Job Hunting Tips By A leading Middle East Job Portal

1. Who are you and what do you want?

• Do your career self assessment

• Find your career targets

• Compare with your interest, values, and skills

2. Writing to sell best product YOU!

• Job search is Like selling yourself

• Understand the product YOU

• Position the product (Use planning and Management Skills)

• Emphasize benefits not features

• Add credibility with specific, measurable results (Savings,

%age improvements)

3. One Page Resume rule

• No one page rule

• Recent graduate (1 Page)

• Person with 10 years experience (3-5 Pages)

• Highlight achievements & Success

4. Resume Rules

• Start with most supportive skills that are required

• Professional Qualification

• Career Profile

• Summary of Skills

• Career achievements

5. Select the resume-suitable for you

• Chronological Resume – Recent to last

– Responsibilities, Highlights, achievements, projects

• Functional Resume – Strength of Skills & Qualification

– Suitable when Past job is not related with new job

– Highlight skills, achievements, project

• Combination Resume

6. Sell it to me - don’t tell it to me

• Improved customer satisfaction ratings.

VS

• Increased customer satisfaction ratings from 72 to

97 percent within three months following an intensive employee training Program

• Sell your Knowledge and Success

7. Think Like the Employer

• Determine the target employer’s needs

• Determine your fit for each position

• Make it easy for the resume readers

• Prove your worth through reproducible, quantifiable achievements that reflect your success

8. Job search is a job

• Identify your skills

• Research the job market

• Market yourself in a right way

• Know what employer want

• Develop job leads

• Use time wisely

9. By Pass the HR Departmentnt

• Send one Resume also to

Decision Making Authority

10. Create your own personal brand

• Job search in 21st century is

changed

• Market yourself as package of

benefits

• Employment not for titles but

results

• I did for xyz & more better for

you.

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Al Matrouk Tower, sharq,

Ahmad Al Jaber street,

Kuwait City.

Telephone: 22450936 Or 22450937

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