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Title: 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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