Other Added - Resurrecting the Perfect Resume, Part One
The Secrets to Finding a Good Online Survey Company When you are looking at making money from taking online paid surveys, following tips can help -Look for Testimonials - Often survey makers put incorrect information in Testimonials. Read testimonials carefully; look for hard facts about the survey. A few surveys give contact information about their satisfied customers. Try contacting one. If the mail bounces or it is an incorrect contact number, then one can assume that the paid survey is nothing but a scam.Documented Proof - Some paid surveys show document images on their sites. These documents are proof of a survey taker getting paid or getting his/her reward. Read the document to verify that it is authentic.Guarantees - If a paid survey is guaranteeing you something, do read the conditions, which go with the guarantee. Look for fine prints to ensure that you satisfy all the criteria to get paid or rewarded for taking the survey.Legal Issues - Read the disclaimers, terms & conditions at the bottom of the page, often written in small unreadable fonts. Ascertain what are the legal implications, if any, for you if you get paid or win the reward for taking the survey.Proxy – Fraud site owners often host their paid surveys on proxy sites thereby concealing their identity.Setup a dedicated email exclusively for taking online surveys. Keep checking the email box regularly. Keep the inbox clear of any unwanted or fake paid survey mails. At times, email websites block mails from paid survey. Ensure that the mails are not blocked.
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Identifying Your Dream Career Often, all it takes to identify your dream career is a clear picture of your personal preferences and style. People tend to success best at things that they enjoy, that utilize their strengths, and that happen in the kind of environment and structure they enjoy. Answering the ten sets of questions below will give you concrete insight into the qualities a career choice should have to be the ideal one for you.Take your time with them, and write your answers down. It may take you several days to decide how you really feel about some of the questions, but it’s worth the effort to figure them out. As you work with them, make notes about any career possibilities that come to mind.1. Your StrengthsWhat do you do better or more easily than others? What skill do you have that seems to come naturally to you? What subject did you find easiest in school? What knack do you have that others say they wish they had? What activities leave you feeling more energetic when you complete them then you did when you started? What gives you a sense of real satisfaction or pride?2. Your InterestsWhat unfailingly grabs your interest? What kinds of magazines do you look for when you’re in a waiting room? What kinds of movies do you rent? What kinds of books do you read? What kinds of stores do you love to visit? What kinds of catalogs do you like to browse through? What kinds of sites do you look for online? Who are your heroes?3. Your Idea of FunWhat’s your idea of a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon? What’s fun for you? What kinds of things did you like to do when you were a kid? What hobby do you most enjoy? What hobby would you like to get involved with? If you won a free week-long vacation of your choice, what would you spend it doing?4. Your Di
Is your resume dead? Don’t be so quick to say, “No way!” Of the hundreds of resumes I’ve seen written by job seekers of all backgrounds and educational levels, easily 95% qualify to be labelled as dead-but-not-yet-buried.
A dead resume lacks a clear structure or chronology, does not present or quantify achievements, fails to offer a “big picture” of what you would bring to the employer and is impersonal rather than expressive. Worse yet, a dead resume fails to win you the response you’re hoping for from the employer: an invitation for a job interview.
To win more job interviews and dramatically increase the quality of opportunities your resume can help you attract, strip your resume down to bare bones and resurrect it using the same techniques professional resume writers use to reposition job seekers whose own job search campaigns have failed to yield the results they need.
Problem #1: Resume Lacks Structure
You cannot create a resume without first creating a structure for it. Resumes are complicated documents that include different types of information which they communicate to different types of readers. If your resume has a poor structure it will make no sense to the reader; he or she will simply discard your resume and move on the next one in the pile, and you will count yourself lucky to even get a rejection letter.
Solution #1: Create A Strong Skeleton For Your Resume
Be as specific as possible in the content you want to communicate.
Match your content to the job you are applying for and the industry you seek to enter.
Avoid jargon yet be sure to use industry-specific key words.
Organize and sequence all of your dates and details. You didn’t edit, then write and then initiate; you initiated, then wrote and then edited.
List dates chronologically but in reverse order.
Combine like skills together.
Choose a resume style (chronological, functional, skills-based combination) that highlights your accomplishments.
