USE YOUR RESUME AS AN EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING TOOL
Use your Resume to Demonstrate a match
1-Create the interviewer's Checklist. Use the job description and your understanding of the available position to assess the job requirements and profile of an ideal candidate.
2-Assess your record in three dimensions. these are work ,experience, education, and extracurricular activities.
3-Highlight relevant experience. Use the interviewer's checklist to prune your resume
4-Prioritize. Use the interviewer's checklist to strategically structure your content.
5-Phrase effectively. Phrasing matters! Use action words, "fit phrases" (that demonstrate a match between your qualifications and those of the ideal candidate) , and " leadership language" to describe your experience.
6-Final Check. Complete a final check to avoid common resume mistakes.
Sample Assessment of Job requirements
Part A
Top Five Responsibilities
Provide strategic advice to high-technology companies
Provide organizational design advice to high-technology companies
Manage teamwork of junior associates
Facilitate work between team and client
Serve as support for Vice President's work
Associated Tasks
Oversee research and compilation of data about challenges faced by high technology clients.
Stay abreast of trends affecting the high-technology sector
Set team goals, assign team tasks, review work products of team members
Mentor junior team members
Meet with Vice president to keep him/her abreast of team activities and progress
Meet with client to ensure client's needs are met and to address client's concerns
Meet with client to coordinate collection of data or to present findings
Associated Skills/Knowledge
Research skills
Familiarity with data resources
Familiarity with high-technology concerns
Analytical skills
Team participation skills
Team leadership skills
Team management skills
Client management skills
Presentation skills
Sample Profiling the Ideal Candidate
Ideal Work experience
Experience managing teams
Experience participating in teams
Experience coaching team members
Client management experience
Experience collecting , sifting through, and assessing of data
Experience formulating recommendations
Experience making presentations to clients
Experience working as liaison between upper management and teams
Ideal Education
MBA degree, undergraduate degree in sciences or engineering (major relevant to high technology)
Education that included courses requiring collection and analysis of data
Education that included participation in team projects.
Ideal Skills/Knowledge
Research skills
Analytical skills
Familiarity with data resources and high-technology concerns
Team participation skills
Team leadership skills
Time management skills
Client management skills
Presentation skills
Ideal Personal Attributes
Organized
Motivated
Good communicator
Good problem solver
Goal oriented
Innovative
Cooperative
Good team player/leader
Ideal Short- or Long-Term Career Goals
Short-term : Desire to help high-technology companies perform excellently and continue to
innovate
Long-term : No particular requirement but perhaps a desire to help lead the interviewing company's high-technology practice
Top Ten Resume Mistakes
Resume has too many job listings
Resume lacks strategic arrangement of information : candidate's
qualifications for available job not clear or prioritized
Resume has too many bullet points per job listings- not adequately streamlined
Resume lacks sense of direction or indicated progression of skills
Resume lacks action verbs
Resume contains typographical errors(typos)
Resume contains exaggerated information
Resume lacks consistent formatting
Resume does not explain missing years
Resume is not professionally printed.
Top Ten Resume Dos
Elaborate in greater length about jobs that are most relevant to the position for which you are applying.
Strategically arrange information, emphasizing your relevant skills and knowledge.
Keep bullet points to five or six per job listing
Show a progression of skills over time
Use leadership language and action words
Do not exaggerate qualifications
Check your resume for typos or incorrect information
Account for any missing years somewhere on the resume
Use consistent formatting
Have your resume professionally or laser printed
Use your Resume to Demonstrate a match
1-Create the interviewer's Checklist. Use the job description and your understanding of the available position to assess the job requirements and profile of an ideal candidate.
2-Assess your record in three dimensions. these are work ,experience, education, and extracurricular activities.
3-Highlight relevant experience. Use the interviewer's checklist to prune your resume
4-Prioritize. Use the interviewer's checklist to strategically structure your content.
5-Phrase effectively. Phrasing matters! Use action words, "fit phrases" (that demonstrate a match between your qualifications and those of the ideal candidate) , and " leadership language" to describe your experience.
6-Final Check. Complete a final check to avoid common resume mistakes.
Sample Assessment of Job requirements
Part A
Top Five Responsibilities
Provide strategic advice to high-technology companies
Provide organizational design advice to high-technology companies
Manage teamwork of junior associates
Facilitate work between team and client
Serve as support for Vice President's work
Associated Tasks
Oversee research and compilation of data about challenges faced by high technology clients.
Stay abreast of trends affecting the high-technology sector
Set team goals, assign team tasks, review work products of team members
Mentor junior team members
Meet with Vice president to keep him/her abreast of team activities and progress
Meet with client to ensure client's needs are met and to address client's concerns
Meet with client to coordinate collection of data or to present findings
Associated Skills/Knowledge
Research skills
Familiarity with data resources
Familiarity with high-technology concerns
Analytical skills
Team participation skills
Team leadership skills
Team management skills
Client management skills
Presentation skills
Sample Profiling the Ideal Candidate
Ideal Work experience
Experience managing teams
Experience participating in teams
Experience coaching team members
Client management experience
Experience collecting , sifting through, and assessing of data
Experience formulating recommendations
Experience making presentations to clients
Experience working as liaison between upper management and teams
Ideal Education
MBA degree, undergraduate degree in sciences or engineering (major relevant to high technology)
Education that included courses requiring collection and analysis of data
Education that included participation in team projects.
Ideal Skills/Knowledge
Research skills
Analytical skills
Familiarity with data resources and high-technology concerns
Team participation skills
Team leadership skills
Time management skills
Client management skills
Presentation skills
Ideal Personal Attributes
Organized
Motivated
Good communicator
Good problem solver
Goal oriented
Innovative
Cooperative
Good team player/leader
Ideal Short- or Long-Term Career Goals
Short-term : Desire to help high-technology companies perform excellently and continue to
innovate
Long-term : No particular requirement but perhaps a desire to help lead the interviewing company's high-technology practice
Top Ten Resume Mistakes
Resume has too many job listings
Resume lacks strategic arrangement of information : candidate's
qualifications for available job not clear or prioritized
Resume has too many bullet points per job listings- not adequately streamlined
Resume lacks sense of direction or indicated progression of skills
Resume lacks action verbs
Resume contains typographical errors(typos)
Resume contains exaggerated information
Resume lacks consistent formatting
Resume does not explain missing years
Resume is not professionally printed.
Top Ten Resume Dos
Elaborate in greater length about jobs that are most relevant to the position for which you are applying.
Strategically arrange information, emphasizing your relevant skills and knowledge.
Keep bullet points to five or six per job listing
Show a progression of skills over time
Use leadership language and action words
Do not exaggerate qualifications
Check your resume for typos or incorrect information
Account for any missing years somewhere on the resume
Use consistent formatting
Have your resume professionally or laser printed
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