then it’s a wake up call for you. Shut out the world for sometime, preferably in the morning when the mind is really fresh. Preferably sit in a place with lots of greenery around; being close to nature acts as a great stress buster and opens the channels of mind and then analyse the following:

1. Identify the areas in which you would like to make a career for yourself and accordingly the educational stream you should choose. Write this down without any inhibitions; if you wish to become a fashion designer then why study science?
2. Reflect on your likes and dislikes, needs and wants. Change is a way of life; everything around us changes, as do our likes and dislikes. Something you loved doing one year ago may now give you displeasure. Make sure you reflect on the things in life that you feel most strongly about. Make a two-column list of your major likes and dislikes. Then use this list to examine your career choice that you have mentioned. Then identify what you need or want from your life in terms of education and career…To be rich or to enjoy high power and status.
3. Examine your favorite pastime and hobbies. Many times your hobbies and leisurely pursuits can give you great insight into future career path. Never think that you can’t make a hobby into career. History has it that many great painters and chefs in the world nurtured their hobbies and made it their career.
4. It’s very important that you review the career and job trends. If you were always fascinated on the thought of flying an aircraft, review what scope a commercial or a defence pilot has.
5. Develop a roadmap for your educational and career success. Set short-term (one year) and long-term (beyond two years) career goals. For example, learning c++ may be your short-term goal and being a software engineer from a reputed institute a long term goal.
6. Analyse your personality or career anchors. Career anchors are certain attitudes formed early in life that guide people throughout their career. These attitudes `anchor’ an individual to one or a few related types of career. The following broad career anchors have been identified :
   
   • Managerial Competence – If you have the capacity to take responsibility and have the ability to influence and control others you must think of taking up subjects of your choice and then pursue management related courses.
   • Technical-functional competence – If technology fascinates you then its better if you strive to be an expert in it; Take up science and engineering stream.
   • Creative and free-willed competence – If innovation and creativity energises you, then develop a list of your passions and work on to become an entrepreneur. If you are free-willed and do not love to take orders or be bound to one seat, one job, work upon being a free-lance writer, consultant.

It’s very important not to succumb to external pressures and identify one unique quality you have. The moment it has been identified, is the moment the career turmoil is over. While career planning is an important aspect of your life, do not put so much pressure on yourself that it paralysis you from making any real decisions. It is also important to know that career planning is an ever-changing and evolving journey – so take it slowly and easily…

by Rashmi Sharma

 

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getting best possible job

These days it is very difficult to support a family of 4 on any type of income in our world that is less than $2,000 a month per parent. Having a family is very expensive and that is just to survive. If you want to thrive, have fun, and do the things you want to do, then you need to know about the highest paid jobs and how to get them. This does not mean you have to climb to the top of the ladder and be a CEO to make money, but you will need to be willing to do some research to find the right top job for you.
Here are some key things you will need to consider when looking for a top paying job in this economy. First, you may have to go get more education or experience to step up to the level that you can have a job that pays you great. Those with master's degrees are more likely to make $100,000 a year or more than anybody that just has a bachelor's degree. This is very true and with a master's degree you have a real shot at moving into the higher paying jobs that are out there. This is not the only way to get there, but it is a very good road to follow if you are willing to put in the time in a classroom to get your master's degree.
Second, the majority of the wealthiest people are those that actually avoid the highest paid jobs and start their own companies. This is another great way to get yourself to a 6 figure income or more per year. You can start your own company and, then you do not need to search for any of the highest paid jobs because you will be in complete control of how much money you make. This is a great way to make money, be independent, and be in control.
Last, if starting a business is not for you and you really have no desire to go back to school, then you need to acquire experience and skills that can get you to a 6 figure income per year. This means you are going to have to research things that you love to do and start figuring out how you can gain some skills and experience that fit in with what you like to do. It is much easier to make a larger income if you actually enjoy your job than if you don't, so do not make it all about the money and put together a plan to get yourself to the highest paying jobs in the market.

by muhammad shoaib farooq

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How to Build a Successful Singing Career

Are you a young hopeful singer looking to make your mark in the music business?

Whether you are a solo singer/songwriter , rehearsing your first band, singing karaoke, or just wondering about how to get it all going here is some advice that you might find useful.

Let's start with the central issue. How good you sound is much more important than how good you look. This will sound like crazy talk to some but it's essentially true. Singing is an aural art form and your success as an artist will rest mostly on how well you communicate with your listener. The best visual presentation in the business will not help you if you sound like crap. Or put another way, a blind person will not think you are a great singer no matter how well you are dressed!

Many wonderful singers started out with only the very basics of a good singing voice, perhaps just the raw ability to sing confidently and more or less in tune. Along the way they learned to bring out the best in their voice and to create a kind of vocal charisma, a unique musical identity that is instantly recognizable to the listener.