List resume sections with most important section first, least important section last and all other sections in their appropriate place in between those two poles. Education should rarely be listed first unless you seek work either in academia or in a field where education is paramount, such as in medicine.
Be consistent in how you record information. Begin bulleted sentences and phrases with the same parts of speech. Give the same level of detail in all resume sections. Use first person for verbs, not second. It is inappropriate to refer to yourself in the second person as if you are someone else: “Resolves customer complaints promptly,” really means, “Mary resolves customer complaints promptly.” To imply, “I resolve customer complaints promptly,” say, “Resolve customer complaints promptly.”
Double check all your details. Edit your resume at least three times yourself, then invite knowledgeable others to edit it as well. Then edit it again yourself, this time reading the whole document backwards, word by word. Do not rely on spell checkers to do this for you - they are only as thorough as you are!
Problem #2: Resume Contains No Substance
Many job seekers write a resume with structure but no substance, with a skeleton but no muscles. Remember that your resume is your brochure; its job is to highlight your best qualities and credentials, downplay your weaknesses and sell the reader on the idea of interviewing you. To accomplish this you must layer details and specific examples into your key resume sections.
Solution #2: Layer Achievement Muscles Onto Your Resume Skeleton
Highlight the most vital points.
Add deeper levels of detail; articulate clearly and succinctly.
Tell success stories with brevity and power.
Make each word count.
Use graphics and bold, underline, or italics to draw your reader’s eyes to what you most want them to read.
Describe results and outcomes to sell your highest level of achievement.
Apply a journalism technique to craft powerful success stories. What did you do? How did you do it? Why? With and for whom? Where? When? What results did you achieve? Answer these questions fully on separate paper, then edit your story until it fits into 1-2 sentences and insert it in your resume. Use the original expanded version of your story to share verbally with employers in interviews.
Characterize all numbers in their most powerful and realistic form. Let’s say you cashiered at a grocery store and closed out your register with an average of $1000 daily. Let’s also say that you worked five days a week. Multiply that $1000 times five days per week and it becomes $5000 weekly; or $20,000 monthly, if your prefer.
Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and anticipate their questions, concerns and objections. Be honest in your assessment of your weaknesses and proactive in your defense against questions about them. If you know you lack specific experience, then go out of your way to translate your background into language and skill sets a potential employer will want to hear.
What assumptions do you fear an employer will make about you? That you’re too old? Too young? Inexperienced? Overqualified? Build resume muscles on these specific issues by challenging assumptions before they can be raised.
Use action verbs and concrete, quantifiable nouns. Avoid passive verbs. Use verbs that communicate to your reader’s senses and create the impression of action.
Avoid vague terms like “several”, “many” and “some”; try specific numbers or number ranges instead.
Choose verbs and nouns that demonstrate the highest level of skill you have achieved.
Cheryl Lynch Simpson is a Spiritual Director and Solutions Coach who helps women discover and create the life they've always wanted to live. Cheryl is the author of over 30 print/Internet articles and the founder of Coaching Solutions For Women, a coaching website that produces and showcases career, business, and life solutions that improve the life balance of today's busy women. For a complimentary copy of her latest e-book, Ten-Minute Stress Zappers for Women Service Business Owners, visit http://www.coachingsolutionsforwomen.com.
New Search Tool on eBay - Want it Now Have you ever just wanted to cringe while shopping at Zellers with your sweet toddler? I guess by now they know where the toy section is, and it just so happens you were speeding by hoping they might not see.But no way, there it was in bright packaging and just at the perfect eye level of your youngster, the latest and greatest Charlie the Activity Chimp. The pudgy little hands fly out to grab it, and the sweet little voice turns into a loud “I want it now”!You half smile and act like you are really in control of this scenario, but in your heart you know better. How can someone so young and sweet turn into such a little naughty? Well, that is kids, but thank goodness not adults, or are there similar traits?eBay must have sensed something because this new search tool “Want It Now” is pretty neat, and becoming increasingly popular. This tool can help you to make a sale and perhaps give you some ideas for items to sell.The purpose of this “Want it Now” is that it’s a classified ad section of eBay that allows buyers to post ads for items they want. It also allows sellers to respond to their ads with items they are already selling that match the want it now ad.If you are a buyer it goes like this;1. You can create a short ad or post by describing in detail the item you want. You can do this from the “Want it Now” page, found at www.wantitnow.ebay.com2. View your post and see which sellers are responding to it.3. You can manage your ad by editing, deleting or adding to it on your My Posts page.4. eBay will send you an email when a seller responds to your “Want it Now” post.5. Sellers can ask you specific questions that you will receive in your email inbox or in My Messages.6. The buyer can then bid on the item in the usual way.By creating a “Want it Now”
ng for and the industry you seek to enter.
