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What's wrong with your resume?

The job market is at an all time high. Recruiters askew looking all over for talents, what more could be the perfect time to make a career move? In the bustle to move over and the confidence in their talents (which apparently is required) several candidates forget the importance of their resumes.

Attention to Attire

Before your mouth can start talking your attire would, creating that first crucial impression. Planning ahead on how you are going to look would require you to have a clear understanding on the nature of job and your prospective employer. I'll look upon other interesting details too, such as the climate, the time of meeting and how am I representing myself. What am I going to be? A Strategist? A Highly Refined Corporate? A Creative Thinker?

The Hand

The most elementary of all etiquettes is The Handshake. Several of my acquaintances and colleagues have always commented on my handshake. They felt good when I shook my hand with theirs. Though my reasons to them then were aplenty that left them giggling or hoarsely smacking my shoulder, I knew the true reason.

Preparing the Mind

As per any Employment Scripture, mental preparation before the big meet is a very important segment that needs to be tended to.

Here are a few things you could tell yourself before and during your preparations.

Preparation Overview: Walk-ins

Walk-in Interviews are a different ball game altogether and you will need all the extra preps you can lay your hands on. Unlike the normal interviews, here your interviewer would have no premonition about your potential or working style and would bank entirely on your resume to draw an image of you. However, the manner of your appeal and presence would act as your self-summary, pushing forth decisions in your favour. To paint the perfect strokes, I believe in 3Ls....

Top 10 Resume Mistakes to Avoid