Job Search for the Rest of Us!: Tuesday Tip October 16, 2012

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tuesday Tip October 16, 2012

Make your résumé unique to you and your current career goals

THERE IS NO ONE FORMAT THAT IS GOING TO WORK FOR EVERYONE

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Typically, I compile information from a client and/or review their existing information:

  1. Contact information, including photo, logo, or avatar
2.   Skills and Abilities
3.      Achievements
4.      Work History
5.      Education
6.      Groups, professional or community
7.      Presentations
8.      Papers/articles
9.      Certifications/special training

Next it is important to understand the career goal and any specifics regarding primary job target(s) – these may be very different or differ in only subtle ways. The purpose of the résumé and/or goal of the job seeker is an integral part of formatting the résumé and presenting the various parts.

The Objective or Profile section really sets the tone for the rest of your résumé and should be carefully considered and formatted. The reader should quickly get a feel for:

Who you are
What you can do
What kind of position/employer you want

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

WHAT DOES A PROFILE OR OBJECTIVE LOOK LIKE?

This is more of a Profile:

“A results-driven, customer-focused, articulate and analytical Senior Software Engineer who can think “out of the box”. Strong in design and integration problem solving skills. Expert in Java, C#, .NET, and T-SQL with database analysis and design. Skilled in developing business plans, requirements specifications, user documentation, and architectural systems research. Strong written and verbal communications. Interested in a challenging technical track career in an application development environment.” Via http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/gettingthejob/a/SWE_Resume.htm

This is more of an Objective:

To obtain a software developer position that allows me to learn new technologies while utilizing my experience developing web-based applications as well as my knowledge of ASP, HTML, VBScript, and JavaScript.”

Via http://www.jobbankusa.com/resumewrite/ResumeTemplates/software_developer_resume_template.html

Additional articles on Profiles and Objectives from other experts:

http://jzbcoaching.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/résumé-enhancer-the-profile-section/

http://www.peirce.edu/Current/Services/Careers/Résumés#objective

http://www.lookd.com/job-search/preparing.html