Avoid jargon yet be sure to use industry-specific key words.
Organize and sequence all of your dates and details. You didn’t edit, then write and then initiate; you initiated, then wrote and then edited.
List dates chronologically but in reverse order.
Combine like skills together.
Choose a resume style (chronological, functional, skills-based combination) that highlights your accomplishments.
List resume sections with most important section first, least important section last and all other sections in their appropriate place in between those two poles. Education should rarely be listed first unless you seek work either in academia or in a field where education is paramount, such as in medicine.
Be consistent in how you record information. Begin bulleted sentences and phrases with the same parts of speech. Give the same level of detail in all resume sections. Use first person for verbs, not second. It is inappropriate to refer to yourself in the second person as if you are someone else: “Resolves customer complaints promptly,” really means, “Mary resolves customer complaints promptly.” To imply, “I resolve customer complaints promptly,” say, “Resolve customer complaints promptly.”
Double check all your details. Edit your resume at least three times yourself, then invite knowledgeable others to edit it as well. Then edit it again yourself, this time reading the whole document backwards, word by word. Do not rely on spell checkers to do this for you - they are only as thorough as you are!
Problem #2: Resume Contains No Substance
Many job seekers write a resume with structure but no substance, with a skeleton but no muscles. Remember that your resume is your brochure; its job is to highlight your best qualities and credentials, downplay your weaknesses and sell the reader on the idea of interviewing you. To accomplish this you must layer details and specific examples into your key resume sections.
Solution #2: Layer Achievement Muscles Onto Your Resume Skeleton
Highlight the most vital points.
Add deeper levels of detail; articulate clearly and succinctly.
Tell success stories with brevity and power.
Make each word count.
Use graphics and bold, underline, or italics to draw your reader’s eyes to what you most want them to read.
Describe results and outcomes to sell your highest level of achievement.
Apply a journalism technique to craft powerful success stories. What did you do? How did you do it? Why? With and for whom? Where? When? What results did you achieve? Answer these questions fully on separate paper, then edit your story until it fits into 1-2 sentences and insert it in your resume. Use the original expanded version of your story to share verbally with employers in interviews.
Characterize all numbers in their most powerful and realistic form. Let’s say you cashiered at a grocery store and closed out your register with an average of $1000 daily. Let’s also say that you worked five days a week. Multiply that $1000 times five days per week and it becomes $5000 weekly; or $20,000 monthly, if your prefer.
Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and anticipate their questions, concerns and objections. Be honest in your assessment of your weaknesses and proactive in your defense against questions about them. If you know you lack specific experience, then go out of your way to translate your background into language and skill sets a potential employer will want to hear.
What assumptions do you fear an employer will make about you? That you’re too old? Too young? Inexperienced? Overqualified? Build resume muscles on these specific issues by challenging assumptions before they can be raised.
Use action verbs and concrete, quantifiable nouns. Avoid passive verbs. Use verbs that communicate to your reader’s senses and create the impression of action.
Avoid vague terms like “several”, “many” and “some”; try specific numbers or number ranges instead.
Choose verbs and nouns that demonstrate the highest level of skill you have achieved.
Cheryl Lynch Simpson is a Spiritual Director and Solutions Coach who helps women discover and create the life they've always wanted to live. Cheryl is the author of over 30 print/Internet articles and the founder of Coaching Solutions For Women, a coaching website that produces and showcases career, business, and life solutions that improve the life balance of today's busy women. For a complimentary copy of her latest e-book, Ten-Minute Stress Zappers for Women Service Business Owners, visit http://www.coachingsolutionsforwomen.com.
