Well for all job seekers who wants their job CV to count amont the first 5-10 then, create your CV in a professional way. ti really helps.
Sites like http://www.resume-builder.net/ and create a CV for youself which later will be sent to your email box.
Lsiten, Bur make sure you go through everything on this site before porceding to build/create your CV.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
SOME INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
For further practice, make sure you go through the required mock interview (see the Competitive Interview Prep chapter); and for further review, look at some of the following questions:
1.Tell me about yourself.
2.Tell me about your experience.
3.What is your most important accomplishment to date?
4.How would you describe your ideal job?
5.Why did you choose this career?
6.When did you decide on this career?
7.What goals do you have in your career?
8.How do you plan to achieve these goals?
9.How do you personally define success?
10.Describe a situation in which you were successful.
11.What do you think it takes to be successful in this career?
12.What accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction in your life?
13.If you had to live your life over again, what one thing would you change?
14.Would you rather work with information or with people?
15.Are you a team player?
16.What motivates you?
17.Why should I hire you?
18.Are you a goal-oriented person?
19.Tell me about some of your recent goals and what you did to achieve them.
20.What are your short-term goals?
21.What is your long-range objective?
22.What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
23.Where do you want to become ten years from now?
24.Do you handle conflict well?
25.Have you ever had a conflict with a boss or professor? How did you resolve it?
26.What major problem have you had to deal with recently?
27.Do you handle pressure well?
28.What is your greatest strength?
29.What is your greatest weakness?
30.If I were to ask one of your professors (or a boss) to describe you, what would he or she say?
31.Why did you choose to attend your college?
32.What changes would you make at your college?
33.How has your education prepared you for your career?
34.What were your favorite classes? Why?
35.Do you enjoy doing independent research?
36.Who were your favorite professors? Why?
37.Why is your GPA not higher?
38.Do you have any plans for further education?
39.How much training do you think you’ll need to become a productive employee?
40.What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have?
41.Why do you want to work in the _____ industry?
42.What do you know about our company?
43.Why are you interested in our company?
44.Do you have any location preferences?
45.How familiar are you with the community that we’re located in?
46.Are you willing to relocate? In the future?
47.Are you willing to travel? How much?
48.Is money important to you?
49.How much money do you need to make to be happy?
50.What kind of salary are you looking for?
1.Tell me about yourself.
2.Tell me about your experience.
3.What is your most important accomplishment to date?
4.How would you describe your ideal job?
5.Why did you choose this career?
6.When did you decide on this career?
7.What goals do you have in your career?
8.How do you plan to achieve these goals?
9.How do you personally define success?
10.Describe a situation in which you were successful.
11.What do you think it takes to be successful in this career?
12.What accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction in your life?
13.If you had to live your life over again, what one thing would you change?
14.Would you rather work with information or with people?
15.Are you a team player?
16.What motivates you?
17.Why should I hire you?
18.Are you a goal-oriented person?
19.Tell me about some of your recent goals and what you did to achieve them.
20.What are your short-term goals?
21.What is your long-range objective?
22.What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
23.Where do you want to become ten years from now?
24.Do you handle conflict well?
25.Have you ever had a conflict with a boss or professor? How did you resolve it?
26.What major problem have you had to deal with recently?
27.Do you handle pressure well?
28.What is your greatest strength?
29.What is your greatest weakness?
30.If I were to ask one of your professors (or a boss) to describe you, what would he or she say?
31.Why did you choose to attend your college?
32.What changes would you make at your college?
33.How has your education prepared you for your career?
34.What were your favorite classes? Why?
35.Do you enjoy doing independent research?
36.Who were your favorite professors? Why?
37.Why is your GPA not higher?
38.Do you have any plans for further education?
39.How much training do you think you’ll need to become a productive employee?
40.What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have?
41.Why do you want to work in the _____ industry?
42.What do you know about our company?
43.Why are you interested in our company?
