Suggested Resume Format
Under the categories below, you may choose the section heading you prefer.
A. Goal
� Career Objective
� Employment Objective
� Career Goal
� Employment Aspirations
B. Summary
� Key Areas of Knowledge
� Special Skills
� Main Capability Areas
� Major Skills
� Special Areas of Expertise
C. Qualifications
� Study Accomplishments
� Comprehensive Business-Oriented Education
� Educational Preparation for Career
� Tertiary Education Achievements
� Educational Attainments
� Relevant Training & Education
� Formal Training
� Successful Tertiary Studies
� Formal Qualifications
D. Achievements
� Career Achievement Summary
� Special Achievements
� Highlights of My Career
� Breadth of Experience
� Special Challenges
� Key Projects
� Professional Achievement Record
E. Employment
� Professional Experience
� Record of Respected Employers
� Career Path Record
� Employment Summary
� Employment Record
F. Other Facts About Me
� Community Service
� Professional Associations
� Memberships
� Language Knowledge
� Professional Affiliations
G. Personal Development Activities
� Special Awards &/or Recognition
� Knowledge Enhancement
� Career Development Learning Experiences
� Self-Development Activities
H. Referees
� Referees
� People Who Know Me Well
� People Who Know My Work Well
I. Personal
� Personal Information
� Personal Data
� More Facts About Me
September 22, 2004
4D tonight . .
After days of calculation and tution for math. We finally agree that System Number 3478 is a good number to buy and the date to enter is today.
$1 big for system bet 3478, wish me good luck.
$1 big for system bet 3478, wish me good luck.
September 14, 2004
Writing Resume
Recently, my darling and I started to update my resume and looking our value in the current labour market. I come across an article that posted in the Employment Town of Singapore.
Helpful Information for Your Job Search : Resume Writing Tips
To seize new opportunities at today's workplaces, having a well-written resume that is always ready is an important part of career action plan. A convincing resume is fundamental in attracting your potential employer's attention. Here are some tips to help you in your resume writing.
What is a resume?
A resume is a selected summary of significant facts about yourself. A resume doesn't present everything there is to be known about you. It presents selected significant facts and it serves them up in a neatly packaged summary. To write a resume, you need to know which facts about yourself are significant to a prospective employer. You need to know how to summarise them so that your next employer can see quickly why you are the right person for the job. And you need to know how to present them on paper in a concise manner.
What do resumes do?
Strictly speaking, resumes don't get jobs. Resumes get interviews. And interviews get jobs. You won't get an interview without a resume. And you won't get a job offer without an interview. But the resume is the first step to a job.
How to write a good resume?
Before you start writing your resume, it is essential that you have before you a complete and detailed summary of your education and experience. You should be aware of your aptitudes, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as interests.
Plan for at least a week and you may have to do several re-writes before your resume will be ready
Remember that you are competing with others with your resume. It is worth an effort to produce the best version you can.
Seek the opinions of others about your merits for what you have in mind
If you are too modest in describing your attributes, your application may be passed over. It is the time to boast politely and honestly
Ask at least two people to check over your final draft.
When you think you have produced the best version, be patient. Sleep on it. Read it again the next day before submitting it.
Dos & Don�t
DO!
Highlight your strengths
You probably know the saying "If you've it, flaunt it." This is certainly true on your resume. Your prospective employer should be able to see quickly what you have to offer.
Structure your resume like a pyramid
The most important things about you should be near the top. There is no formula that you have to follow in assembling the component parts of your resume, but you should start with your best features.
Be sure your resume is easy to read
If your resume is jammed with words, difficult to follow, or badly laid out on the page, no one is going to take the time to read it - even if you are a great job candidate.
Keep your sentences short
Start as many as you can with "action words"
Help your readers know what to read
Use boldface type. Use plenty of "white space" between points to make each point stand out.
Support your objective
If you have a career objective, be sure that your resume shows clearly why you are qualified for the job you are seeking.
