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Add You - Too Few Resume Responses?-Try These Ten Tips to Improve Results
Putting together a fundraiser can be a fun and a profitable way for an organization and you to make money. Non-profit organizations who are involved in some form of community service are always looking for ways to raise funds. The first thing you want to do is identify or find an organization that is interested in raising funds. You can find prospects in many groups such as churches, clubs, public and private schools, social service organizations, and various charities. These organizations not only look for ways to raise fund for themselves but also to raise funds for charities.It is important to have a product or products that you would like to sale. When selecting your products, try to ha
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and c
Todays’ discussion about the value of meetings and conferences moves to a new plane. Instead of focusing only on the Return on Investment (ROI), Executives are beginning to focus on Return on Objective (ROO). Our opinion… measuring the true value of meetings and conferences often requires that you use a combination of both.ROI typically expresses the worth of a meeting or conferences in monetary terms – the number of dollars gained or lost as a result of the meeting or conferences after you account for all associated expenses. ROO, on the other hand, measures whether the objectives of a meeting or conferences have been met, such as whether sales representatives can recall the selling points of a
1. The name of your resume document should be in the form: Last, First. Add your middle initial if your name is common. Using resume or tomresume05 or such is certain to cause the recipient to lose it or lose interest because of the time consuming step necessary change it so it can be saved correctly. Make the document name unique to yourself. It should be in Microsoft Word format, not PDF or WordPerfect.
2. The cover letter is basically wasted material. No one reads cover letters with any degree of interest or attention. Make it short and to the point. You are looking for a position in a certain area and your salary needs are $. That’s enough. If you will relocate or not it is a good idea to state that also. Any detailed information will have to be in your resume to do any good.
3. Your resume should have many methods to reach you. Home, cell, work, alternate, these numbers must be at the top of the resume. Your home email and postal address’s are essential. Some firms search resumes by zip code. If you are a student or using a university email then get a free hotmail or yahoo type account for your job hunting. If your email address is drinksalot@yahoo.com or similar nonsense please pick another one instead. Try obtaining last.first@yahoo.com . It looks very professional.
4. Pick a standard type face. Courier New is fine. Use any others with caution. Eliminate any bullets or arrows or pointers in your text. No photos, no graphs, no long lists of two or three words on each line. Print it out and look at it from across the table. Is your resume too dense? Too long? Too much open space? Look at your composition critically on several different computer platforms. Send it to a couple of friends for review. Send it through a virus checker, spell checker, grammar checker and through AOL’s system too.
5. As a recruiter with 30 years experience reading resumes I can tell you that these first four items are the most important basics of increasing resume response. What follows are my personal preferences. Put your best foot forward on the resume. That is not that you have “23 years of experience” in some field. That is certain to cause me to hit the delete key immediately. My client companies are not interested in how many years of experience you have; they are looking for results.
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after the name of each employer with a description of the business they are in. Size of company, number of plants, employee union status, multiple state operations, world wide customer base. These are simple additions that can make your resume stand out.
9. The section describing what you did, found under each employer, should contain a description of what you actually did, not a list of duties lifted from your job description. If this short section contains the phrase “but not limited to” you can be sure I am going to delete your resume. Why? Because that is a phrase from a job description and has no place in your list of outstanding results and accomplishments. I am looking for something I can relate to your skills and abilities that might be useful to my client companies.
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and cr
Many people ask me, “What is a postcard campaign, exactly?” “And why do I need one?” As I have been educating my clients one on one for years now, I suddenly had the bright idea that I needed to explain this for more than just one at a time and in further detail. So here goes…Campaigns for marketing are, in a nutshell, a series of repeat mailings that are strategically planned so that there is maximum benefit (more new customers) for your business.Nota bene (that means “take note” in Latin – and I do mean take note): If you are not doing repeat mailings then you are flushing money down toilet.Why is this true? Basically, because people hold onto your postcard for a while. The
3. Your resume should have many methods to reach you. Home, cell, work, alternate, these numbers must be at the top of the resume. Your home email and postal address’s are essential. Some firms search resumes by zip code. If you are a student or using a university email then get a free hotmail or yahoo type account for your job hunting. If your email address is drinksalot@yahoo.com or similar nonsense please pick another one instead. Try obtaining last.first@yahoo.com . It looks very professional.
4. Pick a standard type face. Courier New is fine. Use any others with caution. Eliminate any bullets or arrows or pointers in your text. No photos, no graphs, no long lists of two or three words on each line. Print it out and look at it from across the table. Is your resume too dense? Too long? Too much open space? Look at your composition critically on several different computer platforms. Send it to a couple of friends for review. Send it through a virus checker, spell checker, grammar checker and through AOL’s system too.
5. As a recruiter with 30 years experience reading resumes I can tell you that these first four items are the most important basics of increasing resume response. What follows are my personal preferences. Put your best foot forward on the resume. That is not that you have “23 years of experience” in some field. That is certain to cause me to hit the delete key immediately. My client companies are not interested in how many years of experience you have; they are looking for results.
