The document discusses tips for creating an effective resume and job search process. It outlines the components of a resume, including experience, education, accomplishments, and credentials. It also discusses preparing for a job search by knowing yourself and the job market, conducting both online and traditional searches, and creating a customized resume through organizing information, optimizing for technology, ensuring integrity, and polishing. The document concludes with guidance on writing a persuasive cover letter, including highlighting strengths, gaining attention, and motivating action.
2. Team Information
Team name ( seekers )
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ZAIN ANJUM K1F14MCOM0021
ASIF NAWAZ K1F14MCOM0005
ABDUAL WAHHAB K1F14MCOM0002
MUSTAFA HANIF K1F14MCOM0008
NOOR-UL-AIN KIF14MCOM0017
Asifa Rasheed K1f14mcom0029( team leader)
Team members
3. Contents
1. Organizing information
2. Optimizing your resume
3. Ensuring integrating and polishing
4. Persuasive cover letter
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Contents
What is resume?
Preparing for a successful job search
Conducting a successful job search
Creating customized resume
Organizing information
Optimizing your resume
Ensuring integrating and polishing
Persuasive cover letters
4. What is Resume
• In resume these things are include..
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Resume
Experience
education
accomplishment
Credentials
5. 1.Preparing a successful job search
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Knowing your
self
Knowing the
job market
Knowing the
employment
process
6. Evaluation your Qualification
What technology skill can you offer?
Do you work well with
peoples?
Do you learn quickly?
Do you speak other
language?
Do you communicate well ?
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7. Recognizing employment trend in
today’s work place
You should also become keenly aware that a career
that realizes on yes today’s skills is headed for
trouble.
You are going to need updated, marketable skills hat
save you well as you move from job to job
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8. Choosing your path
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In choosing an area, you will
make the best decisions
when you can match your
interests and qualifications
with the requirements and
rewards in specific careers.
9. Where can you find the best career
data? Here are some suggestions;
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Search
the web
Use your
library
InternshipInterview
Visit
campus
10. 2. Conducting a successful job search
• you can combine both online and traditional
job-search tactics to land the job of your
dreams.
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• Online job
search
• Traditional job
search
11. Online job-search
• Searching for a job electronically has become
a common, but not always fruitful, approach.
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Using job
boards
Career
builder
Monster
Keep careful
records
Company
web site
12. Traditional job-search
• you use traditional techniques, you should
be prepared to launch an aggressive
campaign and you can’t start too early.
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Check ads in
newspaper
Check
organization
announcement
Attend
career fairs
interview
Contact with
campus
13. 3. Creating Customized resume
• This means you will prepare a special resume
for every position you want.
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15. 4. Organizing your information
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• A customized resume emphasizes skills and
achievements aimed at a particular job or
company
Main heading
Career objective
Summary of
qualification
Education
Experience
Skill
Awards
Personal data
Reference
16. 5. Optimizing your resume for today’s
technology
•Print base resume
•Scan able resume
•E-portfolio or video
resume
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17. Tips to maximize scan able resume
Use 10 to 14 point type
Avoid fancy format
List each cell
number
Avoid double
column
Name in
first line
care full mail
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24. 7. Creating customized , persuasive
cover letter
• A cover letter has three purposes.
• introducing the resume
• highlighting your strengths in terms of benefits to the reader
• helping you gain an interview
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25. Cont..cover letter
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Gain attention in the
opening
Highlight strength in
the body
Motivation action in
closing
28. Quotation;
• When you first start working, your take
whatever job is offered, because you have to
build your resume. But you don’t think about
what you’re building.
• ( chris Hardwick )
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