We’ll read and learn a lot,
All our goals will be accomplished,
Sigh...or maybe not.
"May each day of the coming year be vibrant and new bringing along many reasons for celebrations"
Step 1:
Smile. Smile even if life isn’t good, smile because life can be good. Smile because of the possibilities and everything that’s going to be.
Step 2:
Find a way to destroy whatever (not whoever) destroys you. No matter how long it takes. No matter how hard it is. Make it go away.
Step 3:
Get yourself a passion. Something (not someone), a hobby you can live for.
Step 4:
Love yourself. I know it’s hard, but you have to find a way, or you will never know how good life can be.
Follow these 9 free resume design rules
1. Keep it to a maximum of two pages.
2. Use one inch margins all the way around the page
3. Always use left justification
4. Font and size should remain consistent
5. Use the basic bullet point indicators like circles and squares.
6. If you want to you can use all caps in your headlines otherwise all text to remain with default formatting
7. Do not underline any information as this implies an active web link when uploaded to search engine web sites
8. Use a maximum of 14 point font size for headings and 12 point for normal text.
9. Make use of the tab key when creating spaces between the text.
To double check, email it to friends and family asking them to report anything outside of the ordinary. Make a point of printing it out on paper to see that all the margins are correctly set and your content is not crowded.
Once you are happy with with it, proof it one more time for typos, misspellings and errors before submitting it. Now take a breather and stay within arms reach of your phone...
Al D best...
Think of your CV as your shop window - it must effectively display your experience, skills and qualities in a very short period of time. The following tips will help you produce a CV that does just that.
1. Keep it short and clear
Before you start, choose the right structure for your CV. The most important information, such as your key skills and recent experience, needs to be near the top, where it can be seen straightaway. Sections you usually need to include are your Profile, Achievements, Experience, Special Skills (languages / computers), Education, Training, and (if you wish) Interests. Your CV should normally be two pages in length (unless you have a very long career or you are a contractor or the recruiter asks for a longer CV). If you haven't caught the recruiter's interest by page two then they probably won't read any further pages anyway.
2. Make it look good
Clear, attractive presentation is also important if your CV is to stand out. Ensure that it's uncluttered, with key points easy to spot. Use bullet points and keep the sentences relatively short. Plenty of 'white space' around the borders and between each section keeps the document easier on the eye.
3. Most recent first
Put your employment history in date order, starting with the most recent first. Avoid leaving any gaps, so if you've had time out for some reason, do mention this. Don't go into detail about positions you held over 10 years ago. Include details of holiday or temporary work only if it's relevant to the job you're applying for.
4. Include many facts
List your job duties beneath each position. List your achievements, responsibilities and results. Talk about results - what difference did your presence make? Use numbers for achievements wherever possible, e.g. "Boosted sales by 20% in first year". And always write in a slightly formal manner and never use the word "I" - e.g. "Supervised the team" rather than "I supervised the team". Use the past tense for previous jobs and the present tense for your current job.
5. Not too many lists
Include specific skills, such as languages, administrative or computing skills, in a separate section in your CV. Don't relist them for every job you've used them in. This is particularly so for IT work - lists of tools and packages make dull reading and won't make you stand out from other people with the same abilities.
6. Breath some life into it
Remember the employer wants a sense of the kind of person you are, as well as what you can do. Are you punctual, conscientious, or motivated? Do you rise to a challenge? With each point you write, ask yourself "What does this say about me?"
7. Be accurate
Always check for errors. Run a spelling and grammar check and ask someone else to read it for you. Read it aloud to the dog. The employer isn't going to believe you're a good communicator if your CV is full of mistakes.
8. Adapt it
You don't have to use the same CV every time. You can have two or three versions, each for a different kind of job. Or you can tailor your CV to suit the job you're applying for. It isn't a case of one size fits all.
9. Send a covering letter
Unless the advert tells you not to, always send a covering letter. This should highlight the two or three areas of experience from your CV that are most relevant to the advertised job. Never send your CV out on its own.
10. Be truthful
Although you obviously want to present yourself well, don't go too far and embellish the truth. It can easily backfire on you.
1. Photos
The only people who need to include photos in their CVs are models and performers.
2. Any sort of failure
This covers exams, marriages, businesses, etc.
3. Every vacation and Saturday job you've ever had
Some of these may be relevant while you're looking for your first job, but after that they're meaningless. This doesn't apply to solid work experience breaks.
4. The words 'I', 'he' or 'she'
Your CV should normally be written in the first person ('I'), but you never actually need to write 'I' in a CV. Some people used to write their CV in the third person ('he' or 'she'). Again, you don't need to include the 'he' or 'she'.
5. References
These needn't be mentioned in your CV. Don't include names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. The phrase "References are available upon request" should be left out too.
6. Reasons for leaving each job
These are often negative points and leave you open to being misunderstood.
7. List of all your schools
This isn't necessary or of any interest to the employer. But do include your most recent educational establishment.
