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Application Forms - Selling Yourself
* On Top Form Whereas the resume or curriculum vitae is quite rightly your own personal advertisement. The application for tries to take away your ability to tell the employer what you would like them to know and replace it with what they want know...
Career Choices and Self Employment
Anyone who is trying to determine their career choice can easily be intimidated these days to say the least. With so much to offer, where does one begin? Perhaps we would all benefit from time to time to think about what it is that gives us the...
Chronological vs. Functional Resumes - Which To Choose?
Your resume is a marketing tool that should effectively sell
your skills, experience, and educational qualifications to
prospective employers. When developing your resume, there are
two different types of resume formats you should consider:...
The Path to Your Right Livelihood
Find Fulfilling Work from Within Seeking meaningful and fulfilling work can become a discouraging, confusing and overwhelming journey. Beware spending too much time looking for your answers outside of yourself. Ultimately, coming to know our right...
Why Your CV/Resume Is Not Generating Interview Offers
If your current CV or resume is not generating the interview offers you want, it is time to start assessing it. Check to see that the following descriptors apply: *Begins with a succinct, clearly stated career objective tailored to the particular...
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Job Interviews: Make Yourself An Application Cheat Sheet.
It is so easy to sit down to complete an application and
suddenly your mind blanks. You can't remember dates or names or
telephone numbers. If you have a varied work history, you can't
recall which job came first. If you have worked for the same
employer for years, you forget when your duties changed or when
you received a promotion.
Do your research on work-related paperwork at home and make up a
list of everything you might need. List every job for the past
10 years including the company name, address, telephone number
and the contact person to call, usually your immediate
supervisor. Have a list of education, both formal college and
any special courses, seminars, or in-house trainings you
completed, with dates. Have a list of five personal references
with names, addresses and telephone numbers.
Carry the sheet with
you so you are prepared at all times. Not
only will it make completing applications a breeze but it will
ensure that the information you provide is accurate and
consistent. That will avoid the embarrassment and negative
reaction in an interview when you realize there are errors on
the application the interviewer is using as a guide and you have
to make quick verbal corrections.
About the author:
Virginia Bola operated a rehabilitation company for 20 years,
developing innovative job search techniques for disabled
workers, while serving as a Vocational Expert in Administrative,
Civil and Workers' Compensation Courts. Author of an interactive
and supportive workbook, The Wolf at the Door: An Unemployment
Survival Manual, and a monthly ezine, The Worker's Edge, she can
be reached at http://www.unemploymentblues.com
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