December 30th, 2007
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Want to get your online resum noticed and have employers picking up the phone and calling you? Then forget how pretty your resum is. What really matters is how your resum scores on a search. Most resums today go straight to a computer tracking system that saves online resums in the company database allowing for later searches. A computer will “score” your resum by the number of keywords or “buzzwords” that the employer will find most relevant to their needs. If you don’t account for this, you’ll just sit waiting by the phone for the call that never comes.
Keywords, Keywords, and More Keywords
The magic is in the keywords and how and where you can use them. Focus on the keywords most likely to be used by a human resources person or recruiter doing the resum search for a particular job requirement. The greater the number of relevant keywords, the higher relevancy score your online resum will receive.
Let’s look at the four major keyword areas you need to account for in an online resum that will get an employer to pick up the phone and call you:
1. “Keywords Competencies”:
A.) List this section at the beginning of your resum to introduce your skill sets from an interviewing standpoint.
B.) Include no more than 75 keywords. List as many relevant, searchable keywords that describe your potential job title, technical skills, management or organizational skills, relevant software and/or mechanical abilities and expertise as you can. Include anything that might be important to the particular job.
For example, if you were a Java Programmer, your Keyword Competencies section might look like this:
“Java, Visual C++, perl, ticl, application development, visual basic, Windows NT/XP, programming, GUI, html, project management, layer 2, BSEE, etc”.
2. “Job Description”: Include every title that may pertain to your duties and function. For example, if your official title is “Member of Technical Staff”, other companies may call that a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or even a Programmer. Take this into account when you write your resum for online use. The computer doesn’t care as long as you have all your bases covered for whatever human-based search may arise.
3. “Objective”: Once again, keep it limited to specific keywords when you identify your present and/or aspiring job title with an added major skill or function (such as project management, mergers and acquisitions, electronic design, product verification, quality control, etc).
4. “Past Experience”: Many searches are performed in the interest of finding people who have worked for or with certain companies. This can mean not only working as an employee, but also having worked with their products or with them as a client or vendor. Be sure to list all the major companies with whom you have had connection. This includes experience with their tools or products or your roles as either a vendor or a customer.
Summary
The bottom line is not how pretty your resum looks. The most important element is to cover all the possible keywords that an employer will be searching for. There’s potential gold in your background and you want to make certain that it is brought to the surface. Keywords are truly powerful for this.
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Not long ago a woman contacted me the day after she had the worst performance appraisal of her career. Feeling blindsided by unwarranted criticism and unrecognized for the hard work she had contributed during the year, she was ready to walk away from her job!
At that point all I could do was damage control. While I was able to offer advice and strategies to help her gain clarity about what happened, minimize the damage to her self esteem, and help her re-establish communication with her boss, how much better it would have been had she come to see me before her performance review! We could have tracked her progress on key projects, identified challenges she has faced, and developed an action plan to help her overcome them. She might have even walked away with praise and a raise instead of criticism.
Follow these suggestions to make your next performance review a springboard to success.
1. MEET WITH YOUR MANAGER TO SET GOALS FOR THE COMING YEAR. Ask your boss, What is the most important thing I can do for you? What would it take for me to be your dream employee? What would you most like me to accomplish this year?
2. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS TOWARD GOALS AND ON PROJECTS. Identify results youve achieved, make note of comments from others, awards earned, and letters of appreciation.
3. SCHEDULE A QUARTERLY APPOINTMENT WITH YOUR MANAGER. Update him or her on goals reached and new goals identified. Ask for feedback on your performance.
4. THIRTY DAYS BEFORE YOUR REVIEW, SCHEDULE A FIVE TO FIFTEEN MINUTE MEETING WITH YOUR BOSS. Provide a recap of achievements since your last review. Request feedback and ask what other information he or she would like prior to the performance appraisal session.
5. THE WEEK BEFORE YOUR REVIEW, PREPARE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT LIST THAT OUTLINES YOUR WORK SINCE YOUR LAST PERFORMANCE REVIEW. Note your specific projects completed, goals achieved, and challenges faced.
6. DURING THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW, CONFIDENTLY DISCUSS YOUR SUCCESSES. Point out instances when you saved the company money, increased sales, or improved efficiency. Whenever possible demonstrate the dollar value youve added to organization.
7. CALMLY DISCUSS AREAS WHERE YOU FEEL YOU NEED TO IMPROVE. Ask for feedback and really listen to it. Proactively offer a plan outlining the steps you will take to continue to grow and increase your expertise in key areas.
8. IDENTIFY CHALLENGES FACING THE DEPARTMENT OR ORGANIZATION and offer suggestions for streamlining processes and making the department run more effectively. Make your interest in the success of the department and company obvious.
9. STRETCH YOURSELF BY ASKING TO TAKE ON NEW, DIFFERENT, OR MORE CHALLENGING ASSIGNMENTS. Let your boss know you are ready for more responsibility.
10. KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WORTH AND BE WILLING TO ASK FOR IT. But first hear your boss out. He or she may have a number in mind that is better than the one you have identified. Wait until your boss makes the first move then, if necessary, be willing to negotiate for what you wanton the basis of worth not need, of course!
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for paralegals is very good, with an expected growth rate near 33 percent a year through 2010. The bureau notes that compared to other professions, the leap in the paralegal field is dramatic.
