Writing a Persuasive Rsum

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Preparation
• Research the job market.
• Use newspapers, the Web, and other resources to
  learn about jobs, qualifications, and employers.
• Analyze your strengths.
• What will sell you for the job you want?
• Study other résumés as models.
• Experiment with formatting.

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Heading and Objective
• List your name, address, phone.
• Include a career objective for a targeted job.
• Education
• Name your degree, date of graduation, and
  institution.
• List your major and GPA.
• Give information about your studies, but dont
  inventory all your courses.

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Work Experience
• List your previous jobs.
• Start with the most recent jobs. Include
  employers name and city, dates of employment
  (month, year), and most significant title.
• Manager, Fleet Equipment, Kettering, Ohio.
  6/2003
• to present
• Salesperson, Kmart, Dayton, Ohio. 4/02 to 5/03
• Tax Preparer, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
  Program. March 2003 to present. Sinclair
  College, Dayton, Ohio

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Work Experience
• Describe your experience.
• Use action verbs to summarize achievements and
  skills relevant to your targeted job.
• Prepared state and federal tax returns for
  individuals with incomes under 25,000.
• Conducted interviews with over 50 individuals
  to elicit data regarding taxes.
• Determined legitimate tax deductions and
  recorded them accurately.

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Work Experience
• Include nontechnical skills.
• Give evidence of communication, management, and
  interpersonal skills. Employers want more than
  empty assurances. Try to quantify your skills if
  you can.
• Organized holiday awards program for 1200
  attendees and 140 awardees.
• Praised by top management for enthusiastic
  teamwork and achievement.

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Special Skills, Achievements, Awards
• Highlight your computer skills.
• All employers seek employees proficient with word
  processing, databases, and spreadsheets.
• Show that you are well-rounded.
• List awards and extracurricular activities,
  especially if they demonstrate leadership,
  teamwork, reliability, loyalty, initiative,
  efficiency, and self-sufficiency.

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Additional Tips
• Omit references (unless specifically required).
• Look for ways to condense your data.
• Double-check for parallel phrasing.
• Project professionalism and quality.
• Avoid personal pronouns. Omit humor.
• Use 24-pound paper and a quality printer.
• Have a friend or colleague critique your résumé.
• Proofread!

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Additional Tips
• Omit references (unless specifically required).
• Look for ways to condense your data.
• Double-check for parallel phrasing.
• Project professionalism and quality.
• Avoid personal pronouns. Omit humor.
• Use 24-pound paper and a quality printer.
• Have a friend or colleague critique your résumé.
• Proofread! Proofread!

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Additional Tips
• Omit references (unless specifically required).
• Look for ways to condense your data.
• Double-check for parallel phrasing.
• Project professionalism and quality.
• Avoid personal pronouns. Omit humor.
• Use 24-pound paper and a quality printer.
• Have a friend or colleague critique your résumé.
• Proofread! Proofread! Proofread!

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Writing a Persuasive Résumé

• Additional Tips
• Omit references (unless specifically required).
• Look for ways to condense your data.
• Double-check for parallel phrasing.
• Project professionalism and quality.
• Avoid personal pronouns. Omit humor.
• Use 24-pound paper and a quality printer.
• Have a friend or colleague critique your résumé.
• Proofread! Proofread! Proofread! Proofread!

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• Refer to Handouts
• Resumes

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Writing a Persuasive Job Application Letter

• Opening
• Try to address the letter to an individual by
  name.
• For advertised jobs, name the source include job
  title, date, and publication.
• If someone referred you, name that person.
• Show that your qualifications fit the job
  specifications, show your knowledge of the
  readers business, or show that your special
  talents will be assets to the company.

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Writing a Persuasive Job Application Letter

• Body
• Demonstrate that your background and training
  meet the job requirements.
• Summarize your principal assets from education,
  experience, and special skills.
• Show your interest in the job or reason
• for applying
• Avoid repeating specific data from your résumé.
• Refer to your résumé.

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Writing a Persuasive Job Application Letter

• Closing
• Ask for an interview. Consider hooking the
  request to a statement reviewing your strongest
  points.
• Make it easy to respond. Tell when and where you
  can be reached (during office hours). Some
  recruiters prefer that you call them.

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• Application Letters
• Refer to Handout
• Page 312 22.1
• Page 316,317 22.6

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• Testimonial
• Page 318 22.7
• References
• Page 321 22.10, 22.11, 22.12
• Page 323 22.16 (list your questions)
• Page 324 22.18

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Preparing for a Hiring/ Placement Job Interview

• Investigate the target organization. Know the
  leaders, company products, finances, goals,
  competition, accomplishments, setbacks.
• Study the job description. How do your skills and
  accomplishments fit the position?

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Preparing for a Hiring/ Placement Job Interview

• Practice answers to typical interview questions.
  Write your best responses down.
• Expect to explain problem areas on your résumé.
• Build interviewing experience with less important
  jobs first.

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Sending Positive Nonverbal Messages

• Arrive on time or a little early.
• Be courteous and congenial to everyone.
• Introduce yourself to the receptionist and wait
  to be seated.
• Dress professionally.
• Greet the interviewer confidently.
• Wait for the interviewer to offer you a chair.

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Sending Positive Nonverbal Messages

• Control your body movements.
• Make frequent eye contact but don't get into a
  staring contest.
• Smile enough to convey a positive attitude.
• Sound enthusiastic and interestedbut sincere.

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Fighting Job Interview Fears

• Practice interviewing as often as you can,
  particularly with real companies.
• Prepare 110 percent.
• Know how you will answer the most frequently
  asked questions.
• Be ready with your success stories.
• Rehearse your closing statement.

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Five Important Areas Employers Will Probe

• Communication skills. How well do you present
  yourself and your ideas?
• Attitude. Do you have a positive attitude about
  yourself and your career?
• Aptitude. Do your educational training and
  general life experiences qualify you for this
  position?

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Five Important Areas Employers Will Probe

• Potential. How do your attitude and aptitude
  combine to contribute to this company?
• Motivation. What are your short- and long-term
  career goals? Why do you want this job?

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Ten Standard Interview Questions

• What would you like to tell me about yourself?
• Why do you want this job?
• What best qualifies you for this job?
• What are your key strengths?
• What are your weaknesses?

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Ten Standard Interview Questions

• What did you like and dislike about your last
  job?
• Do you consider yourself a team player? Why?
• What are your career goals?
• Where do you expect to be five years from now?
• What salary do you expect to receive?

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Ten Good Questions forYou to Ask

• What will my duties be?
• Do you have a written job description for this
  position?
• What is it like working here, in terms of the
  people, management practices, work loads,
  expected performance, and rewards?

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Ten Good Questions forYou to Ask

• What training programs does this organization
  offer?
• What are the possibilities for promotion?
• What is the first problem that needs the
  attention of the person you will hire?
• What is the organizational structure, and where
  does this position fit within it?

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Ten Good Questions forYou to Ask

• Who would be my immediate supervisor?
• What is the salary for this position?
• When will I hear from you regarding further
  action on my application?

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• Offers of Appointment
• Page 331 22.29
• Page 332 22.30

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