Are You Ready to Job Search?Do you have a great résumé to launch your job search? If you are like many graduating students, you are confused about where to begin. You probably have many questions like, how do I prepare a résumé? How can I list experience if I don’t have any? If I have never held a job, how can I demonstrate I am ready? What if my work experience is not related to my major?
The art of promoting yourself is in the writing of your résumé. If you desire to lure interviews to excellent positions -- you must present and promote relevant value on paper. Your résumé is so much more than what you imagine. Résumés have evolved into what is now a personal marketing tool and they require strategic writing and planning. As a student, there are ways that you can give rise to a powerful résumé in order to win the attention you deserve.
In addition to hiring a professional to assist you, you can take small steps to gain additional experience. By taking action, you will create ammunition that will help you annihilate your competition. And, you will propel your résumé from the bottom to the top of the pile!
Read the following tips so that you can begin to put them into practice. Ways You Can Gain Experience Right Now1. Join affiliations, groups, or organizations. Experience, either in your school or off campus, will help you tremendously. This experience will market you and demonstrate that you are involved in the industry, even before you attain your degree.
2. Volunteer! Find an organization you can volunteer to before you graduate. Experience that will help you attain a job does not necessarily have to paid experience.
3. Sign up for magazines, newsletters, and mailers. Nurturing knowledge about the industry you are eventually going to enter is priceless. If presented skillfully, it will have a very positive impact.
4. Get involved in school projects / presentations. Getting involved in any school project that is related to your intended field will help you create experiences you can use when preparing your résumé.
5. Pay attention to what you do now. Many students find that while in school, preparing for their careers, they begin to assert themselves and exercise skills and qualities that are similar to those they will contribute once they graduate. Pay attention and keep notes of ways in which you are already acting like that professional you are studying to become. The setting is secondary -- if you can demonstrate you can perform the job above and beyond your competition!
Try to gain experience by involving yourself and participating in any organized program that is related to your career objective. If you currently have a job and it is not related to your new field, you might find that you excel at work in areas that are not so far off from your intended career objective. For example, if your major is nursing, do you always seem to step up to aide those that need help at work? Are you sought out for your advice or coaching skills? If you are in an environment where people could get ill, are you charged with addressing their needs. Like mentioned before, it is all about your résumé’s presentation. We can help you analyze and promote your transferable skills (skills that can be implemented into your new career). You will be surprised at how a skilled résumé writer will use this information to communicate that you are a qualified candidate who deserves an opportunity.
Please contact us as we are successful at helping students, just like you, create an exciting résumé that will capture employers’ attention. It is never too early to begin. Look over the following questions, which are student-focused, so that you begin to conceptualize what we will need from you. Also, begin to plant seeds in order to provide us with as much experience as possible.
To place your order, please visit www.creatingprints.com and answer our online assessment. If you have any questions, please call us or e-mail us. Thank you. Student Oriented Questions You Can Begin to Work ON
1.
Are you involved in any team presentations / projects while
in school? If so, what was your role?
2.
Did you have to complete a senior project? If so, what was
its focus and conclusion?
3.
Did you complete an internship? Tell me about your activities
and accomplishments while completing this internship. What did you
enjoy most about this activity? Did you receive any special
recognition for the internship, for example, letters of recognition
or awards? Were you offered employment as a result of your
internship?
4.
What was your GPA overall and in your major?
5.
How many hours a week did you work (internship or not) while
completing your degree? What were your responsibilities and
accomplishments at this (or other) jobs? Do you have any recent
evaluations?
6.
Were you a member of a professional or social fraternity or
honor society while in college? If so, what were the leadership
roles and committee assignments in which you participated?
7.
What are your foreign language skills? Have you studied or
worked abroad?
8.
How long did it take you to complete your college program?
9.
Were you a TA (teaching assistant) or lab assistant?
10.
Are you in the military reserve? If so, what is your role and
goal?
11.
Tell me about your computer skills. What are the software
programs with which you are familiar?
12.
Are you a member of any community or professional
organizations outside of college? 13. What courses have taken in relation to your career choice?
14. Which was your favorite course? Why?
15. Can you provide us with a recommendation letter from one of your teachers?
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