Resumes – The Albert Baker Fund https://www.albertbakerfund.org Educating Christian Scientists, Blessing the World Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:23:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.albertbakerfund.org/files/2017/03/cropped-ABF_logo_sq-32x32.png Resumes – The Albert Baker Fund https://www.albertbakerfund.org 32 32 31187602 20 Short Steps to Your LinkedIn Profile https://www.albertbakerfund.org/2020/03/19/8-short-steps-to-your-linkedin-profile/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:12:08 +0000 https://abfcareeralliance.org/?p=162 20 Short Steps to Your LinkedIn Profile

A fully-completed LinkedIn Profile is an essential tool for today’s job search.

Why? It’s a valuable tool that employers use to gain valuable insights into your education and experience. In other words, it’s an opportunity for you to create a professional profile that provides valuable insights into who you are and what you’ve done.

This article, 20 Short Steps to Your LinkedIn profile, is a brief guide to building an effective LinkedIn profile.  One of the most important tips: make sure your Profile is 100% complete—LinkedIn says it will appear 40 more times in search results!  

]]> 162 What Every Resume Needs: Your Story and The Six Parts https://www.albertbakerfund.org/2014/08/25/eight-essential-parts-to-your-resume/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:55:24 +0000 https://abfcareeralliance.org/?p=238 What Every Resume Needs PDF

by Robin Glenn Jones

In Module 4 of LifeLaunch!, Resumes and Cover Letters, our resident career expert, Don Asher, identifies important information about how to structure your resume.

As Don states, “The purpose of the resume is to get an interview.” In this module Don explains the parts of a resume that are essential to land you the interview. I have listed them for you but you will need to refer to Module 4 of LIfeLaunch!, or Don’s highly acclaimed book, The Overnight Resume, in order to get a complete understanding of how best to incorporate these elements into your own resume.

One of the techniques I particularly like is removing the objective because it doesn’t really speak to who you are. A resume should be crafted as your personal story, specifically told for a desired intent.

As I recently told my daughter Madison, think of sitting across the table from someone you have been wanting to meet and now you have their full attention.

What do you want to say to them?

When you finish visiting with them, what impression do you want them to leave with?

Well, the same goes for the resume. Someone is hearing your voice for the first time and they are going to determine if they want to hear more from what you have written.

So, craft your words so that if you were reading what you had written, and comparing that to the hundreds of other resumes you might have seen, you would choose you!

The Six Parts of Your Resume

  1. The Heading–your name, cell phone, and email address. City and state are optional
  2. Your Profile–a list of your skills and interests related to the position
  3. Special Projects–Highlight any experience or special projects related to the position
  4. Education–Include relevant coursework and projects, school activities, honors and awards
  5. Experience–organize this in reverse chronological order, focus experience on the job you are going after, use subheadings for types of experience, start sentences with verbs, highlight accomplishments
  6. Key Words–at the bottom of your resume create a list of key words that might be searched by resume sorting software.

Ask Yourself

  1. Does my resume answer the question, “What can this candidate do for me?”
  2. Have I proofed a hard copy to catch any typos?
  3. Is my formatting consistent and scanable?

LifeLaunch! Can Help

Check out Mod­ule 4 of ABF’s Life­Launch! course to learn more about how to create a win­ning resume.
Enroll in Life­Launch!

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]]> 10270 How to Avoid the Resume Black Hole https://www.albertbakerfund.org/2014/08/25/how-to-avoid-the-resume-black-hole/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:12:07 +0000 https://abfcareeralliance.org/?p=227 The number one complaint we hear from job seekers when applying online is that they never get any response to their applications.

The resume goes out and nothing ever comes back!

It can be very disheartening to take the time and effort to apply for a job and have nothing to show for it–not even the slightest bit of encouragement from a recruiter or hiring manager!

Today’s companies and recruiters are using applicant tracking software to sort and sift through the hundreds of resumes they receive for job postings.  One cannot ignore the realities of online application submission.

Some companies ask screening questions.  Sometimes, not answering a screening question can knock a candidate out of consideration, but, not always.  There are some very good points in the US News & World Report Money article, “How to avoid the Resume Black Hole” about what you should know about applicant tracking software, or ATS.

LifeLaunch! Can Help

ABF’s LifeLaunch! course can help you put forward a winning resume and cover letter. Don Asher, who developed LifeLaunch! states, “The beginning of the resume should answer this question for the employer or recruiter, what can this candidate do for me?”

Check out Module 4 of LifeLaunch!, Resumes and Cover Letters—it will help you successfully answer this question in your resume and cover letter.

Enroll in LifeLaunch! to learn more about resumes and cover letters!

 

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