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The Best Way to Learn About Indian Employment News

October 18th, 2011

Employment News is a famous Indian Weekly giving A to Z news about the employment opportunities in India. The weekly is released in English, Hindi and Urdu by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. This journal carries ample information about the various job openings all over India. It also gives useful tips to students who are preparing for various government examinations.

This journal’s fame remains unshaken even in this web dominated era. A copy of this weekly can be found in all the major public libraries. Several rural students who do not have access to internet or any other modern means of communication, consider Employment News weekly as their best guide to land lucrative government jobs.

This weekly is the largest distributed career guidance journal in India. The weekly had helped aspirant Indian youth, interested in Government jobs find a bright future since 1976. Though there were some other journals similar to it like Competition Success Review, Employment News is a unique and one of its kind journals by all means. Here is a slight introduction on what you can find in this knowledge source.

1. Employment News weekly gives details about all the state and central government jobs.

2. The weekly gives news about all the public sector openings, banking jobs and the jobs in educational sector.

3. The weekly gives details about the various examinations necessary to get these jobs and the applications for them.

4. Notifications regarding all the major examinations like Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and the State Services Commission (SSC) are published in this weekly. The results of these exams are also published in the Employment News weekly.

5. Rojgar Samachar is the Hindi version of the weekly. Both versions are available online too.

6. This journal contains applications for all the professional courses in government colleges, details about the fee structure and the examination details.

7. Vacancies in all the autonomous colleges and Universities in India are advertised in this weekly.

8. The editorial section of Employment News weekly features useful articles which help people choose the career best suitable for them. The articles in this section give ample information about the new fields, upcoming opportunities in the less known areas and many more.

9. All the details necessary to write railway, bank and Civil Service exams are provided in this weekly, including the exam dates and application forms.

The target audiences of the weekly are poor rural youngsters. Most of them are first generation school goers in their families. They need a vivid description and guidance of what to do and what not to do when it comes to applying for government jobs. The Employment News weekly journal provides exactly the same. » Read more: The Best Way to Learn About Indian Employment News

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How To Do A Resume – Tips That Get Results – Interview Calls

October 18th, 2011

A Professional Resume is a very important tool today to market yourselves effectively such that you get a job:

  1. That you’d love to do,
  2. Is perfectly suited to your skills and abilities, and,
  3. The pay is more than what you’d expected. (Of course, salary expectations are in general, always more than what you get, but that’s a different issue altogether.)

Ideal Length:
Having said that, let’s focus on the ideal length a successful functional resume format should have. Let’s keep in mind that the length of a fresher/intern/graduate resume will not be the same as that of an experienced candidate. A college student resume (entry-level resume) should have at least 2 pages, while a resume of a professional or an experienced person should have between 2 to 5 pages depending upon his/her work experience. The more the experience, the more space it should occupy on a resume.

Work Experience:
Here, we need to be careful to only include the work experience that is related to the career field that you are applying for. If for example, you are applying for a teaching position, then an ideal teachers resume should not contain work experience related to sales or marketing for that matter. Hope you get what I mean. However, if you’ve had no or very little experience as a teacher, then add the non-related experience by all means, but be careful to keep it short without elaborating on it.

A recruiter or headhunter scans a resume from the thousands that he/she receives for 12 to 25 seconds before deciding whether to keep it in, or, send it to the bin. Thus a Microsoft word resume template that you will send via mail (or upload to a career form on a company website) to recruiters and companies needs to be created in the correct manner.

DO NOT write line after line in your resume, from top to bottom, without hitting the enter button twice. A page on the screen that looks jam-packed with sentences, will not do. The reader will get bored and click delete. To avoid that, break up your page into distinct sections with headings and separate each section with white spaces. Paragraphs consisting of 3 – 4 sentences is ideal. Use Lots of white spaces between paragraphs (Like the way this page is written.)

Ideal Fonts:
Scanning a resume on paper is again very different as compared to scanning a resume online. The font types and sizes should therefore be different as compared to the ones used when printing on paper. Some of the ideal font types and its corresponding sizes to use, so as to make a great impact on the recruiter are:

  1. Arial Narrow with size 11 for text, and size 13 for headings.
  2. Century Gothic with size 9.5 for text, and size 11 for headings.
  3. Verdana with size 9 for text, and size 10 or 11 for headings. » Read more: How To Do A Resume – Tips That Get Results – Interview Calls

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