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Accelerate Your Job Search – Maximize The Impact Of Your Resume

Maximizing the Impact of Your Resume – AdvancingWomen.com

Fortunately, in the age of the Internet, there are some high-tech solutions to the problem of making sure your resume gets in the hands of an individual who is looking for someone of your qualifications. Resume distribution services are increasingly becoming the job-hunting method of choice for a number of job-seekers. Thanks to some innovative software, resume distribution is easier and more effective than ever before.

For instance, software packages such as Resume Rabbit and Job Search Accelorator can be tremendous aids for you as you begin your search for employment. The reach of these services is vast. For example, you can greatly increase your exposure, since such services allow you to get your resume posted on more than 75 to 85 sites.

By filling out a simple form, you can show off your job qualifications to numerous prospective employers. It’s estimated that such services can save you up to 60 hours of research–time which you can then devote to actually meeting corporate recruiters. You can also post your resume to numerous categories of career sites–from general sites, such as general purpose, to specialized sites, such as accounting or sales and marketing. You can also receive information about prospective jobs via e-mail, enabling opportunities to come to you via your personal inbox.

Of course,  AdvancingWomen Careers would love for you to send us your resume, as well.  AdvancingWomen.com has a specialized job site focusing on diversity. Some of our corporate recruiting clients have included TMP Worldwide, Inc., Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Commerce,National Association of Women Lawyers, CareerBuilder.com, Fedex Kinko’s, Accenture Technology Solutions, and Guidance Software Inc..  So we think we can match you up with a company looking for your skills.

But by all means, get your resume out there, not just to us.  Cast a broad net.  One of the reputable resume blasters can be a good way to do it.

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Key to A Career Switch: Transferable Skills In Your CV/Resume

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Assess Your Transferable Skills
One of the most important parts of a job search, and particularly if your goal is to switch careers,  is assessing your Transferable skills. These are skills which you can use in other jobs such as: Communication, Information Management, Human Services, Managerial, Manual/Physical Labor, Personal Attributes, Organization.

Often, when people have been working in the same job for a long time, they become so accustomed to performing their duties that they fail to recognize the skills they have.

It is beneficial to sit down and write out a list of all the things you do in a work day and all the things you do at home as well. It is easy to forget that skills such as problem-solving, decision-making, and organization which you use at home and in volunteering are skills that you can transfer and use on a new job.

A benefit to this recognition of your skills is that you can come up with a variety of Ideas for jobs or places that these skills may be used.

When making the necessary modifications and adjustments to your CV, in order to target a new job or a new industry, first analyze your work history then make the appropriate refinements in your CV/resume.

Producing A Good CV When Changing Career , a British blog makes some excellent points about this which are themselves transferable to the job market globally:

“The key thing here is to consider the job(s) you have already done and to see if you can identify any skills you were able to obtain within these job(s) that could easily be transferable and be considered of value to your new chosen career and to focus upon them.” As example, if you held any kind of position where you had to talk to clients and interact with them to pinpoint their needs, that is a transferable skill whether you’re behind the scenes trying to understand what a client wants in a website, or you’re trying to sell him or her a high tech document management system or a new computer.  You are still trying to relate and discover a customer’s needs.  That is a skill that will fit almost universally into any business and many careers.

“The key point when producing a CV when you’re looking to change career is not to try to erase all of the experience you have gained up until this point but to tailor it in such a way and in a particular order which is likely to give an overall impression that you possess the necessary skills, personal qualities and qualifications that will be relevant to the career you’re now looking to pursue.

What a well-tailored CV will do, however, is make the switch to your new career seem like a natural and logical progression to the person reading it.

Finally, always remember that a CV isn’t designed to get you the job – it’s designed to get you the interview. You can elaborate on the reasons behind your career switch once you get to the interview stage.”

Good luck with your search….. and please share your experience with us.  Let us know if this post was helpful and what you would suggest to improve it.  Thanks.

Producing A Good CV When Changing Career

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