Tips For Writing Resume and Cover Letters - Tips For Job Hunting

Tips For Writing Resume and Cover Letters - Tips For Job HuntingIf you're going to get a job interview then you will need to have a proper resume and cover letter. These two documents should be written to show that you are a good employee and you are doing your best to make the company happy. That is why there are certain resume writing tips that will help you make the best of your skill and knowledge when it comes to resume writing and art skills.It is not enough to have a good resume and cover letter. You should also know how to write a good resume and cover letter. For a resume, it is important to focus on important information and emphasize it. This will make you stand out from all other applicants and will ensure that you get the job.Art skills can help you a lot in your career. It shows that you have a flair for art and can really produce some great designs. You can even add your creative abilities to the resume by including your art skills. If you have been working with differ ent people, then include those works as well and you will show what kind of artist you are.A skilled person can often be hired by an employer, but this does not mean that they are hired without any effort. So, the resume writing tips to follow here are a bit more complex. It is important to show how you can add value to the company and make them proud of you. You can do this by giving your best effort to get the job.A basic resume and cover letter that highlights your art skills will allow you to get noticed. Make sure that you emphasize the details of your skills. Explain your skills in detail. Also make sure that you have written it in such a way that they would remember your resume. You should always remember that a cover letter alone will not get you the job.You can include a few samples of your art skills on your resume. This will give the employer a glimpse into what type of things you can do for the company. Also, make sure that you have included these samples in the email ad dress box. This will allow you to send it with a click of the mouse.The best way to learn the art of resume writing is by studying it by example. This will allow you to take a simple resume and make it into a real art piece. The art skills that you can learn will help you get the job.

Salary Hollywood Actors are Making Less Than They Used To

Salary Hollywood Actors are Making Less Than They Used To So Hollywood pay is stellar? Well, actually, actor, director, and producer compensation is going down. The Hollywood Reporter has released salary trends for 2016, with this startling observation for some of your favorite celebrities. ‘There’s never been a better time to be a CEO,” the magazine said in a blog post on Thursday. “But actors, directors, and producers may want to start clipping coupons.” Sure, it’s a little tongue-in-cheek â€" but for an industry where payouts once knew no limit, the data is shocking nonetheless. Video Player is loading.Play VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time  0:00/Duration  0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type  LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time  -0:00  Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions and subtitles off, selectedAudio TrackFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.PlayMuteCurrent Time  0:00/Duration  0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type  LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time  -0:00  Playback Rate1xFullscreen Here are some noteworthy changes: Movie Stars There was a time, THR notes, when A-list actors would earn $20 to $30 million up front for every picture. Not so these days, when even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, one of the best-paid actors in Hollywood, nabs just (just?) $19 million a film. Leonardo DiCaprio still makes about $25 million per starring role, but he’s in the minority. As a result, some actors are taking more of an ownership stake in films, compared to previous years. As the publication notes: Vin Diesel, who gets paid tens of millions for the Fast Furious movies, recently cut a similar deal for XXX3; sources say he’s getting $1 million up front plus an ownership stake. “More and more of these deals will be happening,” predicts one producer who works in the studio and indie worlds. “It’s smart and modern.” Directors Like actor salaries, director compensation isn’t as clear cutâ€"or as colossalâ€"as it once was. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Interstellar) is said to be nabbing $20?million upfront and 20% of the gross for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, but that far outpaces most. The average director salary for a studio film is in the $750,000 to $1.5 million range, depending on past credits, according to THR. … even a director as esteemed as David Fincher can find himself getting nickeled and dimed when a studio is less certain of a project’s future; Fincher lost Steve Jobs to Danny Boyle because he wouldn’t back down from his $10 million asking price (plus, he wanted control of marketing). Producers First-time producers are faring better than their predecessors salary-wise, but “once you get to the top of the food chain, you hit a ceiling,” THR says. “For the most part, those super-plum deals that used to spew out tens of millions of dollars now are all but extinct, replaced by stingier cash break-even contracts, where producers don’t get paid until the studio recoups its production and marketing budgets.” Big names are still pulling in the big bucks, though. Superstar producers like Scott Rudin (Steve Jobs, Ex Machina) and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Deepwater Horizon, Transformers ) make as much as $2.5?million in upfront cash, plus a percentage of box office earnings, THR observes.

