Back to Basics – Resume Design for Nonprofit Professionals – Part two: What Not to Include in your resume

Back to Basics – Resume Design for Nonprofit Professionals – Part two: What Not to Include in your resume

In part one of our series on resume design for nonprofit professionals, we got into what you accomplish by putting together a good resume and the necessary areas to include. In this part, we’re going to look into what sections aren’t necessary.

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Back to Basics – Resume Design for Nonprofit Professionals – Part two: What Not to Include in your resume

Back to Basics – Resume Design for Nonprofit Professionals

A resume is the foundation of your job search and your entre to an interview.   Simply put, it’s the story of your career, and you want to make it so interesting that the person reading it wants to know more.  Make your case – why are you the best possible candidate?

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Controlling Your Job Search Details

Controlling Your Job Search Details

No matter how much we anticipate and plan for anything in life, the outcome isn’t always what we hoped. For myself, I am quite peaceful about such an outcome if I can look back and see I did every, single thing I could to influence the one I wanted. It’s when, in retrospect, I see where I took a short cut and knew better, or when there was so much to manage I figured “that little detail won’t matter,” that it is difficult to feel settled with an undesirable result.

This basic scenario is frustrating in any situation. Apply it to a job search, and I, personally, might just come undone.

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Resume Formatting Tricks To Support the Screening Skim

Resume Formatting Tricks To Support the Screening Skim

No matter how much time and effort you give to the creation of your resume, the fact is that it isn’t going to receive a lot of attention from a hiring manager or recruiter before a decision is made whether or not to pursue your candidacy. That’s right: The very document into which you pour your heart and soul to communicate a lifetime of work will, initially, receive a glance.

Therefore, it is important you give your resume the right kind of attention to ensure it becomes your ticket past the screening process.

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The Employers’ Perspective Of Your Candidacy

The Employers’ Perspective Of Your Candidacy

One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when job searching is just how personal it all feels. No one wants his or her body of work judged as not worthy of the job for which he or she applies. Not to mention, one’s very personal life is further involved when the job equals livelihood. Feelings wrapped up in the pursuit make the entire process very tedious.

Separating your feelings from your search seems such simple advice. But, how to you do that? I came across Arnie Fertig’s article, “3 Employer Concerns Every Job Candidate Must Address” which presents a perspective sure to help reframe your search so as to put your energy not into keeping your emotions at bay but to focus on the important nuts and bolts of the process.

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