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9 Steps to writing a Perfect Resume

                                 9 Steps to writing a Perfect Resume

Your resume is only as good as the information you provide that about you. Make sure you’re prepared with this list of points about yourself.

Are you struggling with writing the perfect resume? If the answer is yes, you’re not alone. According to a recent Top Resume study, only 24 percent of professionals described themselves as “confident in their resume-writing ability.” This means that 76 percent of professionals are insecure about their resume and resume-writing skills as a whole.

With that said, whether you’re planning to use a professional resume-writing service or give it a go on your own, it’s important to take some time to prepare for your resume rewrite. Your resume will only be as good as the information about yourself has to work with. Gather the following details ahead of time to craft a powerful document that effectively tells your story and markets your qualifications to help you land your dream job.

Contact information:

While this section may seem obvious, there are a few factors to consider. For instance, how will you display your name? Are you planning to use a nickname, such as Bob, or will you use your full name for the job search? Whichever you choose, make sure you consistently represent your name on all your personal branding materials such as your business cards, LinkedIn profile, and online portfolio or blog.

Select one email address and one phone number to include on your resume. I recommend setting up an email address that’s dedicated to your job-search activities and using your cell phone number on your resume, as this gives you the ability to control the voicemail message, who answers the phone, and when.

Online presence:

 

A job site social media recruiting survey found that 93% of recruiters will search in online profiles before they decided to interview you. Save the time of the recruiter by including the URL to your LinkedIn profile. In addition to your LinkedIn account, the perfect resume must contain any links that are relevant to your work, such as a personal website, portfolio, or blog.  If your Work involves social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram etc. So, that the recruiter may attract to your resume.

Sample job descriptions:

When you’re writing the perfect resume, it should be perfect and that will support a specific job goal of your job. One of the best ways to ensure your resume is properly mentioned is to identify sample job descriptions that you’re interested in and qualified to perform.

Search information in Google and gather a few highlights the points that which are suitable for your position that represents the type of position you’re targeting. It doesn’t matter if the location is ideal; for this purpose, you should only be concerned with the job description and its requirements.

Copy and paste the text of the description itself into a Word or Google document and then highlight the important points or bold any requirements or desirable skills from the posting you possess. This will help you or your writer identify which of your qualifications should be showcased throughout the resume.

Your professional experience:

Start with your most recent job and work your way backward. The perfect resume should detail out all your professional positions within the past 15 years. If you served in the military or held a board position, list this experience as you would any other role in your work history. If you recently graduated from college, include your internships and any work experience that took place since you entered college.

For each role, list the following information:

Company Name and URL

Job Title: If your title is very specific to your organization, you can include a translation of sorts in parentheses next to your official job title.

Start and End Dates: Include the month and year for each of these dates.

Job Description: Think about your roles and responsibilities as they relate to the job and your target role. This is especially important if you’d like to change careers. Include details such as how many people you have managed in your team, the territories you covered, etc.

Achievements: Brainstorm a list of your accomplishments and major contributions that benefited the organization during your tenure. The number of achievements you provide will depend upon how long you remained in that role and how relevant it is to your current job goals. Quantify your accomplishments whenever possible; for instance, how did you help save the company money, generate revenue, improve customer satisfaction, increase productivity, and so forth? If you have an existing resume, only include new details in this section. There’s no reason to repeat anything that already appears in your current resume.

Early career history :

If you’ve been in the workforce for over 15 years, chances are you have a few positions that got left out of the previous section. Before you get started writing the perfect resume, make a list of the job titles you held, the names of each employer, the locations where you worked, and your dates of employment for these roles. While the dates will likely not get used in your resume, it’s good to have a clear record of your earlier experiences for the writer.

Volunteer work :

Have you been actively volunteering with a non-profit organization? Skills-based volunteering (SBV) is a great way to fill an employment gap or supplement your work history when you’re trying to change careers.  Please list any volunteer work you’ve done that’s relevant to your current job goals in chronological order, beginning with your most recent work. If you’re new to the workforce, include any campus activities or clubs in which you were active.

A perfect resume should include the name of the organization and its website URL, the positions you held, your years of involvement, and your responsibilities and contributions to the non-profit. Looking for new volunteer opportunities? Visit sites such as Catch afire and Volunteer Match.

Professional affiliations :

List any relevant professional organizations or affiliations you’re a member of that aren’t listed on your resume. For each group, please list its name and URL, when you became a member, and what positions you held. If you took an active role in the organization, describe your responsibilities and any notable achievements.Interested in joining a new membership group? Check out this directory of professional associations for suggestions or research which groups your peers and managers belong to. You can often find this information on their LinkedIn profiles.

Language skills:

Language skills can be a great selling point on your resume. If you’re multilingual, be sure to list each language you speak and your proficiency level.

Education and professional development:

Create a record of all your education, beginning with your most recent degree. List the institution, its location, the name of your degree, your major and minor, your graduation year, and any honors associated with the degree, such as summa or magna cum laude. Do the same for any relevant certifications you’ve obtained or additional training opportunities or workshops you’ve attended.

Third-party feedback:

Have you received positive customer testimonials or a great performance review? Include this information in your preparation materials. You or your professional resume writer may be able to work some of this information into your resume to demonstrate your hard and soft skills in the workplace.

