7 STEPS
01. Wash your hands frequency
02. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth
03. Cover your cough using the bend of your elbow or a tissue
04. Avoid crowded places and close contact with anyone that has fever or cough
05. Stay at home if you feel unwell
06. If you have a fever, Cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early - but call first
07. Get information from Trusted source.
By Comrade Oyedeji Olusegun Abayomi Coordinator Advocacy Disability Inclusion Initiative ADII Oyo State
Source: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
RESUMES THAT WORK.
Resumes That Work
Here's how to make your resume an effective marketing document - marketing YOU and your abilities to a prospective employer.
Your resume is a marketing document. Its job is to position you to get your "right fit" work. Thus, its content and format is crucial.
It must convey to potential employers exactly what you have to offer them, as well as the results you are likely to produce for them based on your past record of accomplishments. Focus on ACCOMPLISHMENTS!
Here's how to do that.PROFILETo begin, I advocate putting a profile at the very start of the resume, just under your name and contact information. A profile is not an objective (of course you want a job), nor is it a litany of your skills (boring!). A profile is a succinct description of who you are in the workplace.
Your profile presents your unique value proposition – what you love to do and are good at doing, the skills you want to use in the future, and the attributes you want to highlight.
Your profile also will capture your personality through a judicious use of adjectives. In sum, your profile conveys the substance and flavor of who you are in the workplace.
In some ways, the process of creating the profile is more important than the final product. Developing it gives you the chance to think carefully about your "unique value proposition." In fact, the reader will usually catch the first five or six words of the profile and then move on to Experience.
They might come back to it but even if they don't, the profile will make an impression. It says that you've thought about and know who you are.Everything you say in your profile must be backed up by your accomplishments, which are listed under each employer and job.
Essentially, the profile is the thesis that you then go on to prove with concrete examples. It also is useful as a way to ensure that your resume is internally consistent in terms of the message you intend to convey.
OPTIONAL SECTIONSCORE COMPETENCIESThese are bullets that cite your core skills, industry-specific skills, and specialized abilities or knowledge. If you can, match your skills with key words from the job description so your resume will be selected by any computer program searching for key words (e.g. on LinkedIn or within a company).KEY
ACCOMPLISHMENTSThese are stories that highlight the impact you have had on companies or organizations. They emphasize measurable accomplishments and briefly describe what you did to produce the result.
The stories can elaborate on an accomplishment you list further along in your resume. There needs to be a headline that encapsulates the accomplishment, and hopefully entices people to keep reading.BODY OF RESUMEThe first thing read by a prospective employer is the name of the company for which you worked.
Then they usually will glance at the title and years worked - some will read title first while others read years worked first.Here's the order of information that I recommend for the basic information:
* Employer's name first, in bold, followed by its location, not in bold. Use the city in which employer is/was located. Only include the state if the city is not immediately recognizable e.g. Wareham, MA, or is easily confused with something else, e.g. Springfield, MO vs. Springfield, IL vs. Springfield, MA. Otherwise, New York or Boston or Chicago or Los Angeles is sufficient.
* Dates of employment, not in bold, on the same text line as the employer's name and location. The dates should be tabbed over so they are on the far right of the page, preferably lined up with the right side of your address block.If you worked at the company in more than one position, put the complete block of time over the far right. Next to each position title you can put in parentheses the dates you held that position.
For example, Vice President, Sales (3/02 to 7/05).Job titles can either be grouped together if your job responsibilities were substantially the same with the most recent encompassing the previous responsibilities plus more. If the jobs were substantially different, I treat each one as a separate job under the same employer.
* Title of your position, in bold and italics, directly underneath the employer name and location.My experience is that most readers go through the entire resume once just glancing at employer, years and title. If all seems to be complete and consistent, then they glance at education to see if you have any degrees. So make sure you have no huge holes in time, and no major typos!Only after that first quick read will they go back to look at individual jobs, starting with your most recent one first. After rereading your employer's name and title, usually readers will move to the body of the entry. Here's what the body of your resume should contain:* a brief paragraph describing your job
* bullet points that highlight your accomplishmentsJOB DESCRIPTIONBriefly describe the company you work for and your job responsibilities, in a four to six line paragraph that starts on the line directly underneath the title of your position. Say "Led all communications and marketing efforts for Fortune 1000 technology firm (STOCK SYMBOL)" or "Oversaw day to day operations for 45 year old non-profit teaching literacy to adult New Yorkers" or "Managed entire recruiting and on-boarding process for 300 person homeless services agency."Use as many numbers as possible to give readers a good idea of the scope and depth of your responsibilities.
For example, say "oversaw $3.5 million advertising budget" or "supervised team of 12, with four direct reports."Readers' eyes are drawn first to numbers, then to CAPS, then to bold. Italics are rarely an eye-catcher, so use them only to indicate the title of an article or project, not for anything substantive.
