How to Make Your Personal QR Code. Ever since I installed a barcode scanner app on my phone, I see QR codes everywhere--so naturally I wanted one of my own.
If you too are a barcode-scanning fool, point your phone's camera at this QR code and you'll get a link to my personal web site. Fun! A QR ("quick response") code is a square barcode that makes getting URLs, location coordinates, any text or contact information onto a phone quickly. With a barcode scanner app installed, you just point your phone's camera at the code to read its contents. Here's what reading this QR code looks like on my Android phone, using an app simply called "Barcode Scanner. " To find a scanner application, Google "QR Reader" and the model of your phone.
Encoding a regular URL is a fine use of QR codes--especially lengthy and complicated URLs on movie and event flyers--but one of my favorite uses of QR codes is swapping mobile app recommendations with your friends. How Recruiters See Your Resume. 7 Great Ways to Get Your Resume Noticed. Getting your resume noticed is the first step towards a successful employment, and it may lay down the path of the rest of the recruitment stages.
Sure, your working experience, skills and personalities may very well be the deciding factor as to whether you or the next candidate get employed or not. Yet, if you do not present your qualities in a coherent manner, the recruiter would not be able to objectively assess you as a suitable candidate. Sometimes, recruiters may be carried away by drudgery of work or deadlines and simply missed out a potential employee because the resume doesn’t look very different from the rest of the cohort. It would be such a waste. (Image source: Shutterstock) You need to create a resume that brings out the best of what you possess, and do it in such a way that it looks appealing enough to get their attention. 1.
After reading one resume after another, the HR personnel would probably get sick of a couple of reused words common among resumes. Creative Ways to Improve Your Resume. Yahoo lists eight creative ways to improve your resume as follows: 1. Analyze the job post's wording. An easy way to make sure your resume gets you in the door for an interview is to echo the language in the job post.2. Weed out fibs.3. Get rid of the "objective statement. "4. Here's my take on these suggestions: 6 Resume Red Flags for the Modern Age. As we all know times are changing and the recruitment and candidate market place is changing with it.
Candidates no longer submit hand-written, hard copy resumes; they don’t always interview face-to-face. No-one expects a job for life these days; candidates have a wealth of job search information resources available to them on the Internet and they can apply for jobs at the click of a button. These changes to the recruiting and job seeking landscape are beginning to filter through to the resume short-listing process, which must adapt to suit the modern marketplace. For example, where once a candidate who changed jobs twice in a decade might have seemed unstable, in the modern age this might be the norm and could even constitute a long tenure.
So, I thought it would be a good time to take stock five of the key resume red flags and update them to ensure they are in line with the modern age. 12 Eye-Catching Resume Tips. InShare761 Gone are the days of simply mailing your resume, receiving a call, shaking hands at the interview and agreeing on a start date for that new job.
The Internet has taken over the recruiting landscape and everyone is required to submit a resume online. While that brings greater efficiency to the process for employers, it can be awfully maddening for job seekers. But it doesn’t have to be that way if you know how to navigate the system. Consider these 12 tips before pressing “submit:” 1) Search job boards and the websites of employers that appeal to you. 2) Use a highlighter to mark the keywords and industry language used to describe the requirements and responsibilities of each position. 3) Compare those words and phrases to the language that appears in your current resume. 4) Figure out how and where to add the most relevant keywords to your resume, assuming you have the specific knowledge, skills and experience.
How to Write a Résumé That Doesn't Annoy People - David Silverman. 10 Things to Leave Off Your Resume. What you don't include on your resume can be as important as what you do include.
Here are 10 things you should leave off: 1. An objective. Resume objectives never help and often hurt. Not only do they feel outdated at this point, but they're all about what you want, rather than what this stage of the hiring process is all about--what the employer wants. 2. [Related: 10 Things Your Interviewer Won't Tell You] One exception to this rule is if the job was short-term because it was designed that way, like contract work or, say, working on a political campaign. 3.