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Career assessment |
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| Curriculum Vitae Tips |
You will find lots of free resume writing tips and advice
on our site. Your resume is a very important document; with it rest your
hopes and dreams.
These days employers often receive a lot of resumes for each advertised
position - jobs advertised in national papers can often attract hundreds
of applicants. So your resume has to be just that little bit special to
stand out if you want to obtain interviews. The good news (for you) is that
most people do not know how to write a resume and only spend a short time
preparing a resume. Writing professional resumes is a skill, which these
people have not learnt.
Of course your resume can continue to work in your favor even after it has
obtained an interview for you. It can help you at an interview by carefully
focusing the interviewer's mind on your good points and on your achievements.
Once you have left the interview it will continue to work in your favor
as the interviewer will probably reread it before making a decision, either
on who should be invited to the second interview stage or who the job should
be offered to.
When it comes to salary negotiations a well written resume can help. If
your resume conveys your full worth you are likely to get a higher salary
offer than you might have done with a poorer resume. So do not skimp
on the time you spend on writing a resume as it will probably be a false
economy.
In the following sections, we will teach you how to write professional resumes
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| Interview Tips and Advice |
Before your interview find out everything you can about the company (read
their annual report which can be obtained by telephoning them). Re-read
your application, thinking through your own career and the questions they
might ask you. You should try to anticipate the general questions which
they will ask and also prepare some questions to ask them.
To do well at the interview you will need to convince the interviewer you
are technically qualified to do the job. You will also need to show that
you are sufficiently motivated to get the job done well and that you will
fit in with the company's organizational structure and the team in which
you will work.
You should dress smartly for the interview and should leave home earlier
than you need to on the day of the interview - you may be delayed by traffic
or for other reasons. Be courteous to all employees of the company. At the
interview itself you must be positive about yourself and your abilities
- but do not waffle.
This section contains free interview advice, including interview techniques,
interview questions that interviewers may ask you, questions you may want
to ask the interviewer, general interview guidance, panel interview and
group interview tests. We will teach you how to handle interviews and hopefully
improve your interview technique to improve your chances of being the successful
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| Career assessment |
| You need to assess where you are today before you can decide where you
want to take your career in the future. You may have been coasting or you
may be bored to death with your current job. Today is the day when you can
make new choices and perhaps even make a leap into a totally different career
direction. You must look positively to the future as the decisions you make
now will affect the rest of your life. |
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| You should not rush into your next job. You need to consider carefully
all the implications of the decisions which you make. Things to consider
include which job you would like to pursue, which sort of company you would
like to work for, what remuneration (pay and benefits) you require, the
working environment, how you match the criteria for the job, and how the
job matches your career aims and ambitions. |
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