Build your effective modern resume with these pieces!
Guest Post by Lyn Nelson
As a counterpart to last week's post on a Modern, Effective Resume, this week I'm giving you the rundown on the various sections you should include on your resume, and when and how to do so.
With the exception of your Heading (which is always at the top!), and unless otherwise noted, these sections should be listed in order of relevance to the position(s) to which you are applying.
Your resume is still your most important marketing tool.
Guest Post by Lyn Nelson
There is a lot of buzz these days about resumes becoming endangered or extinct. LinkedIn is a major resource for recruiters. Employers are checking you out on social media. Applicants are (sometimes successfully) using video resumes or guerilla job hunting tactics. You may opt to use some of all of these avenues (in an intelligent and informed way, of course) as part of your job search. However, most of your job applications will still require the traditional application method that includes - at minimum - a resume. And even if your video resume or LinkedIn profile gets attention, you will still need a strong resume for an interviewer to use. So, make sure your resume is updated and modern to market you most effectively.
"Strategy is not the consequence of planning,
but the opposite: its starting point." ~ Henry Mintzberg
Now that we’ve addressed the steps to a positive attitude and reducing stress, it’s time to plan the strategy for your job search. Sometimes change can be good, even exciting and rewarding! Whether you’re looking for an internship or your first permanent full-time position, seeking reemployment or interested in changing jobs, the process is the same: first, you must develop your overall job-search strategy.
"That the birds of worry and care fly above your head,
this you cannot change.
But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."
Chinese Proverb
It seems that we humans have an ongoing struggle to reduce stress in our lives. But whether we are coping with our work, social or private lives we can take steps to reduce stress, or as the Proverb says, keep those blasted worry birds out of our hair.
But, first we should differentiate between chronic stress, which is the kind we wish to lessen, and acute stress, which might not be so bad for us. Studies have shown that the latter in small periodic doses of stress might actually be good for us, boosting our brain cells, focus, memory and resistance to disease. Acute stress comes in handy when cramming for an exam or meeting another deadline, focusing in an emergency, coping with a difficult situation or job hunting.
The optimist declares, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist despairs, “The glass is half empty."
While they argue, the opportunist takes the glass, says,
“Cheers,” and drinks it.
The New Year is a time when we are standing on the high ground looking down at the sweeping landscape of the year ahead and believing that there isn’t anything we can’t accomplish. Former NFL quarterback-turned-ESPN football analyst and businessman Ron Jaworski said, “Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass."
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
-Oprah Winfrey
As we ring in 2014 later this evening, let’s celebrate the fact that with the New Year dawning we'll have another opportunity “to get it right,” as Oprah says.
Everyone has his or her personal New Year’s Resolutions, but in addition to those time-honored pledges, students, new grads and young professionals have specific goals to accomplish. So, here are seven winning resolutions to help you hone such critical leadership skills as social and business etiquette, emotional intelligence and personal branding:
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." -Oren Arnold I am spending Christmas with my family and friends and will resume my blogging next week. In the meantime, whichever holiday … Continue reading Season’s Greetings!
Deck the halls without the folly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
All the staffers must be jolly.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
Thus, to get around a quarrel
Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.
Poll the office is the moral.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
Could too many decorations
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Hurt coworkers' good relations?
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Please follow my etiquette advice.
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I shouldn’t have to tell you twice.
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Show respect for ev’ry custom.
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Christian, Jew, Hindu & Muslim
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Plan the décor, all together.
Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.
This could be a grand bellwether.
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~A Christmas Parody by Jeanne Nelson
Come every December, or even earlier, people across America and around the world will be decorating their workplaces for the holidays. Early in my career, the offices in which I worked displayed holiday decorations solely comprised of Christmas décor, including the now widely banned crèches. As the years passed, token menorahs appeared, but they seemed lost among the ornamental trees, boughs, wreaths, garlands, and other Christmas- related garnishments.
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green,
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to your wassail, too,
And God bless you, and send you
A Happy New Year,
And God send you a Happy New Year.
~ The Wassail Song
As someone who is plain goofy about the Christmas holidays (but like Charlie Brown doesn’t like the crass commercialism that accompanies them), I love caroling. So, I was pleased to discover both traditional as well as a bit of creative caroling on some college campuses, such as Bridgewater College in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Syracuse University in New York and the University of Toronto Law School. And, for more than a century Christmas carol services have been performed at Harvard, which has connections to a number of famous composers of Christmas carols.
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
~ attributed to Winston Churchill
The establishment last year of “Giving Tuesday” is the grassroots brainchild of the renowned 92nd Street Y in New York City. The premise of the day is that people give their time, service and money to help organizations that help others and is based on the concept of tikkun olam, a Hebrew expression which in English means, “repairing the world.”
Jeanne Nelson 