Firstly, don't think of yourself as a singer. Think of yourself as a MUSICIAN. The human voice is merely an instrument like many others and it takes dedication and skill to use it effectively. If you want the kind of voice that will stop traffic, the kind of vocal range that lets you sing in almost any key, the sort of voice that most people would die for then you have to build it yourself. Lots of raw talent is not enough in most cases and it can sometimes be a disadvantage.

Why? Because it can make you a complacent low achiever and lead you to believe that the world revolves around you and the greatness you are destined to enjoy if only the world would listen. A great natural singing voice is one thing but it's what you DO with it that counts.

As a singer you must develop your musical judgment. You will need to make good musical decisions every time you open your mouth to sing. Deciding how to sing a phrase, whether to build up a particular section or to lay back your timing into the bridge or if you should sing out the end chorus an octave higher with lots of licks all takes musical taste and judgment that nobody is born with. If you think of yourself as a musician first then you will be able to recognize these judgment skills in other musicians and be able to learn from them.

Singers should always be looking to push themselves. Expand your horizons by learning other instruments like guitar and keyboards or bass, drums or saxophone. The mere act of learning to play a bit on another instrument will teach you much about singing. It will also help immensely with your songwriting, but that is another rave.

Expand your horizons in other musical directions. If you sing hip hop then try singing a bit of country or jazz. Force yourself out of your comfort zone into areas you know nothing about. Throw yourself into the deep end of the pool until you feel the water flow over your head! Most musical styles borrow on the same vocal techniques but differ in how they are applied. For example, listening to how Michael Buble sings can give you an insight into phrasing and how to create tension and release in a vocal performance. Your understanding of this can be applied to almost any contemporary musical style you wish.

Don't fall for the old lazy argument that you are an original artist and you don't want to dilute your 'sound' with outside influences. The truth is that influences are what make you the singer you are and the great singer you will become. You must absorb all the information you can, pick as many brains as you can find, listen to the old players and try to figure out how they did what they did. If you have a favorite singer then learn everything you can from that person and then move on. Do not try to sound like them even if you can. You must learn to move beyond mere copying and into forming your own sound.

Above all, make this journey your passion. Leave no stone unturned in your quest to be a better musician and a great singer.

So, should you rush out and get singing lessons I hear you ask...

Initially no. What you should be doing is hanging out with other musicians, preferably better ones than you. Don't spend all your time with friends who are hacks with no intentions of doing anything meaningful with their music after the school holidays. This can be difficult if you have strong relationships with people you enjoy making music with but it is a necessary step in your musical education and growth. You must find great players to learn from. Most accomplished musicians actually enjoy mentoring young hopefuls with ability and drive. Finding some good players to learn from is the single most important thing you will ever do for your musical career.

Then, when you are ready, look to improve your vocal technique with some singing lessons. We can always use better technique but remember this. Vocal technique is important but it is a relatively small part of becoming a great singer. Most singing teachers teach similar techniques. They can correct technical problems and get you to sing exercises that help expand your range, improve your vocal control and agility which ultimately helps increase your confidence to sing. In an ideal world you will be able to find an excellent singing teacher right around the corner from where you live and you will be able to easily afford the lessons. This, unfortunately is not always the case.

Finding a singing teacher can be a difficult and time consuming problem. Don't forget that you are the one who decides if that teacher is right for you. It's important to have a rapport with that teacher. They need to be someone you can learn more from than just technique. Remember that 'musical judgment' I mentioned earlier? Find a singing teacher who can not only guide your vocal technique but can give you some insights into improving your musicianship, some advice in making those musical decisions.

Remember to be humble and realize that singing is an art that you can master with patience and great guidance. It's critical that this process brings out your own unique voice, not what your singing teacher wants, but the voice that you have inside of you.

If you cannot find a good singing teacher then consider doing an online singing course. Online singing lessons are more abundant now and there are a some good ones and some poor ones. Just steer clear of things like singing review sites - they usually recommend only the products they get commission for selling and are not to be trusted.