Keep your resume to one or two pages
Most employers don't want to read more than two pages. They will read more if you are an incredibly experienced person with terrific credentials, but two-page resumes are safe.
Answer the one question that every employer asks.
Your resume must address the question that is in the employer's mind: "What can this person do for me?" If your resume can answer that question, you can get an interview - and an interview can land you a job.
DON'T!
Don't lie.
You can never make a lie work in your favour. Don't stretch the truth too far either - it will break!
Don't write long sentences
Remember that your resume will be read quickly so make it readable.
Don't put more than four lines together in one "block"
If you have more than four short lines, you are probably trying to say too much. Divide a long block of text into two points.
Don't be vague
Be as specific as possible. Include facts and figures wherever you can.
Don't include information that is not relevant to an employer
There is a good rule to follow in evaluating whether or not something is relevant: "If in doubt, leave it out."
Don't list a reference unless you have the person's permission
Of course, it's important too to know that you will get a positive recommendation!
Part I ~ end here ... next post will talk about Resume
Helpful Information for Your Job Search : Resume Writing Tips
To seize new opportunities at today's workplaces, having a well-written resume that is always ready is an important part of career action plan. A convincing resume is fundamental in attracting your potential employer's attention. Here are some tips to help you in your resume writing.
What is a resume?
A resume is a selected summary of significant facts about yourself. A resume doesn't present everything there is to be known about you. It presents selected significant facts and it serves them up in a neatly packaged summary. To write a resume, you need to know which facts about yourself are significant to a prospective employer. You need to know how to summarise them so that your next employer can see quickly why you are the right person for the job. And you need to know how to present them on paper in a concise manner.
What do resumes do?
Strictly speaking, resumes don't get jobs. Resumes get interviews. And interviews get jobs. You won't get an interview without a resume. And you won't get a job offer without an interview. But the resume is the first step to a job.
How to write a good resume?
Before you start writing your resume, it is essential that you have before you a complete and detailed summary of your education and experience. You should be aware of your aptitudes, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as interests.
Plan for at least a week and you may have to do several re-writes before your resume will be ready
Remember that you are competing with others with your resume. It is worth an effort to produce the best version you can.
Seek the opinions of others about your merits for what you have in mind
If you are too modest in describing your attributes, your application may be passed over. It is the time to boast politely and honestly
Ask at least two people to check over your final draft.
When you think you have produced the best version, be patient. Sleep on it. Read it again the next day before submitting it.
Dos & Don�t
DO!
Highlight your strengths
You probably know the saying "If you've it, flaunt it." This is certainly true on your resume. Your prospective employer should be able to see quickly what you have to offer.
Structure your resume like a pyramid
The most important things about you should be near the top. There is no formula that you have to follow in assembling the component parts of your resume, but you should start with your best features.
Be sure your resume is easy to read
If your resume is jammed with words, difficult to follow, or badly laid out on the page, no one is going to take the time to read it - even if you are a great job candidate.
Keep your sentences short
Start as many as you can with "action words"
Help your readers know what to read
Use boldface type. Use plenty of "white space" between points to make each point stand out.
Support your objective
If you have a career objective, be sure that your resume shows clearly why you are qualified for the job you are seeking.
Keep your resume to one or two pages
Most employers don't want to read more than two pages. They will read more if you are an incredibly experienced person with terrific credentials, but two-page resumes are safe.
Answer the one question that every employer asks.
Your resume must address the question that is in the employer's mind: "What can this person do for me?" If your resume can answer that question, you can get an interview - and an interview can land you a job.
DON'T!
Don't lie.
You can never make a lie work in your favour. Don't stretch the truth too far either - it will break!
Don't write long sentences
Remember that your resume will be read quickly so make it readable.
Don't put more than four lines together in one "block"
If you have more than four short lines, you are probably trying to say too much. Divide a long block of text into two points.
Don't be vague
Be as specific as possible. Include facts and figures wherever you can.
