1. Welcome to Isabont 2. Plan your job search campaign.
2.1. What job do you want? 2.2. What company do you want to work for? 2.3. How much time will you devote to the search? 2.4. How are you going to divide your time? 2.5. Do you need a back-up plan? 2.6. How will people contact you? 2.7. What to have scripted? 2.8. Support network.
3. Managing your job search campaign.
3.1. Avoid activity clumping. 3.2. Always set a next action. 3.3. Balancing your activities with your availability. 3.4. Do something different, even totally self indulgent. 3.5. Maintain a hobby, or exercise.
4. Dealing with Procrastination.
4.1. Break tasks down to small enough steps. 4.2. Create little successes for yourself. 4.3. Just do it, it doesn’t have to be perfect. 4.4. Practice in a safe environment. 4.5. View each risk as an experiment. Have fun with it.
5. Networking.
5.1. What is networking? 5.2. The aim of Networking. 5.3. Types of relationships. 5.4. Start networking.
6. Generating list of target companies.
6.1. Researching companies. 6.2. Finding contacts at a company.
7. Informational interviews. 8. Interviewing.
8.1. Preparing for the interview. 8.2. Phone interviews. 8.3. Pre Interview. 8.4. The interview. 8.5. After the interview.
9. Prepare your references. 10. Constructing an elevator pitch.
10.1. Using the elevator pitch in an informal setting. 10.2. Using the elevator pitch when you’re networking by phone.
11. Resumes.
11.1. Types of resumes and their use, when and why.
12. The Chronological Resume.
12.1. The Traditional Chronological. 12.2. The Technical Chronological. 12.3. The Prior Experience Chronological. 12.4. The Education Focus Chronological.
13. The Functional Resume. 14. The Hybrid Resume. 15. Resume sections.
15.1. My contact details. (Required) 15.2. Summary statement (optional). 15.3. Objective statement (optional). 15.4. Selected Achievements. (Optional) 15.5. Key Skills. (Optional) 15.6. Technical skills (optional). 15.7. Employer Section. (Required) 15.8. Position Section. (Required) 15.9. Achievement Section. (Required) 15.10. Education and training. (Required) 15.11. Prior experience. (Optional) 15.12. Membership and affiliations. (Optional) 15.13. Volunteer. (Optional) 15.14. Certificates. (Optional) 15.15. Licenses. (Optional) 15.16. Publications. (Optional)
16. Cover Letter.
16.1. Contact Information and Addressee (Required) 16.2. The opening. (Required) 16.3. The first paragraphs. (Required) 16.4. T-style (Optional) 16.5. Bullets. (Optional) 16.6. Closing Paragraphs. (Required) 16.7. The Closing. (Required) 16.8. Enclosures (Optional)
17. Marketing Letter.
17.1. How to create a Marketing letter. 17.2. The target company section.
18. Reference Letter. 19. Thank you. 20. Acceptance Letter. 21. Rejection Reply Letter. 22. Action Verbs

15.10. Education and training. (Required)

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Usually this section comes after the work history section, but including it towards the top of the resume will focus the reader’s attention on that area and is a good tactic for recent school, college or university leavers who have little or no work experience.

What Education and training to include?

The purpose of the Education/Training Section is to display information about your formal and informal Education and Training that is relevant to the position. Including this information will tell the reader you have attained a certain level of education, and have been adding to your education with additional training or courses. You should aim to include all your Formal Education and qualifications.

Education details.
List the formal education first, including college, junior college or community college, as well as trade school or high school. When you list your formal education, list the most recent first and the rest in date order. Give the name of the school, the city and state, as well as the qualification. It’s not necessary to list your high school if you attended a school beyond high school.

You can still list a college program you did not complete on your resume. One way for people to do this is to list the name of the school, city and state, and then to use phrasing like “50 credits towards B.S. Degree in Psychology” or “Courses in Economics and Sociology.” If you just list the school without an explanation, it could be interpreted that you graduated when you might not have.

It’s fine for you to list your college program major and it’s also acceptable to state that college preparatory classes were your high school focus. For advanced degrees, you will want to list a thesis topic. In any of these educational settings, it’s also fine to list a major and minor course of study, and if you’re a recent college graduates you can list your GPA (grade point average), if it is high, else you may want to consider leaving this out.

Training details.

List your formal training in this section, but it should not become a catch-all for every course you have taken. Again the rule for this section is if it will make a difference, leave it in; if it won’t make a difference, take it out.

This section can contain programs where you were awarded a certificate, but it can also include training that you received on the job or in seminars and workshops.

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