Could using a target job title on your résumé (instead of an objective statement) help your résumé get noticed? Should you use a target job title, or is it best to stick with using an objective statement?
Watch the following video and get answers to these and other questions:
What is a target job title?
What are the three components of a target job title?
Why should I consider using a target job title?
What can I do with the other components of my résumé to make it more targeted to the open position?
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If I can give you one primary take away message from this video it would be this: A résumé must be targeted to the job. Generic résumés are less likely to get noticed and could be prolonging your job search.
My advice: Think “customization” every time you submit your résumé and cover letter.
~ Blessings to you!
Michelle Walker-Wade Workplace Literacy Career & Business Strategy Expert
As the job market grew tighter and tighter, employers came up with more ways to weed-out job candidates. One method employers used was to check your credit reports. The rationale they used was, if a person’s credit was bad they probably were not “trustworthy” enough to be employed in their company. Nearly 60% of employers began participating in this less-than-accurate practice, considering all of the factors in recent years that have caused many hard-working, trustworthy people to fall in their credit rating.
Well, CALIFORNIA (along with 6 other States) has banned this practice; and 19 more States are in progress of banning it as well. This is good news for millions of unemployed and under-employed individuals.
If any employer attempts to have you sign a release to run your credit report, make sure you tell them about the California credit check law, signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown in October 2011, and went into effect Jan. 1, 2012. This law protects MOST, but not all.
The county unemployment rate is 15.9% while Alameda County is 9.3%?
And..
The top 3 fastest growing jobs are:
Personal and Home Care Aides ($9.86/hour),
Information Security Analysts, Web Developers, and Computer Network Architect – ($36.11/hour)
And other personal care and Service Workers such as beauticians, barbers, disability care workers, and food service workers – (pay rate varies)
Looking at the unemployment rates and taking into account the dramatic difference between the rate of pay for the 3 top fastest growing jobs, you must notice that unless you’re interested in spending the time and money needed to gain very technical skills, the quickest route into the workforce appears to be some sort of personal care. Personal care jobs are often viewed as “low-skill” jobs; and as you can see from the rate of pay that these type jobs generally are low paying jobs as well. While you many not want to make a life-long career in such low-skill/low-pay jobs, I encourage you to go ahead and enter (or re-enter) the workforce through the door that is open.
Getting in the workforce will help you:
Develop even more skills (particularly soft-skills which employers say are 87.5% of almost every job).
Build your confidence level and your general feelings of usefulness.
Send a message to your family and friends that you are still workforce-minded, thereby minimizing the amount of time available to do random activities that really are low priority time-busters.
I have found, particularly in the 209 area code, the conditions of the job market have many people so despondent they’ve found solace in doing “random activities“. What I say to you is this: make those activities count for something. Use them to give you an edge into a new world or work. Unemployment benefits will not last forever. Just take a look at South Carolina’s new unemployment rules coming in 2012. Under these new rules, after a month of collecting benefits, the unemployed must now accept any offer for a job that pays at least 90 percent of what they used to earn. After 5 months, workers must accept a job that pays minimum wage, or $7.25 an hour. South Carolina’s unemployment rate has hovered around 9% for a few years (like California).
It won’t be long before other states plagued with high unemployment rates (like California) may look at similar alternatives. I can take a hint; can you?