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after the name of each employer with a description of the business they are in. Size of company, number of plants, employee union status, multiple state operations, world wide customer base. These are simple additions that can make your resume stand out.
9. The section describing what you did, found under each employer, should contain a description of what you actually did, not a list of duties lifted from your job description. If this short section contains the phrase “but not limited to” you can be sure I am going to delete your resume. Why? Because that is a phrase from a job description and has no place in your list of outstanding results and accomplishments. I am looking for something I can relate to your skills and abilities that might be useful to my client companies.
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and c
It seems everyone around me is working longer and longer hours. My husband used to have the occasional early morning conference call when he needed to be in by 7am. Now that seems to be the norm everyday. My brother is on the first train into Grand Central each day and can usually be reached at his desk by 6:15am. And a recent New York Times article talked about the increase in commuter train ridership as employees are getting to work earlier and earlier so as to be able to work with colleagues and clients in Asia who are ending their day just as some of us are waking up! So where does that leave any room for you? How can you fit in changes to your career when you can barely make it to the gym, to your
5. As a recruiter with 30 years experience reading resumes I can tell you that these first four items are the most important basics of increasing resume response. What follows are my personal preferences. Put your best foot forward on the resume. That is not that you have “23 years of experience” in some field. That is certain to cause me to hit the delete key immediately. My client companies are not interested in how many years of experience you have; they are looking for results.
6. Results are numbers, ratios, percentages, and dollar signs of accomplishments and achievements. Put those first. It’s all we care about people that we hire; what can they do for our business? What have they done for others?
7. Your educational accomplishments are essential. For younger people they should be near the top of the resume. Others can slide that towards the end. In either case make absolutely certain that the degree format is exactly what you received. Any degree statement has certain parts: Type of degree, BA or BS. Field of degree, Accounting, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry. Year received, 1998. Final GPA 3.1/4.0. Name of institution, City and State. If you are thinking that this is too detailed, then you are not thinking like a reader who is looking for any reason to discard your resume. Any mistake, any fault here is fatal.
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after the name of each employer with a description of the business they are in. Size of company, number of plants, employee union status, multiple state operations, world wide customer base. These are simple additions that can make your resume stand out.
9. The section describing what you did, found under each employer, should contain a description of what you actually did, not a list of duties lifted from your job description. If this short section contains the phrase “but not limited to” you can be sure I am going to delete your resume. Why? Because that is a phrase from a job description and has no place in your list of outstanding results and accomplishments. I am looking for something I can relate to your skills and abilities that might be useful to my client companies.
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and c
In our previous installment, we covered the FB1 record for medical billing of claims using NSF 3.01 specifications for electronic billing. In this installment we're going to cover the FB2 record, which actually ties directly to the FB1 record.While we did not go over the FB1 record in detail, we did briefly explain what information was transmitted as well as why the information was required to be sent. The FB1 record sent the four providers identification numbers along with some other information. The FB2 record sends three of the four providers addresses. We'll explain shortly why only three. The most common question that gets asked is why all this information doesn't just get transmitted
8. Your employer’s names are not enough for readers to understand who you worked for. With the many name changes over the last 10 years it is hard to read much into a two or three word name. Put at least one sentence after the name of each employer with a description of the business they are in. Size of company, number of plants, employee union status, multiple state operations, world wide customer base. These are simple additions that can make your resume stand out.
9. The section describing what you did, found under each employer, should contain a description of what you actually did, not a list of duties lifted from your job description. If this short section contains the phrase “but not limited to” you can be sure I am going to delete your resume. Why? Because that is a phrase from a job description and has no place in your list of outstanding results and accomplishments. I am looking for something I can relate to your skills and abilities that might be useful to my client companies.
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and c
Relationship marketing is a powerful tool that you must use to grow your computer consulting business. Relationship marketing is how I turned a simple website demo into $175,000 in service revenue over a period of a few years. When you use relationship marketing you don't waste your money on risky display advertisements, you don't have to cold call, you don't have to do any door to door selling, and best of all you don't even feel like you are selling.Relationship marketing centers on conveying the right kind of professional image all of the time. It is crucial that in every situation you find yourself in, you remember that you are marketing your business. You are your business so what people
10. Put a few keywords into your resume. Many resumes are searched for keywords automatically by computer systems. You can incorporate them into your text or make a list at the end of the resume. You can skip Windows XP or Word, etc. We all expect those skills, like driving or reading English, to be exceptional. Keywords like HPLC or OSHA or MBA or CFA or GIPS might not make much sense to the casual reader but to a counterpart that you want to work for in a new company they are essential.
These items are culled from my long list of mistakes and misunderstandings of the purpose of a resume in today’s job hunting environment. I think they will help you achieve better results. If you think you can do the perfect resume, send one to me for a free check up and critique.
Dan Brockman
Professional Recruiter Since 1975
Barrington, IL
847 382 6015
http://www.trainingjob.com
recruiter@trainingjob.com
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