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What
is a Resume?
The resume
is primarily a means to sell your capabilities and
services. It is quite unlike a Curriculum Vitae,
the chronological list of work and education experiences
preferred in Europe and the Far East. The Resume
provides details of your skills and experiences
to a potential employer so that he can see, in a short
summary, how your skills are relevant to the potential
job and how you could contribute something of value
in your future workplace.
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A resume is your advertising
and selling tool.You might fulfill all
the requirements for a specific position, but your
resume fails if the employer does not, on the
basis of what he sees on it, immediately conclude
that you are the person for the job. Remember,
your first priority is to
create a resume that attracts the readers
immediate attention. The
initial twenty seconds will decide whether it
ends up in the "under consideration" or
the "rejected" file. |
The most effective resumes are
focused specifically on a job and address the potential
employer's stated requirements for the position.
The more you know about the duties and skills the job
demands the better you can organize your resume around
these requirements and the more effective the resume will
be.
Hence, the
primary requirement for writing a good resume is
information about the job on offer. It is not
enough to regurgitate what you have done in the past,
since that information, with all its accomplishments,
skills and experiences is only relevant within the
requirements of the position for which you want to
be considered.The more you know about the job and
the employer the more likely you can "cut the cloth
to the right size" and create a resume that explains
how you will be an asset for your
future employer with the job he
offers.
How
important is the Cover Letter?
The cover
letter is your introduction to a potential employer. What
you write in it is the first impression the person gains
about your, your capabilities and your personality.
Therefore everyone who sends out a resume needs a cover
letter. Whether you send it by mail, e-mail, fax or
delivered by hand, is immaterial.
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Every job offered has
different requirements and it is therefore
essential that you write a specific cover letter
for every job application. There is no
such thing as a "general cover letter".
Most potential employers see a general cover
letter as a sign of a lack of genuine interest in
the job and, your chances of being considered for
the offered position will be significantly hurt.
Therefore, take the time and make the effort to
send a cover letter that is tailored to the specific
job and to the company you are applying to. |
Although, it creates additional work, the
positive side of the cover letter is that it provides you
with an additional chance to emphasize what you have to
contribute to the job, the company or organization.
Remember, the person looking at your submission will ask
himself: "How can this person help
us?" Your cover letter has to answer
that question in your own words. Your resume will provide
the detailed support of the answer.
The
Essential Rules for creating an effective Cover Letter
- The
Cover letter must not have any spelling or typing
errors. Have it read by someone else and
checked before you send it.
- Is
is important to get the hiring manager's name so
that you can address your application to a
specific person. If you send your
resumes uninvited to the personnel department,
make every attempt to find his details .
Sometimes a phone call will give you the
information about who makes the hiring decisions.
Be sure the person's name is spelled
correctly and that you have his or her correct
title. Address the person with his or
her proper social title, e.g. "Mr.,"
"Ms.," "Mrs.,"
"Miss," "Dr.," or
"Professor." Keep the Cover Letter
formal and to the point.
- Write
the Cover Letter in your own words and
do not use a standardized "copied format
letter". Do not be chatty or too personal:
Keep it formal! In order to be effective, the
Cover Letter should transmit and highlight your
relevant experience, knowledge, enthusiasm, and
focus on the potential job in a logical and
systematic manner. Group the items you
specifically want to address and be concise
within each paragraph.
- Do
not use slang, "Internet jargon ", or
other expressions which some people consider
"natural" (as opposed to
academic or formal!). Today, many
employers are seriously concerned about the
"sloppy" and inappropriate use of
language. They may deduce, once you
become an employee, you will communicate using
inappropriate language. On the other hand, do not
use words you picked from the Thesaurus without
being absolutely sure, that you understand their
proper meaning and the context in which a word or
expression is used. If you are not sure about
your grammar, there are books you can purchase.
If you submit an application for an international
job, remember that writing styles and grammar
differs from one English speaking country to
another.
- Indicate
in your Cover Letter that you have acquired some
knowledge about the company and/or the industry.
Do some research before you write the resume and
the cover letter. But keep the communication of
this knowledge within clearly defined limits. The
purpose of showing your potential employer that
you know something about them, is to make it
clear, that you did not pick the company at
random. You want to show the hiring manager, that
you know who they are and that you have
deliberately chosen them!
