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FREE Seminar: Recession Busting Job Search Strategies
If you live in the Kitchener/Waterloo area, please take note of this upcoming live seminar that I am hosting with my colleague and friend, Stephanie Clarke of New Leaf Resumes. This is an event you won’t want to miss.
When: Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 from 10 am to 12 pm
Where: Sobeys Community Room at 450 Columbia St West in Waterloo (corner of Columbia St & Fischer Hallman)
When looking for a new job – most people know that the first step is to create a resume. Your resume should detail your employment history, your education and experience at the very least. But, there are some other elements to consider so that your resume will get noticed from among the hundreds or even thousands of others. Unfortunately, many people make the mistake of creating a resume that reads like a job description. If this sounds like your resume, here are some other elements to consider.
There is an old saying that goes, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. So, how do you tap into the hidden job market if the people you know aren’t able to help you connect with a job in the career of your choice? Well, they probably know someone that does. Have you heard of the six degrees of separation? The six degrees of separation is a theory that you are only six people away from knowing everyone on the planet. In fact a trivia game was created a few years ago called, “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” based on this concept. It tried to prove that Kevin Bacon is separated by only three degrees from every actor in Hollywood. The point is that if you don’t already know someone that works for an employer that you are interested in, you can get to know them and below are some ways to do that.
There are essentially 3 different resume formats: the chronological resume, the functional resume and the combination resume. Each has its advantages and disadvantages which this article will explain.
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