While most folks rely on Facebook as their #1 social media portal, LinkedIn is slowly gaining popularity as the social medium of choice for business candidates, professionals and entrepreneurs. As the power of networking gains widespread recognition, increasingly more people are turning to LinkedIn to build their professional networks
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Most folks will remember this famous phone conversation between Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire.
The same philosophy is applicable to resumes the world over - don’t tell the recruiter what you can do; show them what you can do! Recruiters are seldom interested in what candidates claim their abilities are. Instead, they prefer evidence in the form of (quantifiable) achievements and accomplishments, projects, promotions, and examples with concrete facts and figures to show that the application for the candidacy is worth considering. Vague statements are often overlooked, but points laden with numbers, names and years always curry favour with recruiters. So you have created a new resume, and you are very proud of it. You have listed your skills, mentioned how hard-working and honest you are, and written the humongous number of responsibilities you have at your current job, complemented well by equivalent and expansive lists of responsibilities in your previous roles as well. You have used a high contrast colour scheme, inserted a cool-looking table, and distributed the information into 3 columns using objects and text boxes to not only make the resume look aesthetic and modern, but also show-off your MS Word formatting skills. You have shown the new resume to your friends and colleagues, and succeeded in eliciting oohs and aahs from them. Everyone has complemented you on the radical style and colouring, and how great it looks.
Many people use the terms résumé and CV interchangeably, not realizing that both documents are very different. While both are ideally used to apply for jobs, their contents and lengths differ a great deal.
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