Tips for Effective CV

Begin with name and contact details :

Make this information available at the beginning of your CV. Try ready sample resumes available in MS word .This should include your postal address, phone number (preferably mobile number) and e-mail address (only one). If a company wants to call you for an interview or needs to communicate with you for any further information, they will look out for this information. If it is buried somewhere inside the CV it will not only put them off but also reduce their chances of contacting you.

Write an appealing career summary
This is your chance to bring forward relevant strengths and skills to the recruiter. Everything in your CV should support your Career Summary. If there's anything that doesn't support your Career Summary, you should reconsider listing it.

You should write your Career Summary around your skills, attitude, knowledge and experience. There are two schools of thought on writing the career statement.

Some people think that it should be a short 30-40 word paragraph while others give it liberty to be covered in 4-5 bulleted points. Whatever you decide on, ensure that everything relevant that you want to sell to the prospective employer is covered here. At the same time, it should not become nauseating.

Focus on your work experience, responsibilities and achievements
If you are an experienced candidate, your work experience is your main asset. Include the details of the relevant jobs you have done in the past. You should present your work experience in a chronologically descending order ie the last company first.

This should include the name of the company, your designation and tenure followed by your job responsibilities and achievements. It is always better to present this information in bulleted format rather than a clumsy paragraph. Mention some figures when you talk about your achievements.

For example:
Worked as Business Development Manager for XYZ Company from June 2000 to January 2004.

Job responsibilities:
• Setting up 7 franchisees across 4 countries
• Maximising the business from existing customers to the tune of $ 200,000

Your next asset is your educational qualification
Educational qualifications play an important role in the recruitment of freshers. If you are a fresh candidate, focus your CV on your qualifications and achievements during your student life.

Write about your out-of-work achievements, interests and hobbies
These reflect your personality and skills. Present the relevant achievements in the order of priority ie the most important achievement first. Similarly, present your interests as well. Write about the achievements that display a facet of your personality. For example, if you have been the president of your college, do mention it. It shows your leadership skills.

Short sentences with more impactful words
Lengthy CVs put the recruiter off. Keep the sentences short and use words that demonstrate your hold of the situation like managed, arranged, supervised etc.

Formal font faces
A font like Verdana-10 should be good for the content while the Name at the top can be written in Verdana-12, with a bold font face.

Use the same tense through out the CV.
Changing the tense in every second line leaves the reader confused and annoyed.
Now, put together both the articles ie 12 things your CV should not have and 8 things to make an impressive CV. Draft and re-draft your CV keeping the points mentioned, till you are satisfied that you have presented the facts in the most impressive and convincing way.

Trick To Increase Browsing Speed for IE and Firefox

You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 fast too. Browsers are designed to work with fast connections but with this trick even dial-up users can experience fast and smooth browsing.

Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed

I shall be teaching you two tricks which work separately on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn’t require you to be some expert rather all you have to do is change some registry values and you are done. I have also included a video tutorial for those who want to see it step by step visually. This is perhaps one of the oldest tricks to optimize Firefox and IE but it still works great.

Trick to Increase Firefox Speed

1. Open firefox and in the address bar write about:config and press enter
2. Double click network.http.pipelining and set it to True
3. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set value to 10 from 4
4. Right click and create a new string nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0

You are done. Enjoy lightning fast Firefox browsing and now for IE.

Trick to Increase Internet Explorer Speed

1. Go to Start –> Run and type regedit
2. Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –> Internet Settings
3. Increase the values (DECIMAL) from default to a higher value e.g. 10

See the difference in speed of IE

Here you go with a step by step video tutorial

Don’t forget to apply this tweak and share your thoughts if the magics work and don’t forget to bookmark this post too.

Simple Ways to Learn Foreign Language

Now days every one flies to US, UK, Russia, Singapore, Germany & many more countries for better scope for higher studies. Except US & UK, at other places these students have to adjust with foreign language as native speak specifically in their National language & not English. At present many institutes & some Universities teach these foreign languages so that students will get used to it. There are many online sites which can provide you information about this. Most of them provide info about French, German, Italian, Russian; Japanese & Chinese languages as number the Indians tend to learn these languages are more than others.