Summer Jobs For Students - Valuable Experience Being at university is no easy picnic for the majority of students. Okay, so it may look on the surface that they are just a bunch of scruffy layabouts that do nothing but feed off pizzas, sleep all day, and party all night, but I think we need to give the majority of our well-read rebels a bit of slack here.For many undergraduates, their education is not taken for granted. Most do not arrive at campus in BMW sports cars and credit cards to boot. In fact, a large amount of those entering higher education find it necessary to support themselves for the duration of their study period and have no choice but to find jobs that they can fit-in around their classes.Jobs for students are usually both casual and menial in nature. It’s theses job types that allow the flexible working hours necessary for the young learners. Unfortunately, jobs for students are usually poorly paid too. However, working in a McDonalds as a waitress today may open a door to a junior store manager after graduation, so sometimes, a tedious job through college could result in a career move later on, providing you impressed the big wigs along the way of course.I remember working as a bartender during my entire college career. Bar jobs for students are perfect, as the tips are usually far greater in a busy pub than a bustling restaurant. There’s something about folks and alcohol that makes them loosen up on the ole purse strings when it comes to settling the bill. Yes, bar work was perfect for me and I loved to keep my finger on the pulse of the social scene without having to dig too deep into my own pitiful funds. Socializing while working. It doesn’t get any better than that.Although there are many types of jobs for students I think I’m right in saying that bar work is the most popular and therefore the most difficult to get into. It’
EM>Resume Contains No Substance
Many job seekers write a resume with structure but no substance, with a skeleton but no muscles. Remember that your resume is your brochure; its job is to highlight your best qualities and credentials, downplay your weaknesses and sell the reader on the idea of interviewing you. To accomplish this you must layer details and specific examples into your key resume sections.
Solution #2: Layer Achievement Muscles Onto Your Resume Skeleton
Highlight the most vital points.
Add deeper levels of detail; articulate clearly and succinctly.
Tell success stories with brevity and power.
Make each word count.
Use graphics and bold, underline, or italics to draw your reader’s eyes to what you most want them to read.
Describe results and outcomes to sell your highest level of achievement.
Apply a journalism technique to craft powerful success stories. What did you do? How did you do it? Why? With and for whom? Where? When? What results did you achieve? Answer these questions fully on separate paper, then edit your story until it fits into 1-2 sentences and insert it in your resume. Use the original expanded version of your story to share verbally with employers in interviews.
Characterize all numbers in their most powerful and realistic form. Let’s say you cashiered at a grocery store and closed out your register with an average of $1000 daily. Let’s also say that you worked five days a week. Multiply that $1000 times five days per week and it becomes $5000 weekly; or $20,000 monthly, if your prefer.
Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and anticipate their questions, concerns and objections. Be honest in your assessment of your weaknesses and proactive in your defense against questions about them. If you know you lack specific experience, then go out of your way to translate your background into language and skill sets a potential employer will want to hear.
What assumptions do you fear an employer will make about you? That you’re too old? Too young? Inexperienced? Overqualified? Build resume muscles on these specific issues by challenging assumptions before they can be raised.
Use action verbs and concrete, quantifiable nouns. Avoid passive verbs. Use verbs that communicate to your reader’s senses and create the impression of action.
Avoid vague terms like “several”, “many” and “some”; try specific numbers or number ranges instead.
Choose verbs and nouns that demonstrate the highest level of skill you have achieved.
Cheryl Lynch Simpson is a Spiritual Director and Solutions Coach who helps women discover and create the life they've always wanted to live. Cheryl is the author of over 30 print/Internet articles and the founder of Coaching Solutions For Women, a coaching website that produces and showcases career, business, and life solutions that improve the life balance of today's busy women. For a complimentary copy of her latest e-book, Ten-Minute Stress Zappers for Women Service Business Owners, visit http://www.coachingsolutionsforwomen.com.
