Mar 30, 2007

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Mar 26, 2007

Are you a master of resume writing?

It's the first way you introduce yourself to a potential employer — and it can affect whether or not HR person bothers to turn the page and even look at your resume. It's called a cover letter, and sending a resume without it usually means your CV will end up in the trash.

Consider the strategy of sending a resume from the point of view of the boss:

If you were hiring someone for a position, what kind of introduction would you require from candidates?

Would it suffice to send a general resume that doesn't even mention the position you are seeking?
Or would you like to see someone that has basic knowledge about your company, the position and can assess his or her strengths and skills concisely and directly in the package of a professionally prepared letter of introduction?

Think of a cover letter as a marketing tool to highlight your most attractive features and make them known to the ones doing the hiring.

Be brief. Don't go over your entire work history. Highlight one or two top accomplishments or skills. The rest you can save for the interview.

Explain how your experience makes you qualified for the position. Even if your background may not perfectly match the job, explain how your experience is relevant and has prepared you for future work.

Quality over quantity. A cover letter should be used to target a specific job at a specific company, meaning you should tailor each letter that you send.

Know to whom you should send your letter. The more influential, the better. You need to know the department head or person who will be screening resumes and address the letter directly.

Always send a resume with a cover letter. Sometimes you could send only a cover letter as a follow up to a conversation with a contact in a company.

Mar 14, 2007

Questions about interview? Part 2 of 2

Question 5. What are your strong qualities?

Mistake – a modest answer: " Let the associates judge... ".

It is better to name with readiness those qualities you have and which are appreciated at this job in the given post. Professionalism, activity, decency, goodwill to people, truthfulness and fidelity are always and everywhere appreciated.

Question 6. What you lack?

Mistake - a fair recognition of lacks (the work is not familiar to me, I do not have special education, lazy, hot-tempered etc.).

You should name 2-3 drawback with readiness, skillfully presenting them as advantages, for example: " I always speak the truth in eyes... I am always called worker-holik etc.

Question 7. Why have you left the previous job?

Mistake - the recognition of the conflict with the head or employees, criticism of the previous place of work and people, a recognition of an inefficiency of the work.

It is necessary to express your opinion about the previous place of work, heads and employees positively, having named thus such worthy reasons as aspiration to most fully realize the opportunities, to get a more difficult work and the appropriate high salary.

Question 8. Why have you decided to change a place of work?

This question is set to those who work at the moment of interview. The answer should be similar to the answer to the previous question.

Question 9. Have you ever received any other job offers?

Mistake - the recognition, that your nominee has not interested anybody .

It is necessary to emphasize, that the given post in the organization has interested first of all, that is why you have started with it. The best situation when you simultaneously and successfully negotiate with a contestant firm that provokes the desire to entice you.

Question 10. How successfully have you passed interviews in other places?

Mistake - the statement of the amount and the reasons unsuccessfully passed interviews. It is better to hold back it.

It is necessary to name places of work and a post which is offered. Necessarily name a contestant firm where you willingly take it if it is so.

Question 11. To whom is it possible to address for a response about your previous work?

Mistake - concealment of addresses and phones of the previous places of work.

It is necessary not only to give phones of former heads and employees with whom you have agreed about it beforehand but also to show as many letters of recommendation from them as possible.

Question 15. What salary do you expect?

Mistake - to underestimate or too to overestimate itself.

It is necessary to find out borders of disorder of payment in the given post and to name a little higher salary, than