44.Do you have any location preferences?
45.How familiar are you with the community that we’re located in?
46.Are you willing to relocate? In the future?
47.Are you willing to travel? How much?
48.Is money important to you?
49.How much money do you need to make to be happy?
50.What kind of salary are you looking for?
Don’t just read these questions—practice and rehearse the answers.
Don’t let the employer interview be the first time you actually formulate an answer in spoken words.
It is not enough to think about them in your head—practice! Sit down with a friend, a significant other, or your roommate (an especially effective critic, given the amount of preparation to date) and go through all of the questions.
If you have not yet completed a mock interview, do it now. Make the most of every single interview opportunity by being fully prepared!
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CV WRITING
Write a resume that generates results
This award-winning guide to resume writing will teach you to write a resume equal to one done by a top-notch professional writer. It offers examples, format choices, help writing the objective, the summary and other sections, as well as samples of excellent resume writing. Writing a great resume does not necessarily mean you should follow the rules you hear through the grapevine. It does not have to be one page or follow a specific resume format. Every resume is a one-of-a-kind marketing communication. It should be appropriate to your situation and do exactly what you want it to do. Instead of a bunch of rules and tips, we are going to cut to the chase in this brief guide and offer you the most basic principles of writing a highly effective resume. Who are we to be telling you how to write your resume? As part of our career consulting practice, we wrote and produced resumes for several Fortune 500 C.E.O.s, senior members of the last few presidential administrations, and thousands of professionals in nearly every field of endeavor. We also wrote resumes for young people just starting out. We concentrate on helping people choose and change to careers that fit them perfectly. We have not employed resume writers for several years. If you are trying to decide what to do with your life, we can help you. That is our one and only specialty. Please don't ask us to write your resume. We offer this resume writing guide to you because most of the resume books out there are so primitive. This guide is especially for people looking for a job in Nigeriaor else where. In Nigeria or else where, the rules of job hunting are much more relaxed than they are in Europe and Asia. You can do a lot more active personal marketing here. You may have to tone down our advice a few notches and follow the traditional, conservative format accepted in your field if you live elsewhere or are in law, academia or a technical engineering, computer or scientific field. But even when your presentation must fit a narrow set of rules, you can still use the principles we will present to make your presentation more effective than your competition's.
THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD
The good news is that, with a little extra effort, you can create a resume that makes you really stand out as a superior candidate for a job you are seeking. Not one resume in a hundred follows the principles that stir the interest of prospective employers. So, even if you face fierce competition, with a well written resume you should be invited to interview more often than many people more qualified than you. The bad news is that your present resume is probably much more inadequate than you now realize. You will have to learn how to think and write in a style that will be completely new to you. To understand what I mean, let's take a look at the purpose of your resume. Why do you have a resume in the first place? What is it supposed to do for you? Here's an imaginary scenario. You apply for a job that seems absolutely perfect for you. You send your resume with a cover letter to the prospective employer. Plenty of other people think the job sounds great too and apply for the job. A few days later, the employer is staring at a pile of several hundred resumes. Several hundred? you ask. Isn't that an inflated number? Not really. A job offer often attracts between 100 and 1000 resumes these days, so you are facing a great deal of competition. Back to the fantasy and the prospective employer staring at the huge stack of resumes: This person isn't any more excited about going through this pile of dry, boring documents than you would be. But they have to do it, so they dig in. After a few minutes, they are getting sleepy. They are not really focusing any more. Then, they run across your resume. As soon as they start reading it, they perk up. The more they read, the more interested, awake and turned on they become. Most resumes in the pile have only gotten a quick glance. But yours gets read, from beginning to end. Then, it gets put on top of the tiny pile of resumes that make the first cut. These are the people who will be asked in to interview. In this mini resume writing guide, what we hope to do is to give you the basic tools to take this out of the realm of fantasy and into your everyday life.
