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[T953]Tips For Writing Resume

by Gabriel Adams, Gab

Your resume is one of the most important documents that you will create in your lifetime. Many times an employer will not even give you a chance at a job without a stellar resume. Usually the difference between getting a job interview and not getting a job interview is how well you write your resume. You usually can not speak to your prospective employer until they have first seen your resume, so your resume writing has to do the speaking for you. Writing a resume is not very difficult if you just remember a few basic techniques.

1. Career Objectives – The career objective section should be located at the top of your resume. This section should contain your career goals and aspirations. It is a good idea to tailor this section so that it applies to the job which you are applying. This will let your prospective employer know that you are interested in the job, and that this job is a step towards your overall career objectives.

2. Work History – Make sure when you are writing your resume you give your last three jobs in your work history. Also if for some reason there are gaps in your work history make sure you write an explanation for the absence on your resume. Also, when you are writing about the tasks you performed on this job, try to emphasize the tasks that relate the most to the job you are trying to get.

3. Skills Section – This section is the most often overlooked when someone is writing a resume. However the skills section is the most important section in a resume. You want to make sure that you list all of the skills you have obtained, as well as the amount of experience that you have in each skill. This is very important to employers, because it tells them how much training they will have to give you if you are hired.

4. References – Depending on the job you are applying for, an employer may or may not contact your references for information about you. If they try to contact your references and they can not contact them, it will reflect poorly on you, and you might not get called in for an interview. Make sure that you keep your contact information current when writing your resume, and notify your references when you submit a resume so they will be prepared to be contacted if necessary.

I disagree.

Email newsletters establish you as an authority in your field, and you don't even have to write a book! Although you will be able to if you write consistently for an email newsletter.

In a few short years, my email newsletter has grown to over 16,000 subscribers. My coaching business has not only grown at warp speed, but I have connected with an incredibly FASCINATING group of people from all over the country -- my clients.

I credit this phenomenal growth of my coaching business to my email newsletter. It is clearly a marketing engine.

There has been a bit of learning curve, and sometimes I've had to hold my breath and click the "send" button. But the journey has been well worth it.

Here are some tips from what I have learned along the way:

1. Show up as YOU. You really don't need a lot of book knowledge to write an email newsletter. Your genuineness and sincerity in wanting to help people is your biggest asset.

2. Write about yourself and tell the hard truth. In my clinical training as a psychologist, I was taught not to use self-disclosure very much. As a coach, I am not as limited by that guideline. Stories about yourself and your own life are very compelling.

3. Make it about them. Stories about you help people identify with and trust you, but your readers are even more interested in what you can do for them. I try to write 1/3 about me and 2/3 about them.

4. Make it personal. Write as if you are writing to one person. Try to imagine a typical reader with a typical problem and help them solve it -- you will have an instant fan club.

5. Take a strong stand. Your readers need you to have a strong opinion and speak from authority. You are not writing simply for self-expression.

6. Know your audience. You cannot spend enough time learning about your audience, so put your time in here. Your readers need to know that you can identify with their issues. Where are they getting stuck? What are the missing pieces that they are overlooking? What are the misconceptions? How do they think?

7. Keep it short. People don't have time to read long newsletters. It is better to keep it brief if you want it to be read.

8. Use a bullet point list or make one main point. Give people a specific focus to think about for the week. Numbered lists and bullet points have never been more useful.

Email newsletters are a great combination when partnered with blogs and websites. Start your fan club today!

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