The paralegal or legal assistant profession is expected to grow because of a couple of economic factors. One, more law firms are hiring paralegals to do some of the necessary legwork - research and paper work on their behalf. This frees up the attorney for court appearances and for developing client-attorney relationships, two duties a paralegal is not allowed to do. Two, having a paralegal do the work rather than an expensive paid by the hour attorney saves the client money.
Law firms are not the only agencies that hire paralegals or legal assistants. Many corporations, businesses and non profit agencies have also seen the benefit of having a paralegal on staff. If you are considering a career as a legal assistant, keep that in mind and do not narrow your job search only to law firms or private attorneys - unless, of course, your passion is to work for a law office or directly for an attorney.
While the paralegal job market looks great, competition to participate in the paralegal field will be increasingly stiff. With competition growing, the best way to make yourself marketable in the field is to get all the training you possibly can. Once upon a time, legal assistants were trained on the job. There was not professional training other than clerical training that would prepare a person for a career as a paralegal. Many of those paralegals are retiring these days, having been hired in the 1960s or 1970s when the paralegal field really began. Now, the lawyers and firms they have been working for over the last 20 some odd years want their replacements to be trained and ready to work.
Getting training for a career as a legal assistant is convenient, even for those people who have other jobs who want to train in their spare time for a paralegal career. Many community colleges offer paralegal training certification in two year study programs. Some colleges and universities offer paralegal training as part of a four year course of study. Even more opportunities exist online and through correspondence courses. Research all your options and weed out the ones that just don’t make sense for you. When you take time to look at all the training possibilities available, you will see that there is course work available to fit your time and budget constraints.
Of course, even with training and certification as a paralegal, you will still have to get in sync with your boss, whether working for an individual attorney, a firm, or as a paralegal in the business sector. Getting to know the expectations of your job and your role as a paralegal in the office in which you work will also play a factor in your success in your career as a legal assistant.
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You have probably heard the many online opportunities that are opening everyday on the Internet and how many people are making their living online working in the comfort of their own home. However we also hear of so many scams and fake opportunities were people loss their money and even their shirt for investing so much money on things that don’t work or that are scams.
You should not be afraid of choosing a work from home and making your life the way you want it. What you should be doing is first getting your head straight on what do you really want to be working on. Do you want to work from home? do you want a stable income? do you want a business or a Job? Do you have money to invest? Do you have skills? Which are your skills?
If you can answer the above questions you are on the right path to choose the best work at home opportunity for you. Now the problem is where to look for the best honest and reliable opportunities. Its not easy to just do a research on the Internet and make a informed decision of what is worth and what not.
I have gone to this process of finding how to make money on the internet? and you know what? thats the wrong question. What you should be asking your self is do you want an Online business or a Work at Home?
Both are completely different options, the first one requires you to invest money and to work consistently for various months probably without earning a penny before you start seeing some return on your investment.
The Second Option of Work at Home actually mean getting a Online Job and this is a very nice way to start earning money from home if you need money now and you don’t have thousands of dollars to invest.
If you got any skills you can work from home offering your skills as a service to other people that needs them. Even if you don’t think you don’t have special skills, if you can type and write articles you can work from home and earn a nice income. how can this be? by being a Freelancer.
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Some twenty or thirty years ago, finding the right career was restricted by lack of global internet tools, limited by more old-fashioned (if you will) values and opinions, and less important than finding yourself. I remember when my therapist, the savior of all saviors as far as Im concerned, laughed with me over how I had gone about finding the right career: I had signed up to all the courses that I found interesting and many I hoped were in some way related, then tried to decide on a major/career. She lightly joked that a lot of people decide first, then do the footwork of taking the mandatory and essential and relevant courses, doing internships, and getting in at some entry-level. Obviously, I didnt have the tools we have today for finding the right career, nor did I know about their existence and usefulness, at least.
For instance, lots of students will use personality testing and employment/goal assessments for finding the right career - right from the commencement of their semesters in college. ERIK, Psychometric testing tools, and career skills assessment batteries will help to define aptitude and save you time futzing around with majors and minors that you FEEL you MAY likewhen six years later on decide you need to start all over finding the right career, as offshore drilling is not for you or interplanetary travel studies will take too long or anthropological studies of tribes now extinct are wiped off the college catalogs three quarters of the way into your educational plan.
An incredible implement of guidance, information, and statistical projection for finding the right career is the Index to Careers Guide, produced, updated/maintained, and provided both online and off (in college and high school career centers, for example) by the U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics. If finding the right career is a assignment you feel or may think requires a knowledge of salaries, working conditions, descriptions of the nature of the work involved, training and other qualification requirements, the number of jobs/positions held in that field and the competition involved, and projected job openings, then go to http://www.bls.dol.gov and type in any career title or browse the index of thousands of positions/job types.
One more remarkable tool is one that comes in workbook form and accompanies the What Color is Your Parachute and The Boxes of Life books by Richard Bolles. The workbooks (and books) have you take rigorous (but exciting, fun) quizzes that lead you to slowly but surely deduce or do a process of illimination experiment that assist you in finding the right career FOR YOUnot your Mom, your dead Grandfather, or the culture around you who has all kinds of opinions about who you are and who you should be but who does not pay your rent or feed your kids when push comes to shove. Nor are they the ones who need to live in your skin, sleep through the night, or answer to your higher needs and greater consciousness.
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