THE NUMBER ONE PURPOSE OF A RESUME
The resume is a tool with one specific purpose: to win an interview. If it does what the fantasy resume did, it works. If it doesn't, it isn't an effective resume. A resume is an advertisement, nothing more, nothing less. A great resume doesn't just tell them what you have done but makes the same assertion that all good ads do: If you buy this product, you will get these specific, direct benefits . It presents you in the best light. It convinces the employer that you have what it takes to be successful in this new position or career. It is so pleasing to the eye that the reader is enticed to pick it up and read it. It "whets the appetite," stimulates interest in meeting you and learning more about you. It inspires the prospective employer to pick up the phone and ask you to come in for an interview.
OTHER POSSIBLE REASONS TO HAVE A RESUME
-To pass the employer's screening process (requisite educational level, number years' experience, etc.), to give basic facts which might favorably influence the employer (companies worked for, political affiliations, racial minority, etc.).
-To pass the employer's screening process (requisite educational level, number years' experience, etc.), to give basic facts which might favorably influence the employer (companies worked for, political affiliations, racial minority, etc.).
-To provide contact information: an up-to-date address and a telephone number (a telephone number which will always be answered during business hours).
-To establish you as a professional person with high standards and excellent writing skills, based on the fact that the resume is so well done (clear, well-organized, well-written, well-designed, of the highest professional grades of printing and paper). For persons in the art, advertising, marketing, or writing professions, the resume can serve as a sample of their skills.
-To have something to give to potential employers, your job-hunting contacts and professional references, to provide background information, to give out in "informational interviews" with the request for a critique (a concrete creative way to cultivate the support of this new person), to send a contact as an excuse for follow-up contact, and to keep in your briefcase to give to people you meet casually - as another form of "business card."
-To use as a covering piece or addendum to another form of job application, as part of a grant or contract proposal, as an accompaniment to graduate school or other application.
-To put in an employer's personnel files.
-To help you clarify your direction, qualifications, and strengths, boost your confidence, or to start the process of commiting to a job or career change.
-To establish you as a professional person with high standards and excellent writing skills, based on the fact that the resume is so well done (clear, well-organized, well-written, well-designed, of the highest professional grades of printing and paper). For persons in the art, advertising, marketing, or writing professions, the resume can serve as a sample of their skills.
-To have something to give to potential employers, your job-hunting contacts and professional references, to provide background information, to give out in "informational interviews" with the request for a critique (a concrete creative way to cultivate the support of this new person), to send a contact as an excuse for follow-up contact, and to keep in your briefcase to give to people you meet casually - as another form of "business card."
-To use as a covering piece or addendum to another form of job application, as part of a grant or contract proposal, as an accompaniment to graduate school or other application.
-To put in an employer's personnel files.
-To help you clarify your direction, qualifications, and strengths, boost your confidence, or to start the process of commiting to a job or career change.
WHAT IT ISN'T
It is a mistake to think of your resume as a history of your past, as a personal statement or as some sort of self expression. Sure, most of the content of any resume is focused on your job history. But write from the intention to create interest, to persuade the employer to call you. If you write with that goal, your final product will be very different than if you write to inform or catalog your job history. Most people write a resume because everyone knows that you have to have one to get a job. They write their resume grudgingly, to fulfill this obligation. Writing the resume is only slightly above filling out income tax forms in the hierarchy of worldly delights. If you realize that a great resume can be your ticket to getting exactly the job you want, you may be able to muster some genuine enthusiasm for creating a real masterpiece, rather than the feeble products most people turn out.
WHAT IF I'M NOT SURE OF MY JOB TARGET?
If you are hunting for a job but are not sure you are on a career path that is perfect for you, you are probably going to wind up doing something that doesn't fit you very well, that you are not going to find fulfilling, and that you will most likely leave within five years. Doesn't sound like much of a life to me. How about you? Are you willing to keep putting up with pinning your fate on the random turnings of the wheel?
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