Saturday, August 3, 2013

Fine Tuning The Resume

By Franklin Skribbit


While you are a student at one of the many San Diego colleges, you probably are always looking for ways to improve the way you live your life. You probably just want to be happy while you are in school.

Many individuals in San Diego have decided that the best way to help themselves succeed in the future is by attending school and finishing their education.

All hiring managers were shown to spend an average of twenty seconds looking over each resume before deciding to move that resume to a pile to be reviewed later or deciding to throw the resume in the trash.

These are just a few of the reasons why students don't always seem to be the happiest people. But there are things you can do as a student to help yourself not feel as much stress and to be generally happier. One of the most important things you can do as a student is to develop good habits. This is often very difficult, because many students have so much fun practicing bad habits.

Too often there are individuals who will be quick to apply to any open job position they find, usually with the rational that some jobs will not pan out so casting a bigger net is more likely to end in success.

One major pit fall that can get a resume tossed to the side is when an applicant puts an outlandish objective statement on their resume.

It may not seem like a big deal to spend an evening watching television, but watching television one night could very likely turn into watching television every night. Then you realize that you've wasted a whole week of nights just watching television.

By only applying to those positions that one can seem themselves working in for the majority of their career, a person will be able to find a job that they can be happy with and one they will thrive in.

With this in mind, a job seeker should avoid filling the work experience section of their resume with irrelevant or useless job experience. For example, if a person is applying for a job in computer programing in San Diego, listing time spent as a dish washer after school does nothing to promote the applicant and simply takes up space that could be otherwise used effectively.

Sit down and write down a few goals. Not tons, just a few. Figure out why these are your goals. This is where figuring out what you want from your life comes in.

Old and antiquated online job postings work great for summer jobs during school or even for the first few starter jobs, but once a person is desirous to find their career job, looking online can be considered a less effective means and a substantial waste of time.




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