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Form and Format of Your Resume or Job Employment Appplication to the Specific H.R. Dept
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
It can be said that your resume is “you” or your final print or cut. Just as “first impressions” are everything so is the impressions that your resume portrays and delivers.
Your resume must be genuine. It must be “you in the flesh” so that when you follow up on your job search and contacts both your resume and yourself are in congruity and continuity. How else could it be otherwise.
If your resume is dry and lackluster your initial impressions on any H.R. people that you are most dry and lackluster and too low key for them unless the job is for a funeral director. Style can be said to be of great importance as well. Next style has to fit format. Just as you will have to package yourself in the costume of the job territory, your resume and applications have to be packaged more than appropriately.
It can be said that no stock format will totally fit your story. Resume formats are like fingerprints and eyes. No two living people have the same. Format lengths range from one-page teasers to magazine length treatises. However yet again this may be all lost on some low intelligence types who somehow have risen in their position and may be intimidated by such standard words and phrases as the word “arbitrary” . Again it all comes down to hard work and research as well as attention to detail and details.
The truth can be said that at best, many people including the professional h.r. people that you will be call on and be in contact with that many of them will read resumes like they read newspapers or a computer screen. A quick initial glance at the first page or screen . Then a few other paragraphs here and there. Seldom if ever turning the page or reading down to the bottom of the computer screen. That is why targeting your job resumes and applications to both the job application and the personalities and their preferences are so important.
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UncategorizedPreferences of Personnel and H.R. Directors
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
It should be more than noted and appreciated that different H.R. directors have different preferences when it comes to job resumes and applications. It is up to the individual job seeker to “do their research and homework”. If you go fishing you may like strawberry cheesecake but what matters is what “bait “ the fish like.
As an example one personnel director may prefer a freshly typed or printed resume that is specifically orientated and the opening that the firm is trying to fill. It shows thoroughness and attention to detail in the candidates that they are seeking for the posted job.
Other personnel directors may prefer and actually gives preference to standard two page formats if they are copied on high quality rag content paper stock and do look gray are as if they are mass produced by a laser printer by the hundreds.
Yet you may find that a corporate head hunter votes highly for a standard second page that lists details and a customized first page that more than clearly states how your qualifications and objectives specifically relate to the firm’s or their client firm’s needs .
It all comes down to needs and preferences of the H.R. director , their firm or corporation or those of their clients.
Their is no one “right” or “correct” answer. It all comes down to hard work of research , attention to detail and getting down in the trenches.
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