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Part 1 - WRITE A RESUME THAT GENERATES RESULTS
Part 2 - HOW TO KNOCK THE SOCKS OFF A PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER
Part 3 - THE EVIDENCE SECTION - HOW TO PRESENT YOUR WORK HISTORY, EDUCATION, ETC.
Part 4 - A FEW GUIDELINES FOR A BETTER PRESENTATION
Part 5 - I'M NOT SURE THE JOB I'M LOOKING FOR IS THE RIGHT ONE FOR ME
Part 6 - ADD POWER TO YOUR RESUME WITH POWERWORDS
Part 5 - I'M NOT SURE THE JOB I'M LOOKING FOR IS THE
RIGHT ONE FOR ME
If you are concerned that the job you are seeking may not be
right for you, or if you are not completely sure what job you are
seeking, you have a bigger problem than just writing a great resume.
You are handing over your future to chance and accident.
How you can I tell if it is right for
me? If you are changing to a job that is pretty much
the same as your current or most recent job, it is not too difficult
to assess whether or not you need to just make a job change or
consider a new career direction. The big question is: how much do or
did you enjoy the actual work? If you liked the work itself but were
not happy with the boss or the pay or other components of the job,
you may just need to find a new job - a job where you can keep doing
the same thing in a different setting. If the work itself was dull,
routine, uninteresting, difficult, exasperating, or if you did not
feel fully challanged by it, you may need to make a shift in your
career direction.
If you are seeking a job that is somewhat different from what you
did before, how can you know it will be better than what you have
been doing?
Let's take a look at your situation
from a new point of view. What an employer pays you
for is to perform some special function or functions. Everything one
might do at work, from flipping burgers to understanding the most
obscure abstract data, is a specific work function. Most careers
involve combining a few different functions together. Everyone is
born with a certain degree of talent for each of the hundreds of
possible work functions. Think about it for a minute. Notice that
there are some things that seem to come easily to you and others
that are much more difficult to deal with. Your innate talent for
any specific function may be anywhere from 100% to 1% on a scale of
human ability.
Almost every person is naturally gifted at some things, adequate
at others, and not so good at yet other functions. Your natural
talents work together, like instruments in a band, to make your work
harmonious and enjoyable. Those people who are very successful, who
really like their work and have no trouble writing a powerful and
sincere resume, are people who have discovered what they are
naturally best at found a way to combine their talents and
personality traits in a job that fits them like a custom-made suit.
It is as simple as that. If you uncover your natural talents and
pick a job that combines them well, you will greatly increase the
odds that you will wind up both very satisfied and very successful
in your work. Then you can easily write a resume that honestly
communicates that you are the best candidate for the job-because
you know you are. The way to make this happen is to get your natural talents tested in our Pathfinder Career Testing Program, a breakthrough method that has
helped many thousands of people make the best possible career
decisions.
We've been helping people like you choose and change to careers
and jobs they love since 1981. Follow this link to find out more
about Rockport
Institute's programs and services for career changers and people making an original career selection. » top
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Results?
Here are a few quotes from client letters that provide a
sense of what you can achieve. Complete versions of these letters
and many others are available. If you would like to have a copy of
our "Letters From Clients" publication, please let us know.
"I just can't thank you enough
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"I am much happier and earning much
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"The Career Choice program greatly
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"Tremendous effect...on my business
and personal life."
"This was a definite turning point in
my life."
"After several years of indecision,
the program empowered me to make a specific career choice."
"I needed a 180 degree shift and the
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guidance."
"I am eagerly looking forward to
doing something with my life that really feels right for me."
"Your genuine personal
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believed in me so much."
"Thank you for turning my life
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"The counseling sessions enabled me,
step by step, to choose the one career and begin doing it."
"Most of all, thank you for my power
to decide, commit and act. I wish I had done this 25 years ago!"
"...has helped me to choose to change my entire life--in a positive
direction."
"I was so pleased with the results of
the program that I convinced my husband and several friends to also
take the program. All of them have been equally satisfied."
"I...warmly recommend the Rockport
Institute to anyone who has a desire to make a career change or
improve their present employment."
"I was hoping for a miracle. I got
one."
"Many of the apprehensions about
going into a new position have been eliminated."
"I believe that the process at
Rockport is a very successful way to face these issues, realize that
one is not alone, and put what appears to be a crisis situation back
into perspective. Only in that way can one begin to take action."
"In my case, it did me a great deal
of good to discover that many of my natural instincts in terms of
career choice had been good all along; I just hadn't had the
self-confidence to trust them and move ahead."
"The usefulness of my...program with
Rockport continues to be apparent almost every day and the results
have been extraordinary."
"Very excited about this new career
direction.."
"Since the program, the doubts which
can be so immobilizing are gone, and now I know exactly what I'm
going to do."
Rockport also provides advanced
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» Go On to Part 6 - ADD POWER TO YOUR RESUME WITH POWERWORDS
This resume writing guide is an excerpt
from
our national bestselling book,
The Pathfinder: How To
Choose or Change Your Career
for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.
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