Creating A Resume By Mr. Smith

Creating Objectives This is the first part of your resume

What is a resume objective?  A resume objective is a short, targeted statement that clearly outlines your career direction while simultaneously positioning you as someone who fits what the employer is looking for exactly. Your objective is carefully researched and tailored to fit the job you’re applying for.

Here is a good sample resume objective for someone who is in the middle of a career change:  Experienced and accomplished political campaign manager with over ten years of experience looking to leverage extensive background in crisis management, departmental organization and mass communication into an entry- level HR assistant position with Pacific 2.1 Technologies.

Here’s another good resume objective for a career path change:  Objective: To leverage my 5+ years of client-facing experience, public speaking skills, and expertise in the health care industry into a public relations role with Happy Tree Educational Animations.

For someone who is less experienced or just starting out, here’s a simple resume objective:  Dedicated and motivated engineering graduate seeking entry level assistant quality control manager position with Dyna Tech, LLC.

Here’s another sample resume objective statement for someone just starting out:  Resume Objective: Hard working business management graduate with proven leadership and organizational skills seeking to apply my abilities to the position of junior assistant to the CEO at Warbucks Financial.

Finally, what about someone with a ton of experience looking to target their resume to a specific position?  Objective for Resume: To obtain the position of ONLINE ESL INSTRUCTOR with BabelSpeak.com where I can apply my education, fifteen years of teaching experience and native linguistic skills and provide clients with a high quality language instruction experience.

Why Write a “Mission Statement?”  Writing your mission statement will help to define what's important to you and give you the opportunity to make a decision to stick to those values before you venture in the market place. It will allow you to identify enterprises, businesses or institutions with the same value system as yours. This also enables you, the job hunter, to better evaluate and calculate the costs and advantages of any new job opportunity.

First: of focus on past accomplishments  Identifying three or four examples of personal accomplishments you achieved in the last 2 to 5 years. These achievements do not necessarily need to be in your career, think of things you have achieved in your personal life, in your home environment, etc. Write them down. Try to recognize what these examples have in common and again make a note of this.

Follow up with your main principles  Compile a list of characteristics or qualities that best describes you and the principles you live by. There is no limit to this list but once you have compiled the list try to order them from strongest or most important to least. Take the top four or six and out of them choose the one most important to you.

One step closer: Contributions.  List where you can get involved to enhance the quality of peoples? lives:  humankind  family members  your current and future places of employment  your acquaintances and friends  your neighborhood and community

Almost there: Set your goals, objectives and aspirations  Take your time on this and write down the goals and objectives you have set for yourself and also include your priorities. If you've never set goals for yourself now is a good time to think about this and set some attainable one to five year goals. List these as short, medium or long term, personal and general objectives.

Final step: drafting your statement.  Now using the first four steps you should have a new and better understanding of yourself. Using the information you have about yourself, progress to the last important step: your career mission statement.

Work Philosophy

The 12 best work philosophies that one can think of are:  Teamwork: The love to work with others. The advantage of working in a team – Two heads are better than one. ‘Teamwork Makes a Dream works’ – The benefit of accessing more ideas, working in harmony and helping each other for achieving mutual goals.  Helping/Serving: The Power In Serving Others. Helping people or serving customers to get back something.  Motivation: Commitment, dedication and loyalty towards work – Commitment will bring in dedication, hard work and best results.  Resourceful: The creative use of resources. Being resourceful – Making the best use of own resource and external resources to get the results you want.

The 12 best work philosophies that one can think of are:  Balancing: The “Work hard – Play hard” approach is a new philosophy towards work. Better Work-Life balance or a good life/work management skills brings success. Means – Balancing your day work with interesting fulfilling personal life, for example – Pleasure after work, sport, hobbies, playing with your kids, rich family life and special interests. I suggest seeing this video – How to make work-life balance work. Don’t miss it – It is one of the greatest I have seen lately.How to make work-life balance work  Unique: The ‘Making a difference at work’ approach – Adding value and uniqueness to the job. Being a talent. It is not the CEO that makes the difference but the company talents.  100% Effort: The “do your best” philosophy – Contribute your best skills, experience and effort for the optimal productivity. Two good quotes: “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more” and “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”.

The 12 best work philosophies that one can think of are:  Leadership: Taking responsibilities – Leading by example.  Creativity: Initiation, creative planning, active listening and critical thinking approach. Intuition and imagination brings creativity and the ability to explore new thinking – If you don’t exercise creative ways you get to no where sooner or later.  Learn from mistakes: “Learn from mistake and accepting them to improve next time” philosophy. An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.  Visionary: An inspired person (a dreamer.. ) who tries to follow a vision as much as s/he can. Which means they might change careers suddenly, begin learning new skills or start their own business, and generally prefer less lucrative jobs, if that’s where their dream takes them.  Focused: Focus of Being Focused to find success – being determined. Get the work/job done on time and no matter the circumstances.

Any Questions?

Chronological Resume The first type of resume you need to create.

Entry Level Resume The second type of resume you can use.

Assignment  Create a chronological resume.  Create an entry level style resume.  Create an objective  Create a mission statement  Create a work philosophy  ASSIGNMENT IS TO BE COMPLETED BY FRIDAY JANUARY 15 TH. SEND TO