BULLETSBullets are for accomplishments. I recommend limiting yourself to 5-7 bullets for your most recent job, 4-5 for your next most recent, maximum 2 for the next most recent and none for the oldest ones. Quantifying these bullets is important.
Those are the things that will get you the interview. The interview allows you to fill in more detail and also to talk about accomplishments that weren't listed.Here are my tips for great accomplishment bullets:
* Lead with the results and impact of your work, when writing accomplishments. Use active, directionally positive words like "increased," "improved," "advanced," "optimized," "enhanced" and "expanded."
* Use numbers as much as possible, especially with dollar signs and percentage signs; they are real eye-catchers and speak to many employers' focus on the bottom line.
* Split the accomplishment into "what" and "how": the impact or result, and how you achieved that result. For example, "Increased revenue year over year by 80%, through redeploying sales team."
* Ask “so what” to get to the impact of whatever activity you want to include. If you want to include it, it’s probably important but only if you can somehow tie it to an impact that is somehow measurable – as in “increased” and “improved” and “enhanced” and “expanded” – or gives clear evidence of major responsibility, as in “directed,” “led,” “managed,” “launched,” and “created.”
* Brevity is best. Limit each bullet to one, maximum two lines.* Give leading information to cause the reader to ask a follow up question. Remember, the point of a resume is to get you an interview. The interview is where the reader can ask you to explain how you redeployed the sales team and why that resulted in 80% revenue increase.
* Only include things you really want to do again – similar or greater scope of responsibility, the type of work or project, specific skills you really want to use again, or attributes you want people to notice.
Here's how to make your resume an effective marketing document - marketing YOU and your abilities to a prospective employer.
Your resume is a marketing document. Its job is to position you to get your "right fit" work. Thus, its content and format is crucial.
It must convey to potential employers exactly what you have to offer them, as well as the results you are likely to produce for them based on your past record of accomplishments. Focus on ACCOMPLISHMENTS!
Here's how to do that.PROFILETo begin, I advocate putting a profile at the very start of the resume, just under your name and contact information. A profile is not an objective (of course you want a job), nor is it a litany of your skills (boring!). A profile is a succinct description of who you are in the workplace.
Your profile presents your unique value proposition – what you love to do and are good at doing, the skills you want to use in the future, and the attributes you want to highlight.
Your profile also will capture your personality through a judicious use of adjectives. In sum, your profile conveys the substance and flavor of who you are in the workplace.
In some ways, the process of creating the profile is more important than the final product. Developing it gives you the chance to think carefully about your "unique value proposition." In fact, the reader will usually catch the first five or six words of the profile and then move on to Experience.
They might come back to it but even if they don't, the profile will make an impression. It says that you've thought about and know who you are.Everything you say in your profile must be backed up by your accomplishments, which are listed under each employer and job.
Essentially, the profile is the thesis that you then go on to prove with concrete examples. It also is useful as a way to ensure that your resume is internally consistent in terms of the message you intend to convey.
OPTIONAL SECTIONSCORE COMPETENCIESThese are bullets that cite your core skills, industry-specific skills, and specialized abilities or knowledge. If you can, match your skills with key words from the job description so your resume will be selected by any computer program searching for key words (e.g. on LinkedIn or within a company).KEY
ACCOMPLISHMENTSThese are stories that highlight the impact you have had on companies or organizations. They emphasize measurable accomplishments and briefly describe what you did to produce the result.
The stories can elaborate on an accomplishment you list further along in your resume. There needs to be a headline that encapsulates the accomplishment, and hopefully entices people to keep reading.BODY OF RESUMEThe first thing read by a prospective employer is the name of the company for which you worked.
Then they usually will glance at the title and years worked - some will read title first while others read years worked first.Here's the order of information that I recommend for the basic information:
* Employer's name first, in bold, followed by its location, not in bold. Use the city in which employer is/was located. Only include the state if the city is not immediately recognizable e.g. Wareham, MA, or is easily confused with something else, e.g. Springfield, MO vs. Springfield, IL vs. Springfield, MA. Otherwise, New York or Boston or Chicago or Los Angeles is sufficient.
* Dates of employment, not in bold, on the same text line as the employer's name and location. The dates should be tabbed over so they are on the far right of the page, preferably lined up with the right side of your address block.If you worked at the company in more than one position, put the complete block of time over the far right. Next to each position title you can put in parentheses the dates you held that position.
For example, Vice President, Sales (3/02 to 7/05).Job titles can either be grouped together if your job responsibilities were substantially the same with the most recent encompassing the previous responsibilities plus more. If the jobs were substantially different, I treat each one as a separate job under the same employer.
