job search & resume

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Team Information

Team name ( seekers )

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Contents

1. Organizing information 2. Optimizing your resume3. Ensuring integrating and polishing 4. Persuasive cover letter

Contents What is resume? Preparing for a successful job search

Conducting a successful job search Creating customized resume Organizing information

Optimizing your resume Ensuring integrating and polishing Persuasive cover letters

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What is Resume • In resume these things are include..

Resume

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1.Preparing a successful job search

Knowing your self Knowing the job market Knowing the employment process

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Evaluation your Qualification

What technology skill can you

offer?

Do you work well with peoples?

Do you learn quickly?

Do you speak other language?

Do you communicate

well ?

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Recognizing employment trend in today’s work place

You should also become keenly aware that a career that realizes on yes today’s skills is headed for trouble.

You are going to need updated, marketable skills hat save you well as you move from job to job

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Choosing your path

In choosing an area, you will make the best decisions

when you can match your interests and qualifications with the requirements and rewards in specific careers.

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Where can you find the best career data? Here are some suggestions;

Search the web

Use your

library

Internship

Interview

Visit campu

s

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2. Conducting a successful job search

• you can combine both online and traditional job-search tactics to land the job of your dreams.

•Online job search

•Traditional job search

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Online job-search

• Searching for a job electronically has become a common, but not always fruitful, approach.

Using job boards

Career builder

Monster Keep careful records

Company web site

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Traditional job-search

• you use traditional techniques, you should be prepared to launch an aggressive campaign and you can’t start too early.

Check ads in newspaper

Check organization

announcement

Attend career fairs interview

Contact with campus

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3. Creating Customized resume

• This means you will prepare a special resume for every position you want.

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Choosing Style

Chronological

Functional

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4. Organizing your information

• A customized resume emphasizes skills and achievements aimed at a particular job or company

Main heading Career

objective Summary of qualification

Education Experience

Skill

Awards Personal data

Reference

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5. Optimizing your resume for today’s technology

•Print base resume

•Scan able resume •E-portfolio or video resume

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Tips to maximize scan able resume

Use 10 to 14 point type

Avoid fancy format List each cell

numberAvoid double

column

Name in first line care full mail

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E-portfolio or video resume

Video resume

E-portfolio

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6. Ensuring integrating & polishing your resume

Being honest & ethical

Inflated education or grade

Enhance job title

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Altered employment dates

Hidden keywords

Polishing your resume

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Proof reading

Submitting your

resume

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Submitting your resume…

Words document

Plain text document

PDF document

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Cont… submitting your resume

Company database

fax

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7. Creating customized , persuasive cover letter

• A cover letter has three purposes. • introducing the resume • highlighting your strengths in terms of benefits to the reader• helping you gain an interview

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Cont..cover letter

Gain attention in the opening

Highlight strength in the body

Motivation action in closing

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Send your cover letter

Final tips for cover letter

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Cont… persuasive cover letter..

Solicited letter

Unsolicited letter

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Quotation;

• When you first start working, your take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don’t think about what you’re building.

• ( chris Hardwick )

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