6 Small Résumé Changes That Have a Big Impact

6 Small Rsum Changes That Have a Big Impact6 Small Rsum Changes That Have a Big ImpactIfyoure sending out rsums and bedrngnis getting many calls to interview, theres agood chance that your rsum is the problem. If youre like most people, yourrsum could use some work and like most people, youre probably not surewhere to start.But youprobably dont need to start from scratch. You can often significantly improveyourrsumby just making ahandful of changes. Here are six small changes youcan make that will have a big impact.1. Get rid of the objective.Rsum objectives never helpand often hurt. Not only do they feel outdated at this point, but theyre allabout what you want, rather than what the employer wants, which is what thisstage of the hiring process is all about. Your rsum should be focused on yourshowing your experience, skills and accomplishments. Its not the place totalk about what youre seeking in your next job.2. Add a profile section to the top of yourrsum.Profile sections or summa ries havereplaced objectives at the top of current-day rsums. A profile is just aquick list of the highlights of your strengths and experience, summing up injust a few sentences or bullet points who you are as a candidate and what youhave to offer. A well-written profile or summary can provide an overall framingof your candidacy, preparing the hiring manager for the rest of yourrsumthrough that lens.3. Focus on workaccomplishments, not job duties. If youre like most job seekers, your rsum lists what youwere responsible for at each job you held, but doesnt explain what youactually achieved there. Rewriting to focus on accomplishments willmake it far more effective and more likely to catch a hiring managers eye.For instance, get rid of lines like managed schmelzglas list and replace them withlines like increased email subscribers by 20 percent in six months in otherwords, something that explains how youperformed, not just what your job was.4. Get rid of big blocks oftext. If yourrsum is filled with large blocks of text as opposed to bullet points theres a good chance that youre putting hiring managers to sleep. They wantto quickly skim the first time they look at your rsum, and big blocks of text makethat difficult and make most hiring managers eyes glaze over. Theyll paymore attention and absorb more information about you if your rsum is arrangedin bullet points rather than paragraphs. 5. Shorten it. If your rsum is multiplepages, you might be diluting the impact of its contents. With a shorter rsum,youll ensure that in an initial quick scan, the hiring managers eyes aufgabe onthe most important things. Plus, long rsums can make you come across assomeone who cant edit and doesnt know what information is essential andwhats less important. As a general rule, your rsum shouldnt be longer than twopages, maximum. (And if youre a recent grad, it should only be one page,because you havent yet had enough work experience to justify a second one.) 6. Give yourself perm ission toremove things that dont strengthen your candidacy. You dont need three linesexplaining boring, basic job duties especially if these responsibilities aregoing to be implied by your title. Similarly, you dont need to include thatsummer job from eight years ago, that job you did for three weeks that didntwork out or every skill you can think of. Your rsum is a marketing document,not a comprehensive listing of everything about you include the things thatstrengthen your candidacy and pare down the rest.Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she dispenses advice on career, job search, and management issues. Shes also the co-author of Managing to Change the World The Nonprofit Managers Guide to Getting Results, and former chief of staff o f a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, firing, and employee development.

