Career Planning

If you were to be interviewed for a particular role by a professional recruiter, the following questions would be in their mind for the final preparation of your resume.

Before you even start to prepare your resume for a prospective employer, you too must think the same way and address the following.

·What key qualifications will the employer be looking for?

·What qualifications will be most important to them that you possess?

·Which of these are your greatest strengths?

·What are the highlights of your career to date that should be emphasised?

·What should be de-emphasised?

·What things about you and your background make you stand out?

·What are your strongest areas of skill and expertise? Knowledge? Experience?

·What are some other skills you possess--perhaps more auxiliary skills?

·What are characteristics you possess that make you a strong candidate? (Things like "innovative, hard-working, strong interpersonal skills, ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines")

·What are the three or four things you feel have been your greatest accomplishments?

·What was produced as a result of your greatest accomplishments?

·Can you quantify the results you produced in numerical or other specific terms?

·What were the two or three accomplishments of that particular job?

·What were the key skills you used in that job? What did you do in each of those skill areas?

·What sorts of results are particularly impressive to people in your field?

·What results have you produced in these areas?

·What are the "buzz words" that people in your field expect you to use in lieu of a secret club handshake, which should be included in your resume?

Interview yourself and get the fodder for your resume. Each job application you write should have a different resume that focuses on the prospective employers needs, not your own.

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I have written this article to assist working mums to cope, especially those who work in the Recruitment Industry. I hope this information helps you whether you have small babies, toddlers or school age kids. I am a working mum myself with a beautiful 3 year old boy (and a baby on the way), and have been working in recruitment for the last two years. This article I have written from my experience and from the experiences my colleagues, family and friends. ENJOY!