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Resume Has No Material Related to New Career

on June 7, 2009 1:16 PM | Permalink

This posting is a guest entry from the Career Doctor, Randall S. Hansen, PhD:

Christina writes:

Please help me out. I recently graduated from a local travel agency course. I have no experience in the field. All of my work experiences have been in dead-end fast food jobs. How to I work my resume for my new travel career without making it look empty?

The Career Doctor responds:

Experiment with a chrono-functional resume, which is organized around skills clusters. What you need to do is examine the skills you’ve acquired through all your experiences (and not just the fast-food work) and determine which ones are best transferable to your new career as a travel agent.

We usually talk of transferable skills as falling into five major categories: communications; research and planning; human relations; organization, management, and leadership; and work survival. The key is identifying those key skills. I suggest you read the article, Strategic Portrayal of Transferable Skills is a Vital Job-search Technique.

Once you’ve completed the analysis of your transferable skills, the next step is developing your chrono-functional resume. A good article for you to read — including links to some sample functional resumes — is this one: Should You Consider a Functional Resume? One caution: Many employers don’t like any type of functional resume, so plan to have a chronological resume available if the chrono-functional version isn’t working for you.

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Resume Has No Material Related to New Career

Katharine

on January 16, 2009 10:49 AM | Permalink

This posting is a guest entry from the Career Doctor, Randall S. Hansen, PhD:

Christina writes:

The Career Doctor responds:

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Flatter Employer in Second Paragraph of Cover Letter

Katharine

on September 18, 2008 10:36 AM | Permalink

In the second paragraph of a cover letter, compliment the employer on what the organization has done right and what you admire about it, writes Deborah Brown-Volkman, president of Surpass Your Dreams, Inc. a career, life, and mentor coaching company. “Sincere flattery goes a long way and shows that you have taken the time to get to know the employer in more detail.” Brown-Volkman advises thinking about the phrase, “I like your company because…”

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Your Resume Should Be Accomplishments-driven

Katharine

on June 18, 2008 10:45 AM | Permalink

Many resumes are duties-driven when they should be accomplishments-driven. Job-seekers should, for example, NEVER use expressions like “Duties included,” “Responsibilities included,” or “Responsible for.” That’s job-description language, not accomplishments-oriented resume language that sells. After all, if you were an employer and wanted to run a successful organization, would you be looking for candidates who can perform only their basic job functions, or would you want employees who can make real contributions? In these days in which most resumes are placed into keyword-searchable databases, you won’t find employers searching resumes for words like “responsibilities,” “duties,” or “responsible for.” Learn more about these components in our article, FAKTSA: An Easy Acronym for Remembering Key Resume Enhancers

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