TELL YOUR STORY:
Write an essay about your life. Describe the challenges you have overcome, things you want to change, plans, goals, holiday adventures, volunteer habits, study techniques and wishful thinking. Let the resume writer know who you are. This exercise helps you see the many facets of your life and gives the resume writer the opportunity to cull from this information the WOW factor that will allow the future employer see your unique qualities.
You will see that a resume is not just a job description of previous and current jobs, but rather it is a description of how well a person has performed his/her job description. The resume should possess the WOW factor that has the future employer interested in doing an interview.
Resumes are not one size fits all. A resume should have one particular job/position in mind. The way the resume writer slants the resume will be toward the job you desire most.
Basic Information
Name
Address
City State Zip Code
Home Tel Work Tel Fax
Beeper Num Cellphome Email
Education
High School
Name Year Graduated
Location
City State Zip Code
Outstanding Achievements
Undergraduated School
Name Year Graduated
Location
City State Zip Code
Degree GPA
Outstanding Achievements
Graduate School
Name Year Graduated
Location
City State Zip Code
Outstanding Achievements
Degree
Post Graduate
Name
Location Year Graduated
City State Zip Code
Outstanding Achievements
Degree
Work History
Most recent position first
A. Most recent employer
Name Date Started Date Left
City/State/Zip
Address of Hdq of Company
City/State/Zip
Address where you were employed
Title/Postion(s) Held
Describe basic function of the position
How many people did you supervise/manage
To whom did you report
List duties and responsibilities
(Give examples of your achievements and accomplishments - effective, successful or /failure.
Identify the techniques, skills and abilities used)
B. List brief history of all previous positions using the same questions. Go back no more than 15 years.
Answer all resume questions by detailing the name of the company/position held/volunteer/apppointed/elected/ or entreprenuerial.
Caree Changers answer questions by projecting what you believe you will bring to this new position. Use your imagination and be positive. Detail your transferable skills as an indicator of what you believe your success will be.
1. Did you help increase sales, productivity or efficiency? Explain and detail by example what you exactly did.
2. Did you save your company money?
How much revenue/sales/profits did you bring in? How did you save the company money? Detail.
3. Did you institute any new procedures or systems in any company? Name and explain how they worked and what part your ideas improved them.
4. Did you identify a problem that had been overlooked? How did you bring attention to the problem? What did you do to try to solve the problems..
5. Were you ever promoted? What were the circumstances of the promotion? Why were you promoted? What were the circumstances?
6. Did you ever train anyone? How did you prepare for the training? What techniques did you use to train this person/s. What were the results of this training.
7. Did you suggest any new programs? Were they put into effect? What were the results?
8. Did you help to establish any new goals or objectives for any company? Were these goals met? How were they met?
9. Did you change in any way the nature of your job? How did these changes improve the company?
10. What did you ever do to simply make your own job easier? What were the results?
11. What is your most marketable skill? Why do you think this skill makes you special?
12.What do you believe is the most compelling reason a company should hire you? Give examples of why How have you fixed problems in any company? Give an example of the way you problem-solve.
13. What should you have changed in any relationship you have ever experienced?
14. What was your most recent dilemma and how did you handle it? What were the results?
15. What problems do you foresee might stop you from attaining your career goals?
16. If you woke up tomorow and could easily have the exact job you would like what would it be?
17. Give examples of how you were a team player?
18. Give examples of how any of your skills and abilities made you stand out from any of those who held a similar position?
19. Why do you want the job you are seeking? What are the reasons you believe you should have that job?
20. What kind of training have you had? What were the results?
21. Give examples of how you resolve conflict and the success or failure resulted?
22. How do you spend your spare time? How would this activity help your career?
23. How do your co-workers describe you? How do your friends describe you? How would you describe yourself?
24. How do you handle pressure? Are you multi-tasked? Give examples.
25. Give examples of the initiative you have taken in any job and the results.
26. What was the most embarrassing thing that hapened to you at work? How did you handle it? What were the results?
27. How would you rate the quality of your work -- 1 to 5 based on getting things right the first time and 1 to 5 getting things right after many tries.
28. Are you timely with your work? Give examples of how you beat deadlines?
29. Are you organized? Explain your method or procedures in handling paperwork or timeline work orders.
30. Give examples of how you are client focused.
31. Give examples of your listening skills.
32. Give examples of your communication skills.
33. Give examples of any time you showed innovation and resourcefulness.
34. How do you use technology. What technology do you use?
35. How do you contribue to morale?
36. What are you personal goals? How do you intend to achieve them?
37. How do you keep abreast of new technology?
38. How do you handle administrative work? Give examples of your thoroughness, precision and accuracy
39. What management tools do you use?
40. What foreign travel, culture and customs have you been exposed to?
41. What have you accomplished for any employer that gives you the greatest sense of pride? Prove examples of suggestions that you have made over the years to any company and their results?
42. Describe 10 accomplishments that best represent your abilities that are work related and those that are not work related?
43. What have you learned over the years that in hindsight you would have done differently?
44. How do you motivate people? Give examples of your managment style and detail why your style works.
45. Describe any work day and how you handle things?
46. Why should the next company hire you? Answer the question with a specific job in mind or many particular jobs in mind.
47. What was the most interesting work you have ever done? What was the least interesting?
48. How do you spend your spare time? Give examples of what you do that might be relevant to the job you are seeking?
49. If you staff/team questioned your authority how would you handle things?
50. If you could have any job in the world what would it be?
51. Describe at least 3 people that have been influential in your life and why.
52. Describe at least 3 people that you have influenced and how?
53. List at least ten adjectives that best describe you. Give examples of how those particular adjectives fit you.
54. Pick the best day of your life and explain what happened.
55. What special quality have you been praised for having?
56. Describe your strengths. Describe your weaknesses.
57. How do you handle criticism? Explain.
58.Describe your goals. Describe your time frame for achieving them.
List all computer skills
1. List computer systems and networks you have used.
2. List software applications that you have used.
3. List databases with which you are familiar.
4. List all the computer/technicial knowledge you want listed on your resume.
Describe your objective
1. Describe your specific career objective for your resume. Example: An educational consulting position with a non profit agency dealing with coal mining.
2. Describe different career objectives for different positions you are seeking. Use no more than 4 objectives.
3. Is there any specific information that you would want on your resume that you have not discussed in the questions above?