Trends in Resume Writing - The Best Ideas For Enhancing Your Chances of Getting a Job

Trends in Resume Writing - The Best Ideas For Enhancing Your Chances of Getting a JobA lot of people have been talking about the latest trends in resume writing this year. Many times people feel that such an idea is such but the truth is that the latest trends in resume writing are just great ideas. How to improve your chances of getting a job these days, just look for some of the latest trends in resume writing. These ideas will help you boost your chances of making an impression on the employer.Resume should be based on information that can add something unique to the hiring manager. If you have information that is not relevant, it will not add anything special to the resume. So don't try to hide any information about yourself from the hiring manager.Date is a must in a resume. The date is important because employers need to know when the person started working and so forth. With this information they will get a general idea about you as a person. The more dates you put, the better it will be. Some people believe that doing less dates in the resume can take away from the importance of the date but it is up to you what date to put in the resume.Skills are the most important thing you should include in your resume. Be specific and short. Include only the things that are relevant to the job you are applying for. It is a fact that a lot of employers use a resume to screen job applicants and if they find a bunch of skills that are not applicable to the job they are hiring then they will simply discard the resume.Make sure that the information that you put in the resume is based on facts. Make sure that you state all the jobs that you have held, the companies that you have worked for and so forth. You also need to mention when you have started working and whether you joined a company or an organization. This will give the employer an idea about you as a person and give you a chance to talk about yourself.Any information you write in the resume should be original. S ome people try to put in the resume something that they have heard others say in an interview. Do not do this; make sure that the information in the resume is original and unique.Also make sure that you put the resume in the right place on the cover sheet. This is important because the employers look at the cover sheet first before they start reading the resume.

5 Careers With High Salaries, But Also High Levels of Unhappiness

5 Careers With High Salaries, But Also High Levels of Unhappiness Physician In the new memoir Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, Sandeep Jauhur does a lot more than trace his own dissatisfaction with the medical profession. The cardiologist makes the case that doctors, once the proud, well-paid, contented pillars of communities around the country, are deeply unhappy with what’s been happening in the field of medicineâ€"and that many regret going into the profession. He points to data such as a survey in which only 6% of physicians described morale on the job as positive, and in an excerpt recently published in the Wall Street Journal, Jauhur references the quotes of other doctors venting their frustrations with their choice of career: I feel like a pawn in a moneymaking game for hospital administrators. There are so many other ways I could have made my living and been more fulfilled. The sad part is we chose medicine because we thought it was worthwhile and noble, but from what I have seen in my short career, it is a charade. At least it’s a highly paid charade. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, physicians dominate the nation’s top 20 highest-paying occupations, with median pay over $150,000 per year for a wide range of medical specialties. (Anesthesiologists seem to do the best of all, with median salaries of $431,977.) Even so, the majority of doctors say their pay has been flat or on the decline for years. More importantly, they’re unhappy. As Jauhur puts it, “American doctors are suffering from a collective malaise,” for reasons ranging from bureaucratic hassles to increased pressure to see more and more patients. Hence surveys showing that up to 40% of current doctors would choose a different career if they had to do it all over again, and even more say they would try to talk their kids out of a career in medicine. Physicians also tend to have unusually high suicide rates. According to the American Society for Suicide Prevention, male physicians commit suicide at a 70% higher rate compared with other professions, and female physicians die by their own hands at shocking clip that’s 250% to 400% higher than women in other lines of work. Read next: 7 High-Paying Jobs That Don’t Require a Bachelor’s Degree Doctors are hardly the only workers whose high salaries are perhaps offset by a high-pressure environment and general discontent in the field. Here are four other well-paid professions in which practitioners are likely to be unhappy. //static.apester.com/js/sdk/v2.0/apester-javascript-sdk.min.js Junior Investment Banker In his new book, Young Money, author Kevin Roose follows eight recent college grads through their first years in investment banking. What he found isn’t pretty. “It’s a terrible labor practice, and the banks are getting wise to that,” Roose told Vox, referring to the 120-hour weeks new bankers are forced to work. The load is so unbearable that even high salariesâ€"base starting around $75,000, with bonuses that could double that, and the potential to make millions down the lineâ€"aren’t attracting the number of recruits banks are used to. This January, institutions like Credit Suisse and Citigroup moved to limit some employees’ hours, and other banks have raised junior bankers’ pay to compensate for their grueling schedules. “The banks had this social contract with young people: Give us two years of your lives, don’t see your friends, chain yourself to your desk, but we will give you this glorious life where you’re making many times what you could ever imagine,” Roose said. “But now that contract is being broken.” What advice does he have for prospective finance workers looking to make a fast buck? “I’d tell them first that it will make them truly miserable, the kind of miserable it could take years to recover from, and that it also no longer has that imprimatur. It can actually hinder you.” Sales Manager Being in sales in hard. Being in charge of sales is even harder. That’s why, despite its high average paycheckâ€"$123,150 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statisticsâ€"sales managers still landed on Forbes’ Unhappiest Jobs of 2014 list, which used self-reported job reviews from CareerBliss. What’s the problem? Complaints run the gamut from constant pressure to feelings of boredom and emptiness. That’s not a great combination. Dentist Lawyer The median annual salary for dentists is around $155,000. First-year law associates command salaries of around $160,000 in big cities like New York and Chicago. In both cases, however, the money doesn’t seem to correlate to happiness. The consensus of research usually puts dentists at or near the top of the list for professions with the highest suicide rates (though some question the data). Lawyers, known for high suicide rates themselves, were found to have the highest rate of depression among 100 professions included in a much-cited Johns Hopkins study. In fact, attorneys are 3.6 times more likely than average to be depressed. In 2013, associate attorneys topped Forbes’ “Unhappiest Jobs” list, just ahead of (or below?) much lower-paying gigs like customer service associate and store clerk. Whereas those poorly paid workers are most unhappy with limited growth potential and unexciting workplace cultures, associate attorneys say they are most frustrated by long hours, the pressure to constantly be billing clients during those long hours, and pay that’s paltry compared to partners in their law firms. Dentists are often unhappy because they graduate with huge student loans (often around $200,000), and their jobs largely come with all the pressuresâ€"but not as much prestigeâ€"of running your own medical practice. It can’t help either of these career fields that everybody jokes about lawyers, and about how much they hate dentists.

What is Job Swooshing - Work It Daily

What is Job Swooshing - Work It Daily Last week on JT on Jobs, I shared how we are seeing more “job swooshing” taking place. It’s a common sign the economy is recovering and it is very good news for job seekers. (Watch the video above to learn why.) 84% of Americans Hate Their Jobs = Lots of Job Swooshing When job swooshing starts to occur, it creates challenges for employers - and opportunities for disatisfied workers. As many as 60-80M workers are expected to start looking for different jobs when they feel the economy is truly on the rebound. And when that happens, the competition for jobs gets stiffer! So, for those of you that have been looking for work unsuccessfully to-date, you better assess your strategy and take it up a notch because it’s going to get even harder to find a job! 3 Skills Job Seekers Need in 2012 To take advantage of the job swooshing phenomenon, I outlined the three skills every job seeker needs in 2012 as part of a recent JT on Jobs episode. The only way to get an employer to give you a shot is to earn your place in their tribe. You do that by displaying these skills better than your competition. Otherwise, you find yourself become a resume and cover letter robot... and still don’t get the job you want and deserve. Your Turn Are you seeing signs of “job swooshing” in your industry? How will you take advantage of this trend? Job swooshing image from Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join For Free!