Above all, set your sights high but your expectations low. You must strive always to be better and not be afraid of change. Test yourself with new challenges and concepts, meet lots of like minded people and don't waste time. It's a precious thing that you cant recover and your willingness to set goals and achieve them will help create that singing career that you desire.
by Michael Oliphant

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Top 10 Future Careers

It is not easy building a career which has to last for 20 to 30 years. But incidentally, much of your future depends on how well you prepare yourself now. And to give you an idea of how complicated this has become, practically nobody predicted 20 years ago that software engineering would become such a big employment generator; it all happened so fast!
The other notable point of importance is that many semi-skilled jobs that were either labor intensive or routine in nature have moved to countries like India. These were jobs that were draining corporations of their vital resources (read: money) and which, when moved to outsourcing mode, caught many Americans off-guard. Future jobs are such that they can't be easily outsourced. These are the jobs of the future. They are based on knowledge and skill and need to be onshore.
Top 10 Future Jobs
1. Tissue Engineering: For students of physiology, studying tissues and cell behavior can be made easy by making 3D functional models in-vitro. Functional models are made using cells, and devices which help cell growth. This is gaining popularity and MIT is the pioneer in this course.
2. Data Miners: As the name suggests, it is virtually digging thru tons of data of and for business transactions. The purpose of mining data is to reach a meaningful format dependable enough to make predictions; tracing trends of customer behavior, for example. Don't be misled; the future world is going to be data driven.
3. Gene Programmers: George Washington University predicts that lab technicians can customize medicines by scanning DNA and using gene therapy to block disease. This can and probably will be a reality in less than 10 years.
4. Neurotronic Engineers: The World Future Society says that human brains will be artificially extended by wiring microchips to the brain by these engineers by 2030. When this is possible, this opens a Pandora's Box of a host of careers.
5. Pharmers: No more pricks on your behind if ‘pharmers' grow sufficient genetically engineered therapeutic crops. Watch out, you may have to eat a tomato for vaccination!
6. Lawyers: The loyal warhorse. Don't want believe that lawyers will not have sufficient clients in the future.
7. Writers: Writers of all kinds, script writers, technical writers and content writers. All these professions are going to have an explosion.
8. Network Systems And Data Communications Analyst: Wow! What does this mean, anyway? The systems analyst dealing with the specialist field which requires data communications knowledge. This job, in fact, is predicted to be on top.
9. Actors: Reality and both virtual reality actors will be in great demand. Now, what is virtual reality actor? It is a virtual 3D model of an actor, which can be programmed to act just like him. We can hope to see Marlon Brando giving young actors a run for their money!
10.Police: Like their cousins (lawyers) law enforcement professionals will always be present in the very distant and conceivable future. They just may not have to run after gangsters then.
These are challenging, breathtaking future career options which made the top 10. Like it or not, some professions will never go out of style!

by Tony Jacowski

 

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Resume Strategy 101: How To Get That Job

by John Chase

Resume Strategy 101: How To Get That Job

You think you've found your dream job. You spot the job posting, tweak your resume and e-mail it to the recruiter. Then the waiting game begins. After you've sent a resume, it's tempting to sit back and hope the recruiter will call. But -- make no mistake -- It's YOU that should follow up. You just need to figure out when and how to do it.
Wait a Week, Recruiters Say
The ideal amount of time to wait before following up on a resume you've sent: One week. The majority of recruiters say candidates should wait one week before following up. Some recruiters recommend you act sooner, less than one week after submitting your resume. Still other recruiters say that you should wait for them to call you.
Your best bet? Go with the majority opinion and wait a week.
Send a Short E-Mail Message
E-mail is a great follow-up tool because it not only lets you remind the recruiter that you've applied for a job, but it also lets you submit a resume again without seeming too pushy. A week after you've submitted a resume, send the recruiter an e-mail to follow up.
Follow these tips to write your follow-up e-mail:
Put your full name and the title of the position you've applied for in the subject line.
Write a professional note that reiterates your qualifications and interest in the job.
Attached your resume again. (Don't make the recruiter have to dig though old e-mails to look for it.)
Include your full name in the file name of your resume.
Proofread carefully before you hit "Send"!
A typo can kill your chances of getting your foot in the door.
Phone With a Friendly Reminder
If you decide to follow up on a resume over the phone, be sure to rehearse what you want to say to the recruiter.
Keep it short and sweet. Introduce yourself and remind the recruiter that you submitted a resume recently. Make sure you state exactly what job you're interested in. You can also ask if they received your resume and if they're still considering candidates for the position.
If you get a recorded message, you may want to call again later. Call a few times in hopes of speaking with a real, live recruiter before resorting to leaving a message. You also need to know even to put down the phone. Calling recruiters repeatedly isn't going to make them more likely to call you back. It's probably just going to irritate them. Almost half of recruiters claim that their biggest pet peeve is candidates who keep calling them.
Should You Just Resend Your Resume?
Have a few weeks passed since you sent a resume and you still haven't heard from the recruiter? Are you considering simply reapplying for the position? Don't. Recruiters usually keep resumes on file, and they'll likely discover that you've already sent one. Worse, they may think that you didn't even realize that you'd already applied for a position.
Only resend your resume to a recruiter when you want to apply for a different position at a company. Otherwise, you should e-mail or call to follow up. This should be your game plan for landing that job.

And by all means, if you haven't already done so, you may want to consider a debt relief program such as National Debt Relief Program.

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