6 Pitfalls Of Copying A Professional Resume - Work It Daily

6 Pitfalls Of Copying A Professional Resume - Work It Daily Recently, I was contacted by a job hunter who wanted an update to his existing resume, a service I offer to former clients in my practice. The resume looked strikingly familiar on some level, but the name didn’t resonate. Then, it hit me: I HAD written itâ€"but for someone else. Professional resume writers encounter this scenario all the time, and for the most part, it’s flattering to think our work is compelling enough to be copied (at least, if we can ignore the obvious part pertaining to copyright law). However, here’s what worries me when I spot a copied rendition of a professional resume (mine or anyone else’s): the copier rarely grasps the branding and building process that went behind it in the first place. Therefore, he’s doing himself a grave disservice by borrowing the format, writing style, and tone, then pasting his career story in between that of someone else. Pitfalls Of Copying A Professional Resume The worst part? The “borrower” often fails to understand this context, and goes right on using it as if it were a coherent and targeted document. So, if you’re determined to make your resume look like the masterpieces that you see on sites like mine, here are six likely problems that you’ll encounter in doing so: 1. You Can Easily Unravel The Original Brand Strategy So… you think you have the same career path and can therefore just “tweak” a word or two? Not so fast. For a resume to be effective, the strategy is set (prior to any writing) based on how well the candidate fits the desired role and the potential for screen-out factors based on his or her personal career path, age, industry preferences, and a host of other factors. I often compare a client’s career path and achievements to others in the industry, pulling out any areas of strength or weakness in credentials (including education and former jobs) to make decisions about word choice and emphasis. The writing process itself only starts after lengthy data mining and analysis of the job goal. Then, content is wrapped around and woven through the strategy, along with personality traits, resulting in a total picture and unique value proposition. Given this process, any changes to the resume by someone who doesn’t understand the candidate will create problems in the message… and while these nuances may go unnoticed by you, they are all key factors in whether a resume gets read or dismissed. 2. You Might Slide Into Generalizations That Blur The Message Here’s what one candidate did with my power summary that described market-leading achievements (including a 70% rise in revenue over 2 years, a totally restructured team and profitable turnaround effort, plus a total obliteration of the competition): “Dedicated and hard working professional with over 12 years of experience in the food service sales and marketing industry, Successful experience in strategic planning, analysis of results, and international media relations.” Ouch. Now, if you haven’t read lists of overused words for resumes, it might be time to do so. Words like “hardworking” or “successful experience” are both no-brainers and would not be taken seriously by employers… plus, they’re a dead giveaway the writer doesn’t know what he is doing when trying to describe himself. 3. You Could Repeat Yourself And put words like “created,” “spearheaded,” and “developed” in the document so many times that they’ll lose their meaning. Hopefully, you’ll refrain from describing all your achievements as “successful” and reference a thesaurus to avoid using the same word four times in one sentence (as I recently saw in a copied document). Here’s where training in power verbs can really save the day. Not convinced? Most professional writers count word occurrences (yes, really) and tend to scan documents for our favorite words, just to ensure employers remain fully engaged in your resume. 4. Your Changes Can Mess Up The Formatting Professional resume writers are masters of presentation and formatting, to the point that they’ll incorporate tricks and nuances into a resume that escape your untrained eye. In fact, just moving a sentence or two will often throw an entire page into disarray, because you’ll be challenged by figuring out how to adjust headings or change point sizes for spacer lines. Worse yet, you might feel the need to shrink the font below 11 points. This should only be done for certain sans serif fonts, and then reviewed on different monitors to verify that the over-40 crowd of employers can read your document. 5. Your Writing Might Suck Up Space (Or Not Make Sense) Professional resume writers specialize in something your English teacher never approved of: sentence fragments. That’s right â€" we boil ideas and full sentences down to the most minute of details in order to avoid that font problem that I just described. Best practices in journalism (you didn't know that resume writers use the Associated Press Stylebook, now did you?) dictate that sentences must be short, conveying meaning in the first 5 to 10 words. (25-word sentences are held up as the Holy Grail.) So, with minimal practice in tight writing, your sentences might be as long as the one I just reviewed in a copied resume: 79 words! It's close to impossible for your resume to pass a 10-second scan with a dense paragraph like this. In addition, lack of parallel sentence structure is a dead giveaway that your resume wasn’t professionally written. Parallel structure means that your sentences are written in alignment with each other (such as fragments that all begin with nouns, or verb forms that consistently appear in past tense). 6. There Won’t Be Any Way To Update Your “Work” Professionally Your personal work style and energy will rarely (if ever) show up in someone else’s document. So, you’re already operating at a severe brand disadvantage before even trying to have someone update the resume for you. Think about it: you started with someone else’s strategy, brand message, tone, and presentation, and tried to plop a mixed bag of verbiage over the original text. Now, it really doesn’t represent you, and this will make it difficult for a professional resume writer to make sense of it without starting fresh (which would have been my advice in the first place). In summary, you can certainly TRY to adopt a professionally written resume as your own, but the pitfalls that can trip you up along the way can actually hurt your job search results. You’re better off pulling in some formatting styles that appeal to you, and writing about your own career historyâ€"from scratch. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!