Before sending in your resume for a posted position, make sure it reflects the necesary skills needed and requested. Often times we send in our resume without carefully reading skills and qualifications. If a job posting is not clear, then research position on sites like www.oneonline.org for example.
That is my resume tip for today.
August 29, 2011
August 25, 2011
Important recommendation
If anything, the best advice I can give you today is the following:
GOOGLE YOURSELF!
Why? Because it will allow you to see what the world thinks and know about you. Google-ing yourself often is a great way to experience up front what image do people have of me? What is their first impression?
You will be surprised! You can be interesting, progressive, a great achiever, socialite, but on the other hand, you can also be un-interesting, un-progressive, inappropriate, un-existent.
When last have you Googled yourself?
GOOGLE YOURSELF!
Why? Because it will allow you to see what the world thinks and know about you. Google-ing yourself often is a great way to experience up front what image do people have of me? What is their first impression?
You will be surprised! You can be interesting, progressive, a great achiever, socialite, but on the other hand, you can also be un-interesting, un-progressive, inappropriate, un-existent.
When last have you Googled yourself?
Do employers really check social networking sites?
I start this blog out with this important question because it impacts everybody across the board. From students in junior high, a senior that is looking to get into their dream college to an adult seeking employment.
If you had the opportunity to know who someone is before meeting them, would you take it? I know whenever a person talks to me about someone I do not know I am curious to Google them to see what I get. This is the same situation with employers. Social networking sites are the perfect arena to know firsthand what a person is about. Facebook for example is like a door into a person’s life. If controlled properly it could be the winning ticket to your dream job.
A few tips to "clean up" your social media page to have it work for you:
1. Do not post any offensive photos of yourself.
2. Do not post inappropriate third party photos.
3. Watch your language. You would not curse at work.
4. Customize your social media site to represent who you really are and what you are looking for. This means for example, if you are seeking employment as a school teacher and have no photos of yourself interacting with children or nothing about your profile says your love and passion is to work with children then there is an in balance.
5. Use proper language and spelling. A lot of slangs, inappropriate language and short hand writing are unacceptable.
6. Disable tagging (facebook). This way you will be able to control what photo is up loaded.
Please at the time of posting a photo or commenting something; ask yourself will this hinder my future success? What if the recruiter for the organization I always dreamed about saw this picture, will he/she pick up the phone to contact me to make an offer?
If you had the opportunity to know who someone is before meeting them, would you take it? I know whenever a person talks to me about someone I do not know I am curious to Google them to see what I get. This is the same situation with employers. Social networking sites are the perfect arena to know firsthand what a person is about. Facebook for example is like a door into a person’s life. If controlled properly it could be the winning ticket to your dream job.
A few tips to "clean up" your social media page to have it work for you:
1. Do not post any offensive photos of yourself.
2. Do not post inappropriate third party photos.
3. Watch your language. You would not curse at work.
4. Customize your social media site to represent who you really are and what you are looking for. This means for example, if you are seeking employment as a school teacher and have no photos of yourself interacting with children or nothing about your profile says your love and passion is to work with children then there is an in balance.
5. Use proper language and spelling. A lot of slangs, inappropriate language and short hand writing are unacceptable.
6. Disable tagging (facebook). This way you will be able to control what photo is up loaded.
Please at the time of posting a photo or commenting something; ask yourself will this hinder my future success? What if the recruiter for the organization I always dreamed about saw this picture, will he/she pick up the phone to contact me to make an offer?
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