Tactic in the job search procedure & standard Résumé writing procedure

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Tactic in the job search procedure
& standard Résumé writing procedure
Prepared By: Md.Badruzzan
Email-
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Strategy in the job search process
& standard Résumé writing process

Building a Network of Contacts
• Broaden your circle of friends
• Get to know your professors
• Meet business executives
• Make contacts through internships
• Work with community organizations

Identifying Appropriate Jobs
• Analyze Yourself
-Education
-Personal Qualities
-Work Experience
-Spécial Qualifications (languages, communications skills)
• Analyze Outside Factors
-Are you willing to move?
-Does the location meet with your lifestyle needs?

Finding Your Employer
• Career Centers (School career center)
• Network of Personal Contacts
• Classified Advertisements
• Online Sources
• Employment Agencies
• Personal Search Agents
• Web Page Profiles

Preparing the Application Documents
• Resume
• The application letter
• The follow-up and close of the process
• Other job search letters
• Continued job search activities

What Is Résumé
A resume is a personal summary of your
professional history and qualifications
It includes information about your career goals,
education, work experience, activities, honors,
and any special skills you might have
Its very important for everyone how write a good
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Key Point
• “How” or “What”?
• Your CV is your marketing representative
• Organization “look” is important as well

Planning
• Writing CV is not a big deal
• What to write is more important than how to
write
• “what to write” depends on “what you have
done”

Failure to plan is planning to fail

Planning
• Mission Statement
• Short Term Goals
• Long Term Goals

How to achieve your Goals?
• Make a plan
• Academic performance:
-Research
-Extra-curricular academic activities (courses, workshops,
conferences)
• Extra-curricular activities:
-Volunteering
-Teamwork
-Leadership

How to achieve your Goals?
-Be committed
-Be available
-Networking
-Be proactive
-Be organized
-Surround yourself with encouraging people

• Addressed to the program director
• One paragraph (4 lines):
-About you & why they have to pick you
-Don’t repeat the whole CV
• One paragraph (4 lines):
-About them & why you want them
Cover Letter

CV
• No right or wrong – Personal Flavor
• But there are guidelines

Organization
• Make a folder in your computer for CV
• Save each file like:
-“Mohammad Ahmed CV 2009 08 20.doc”
-“Mohammad Ahmed CV 2010 03 30.doc”
• Update your CV regularly

Organization
• Keep original certificates, thank you letters,
timetable of your presentations etc in a folder
• Keep copies of the above in a separate folder
(identical replicate)
• Fancier: scan the certificates and keep an electronic
format
Keep Track of EVERYTHING about
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What to include ? Categories/Sections
• Personal Data: Name & Contact
• Education
• Honors
• Certification/Licensure
• Experience
• Research Experience
• Publications
• Presentations
• Professional Membership

Additional Categories/Sections
• Objective or Professional Interest Statement
• Computer/Technical Skills
• Leadership
• Additional Experience
• Committees
• Professional Development – training, professional
• organizations, workshops, conferences
• Community Service/Volunteer
• Foreign Languages
• Interests/Hobbies

General Rules
• Consistent organization: style , margins, alignment,
periods, spaces
• Use horizontal space
• Balanced page
• Fill the page
• Avoid ODD page breaks

General Rules
• Use bullet format, no dashes
• Use Bold, Italic, and Underline carefully
• Check your spelling & grammar
• Use Punctuation marks, Capitalization,
• Underlining carefully

DO
• Share it with your best friends & tutors: ask for their
advice
• Read revise, read revise, read revise your CV
regularly

Don’t
• Don’t write “Curriculum Vitae” at the top
• Don’t send your CV as Word Doc, send it as PDF
• Don’t send your CV electronically with a file name
“MyCV.pdf”

This is how if you send it as word

Don’t
• Don’t use emails like:
-ZaKoolDoc@.....
-SoftDreams@.....
-lazzoza@.......
• Don’t fabricate(don’t copy need to create it)

Formatting
• Consistency of format throughout the CV
• Don’t number sections: 1. Personal Date, 2. Education
• Avoid personal pronouns “I”
-Instead use Action Verbs: organized, facilitated
• Consistent alignment
-Left Aligned
-Use Tab
-Use Indent, not Spaces

Formatting of Date
• Date:
-Use consistent format
-Sebtember 2010
-Novambar 22, 2008
• 23-Oct. - 2007
Oct. 09
6/7/1423
25 – Safar - 1429H
Very Easy to
have spelling
mistake
If you are
submitting
abroad,no
one knows
abourt Hijra

CV final product
• Avoid graphics, color ink
• Use laser printer
• Use high quality, 100% cotton paper
-A4 or Letter Size; change Page size in Word
• Don’t print on both sides of the paper
• Don’t staple
• Don’t fold if mailing, use large envelope

• Like a purposeful professional journey, not a series
of random courses and conferences
• Like you are directing your career
Your CV should Read

Heading
• Your name (large font - 20 )
• Your contact: address, email, phone, fax
-Will people be able to reach you?
-Your address is not “Al-Azizyah District”
• Are these your permanent contacts??
-You may need to add a second address
• Your email shouldn’t be ZaKoolDoc@.....,
ZozaMoza@....., or sweat_dreams@.....
-Problems with using your institution account
(e.g., uqu.edu.sa) you may move

Personal Data
• Date of birth
• Nationality
• Marital status
• Gender
• Controversy: many countries do not want these
information because of fear of bias

Education
• Chronological order (start with most recent)
• High school
• Do not include elementary & intermediate school
• Keep consistent format
• The University, College, Dates, Degree granted,
Grade

Honors/Recognition
• Appreciation letters
• Scholarships awarded
• Other significant awards
• Alphabetical or reverse chronological order
• Include graduation with honors in Education section

Experience Descriptions
• Elaborate on your relevant experience
• Begin descriptions with strong, descriptive action
verbs (avoid personal pronouns)
• Focus on skills and accomplishments rather than
including a comprehensive list of job duties
• For less relevant experience, focus on transferable
skills

Interests
Be careful of what you put here!

References
• Ask their permission to be your referees & release of
their contact information
• Give them a copy of your CV and ask for their
feedback
• Tell them about the job & why this job

References
• Choosing your referees:
-Careful: someone who knows you & likes you
-Relevant
-Credible & Competent
• For each referee, list:
-Name, title, organization and department,
business address, phone number, and email

Thank You Letter
• Make sure you send a thank you letter after the
interview
• Thank them for giving you the chance of the
interview
• Follow up/highlight some of the points discussed
• Re-emphasize that you really want the job

Why a Thank You letter?
• It’s a small community
• You will come across these people, sometime,
somewhere
• Even if you were not accepted, you maybe wait-
listed

Thanks

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