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Date: January 19, 2005

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In This Issue:

Thoughts of the Day

Article : Right Employment by Janet Bucke

Article : Create a Rappin’ Resume by Barbara Snyder

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How do you prevent your job interviews from becoming a carbon copy of all the other candidates? Interesting point isn't it?

Here are a few tips:

- RESEARCH the company and its products and then demonstrate your knowledge during the interview. The worst possible thing you can ask at an interview is - "What do you do here?" It's the kiss of death to an interview.

- PREPARATION is key. Prepare for questions you are most likely to be asked. Know how to respond to "behavioural" questions such as "Please explain to us how you would deal with X situation and give us an example of a past experience?"

- MARKETING involves relating your skills and experience directly to the requirements of the position to convince the interviewers that you are the best candidate.

- ENTHUSIASM is contagious and will make a great impression.

- CONFIDENCE breeds success. If you have all of the above your level of confidence will be evident.

Now Just Go For It.

All the best

Bryan

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Thoughts of the Day

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve!" -- Napoleon Hill

"I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man." -- Charles Schwab

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are your objectives. -- How will you go about achieving your desired results? The answer to this you can call strategy." -- William Rothchild

Article

Right Employment

We all think if we get the right job, we'll be happy, we'll have enough money and life will be good. It's one of the biggest myths in the United States today. Supporting this myth is a lifetime of well-meaning messages from our parents, the news, our teachers and others who really don't like their jobs. But is it really true?

What does it mean to have a right livelihood? Maybe it's really about using our inborn talents doing work we love? If you love what you're doing, aren't you that much more likely to spend the time to do it well? Maybe it means giving to others and serving? Sure, we have to work at it some. Sometimes we need downtime. We don't want to do anything. That's okay!

It's not about finding the "right employment." It's more about knowing ourselves. We need to explore who we are, what we believe in, what we can do, and then apply that to our work. Often people leave perfectly good jobs because they're unhappy doing them. They get some counseling, try something different and move on to something that suits them a little bit better. It wasn't that the job was bad. It's just that they found a better fit.

Tama Kieves used to be an attorney with a high class Denver firm. She wasn't happy there and she didn't know why for a long time. But she took the time to do something about it. She left the law firm and took a job as a waitress so she could write poetry! Her inspiring book, "This Time I Dance!" holds many words of wisdom for people who are learning to look for happiness inside.

Okay, so maybe you're so busy being unhappy that you haven't had time to figure out what you might like better. Take a little risk. Try something different. Get an evening job. Go to an evening class. Worst case scenario is that you still won't like the new job and you'll have to keep looking. You can keep going until you find something you do like.

You could keep trying something new every week if you have to. That's why every job has a probation period. Most of the time we're so worried about whether the employer will still want us after the 90 days that we forget that this is our 90 days, also. We get to try out the employer and see if they suit us, too! It's a perfectly valid way to be sure everyone is really happy with things. It might take a while before you know whether you like it or not.

Yes, you want to look for jobs you think you'll actually like. But you never really know till you try it. I thought I wanted to cook for a living. Boy, was I wrong! After only one night class at a cooking school, it was very clear to me that I would be miserable spending my whole day in a kitchen. I have to be in the mood to cook. I still love cooking for others sometimes, but I would not want to do it as a job!

What if you just have no idea what you want to do or no idea how to find a job doing it? If you already knew what you wanted to do and had figured out how to do it, you'd be doing it. If you don't know yet, find some help. There are books, job counselors and workshops aplenty to help you do just that.

Go to the library or bookstore for titles like "The Energy of Money" by Maria Nemeth, "When 9 to 5 Isn't Enough" by Marcia A. Perkins-Reed, "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity" by Dr. Catherine Ponder, "Money Is My Friend" by Phil Laut, "Your Money or Your Life" by Joe Dominguez and "Earn What You Deserve" by Jerrold Mundis just for starters. Search www.amazon.com for more ideas!

Browse the web for more ideas. Start with www.simpleliving.net, www.mundismoney.com, www.marianemeth.com, www.phillaut.com, and www.quantumwealth.com. You will find free audio downloads, free newsletters, free articles and sometimes even free teleconference calls with the authors themselves. Try more general web searches, also. Use keywords like "careers," "money," "jobs," and more. Then try more targeted searches on the specific career or job that interests you. You will find that it's not about the right job. It's about knowing yourself and doing what comes naturally to you. Then you have the energy to really be successful!