8. Salary information
This can only be used to reject your application. If an advertisement specifically requests this information, you can always include it in your cover letter.
9. Patterns, borders and graphics
These give your CV a cluttered appearance. Besides, what you think is tasteful may not be to the liking of the employer.
10. Binders and folders
These will often be discarded straight away, as your CV will be photocopied, scanned, faxed, etc.
1. Lists of publications
If you're a scientist or academic, include these only if they are asked for. However, significant publications may be included as achievements.
2. Very personal information
Don't include your age (although your date of birth is OK), weight, height, health, sex, race or marital status. It's irrelevant and some facts could be used in a discriminatory way.
3. Jargon and abbreviations
Avoid using any information that won't be understood by someone outside your job or organisation. The exceptions to this are abbreviations recognised industry-wide.
4. Poor photocopies
Always use good original laser prints. Poor quality copies suggest you're sending the CV out to lots of companies because you're desperate.
5. Mistakes and typos
Always check your CV for incorrect spellings and factual errors. Then check it again. Then ask someone else to check it. Errors make you look careless and disorganised.
6. Excessive wordiness
This is a working document, so keep it factual and don't go over the top with conversational descriptions.
7. Negatives
Don't be apologetic over what you believe may be missing from your CV. Focus on your positive attributes.
8. Irrelevancies
Don't include your gap year travel history, previous managers' names, the middle name that you never use, etc.
9. Cheap paper
If you post a printed copy of your CV or you take a copy of your CV to an interview make sure your CV is printed on good quality paper. This will make your application stand out and it costs very little to buy quality paper.
10. Exaggerations
Stick to the truth. You never know when misleading statements might backfire.
You have a resume, but it's not working as well as you'd like it to. What can you do to increase the number of calls you receive for job interviews?
Customize your resume.
Submitting the same resume for every position can't possibly meet each employer's individual requirements. If you want to grab hiring managers' attention, you need to give them what they want. You must take the time to tailor your resume to each employer and its goals to strengthen your chance of getting noticed.
Before responding to a job posting, review the job description to see what credentials are important. If you're submitting your resume to an employer that doesn't have an advertised opening, research the company and find out how it would benefit from bringing you on board. Once you determine your top-selling qualifications, you will be ready to customize your resume to meet the employer's needs.
The most efficient way to create customized resumes is to develop one general resume and then tweak it for each particular job opportunity. Follow these steps:
Duplicate Your Monster Resume
Before you apply for your next job on Monster, log into your My Monster account. Go to My Resumes, and find the resume you'd like to copy. Click on Duplicate below the resume's title. A copy of your resume will appear at the bottom of the resume listings, ready to customize specifically for the job you're applying for.
Title
Your Monster resume title should state your career goal, along with one or two of your top credentials. These credentials should be tailored to the employer's needs. For example: "Sous Chef - Culinary Degree & 5 Years' Fine Dining Experience."
Objective
The purpose of this section is to show that you're perfectly suited for the open position. Opt for a concise, targeted statement instead of a general objective that could be for any employer or job. An Objective like, "To become a software engineer for 123 Company's Web services group," makes the hiring manager's job much easier and brings you closer to getting called for the interview.
Qualifications Summary
Once you've researched the employer's requirements, use the summary section to match these requirements with your qualifications, thereby proving you are the perfect candidate for the position. Modify the Qualifications Summary in your duplicate resume as follows: omit statements that aren't important for the position's specific goals, reorder the summary so statements relevant to the position are listed first and add information about your credentials that's uniquely applicable to the position and employer.
Job Descriptions
Many employers go directly to the Employment History section to assess your qualifications. Review your job descriptions and modify your duties and accomplishments to pertain to the opening. Present an honest account of your employment history, but describe your experience to highlight your work tasks and achievements that relate to the job you're applying for. Place these pertinent qualifications at the top of the description, or use bullets surrounded by white space to make them stand out.
Skills
You've already reviewed the job posting and determined what skills the employer wants in an ideal candidate. Emphasize your matching skills in your Monster resume's Skills section. Begin your list with the skills that would be of most interest to the employer.Call centre executive Nisha Singh recently dumped her boyfriend because of a book she read.
We do not know how her now former boyfriend feels about that book, but Singh swears by it. Though she does admit that she did hope, when she first met the man who was to become her (now former) boyfriend, that the book was wrong.
"I am a Gemini and he was a Taurean," says Singh. "I'd read that these two zodiac signs are incompatible, but I hoped it was wrong. Well, it wasn't. We just didn't get along. So next time I think I'll trust the book, not my instincts." The book Singh is referring to is Linda Goodman's Love Signs. "I knew we weren't compatible signs after I read the book," says Singh.
"But I didn't see any harm in giving the relationship a try. And we just couldn't get along. He thought I was too frivolous and I felt he was too stubborn. We called it quits after dating each other for a year."
Take a look -
Like Singh, there are a lot of people who believe that zodiac signs have a lot of relevance to their loves and lives.