Research & Development for Sustainable Long-Term Growth in Economies INTRODUCTIONEconomists like to use the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator for how well a country is doing. In order to make predictions regarding the future of countries and the industries that support the country it is essential to be able to evaluate just what makes the GDP vary so dramatically over time and across countries.Over the past 130 years the output of countries has dramatically improved in a good portion of the world. Some countries have improved much better than others. Many studies have been done to determine what the factors are that influence the growth of the GDP. We will briefly touch on the major factors that have the most influence and then explain in a little more detail the important factors that have helped stable, mature industrial economies sustain long-term growth. After that we will discuss why the majority of these factors will not sustain continued growth in established economies and finally we will offer a solution for providing real sustained growth over the long term.THE BUSINESS CYCLEAll businesses and economies, just like a stock market, have trends. There are also fluctuations to these trends over short term. These fluctuations above and below the output trend are known as business cycles. It is believed that over short-term analysis business cycles do affect output, however when one looks at the long-term, these cycles, or deviations from the trend (average), tend not to be as influential in the level of output as we would think. The long-term output tends to be the average of the peaks and troughs of the cycles of business.FACTORS THAT GO INTO THE GDP (OUTPUT)The GDP per capita is a function of the (hourly productivity) x (the average hours worked per person) x (the employment rate) x (the participation rate).These three
20,000 monthly, if your prefer.
Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and anticipate their questions, concerns and objections. Be honest in your assessment of your weaknesses and proactive in your defense against questions about them. If you know you lack specific experience, then go out of your way to translate your background into language and skill sets a potential employer will want to hear.
What assumptions do you fear an employer will make about you? That you’re too old? Too young? Inexperienced? Overqualified? Build resume muscles on these specific issues by challenging assumptions before they can be raised.
Use action verbs and concrete, quantifiable nouns. Avoid passive verbs. Use verbs that communicate to your reader’s senses and create the impression of action.
Avoid vague terms like “several”, “many” and “some”; try specific numbers or number ranges instead.
Choose verbs and nouns that demonstrate the highest level of skill you have achieved.
Cheryl Lynch Simpson is a Spiritual Director and Solutions Coach who helps women discover and create the life they've always wanted to live. Cheryl is the author of over 30 print/Internet articles and the founder of Coaching Solutions For Women, a coaching website that produces and showcases career, business, and life solutions that improve the life balance of today's busy women. For a complimentary copy of her latest e-book, Ten-Minute Stress Zappers for Women Service Business Owners, visit http://www.coachingsolutionsforwomen.com.
Your Dream Job is Waiting - For You Your work place is getting boring and you have a boss not quite from hell, but close. Your co-workers are ready and waiting to stab you in the back to get ahead. You know this is not where you want to be, so why stick with it? Are you ready for the challenge that will truly get you your dream job? Many are, and it's not the most difficult thing to do.Life isn't about a routine of day in, day out in some job you didn't really want. It's awful to feel stuck, when you realize you've still got the rest of your working life to come. Life is about living and feeling alive, so make some changes and realize your full potential! No one is forcing you to stay in a job you hate and no one is holding you back from your dreams – except yourself, that is.And the fact, the honest truth that it's all down to you is often the bitterest pill to swallow.So, what do you really enjoy in life. Is it a hobby or a passion? Whatever it is you love doing is a huge hint! Have you ever thought of turning that hobby into a dream job that you'll look forward to every day? You could turn your hobby into a real, exciting, successful job with a little determination and some close attention.That's right - it's all about focus. Decide what it is you'd rather be doing, and then find out all you can about how you need to get there. Do your homework on whether you need credentials or qualifications to turn your hobby into employment. Find out the steps you need to make that will bring you to where you want to be and lay down a plan.Remember, you're not going to get anywhere over night. Miracles don't happen and hard work, effort, and the right choices to move you forward will have amazing results. If you need training, part time courses or night school can let you keep your day job and work towards a new career in your spare time. Hey, you
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Several companies specialize in providing packaging services that are sourced by manufacturers to deliver well packaged products to their consumers. The existence and usage of highly sophisticated packaging equipment for different kinds of products has made good quality packaging a must for all products that reach retail shelves.
There is much jockeying going on with large corporations and sector shifts in Akron OH. This has effected many other sectors like retail and housing. Housing growth is strong in the suburbs around Akron, especially the North sides. During the last recession housing growth was fine, but urban flight hurt and when Rubbermaid moved to Atlanta to be by Home Depot their major customer, besides Wal-Mart type box stores took out many smaller businesses.
Engineers have a great sense of purpose when they take engineering up as a career and a lot of their work can be available for all to see. But anyone going into engineering thinking that it is easy to do will find it could be their downfall, as you need to be in the right frame of mind.