Don't include information that is not relevant to an employer
There is a good rule to follow in evaluating whether or not something is relevant: "If in doubt, leave it out."
Don't list a reference unless you have the person's permission
Of course, it's important too to know that you will get a positive recommendation!
Part I ~ end here ... next post will talk about Resume
September 11, 2004
What is luck
I come across this article and thought it would be good to share with everyone.
The below text is very interesting. I suppose all of us know deep down about this fact but perhaps its just one of our numerous blind spots in life?
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.
Subject: The luck factor!
By Professor Richard Wise man, University of Hertfordshire
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune.
I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.
The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune.
Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside.
I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying:
"Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win #250."
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high.
It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.
They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles.
They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, and expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier. The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor".
Here are Professor Wise man's four top tips for becoming lucky:
The below text is very interesting. I suppose all of us know deep down about this fact but perhaps its just one of our numerous blind spots in life?
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.
Subject: The luck factor!
By Professor Richard Wise man, University of Hertfordshire
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune.
I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.
The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune.
Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside.
I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying:
"Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win #250."
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high.
It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.
They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles.
They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, and expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier. The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor".
Here are Professor Wise man's four top tips for becoming lucky:
- Listen to your gut instinct -they are normally right.
- Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine.
- Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well.
- Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call. Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
September 06, 2004
Still sick
I'm stil sick ... running nose and cough .. seen a doctor and given another stronger anti-biotics..
Decided to give a miss for yesterday 4D as I couldn't focus much on a good number ... so lucky I didn't buy 2500 .. as it come out 2503 in the starter.
Tonight's choice for the Toto Draw is #9, #17.
Decided to give a miss for yesterday 4D as I couldn't focus much on a good number ... so lucky I didn't buy 2500 .. as it come out 2503 in the starter.
Tonight's choice for the Toto Draw is #9, #17.
September 02, 2004
Toto Result on 2nd Sep 04
:( .. what a miss ...
My buying list for this month (esp. today's) draw is
2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 23, 24, 31, 35, 39, 42, 45
and guessing the group condition is 2-3-1, 1-4-1 or 1-3-2
Meaning Group 1: (#1-#15), Group 2: (#16-#30), Group 3: (#31-#45)
However the result come out in Grouping 1-2-3 (3, 23, 24, 33, 36, 45 addtional 27)
i bought a few set of number and only got #23, #24 strike only ...
sigh ~ ~ hope next round got better chance.
My buying list for this month (esp. today's) draw is
2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 23, 24, 31, 35, 39, 42, 45
and guessing the group condition is 2-3-1, 1-4-1 or 1-3-2
Meaning Group 1: (#1-#15), Group 2: (#16-#30), Group 3: (#31-#45)
However the result come out in Grouping 1-2-3 (3, 23, 24, 33, 36, 45 addtional 27)
i bought a few set of number and only got #23, #24 strike only ...
sigh ~ ~ hope next round got better chance.
September 01, 2004
Tomorrow Toto Draw - S$2.8 million
Bet type No. of Ordinary Bet combinations Cost
Ordinary 1 $ 0.50
Sys 7 7 $ 3.50
Sys 8 28 $ 14.00
Sys 9 84 $ 42.00
Sys 10 210 $105.00
Sys 11 462 $231.00
Sys 12 924 $462.00
Sys Roll 40 $ 20.00
Our bet is 3, 8, 13, 18, 24, 28, 35, 40 and
7, 14, 22, 27, 31, 37, 39, 44.
Wish me and Auntie Nah good luck !! :)
Ordinary 1 $ 0.50
Sys 7 7 $ 3.50
Sys 8 28 $ 14.00
Sys 9 84 $ 42.00
Sys 10 210 $105.00
Sys 11 462 $231.00
Sys 12 924 $462.00
Sys Roll 40 $ 20.00
Our bet is 3, 8, 13, 18, 24, 28, 35, 40 and
7, 14, 22, 27, 31, 37, 39, 44.
Wish me and Auntie Nah good luck !! :)
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