This informative and educative slides are created to assist prospective employees to make a success of their job search through the use of well crafted resumes.

1. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
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2. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation

3. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
Do you suffer from unproductive job search? Has your job hunting been
ineffective and consequently ineffective? Those of us in the recruitment and
selection profession have long realized that job seeking is a process and it
should be treated as such. Most job hunters do not realize this and therefore
have continued to search unsuccessfully for their dream job. Job hunting is
supposed to assist you in identifying an ideal job. It however does not stop at
that. You have to match your skills, abilities, experience and accomplishments
with the ideal job and be invited for an interview to verify your claims to make
the search complete. That is where the resume comes in. Without the CV, the
hiring manager will never know the skills, abilities, experience and
accomplishments you possess. Without it the recruiter will never know that
your attributes matches the requirements of the job on offer and therefore fit
for selection for interview.

4. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
What therefore are those steps you as a job hunter need to take in the process
of job search to make invitation for interview faster and easier so that
employment which is the ultimate goal of job hunting will be realized? What
are those actions you need to take as a job seeker to fast track your interview
invitation? As an experienced recruiter versed in the area of sourcing talents
the following steps need to be taken:

5. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
● Personal assessment/audit:
The first step will therefore be through personal awareness which is done
through assessment and audit of self. The key to a successful job search is being
able to identify what makes you the job hunter unique from the crowd and
being able to communicate these to a potential employer. If you cannot
therefore communicate to the recruiter why you are the best for a job on offer,
how do you get employed for the job? You therefore need to communicate both
verbally and in writing to the employer why you are the best for the job on offer.
You will need to identify your interests, passions, skills, goals, values, objectives,
experiences and accomplishments and communicate these to the potential
employer.

6. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
● Identification of matching job offer:
If you qualified as an Accountant, you will not apply for a job as HR personnel since you
do not have the knowledge. You will only apply for vacancies that fit your qualification
and knowledge. You should only look for jobs that matches you passion, interests, skills,
experience, values, goals and accomplishments. One effective way of identifying
opportunities is through the use of search engines to locate job openings. Such online
tools include use of LinkedIn.com, VisualCV.com, Plaxo.com, Jobster.com,
Myworkster.com, Jobfox.com, Jobberman.com etc. Another way of uncovering
opportunities is through networking with fellow professionals and friends. Through
these people one will get to learn about opportunities when they are available. Job
seekers also need to horn their relationships with Alumni associations and also should
endeavor to attend their professional association meetings. Opportunities are often
discussed at such places and it is only those that attend that get to learn about them.
Opportunities could also be through newspaper adverts.

7. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
● Crafting of a customized and fitting resume:
Once you have been able to identify your marketable skills and attributes, the
next step in the quest for an effective job search is the writing of professional
resume or CV. One that is attention grabbing and the hiring manager will find
difficult to ignore. You see, your curriculum vitae are your advert copy. To be
effective it must be customized for each job on offer. To be effective the
information must be relevant. To be effective it must be properly structured and
concise. To be effective, the words and phrases used must be catchy. To be
effective the information therein must be reliable. You should therefore
endeavor to customize the CV you will distribute and not use a generic one. You
should then submit to the opportunities so identified earlier to make your job
hunt complete. This will however be accompanied with the relevant cover
letter.

8. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
● Follow Up:
Submission of resume alone does not however signify that you will be invited
for an interview. You will still do a follow up on the CV you have submitted and
will have to be creative about this. You need to know how well your resume is
doing. Do so subtly. Also all those who might have offered assistance to you in
your job hunt needs to be appreciated. You will have to send thank you letters
to them and also endeavor to keep them abreast of your progress. Further,
never expect that you will be the only one gunning for the job on offer.
Therefore, you should expect competition from other job seekers. You should
endeavor to impress prospective employers during all appointments with your
dressing and communication skills.

9. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
Crafting an appealing resume which the hiring manager cannot ignore and will
consequently convince him to invite you for an interview can therefore not be
overemphasized. Writing and submitting an attention grabbing CV relevant to a
job on offer will definitely enhance and hasten your invitation for an interview,
Further, your appealing CV which is also your advert copy increases your
marketability because it focuses on results rather than responsibilities. Crafting
and submitting appealing curriculum vitae to hiring managers is also known to
increase job seeking effectiveness by ensuring that there is compatibility with
potential employer’s tracking system. Finally, crafting an attention grabbing
resume improves personal confidence and interview preparedness by helping to
reveal those attributes and accomplishments you might have forgotten to
communicate more forcefully in the course of interview. You should therefore
not ignore it. If you do so you are doing so at your peril.

10. Job Search – How to Use Resume to Hasten
Your Interview Invitation
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