There are two types learning, i.e. learn whole word at a time & second is learn each alphabet & its phonograms then combine it. Indians English speaking style is different than Europeans or Us people as we speak each word clearly while they tend to silent some alphabets while speaking. For basic information regarding please visit www.internationalparentingassocition.org .

www.abroadlanguages.com will provide reasons why one must learn foreign language. For example take French language; according to the above site French language is an official language of 33 countries all over the world. It’s a mother tongue of 7 crore peoples. This site provides info about opportunities one can get after learning this language. Some sites provide online courses which can help you while learning. First everything will be explained in English & then it will be translated in the language you wish to learn. Multimedia facility makes your efforts more precise as you learn word with pronunciation details.

www.word2word.com site provides you an option of learning total 85 languages which includes Indian & Foreign languages. www.foreignlanguagehome.com is site created & supported by various Teachers all over the world. They provide online resources for learning in which different schools, teachers & private institutes chip in.

http://french.about.com is a useful site for beginners, blog readers, people searching for online dictionary & many more. For German language try www.deutch-lemen.com which is a practical site. It proves you info language, learning tips, Jokes, study material & yes one more thing you start new friendship with your German friend over here. www.learn-japanese.info provides basic learning material Japanese Language. They made it so simple that it brings your KG memories alive. It starts with symbols & then step wise takes you to small sentences, followed by complex one.

“Languages shape the way we think & determines what we can think about.”

Wanna play games while your boss thinks you’re working really hard???

Most of us get bored during office hours, why? The main culprit is those monotonic processes set by some stupid HR / over efficient person’s who considers human being similar to those dumb terminals. Now days workstation in most of the MNC’s are turning into processing ends & nothing more than that, they just need human support for final confirmation (Lock kiya jaye?) or to resolve any error if occurs.

Now days there are no listless Friday evenings that uses to drag on endlessly before the weekend or those days when there use to be less pressure. So many time, how to slay time in the work place, never appears. But, if this question appears in front of you any time then we have some solution for my dear friend. Following games will allow you to have some fun & look into important documents at a same time. These are internet based games that requires no installations & are completely free, take your pick & start gaming.

Cautions: While your boss walks by, remember to hit Alt + Tab or Alt + f4. Your Company must provide you free internet access, if some sites are locked then try using proxy sites to access following sites.

TIP TAP TAP GET SET GO

This game is for those who really loves to type (May be steno, typist falls in this category perfect… ohh yes how we can forget boss secretary over here), Type Racer www.play.typeracer.com is a perfect solution. This is a quite interesting game as this one lets you car-race against your best / office buddies, only thing is that instead of hitting the joystick/arrow keys, hit the keyboard with those dancing fingers. This game tests your typing speed per minute & awards you points based on it. First you will get small paragraph or few lines from popular books, films or a song which you have to simply type minus errors. So let those fingers fly, when green light turns on. Less the errors more the chance to become winner.

SHOOT ZOMBIES

Federal law or CRPC might stop you from physically hurting an irritating boss/colleague. Then try The Last stand 2 www.armorgames.com/play/1443/the-last-stand-2/ , when only atrocities will bring respite. This game provides you a chance to collect ammo & shot down those zombies at sight. Your eyes will be delighted with its graphical detailing while searching for ammunition. But what’s more fun is night time play; you get to massacre hordes of enemies with cool old chain saws & reduce them to a puddle of gore.

MIND BLOGGERS

This game is only for those who like playing quick mind twisting games. Then log on to Lunch Timers www.lunchtimers.com , for regular time pass. There are bunch of games for regular time wasters such as Sudoku, checkers, scratch-pad, jigsaw & many more. Lunch timers do have an interesting game called ‘Letters’, a game with letter magnets on a virtual fridge that can be played in multiplayer mode. Just think of it, dozen of people are trying to spell out words simultaneously. Simply you don’t have to keep thinking – just give it a shot, but make sure that your boss won’t be there or get fired!!

SCORCH THE EARTH

www.letsmakeagame.com provides you endless list of browser-based games to pick from their list, but the best pick is Scorching Earth. The Game Vault section on the above website will give you an access to various games such as tic-tac-toe is smashed with chess!! The only place where you can earn actual points so that you can burn down the earth. Here your goal is to burn the land on your level to score points while battling with dozens of obstacles on the way & ya conserving fuel too. More complexities as you become master in it. Good place for those who have fire in belly.