* Title of your position, in bold and italics, directly underneath the employer name and location.My experience is that most readers go through the entire resume once just glancing at employer, years and title. If all seems to be complete and consistent, then they glance at education to see if you have any degrees. So make sure you have no huge holes in time, and no major typos!Only after that first quick read will they go back to look at individual jobs, starting with your most recent one first. After rereading your employer's name and title, usually readers will move to the body of the entry. Here's what the body of your resume should contain:* a brief paragraph describing your job
* bullet points that highlight your accomplishmentsJOB DESCRIPTIONBriefly describe the company you work for and your job responsibilities, in a four to six line paragraph that starts on the line directly underneath the title of your position. Say "Led all communications and marketing efforts for Fortune 1000 technology firm (STOCK SYMBOL)" or "Oversaw day to day operations for 45 year old non-profit teaching literacy to adult New Yorkers" or "Managed entire recruiting and on-boarding process for 300 person homeless services agency."Use as many numbers as possible to give readers a good idea of the scope and depth of your responsibilities.
For example, say "oversaw $3.5 million advertising budget" or "supervised team of 12, with four direct reports."Readers' eyes are drawn first to numbers, then to CAPS, then to bold. Italics are rarely an eye-catcher, so use them only to indicate the title of an article or project, not for anything substantive.
BULLETSBullets are for accomplishments. I recommend limiting yourself to 5-7 bullets for your most recent job, 4-5 for your next most recent, maximum 2 for the next most recent and none for the oldest ones. Quantifying these bullets is important.
Those are the things that will get you the interview. The interview allows you to fill in more detail and also to talk about accomplishments that weren't listed.Here are my tips for great accomplishment bullets:
* Lead with the results and impact of your work, when writing accomplishments. Use active, directionally positive words like "increased," "improved," "advanced," "optimized," "enhanced" and "expanded."
* Use numbers as much as possible, especially with dollar signs and percentage signs; they are real eye-catchers and speak to many employers' focus on the bottom line.
* Split the accomplishment into "what" and "how": the impact or result, and how you achieved that result. For example, "Increased revenue year over year by 80%, through redeploying sales team."
* Ask “so what” to get to the impact of whatever activity you want to include. If you want to include it, it’s probably important but only if you can somehow tie it to an impact that is somehow measurable – as in “increased” and “improved” and “enhanced” and “expanded” – or gives clear evidence of major responsibility, as in “directed,” “led,” “managed,” “launched,” and “created.”
* Brevity is best. Limit each bullet to one, maximum two lines.* Give leading information to cause the reader to ask a follow up question. Remember, the point of a resume is to get you an interview. The interview is where the reader can ask you to explain how you redeployed the sales team and why that resulted in 80% revenue increase.
* Only include things you really want to do again – similar or greater scope of responsibility, the type of work or project, specific skills you really want to use again, or attributes you want people to notice.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
ATTITUDE
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures; than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company….a meeting….a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past….we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude….I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you….We are in charge of our Attitudes.
”Choose what your attitude will be for the day each morning before getting out of bed. If you are job hunting, make sure your attitude is ready for everything you may face, i.e. rejection, failure, acknowledgement, acceptance. Decide before you step out of bed how your attitude will help you make it through the day and continue to move forward with self-confidence. It may take days, weeks, months, but if your attitude is positive, you will succeed!!
Posted by oyedeji victor
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures; than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company….a meeting….a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past….we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude….I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you….We are in charge of our Attitudes.
”Choose what your attitude will be for the day each morning before getting out of bed. If you are job hunting, make sure your attitude is ready for everything you may face, i.e. rejection, failure, acknowledgement, acceptance. Decide before you step out of bed how your attitude will help you make it through the day and continue to move forward with self-confidence. It may take days, weeks, months, but if your attitude is positive, you will succeed!!
Posted by oyedeji victor
Some words of wisdom to live by…..and who knows, may just lead to your future career path
1. Focus on achievement—not money. Pay attention to how your successes, on and off the job, benefit both you and others. That doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t make money, but the pursuit of money ought to play a subordinate role.
2. Make time for thinking. Break from the daily grind and reflect on where you are and where you’re going. Take a walk, practice yoga or meditation, or sit in nature.
3. Practice “systematic abandonment.” “People are effective because they say no…because they say this isn’t for me,” declared Drucker. Step back, at regular intervals, to determine which of your present activities can be scaled back or eliminated. Only then can you make way for something more fruitful.
4. Learn the art of leisure. As important as work is, avoid allowing it to be your only source of fulfillment. Find an outside interest or two, focusing on things that may bring you pleasure, satisfaction and a heightened sense of self-worth.
5. Develop a parallel career. A parallel career, like teaching, writing or working in the nonprofit sector, can give you a window into other worlds and provide leadership opportunities not available in your primary job. And one day, it may even morph into your second or post-retirement career.