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29Glassdoor Helps Kick Off Fundraising Campaign for zum meer gehrend City Kids Benefit Concert On 8/29 Music is a powerful tool many use to express themselves, but for students at Bayside MLK Jr. Academy in Marin City its been a largely unavailable art form, with a small arts program that is hindered by lack of funds. Marin City is an unincorporated part of Marin County, where 95% of students qualify for lunch assistance due to income levels.Mill Valley-based Glassdoor, one of the largest tech companies in Marin County, is helping to kick off a 60-day fundraising campaign to help the newly created nonprofit for Bayside MLK, The Center for Excellence , achieve their goal of placing an instrument in every students hand (third grade and above) by 2018. Its an ambitious, but not impossible, goal. Organizers estimate theyll need to raise roughly $70,000 in donations and instruments in order to give as many children as possible a gunst der stunde to play an instrument.As part of the campaign, there will be a one-night-only benefit concert at the famous Sweetwater Music nachhall on Tuesday, August 29, 2017. Transparency, Glassdoor s house band of talented employees and volunteers, will perform to help drum up monetary and instrument donations for Bayside MLK students. Doors open at 530 pm, with the band taking the stage at 600 pm. The family-friendly concert is open to the public, with a $20 suggested donation at the door or an instrument donation, all tax deductable.Monetary and instrument donations can be made throughout the campaign. Collection bins are located at Glassdoor (100 Shoreline Hwy) in Mill Valley and Bayside MLK Jr. Academy (200 Phillips Dr) in Sausalito. Donations will also be collected at Sweetwater Music Hall on the night of the concert, and online donations can be made through the campaigns GoFundMe page Help Bring Music to Marin City . Jonnette Newton, retired principal and now a music teacher at Bayside MLK, knows first-hand how music can alter your life, and wants to make sure her students have the same opportunity.Music kept me in school. When I found the music room and fell in love with the instruments, it was a pivotal moment that put me on a track to graduate, one I would not have been on otherwise without musics influence, Jonnette said. This early exposure to music not only inspires students own creativity and expression, but enables them to participate in band and orchestra ensembles once they reach high school.Glassdoor employees are teaming up together internally to drive funds and collect instruments too, and Glassdoors Community Door program will match employee donations. Being a good neighbor is an important part of our DNA at Glassdoor and our employees are committed to helping the kids in Marin City, said Dawn Lyon, Glassdoor SVP & Chief Reputation Officer. Our hope is through fundraising and volunteering, we can provide access to important programs, like coding, arts and music, that can have lasting benefits for these students. The collaboration between the schools staff and Glassdoor, a partnership that began last year, has already made an impact on students said Barb Killey, a Center for Excellence board member. Glassdoors support has changed our goal from overwhelming to completely doable Barb said. Their passion for helping BMLK children receive the benefits of arts education that are available to other Marin County school children is genuine, and their enthusiasm is contagious.For more information about the benefit concert at Sweetwater Music Hall on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 6 pm, or for questions on how to donate, email pr glassdoor.com or call 415-339-9105

More companies are giving employees time off to vote

More companies are giving employees time off to voteMore companies are giving employees time off to voteOn November 6, Americans head to the polls to vote for midterm elections, but for too many of us, the process of taking time off from work to go vote can be cumbersome. When the Pew Research Center asked Americans this past September and October why voting would be difficult, more than a fifth of respondents listed long wait times and large crowds and scheduling conflicts. In the 2014 midterms, Americans who did not vote said a conflicting work or school schedule was among the top reasons why they did not vote.How many more Americans would vote if they had the whole day to do so? More companies are making policies to find out.Time off to vote movement spreadsTuesdays election day is not a federal holiday. Currently, there is no federal law mandating time off for employees to go vote, but in the absence of federal law, more companies are stepping in to make voting a workplace priori ty. Spotify, SurveyMonkey, and TaskRabbit are among 348 companies participating in a Take Off Election Day campaign to give employees time off to vote.Outdoor apparel company Patagonia said it is going one step beyond a few paid hours and is giving a full day of paid leave to employees. Patagonia closed its business on Nov. 6 and is giving its employee the day off as part of a Time to Vote company commitment.I believe this movement is crucial to the future of our democracy. Midterm elections suffer immensely from low voter turnout, Rose Marcario, CEO of Patagonia said in a blog post. Together, we can remove barriers to civic participation and encourage all American workers to be citizens and voters first.This movement has grown since the last election cycle. Forty-four percent of American firms will give workers paid time off to vote, up from 37% in 2016, according to a survey from the Society for Human Resource Management. When employees have the freedom to vote at their personal c onvenience, voting becomes easier for all to do.Maybe your company will be next?