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In most job interview situations, your resume will provide your potential employer with his or her first impression of you. If your resume makes a good first impression, you will move on to the next step in the hiring process. If not, your resume will likely be filed and you will never have the opportunity to progress to an actual interview. For this reason, it is essential that you take the time to create a resume that will make the first impression you need it to make.
Stay Clear and Concise
Before you even start writing your resume, you need to be clear on what your objectives are. This means having a solid idea of the type of job that you want and the types of skills needed to obtain that job. By having a clear idea of the job you are hoping to get, you can structure the rest of your resume around this objective.
When actually creating your resume, be clear about your objectives as well as the talents you can offer to the company. Don't go into a great amount of detail about these talents – you can do that at your interview. Rather, provide the potential employer with a brief overview. Creating bulleted lists with short sentences is generally the best way to go. Remember, your potential employer will be scanning over dozens of resumes. Make it easy for him or her to read the highlights of what you offer to the company.
Use Action Words
Your resume should also contain action words such as monitored, managed, prepared, and developed. Not only will this help your resume stand out, it will also make it more likely to be picked out by the computerized resume scanners many companies are now using. With these scanners, the hiring manager inputs certain words that relate to the position and the computer searches for these words on the resume. If there are no matches, you resume will be overlooked.
Do Your Homework
You may very well have a number of skills and talents, but not all of them are necessarily valuable to the company. Do your homework so you are aware of what the company does and what it is looking for in the person it is hiring. Be sure to highlight these strengths in your resume in order to match the needs of the company.
By following these simple tips, you will be more likely to get an interview. From here, it is up to you to “sell” yourself to a potential employer.
Take some time alone to sit down in a quiet place and reflect. Sit at your computer and type what you are thinking, or bring a pen and some paper to write down your thoughts.
At first your thoughts may be random and may not follow any particular order or structure. That's perfectly all right. Not many people—especially in the grip of an emotional situation—have thoughts that flow perfectly.
Once you've recorded your thoughts, read through them. If you've written them on a pad or piece of paper go back and number them in order of importance. If you're using a computer, cut and paste words and sentences after formatting for numbering. Don't be afraid to add or delete.
What you're thinking really depends on you. What you want to say will vary according to your situation. However, you want to make sure that you're being true to your own feelings, true to the memory of the deceased and conscious of the feelings of those who will be listening to what you're saying.
1. Pick a tone. This is the point in which you decide if you want to be serious, sentimental, or light-heated. A good eulogy doesn't have to be solemn and serious if that isn't the mood of your family. Pick the tone that best fits the situation. If your family is more formal or traditional, write and organize your thoughts in such a way. If you're a family of free-spirits or the deceased was a jolly person who loved a laugh, your tribute can be written in a more light-hearted tone. If the deceased was someone of deep sentiment and emotion, a more sentimental eulogy is appropriate. Injecting some humor even into the most serious of eulogies is often a good idea. The use of appropriate and relevant humor in the form of a witty anecdote about the deceased or a funny memory can help relax the audience and, actually, help you relax.
2. Make sure your words are respectful. A good rule to keep in mind is that you shouldn't say anything in a eulogy that you wouldn't have said to the deceased's face when they were alive.
3. Don't be afraid to get personal. Talk about moments that you shared with the deceased—moments that define him or her and the relationships that they shared.
4. Write short sentences. Long sentences track well on paper, but can be confusing when said in front of an audience.
5. Write from your heart. The most eternal memory that people will seize from your eulogy is what you enlighten them with that's most sincere. You can do this without being excessively emotional. Just take into account the best qualities of your loved one and remind the listeners that those qualities will continue.