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Halimah Madeline Bellows
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Champion Your Career
Self-Help
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Jump Into Your Job Search: The Resume
The Cover Letter Decide on the focus of your letter, tailor your information to the reader, and make sure that all the points keep on topic. Base your correspondence to employers around what you can do for them, not on what you want them to do for you. Let your enthusiasm be apparent. You do not want to lose the reader’s interest before he or she finishes the page. Avoid the words “as you can see,” because the reader may not be able to “see” the point the way you do.
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Champion Your Career
A résumé is:• A systematic assessment of your skills in terms of a specific work objective.• A marketing device used to gain an interview.The purpose of the résumé is to get an interview. It is like an advertisement: it should attract attention, create interest, describe accomplishments, and invite a person to contact you. The average amount of time an employer takes to initially scan a résumé is 30 seconds. It is very important that it be brief, one page if possible and two pages at the most. The résumé tells a potential employer what you can do and have done in the past, who you are and what you know. It also states what kind of work you seek. The key is that the résumé must provide enough information for the employer to evaluate your qualifications and become interested in inviting you for an interview.Some sample formats for résumés are available at
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