- Use
language that is appropriate and relevant to the
employer. If you are applying for an
advertised position, use the advertised
requirements and work them into your resume or
cover letter, if necessary emphasize them in bold
script. Be sure to address the specific
requirements and shortly indicate how you can
fulfill them.
Resume Writers, Resume
Appraisers and why they are useful and worth their money
We thought long and hard about this
question! After all, "everyone can write a
resume", so, why use someone else who is not
familiar with your particular circumstances and who does
not know your ambitions job wise? Maybe, the answer is in
this very sentence: In your own eagerness to present
yourself in the best possible light to a future employer,
you overlook what the employer sees or wants to see from
you! You present in your resume what you want, rather
than what the employer requires or what he is looking
for.
A professional resume writer
is not the prisoner of his own representation.
He or she looks at the task of writing a resume in a
neutral fashion, dispassionate and with distance to your
own past. As a consequence, that resume writer might see
strengths and weaknesses that are not seen as important
by you. The distance creates a balanced picture of
yourself.
Most people argue that each resume has to be
written as a response to a specific job, because only
some of the things, you might offer, will be useful in
that job. Therefore, the resume as a response to a job
vacancy, has to be tailor-made. That is
absolutely correct! However, if you start off
with a well written generic resume that projects your
abilities and your strengths, while it puts your
weaknesses somewhat in the background, you are
starting out with an advantage.
A Resume Appraiser, as
opposed to a writer, will look at you resume and
recommend, if required, changes. There are numerous free
sites for that, but you have to remember that the
business of the appraiser comes from resume writing and
the free appraisal is one way to get clients. That does
not reduce their usefulness in creating a good resume,
but you have to be aware of it.
There are a number of sites offering Resume
Writing Services. JobLine
International also has a team of highly
experienced resume writers that offer resume and Cover
letter writing. Below is a comparative analysis of some
of the services offered on the net. Click on the names on
the far left, if you want to know more. Prices may vary
from time to time.
Specialist Resume Writing Services
| JobLine International |
$149.00 |
We have a resume writing Service
that offers a written resume sent to you by
e-mail based on your data, plus a generic Cover
Letter (or specific, if you want that) . Turn
around is usually 24-48 hours. MS Word format or
html. Special services such as translations or
the writing of a Curriculum Vitae
($249.00) are also available. Recommended! |
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Resume Writing 100% Guaranteed - Free Cover Letter
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$114.00 |
employment911 offers resume
writing including a cover letter with a six hours
turnaround. They also rewrite your resume, if you
do not get a job within six weeks of using it. Recommended! |
Get Started Now with e-resume.net |
$119-245 |
This services offers a variety of
specialist resume products including updates,
thank you letters, interview coaching and
employment testing. Recommended! |
ResumeEdge: Certified Professional Resume Writers edit and write your resumes and cover letters. Get an Edge. Click Here! |
$150-295 |
By providing powerful, distinctive
resumes that consistently win interviews, our
hand-picked team of certified resume writers have
helped thousands of clients articulate their
qualifications and land jobs at the nation's top
employers, from Microsoft, Cisco, and Goldman
Sachs to McKinsey, AT&T, and the federal
government. Price Range varies with importance of
jobs. Recommended! |
Access More Career Tools, Advice, and Information. Create a FREE Monster Account Today! |
$119-395 |
Monster is not only a large job
board, but also offers a variety of support
services for job seekers. One of them is Resume
editing ($119) and Resume writing (from $215) .
In their own words: We know what employers want.
We market your strengths to edge out the
competition. We tailor your resume to meet your
specific needs. Recommended! |
We have had direct experience with
the above services we recommend. Other services
are by no means inferior, but we have not had any direct
experience with them.
Editing
your Resume and Cover Letter
We will edit your existing resume and a
specific cover letter. You send us your resume and cover
letter by e-mail and we will edit it to help it along and
make it appropriate to the job you apply to. Obviously we
will need a short description of the job as well (we do
not need the employers name, but the country location
would be useful since resume and cover letters can
different from one country to another). Please send the
supporting material (resume, cover letter, short
description of job applied for) by e-mail together with the
Paypal payment ID number. We will normally edit your
resume/cover letter within 48 hours.
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