6. Volunteer your time and talent. Drucker saw volunteerism as essential to the smooth functioning of society, as well as a satisfying way of ensuring that work doesn’t consume your life.
7. Become a mentor. Mentorship may be broader than just showing someone the ropes in a group or organization. It can include wide-ranging career and life advice, and provide big benefits to both the mentee and mentor.
8. Start teaching. A Drucker maxim: No one learns as much as the person who must teach his subject. Consider the kinds of opportunities that may be open to you at work, schools, churches and professional associations.
9. Learn how to learn. Some people are readers while others like to talk and listen. When it’s crucial to learn something, think about how you learn best and seek out those types of opportunities.
10. Be the CEO of your own life. Take accountability for your decisions and contribute at work and in the world.“Living in More Than One World:
How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life.”Author: Bruce RosensteinFollowing these steps, may just put you on the right career path for YOU!! It is good to sometimes step back and re-assess where you are and where you want to be.
Posted by oyedeji victor
1. Focus on achievement—not money. Pay attention to how your successes, on and off the job, benefit both you and others. That doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t make money, but the pursuit of money ought to play a subordinate role.
2. Make time for thinking. Break from the daily grind and reflect on where you are and where you’re going. Take a walk, practice yoga or meditation, or sit in nature.
3. Practice “systematic abandonment.” “People are effective because they say no…because they say this isn’t for me,” declared Drucker. Step back, at regular intervals, to determine which of your present activities can be scaled back or eliminated. Only then can you make way for something more fruitful.
4. Learn the art of leisure. As important as work is, avoid allowing it to be your only source of fulfillment. Find an outside interest or two, focusing on things that may bring you pleasure, satisfaction and a heightened sense of self-worth.
5. Develop a parallel career. A parallel career, like teaching, writing or working in the nonprofit sector, can give you a window into other worlds and provide leadership opportunities not available in your primary job. And one day, it may even morph into your second or post-retirement career.
6. Volunteer your time and talent. Drucker saw volunteerism as essential to the smooth functioning of society, as well as a satisfying way of ensuring that work doesn’t consume your life.
7. Become a mentor. Mentorship may be broader than just showing someone the ropes in a group or organization. It can include wide-ranging career and life advice, and provide big benefits to both the mentee and mentor.
8. Start teaching. A Drucker maxim: No one learns as much as the person who must teach his subject. Consider the kinds of opportunities that may be open to you at work, schools, churches and professional associations.
9. Learn how to learn. Some people are readers while others like to talk and listen. When it’s crucial to learn something, think about how you learn best and seek out those types of opportunities.
10. Be the CEO of your own life. Take accountability for your decisions and contribute at work and in the world.“Living in More Than One World:
How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life.”Author: Bruce RosensteinFollowing these steps, may just put you on the right career path for YOU!! It is good to sometimes step back and re-assess where you are and where you want to be.
Posted by oyedeji victor
Thursday, January 7, 2010
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Frequently Asked Questions
As many of you know, I have written an e-book called Your ‘Right Fit’ Job: Guide to Finding Work You Love. In it, I lay out a step-by-step process for identifying the kind of work you really want to do and then preparing the marketing plan and materials to secure that work.
Over time, I've gotten a number of questions from people who've read my book or who know I write on career transformation. Here are the most Frequently Asked Questions:
1. Why do you recommend being specific about the job I want? Many people tell me I should be more general.
2. I don’t have any measurable accomplishments. So how should I write my resume?
3. What do I say when someone asks me what work I am seeking? I can’t seem to say it in a few sentences, plus people never seem to have any suggestions or help to offer.
4. I’m hoping to get into a new field but I don’t know a lot about it or anyone working in it. How can I make that transition?
5. I finished my Must Have List. Now what do I do with it?
6. I can’t seem to find any jobs that match my criteria. What do I do now?
7. Does it really matter if I have a LinkedIn profile? It seems like a repetition of my resume. Do employers even look at it?
8. I’ve been out of work for many months. How do I explain what I’ve been doing without looking like a failure?
9. It seems like I’m overqualified for so many jobs. What can I do to persuade employers that I’m worth interviewing?
10. I’ve sent out so many resumes and never get an interview. What can I do differently?
11. How do you recommend I follow up with employers at various points in the hiring process? I don’t want to be intrusive yet I don’t want to be forgotten.
12. I have no trouble getting interviews but I haven’t gotten an offer. What could I do to land a job?
13. I’m so frustrated and anxious, and feel such pressure to get any job. I feel like I’ve done everything in your book. What have I missed?
Over the next couple of weeks, I'll provide answers to these questions. If you have any other issues you'd like addressed, drop me a comment. I'll be delighted to address what I can! And I have access to other career experts through www.careerealism.com who have lots of great advice and experience to share, as well. Check them out yourself.
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