So what is it with these signs and why do they fascinate people so much? It's hard to explain, says astrologer Rishikant Menon. But the answer lies in the question itself - it's a strange sort of fascination. "After all, isn't it uncanny that people born under the same sign generally show similar traits?" he asks.
"That is what makes these signs so interesting. While it isn't true that two people born under a particular sign are clones of each other, there generally are similarities between them."
This is something that has been and will be debated endlessly, but for a lot of people, zodiac signs are things to be taken at least semi-seriously.
While some of us at least begin our assessment of other people on the grounds that their zodiac sign indicates their possible personality, others read their daily and / or weekly horoscopes for one purpose only: to try and learn what is likely to happen to them today / this week.
"I hope to know what's in store for me on a daily basis, which is why I read my horoscope in the papers," says lawyer Arpit Mehra. "I got hooked because often, the predictions do come true. But that's about it. I don't really base my relationships with people on their zodiac signs."
- Written in the skies
It's true that predictions do hold a lot of importance for people who would scorn 'this sort of superstition' in myriad other ways.
But the belief that zodiac signs hold at least some clues to personality is quite strong in many people's minds. Which is when interpersonal relationships can get a bit fraught.
"Capricorns and Aquarians are people I wouldn't want to hang out with," announces accessory designer Vishal Mehta.
"I don't say all of them are bad, but personally I have never ever come across a single person from these two signs who I have been comfortable with. Though I don't begin my acquaintanceship by asking people their signs, I have realised that all the people I have had differences with, with very few exceptions, have been from either of these two signs.
So now I stay away from them unless I have to do otherwise. But I get along well with Cancerians, Geminis and Librans. I like being with them." Once again, it's not easy to explain why such an attitude exists, but for most people, thinking in stereotypes makes life much easier to cope with on a day-to-day basis.
"We read a lot of these things and believe in them if even one of five factors holds true," says psychologist Arvind Thakur. "It is human nature. Cynics dismiss a lot of things as mere coincidences - which they probably are - but most of us will believe in them.
Also, if we do not like a particular trait, the human mind tends to associate that trait with a particular kind of person or character. In this case, the associations happen with zodiac signs. So when we do or do not like a particular personality type, we categorise the person according to his or her zodiac sign, and react accordingly."
See no evil but it doesn't get more serious than that. Or at least, it shouldn't. Most people who read their horoscopes, or try and figure out personalities according to sign signs, claim they only do it for fun. "I loved reading Linda Goodman's Sun Signs and Love Signs in college," says journalist Parul Tiwari.
"We would check out our compatibility quotients with the boys we had crushes on. It was great fun, plus we got a broad idea of what the person would - or should - be like, and behaved accordingly." But that's no more than a starting point, adds Tiwari. In a committed relationship, zodiac signs matter not at all.
"I am a Gemini married to a Scorpion," she says. "Going by the sun signs, we shouldn't get along at all. But we gel brilliantly. We dated for a long time, married, and remain great friends. So though I read the weekly sun sign predictions for both of us, I don't take them too seriously." Which is how it should be, says psychiatrist Dr Anurag Khanna.
"It's okay to know about zodiac signs, but to make decisions based on them is a bit much. Every person has a distinct personality, and for any long term alliance, clicking with that personality is what matters."
Sign in -
Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20) You're lively, energetic and daring, and a fighter too. You crave adventure, and love to travel the world. You're a pioneer, and have the ability to lead.
Taurus (Apr 21 - May 21) Cautious, practical and purposeful. Once your mind is made up, you have amazing persistence and follow through, plus tons of energy.
Gemini (May 22 - June 21) Gemini is about intelligence and communication. So you have a talent for and a love of using your mind.
Cancer (June 22 - July 23) Cancer is a water sign, which signifies your highly emotional nature. But it also makes you caring, generous and intuitive.
Leo (July 24 - Aug 23) You are warm, bright and self-motivated, and you want to make an impression everywhere. But you also have a need for one-upmanship.
Virgo (Aug 24 - Sep 23) You are known for your perfectionism and highly analytical mind. You are extremely fastidious and also critical of the world.
Libra (Sep 24 - Oct 23) Your love of communication makes you an excellent mediator and negotiator. But you also want to please people, which makes you unreliable.
Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22) Magnetic, elusive, sexy and determined, that's you! You're an emotional being, and you take it to the limit. You can also be vengeful at times.
Sagittarius (Nov 23 - Dec 22) You are jovial and confident in whatever you do. Fortune seems to favour you. But you need to learn there are limits to what you're capable of.
Capricorn (Dec 23 - Jan 20) Few people are as practical and ambitious as you. Caution is your second name. You are sometimes shy and lack self-confidence and self-esteem.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19) You are forward thinking and self-directed. You're a born revolutionary and don't want to be like others and take pride in the fact that you're so unique.
Pisces (Feb 20 - March 20) You are a truly compassionate and loving person. You have a universal approach to the way you live and this is seen in most of your actions.
What's Your Rashee?
Gemini
Cancer
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