About the author. Janet Bucke is a motivational consultant specializing in assisting people in finding the right life work for themselves. You can read more articles about jobs and employment at <a href="http://www.aaemployment.com"> aaEmployment</a>

Article

Create a Rappin’ Resume

by Barbara Snyder

(Percussion sounds emanating from who knows where while you listen to the cadence of the words below.)

It’s time to sell yourself.

May the words light up the way.

It’s now your chance to shine,

And it’s soon gonna be your day.

So make sure you show them

All the many things you can do.

It’s now your chance to shine.

With a resume just for you.

No, no, no! Wait a minute! This isn’t the kind of "RAP" that you should use for your resume. Although, there would be some shock value, and the person doing the paper screening would surely get a laugh and not likely forget your name. The WRAP to which I am referring is W, written wisely and well; R, review, rewrite, re-read; A, analysis and awareness; and P, proofread and proofread again.

The WRAP approach needs to envelope all that you are and all that you can be, as it specifically relates to the position which you are seeking. In other words, you have to sell yourself, and don’t sell yourself short. Think of it as wrapping yourself up in a package that someone is going to open to find a pleasant surprise. Think of yourself as the one person who can best fill the position and the one person who can demonstrate that fact to the decision makers. Getting through the paper screening process, and making sure your resume stands out, is the first step in securing the job you are after.

Here is a systematic approach (WRAP) you can use as you fashion a resume that genuinely and professionally reflects your Ability, Potential, Talent, Independence, Tenacity, Understanding, Determination and Exuberance. In other words, your APTITUDE.

W - Writing your resume may be one of the most difficult and crucial chores that you can ever do for yourself. It calls for you to bring forth all of your "word-smithing talents" and apply all that you have ever learned about professional and quality written communication. Making the decision about what to include and how to word it and display it, should not be done without carefully considering each phrase and word choice and its impact on the overall document. Post It Notes (which have surpassed the use of 3x5 cards) can be used to organize each of your thoughts or phases and can be put into an orderly sequence that describes your attributes to those who read that one or two page document.

In writing your resume you need to ask yourself a few questions, as a checklist of what you should consider. Did you do your homework? Did you find out all about your prospective employer or company? Did you choose a format (chronological, functional, targeted, etc.) that best packages your aptitude? Did you include your contact information at the top of your resume? Did you include the major categories of Education, Work Experiences, Other and References? With that done, start typing from your post it notes and get those words down on the page. Yes, you will change it many times before you are finished. This is all a part of the WRAP process that leads to the next logical step of your packaging.

R - Review, rewrite, and re-read are the three R’s in the "Review Your Resume" step. Did you use action verbs, and were you consistent in the voice used throughout the document? Did you use a bullet format or other easy to read style that leads the decision maker through "your story"? Did you use a thesaurus and choose each word wisely so that key words were not overused? Did you look at it from the reviewer’s perspective? Would you be impressed by this document if someone sent it to you and you were the decision maker? Getting the initial information written out in the previous step is not nearly as difficult or demanding as this self-reflective step. Take your time with this.

A - Analysis and awareness of the completed product is the next area to be tackled. A basic checklist for this step includes: choose an off white, high quality paper; use a font size of 10, 11, or 12; choose a professional looking style font such as Arial or Times Roman; leave out graphics, underlines, and italics; and use spacing that is appropriate and pleasing to the eye. This is the step where you want to scrutinize the overall look of the document, asking yourself if it could be improved in any way. Never, ever, ever have any kinds of smudges, folds, corrections or other visible elements that detract from your resume. What would that say about you? Just remember neat, neat, neat.

P - The final step of proofing and proofing again cannot be over done. One of the most difficult things to do is find your own errors. You just don’t sea them. (See what I mean.) This is where you need to get others involved. Show the final product to your spouse, significant other, trusted colleague, or your best friend. Pick any two. Ask them to be brutally honest. That is the only way you will go away with a document that is as near perfect as you can get.

Writing about yourself and expounding upon your desirable qualities and characteristics is not something a person does easily or naturally. Keep in mind that what employers want are candidates who have good communication skills, are honest, display integrity, have great interpersonal skills and are highly organized. A resume, if done effectively, can provide a prospective employer with positive impressions linked to the attributes an employer seeks. Ask yourself one final question, "Am I trying for perfection in my resume?" Good! You should be because employers can tell if you are.

About the Author Barbara Snyder is a retired California Distinguished School Principal and Coordinator For Human Resources. She has a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She holds elementary education, secondary, community college, and administrative credentials. She is currently the publisher of http://EducationResourcesNetwork.com, co-publisher of Strictly Business Magazine, http://www.sbmag.org.

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