While this may feel like a lot of work, by taking the time to examine your career now, you’ll see the benefits on your future resume. A perfect resume is within reach!

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Amazing Candidate Experience: Key to Hiring Success

            Amazing Candidate Experience: Key to Hiring Success

 

Amazing Candidiate Experience : Key to SuccessBeing in recruitment for more than 12+ years now, we have seen many companies succeeding as well as failing miserably to attract and hire great talent.

Usually, most of the company’s hiring strategies focus on sourcing/reaching to candidates or on compensation/ benefits or branding. In the blow of hiring most of the companies are forgetting and focussing of Candidate experience.
Here there are some important points which we gathered from the various sources :

  • About 46% of job applicants rate their interview experience to be poor.
  • About 58% candidate say they don’t receive regular updates
  • About 52% of job applicants felt that they were not treated as individual

This basically implies that these are candidates, which are :

  • Unlikely to join you
  • Unlikely to recommend their friends and family to join you
  • Unlikely to buy your products or services in the future

Now that we know what bad candidate experience does, let us we share few points which we believe really that are important for ensuring great candidate experience.

First Impression Is The Best Impression :

Considering the current times, everything is available at a click of the button,so its important to have the right mails, relevant information on website & social media etc easily accessible, also the right job descriptions are not just skills, but really you are hiring for ease in search and applying for the job are important.

Time is Money : 

Don’t waste candidate’s time, respond promptly to calls and e-mails of candidates. Keep them updated about progress. Ground-rule is to treat your candidate as he/she is your customer.

Personalization:

Make sure that you are providing a personalized touch to each of your candidates, respond to them as you would expect yourself to be responded when you are applying for a job.

Remember that every candidate is not just an applicant but they are the bridge that connects you future hires or prospective customers. Each & every great experience will not just be a hire but a start of something great.

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How does the future look like in IT Outsourcing Industry

           How does the future look like in  IT Outsourcing Industry

Outsourcing has always been forced by –only for it to rise to new levels of scale and innovation. with the development of the user of cloud computing, companies will very unlikely to prefer having their own set of IT assets and infrastructure. A simple “Sublet and use” model is something which helps them to be free for maintaining &  handling the problems of their own related  IT infrastructure and the very same time, it is available at a cost-effective price too.  In fact, that the revenue for a majority of outsourcing service providers came from application development, application maintenance, and implementation, and the fact that there was no software to install, maintain or develop in the cloud computing model – the cloud computing was seen as a threat to the outsourcing model. Today, outsourcing service providers have been converted the cloud threat to an opportunity by offering services to organizations who want to build their own private clouds or those who want to migrate from traditional on-premise solutions to the cloud computing. In summary, outsourcing will remain the same and will continue to remain with an imposing force – through the scale and the types of services to be offered in the future it may differ extra-ordinary.

Do you want to see them, how would be the future of outsourcing really look like? The speed with which we see a shift in trends and technologies in the IT industry, it is really tough to take a viewpoint and comment on the IT sector where is IT Outsourcing heading to? Still few macro trends are there that we can see on the horizon, and which can form the core components of outsourcing business models in the near upcoming trends. In below there are some of the few trends, which we feel would play a very important role in deciding the future of IT outsourcing industry.

Trend1: A technology changes to “Everything as a Service” :

Started with “Software-as-a-service” to”Infrastructure-as-a-service” to “Platform-as-a-service”, thanks to the cloud, we have reached a state where the model has been changed to “Everything-as-a-service”. Today, most of the services are offering in a virtual way. So hence Customers, will not worry where the service is coming from. The word ‘offshore outsourcing’ may lose its relevance and a more appropriate word such as ‘virtual sourcing’ may eventually take its place. Services are consumed by a self-service model and will require minimum intervention from the service provider. While today we already have Storage-as-a-service, Communications-as-a-service, Network-as-a-service, and monitoring-as-a-service, the future will represent a catalog-driven model, where customers will pick and choose services off the shelf with defined expiry dates.

Trend 2: Future belongs to automated self-service platforms : 

Most IT Services are now commutated and this trend is most likely to stay in the future. We will define outsourcing service providers has the ability to offer automated self-service platforms which will allow customers to use the platforms of the service providers for performing tasks such as testing or development. Organizations will have the option of creating their own tasks on these self-service platforms, and monitor them using practical tools which are provided by service providers. For example, a customer may use a standard platform of a service provider to centralize processes and apply common standards and rules to ensure consistent practices across global locations. Using steps and processes clearly defined in the platform, global organizations can apply automated technologies to enforce enterprise policies.

Trend 3: Coming together with an “Investor-Venture” mindset :

In the upcoming generation, we may see organizations take an investor like to reach and fund joint initially with outsourcing service providers, where both sides invest to create a favorable risk-reward ratio. The co-creation can be in the form of products or service-led modernization, where the client organization looks to make investments to boost up the business to the service provider’s capability to develop products or modernized services and reduce time to market. This will not be similar to marketing alliances but will involve the significant amount to improve the processor system innovation. The same product or service may then be offered to other clients of the service providers, the service provider and client gets equally shared the revenues and profits. For example, a large airline can be used to its knowledge and expertise to a cloud hosting company to build a core solution for other small airlines to built frameworks., in association with a technology service providers.

Trend 4: Crowd Sourcing :

While crowdsourcing refers to the art of using the power of the crowd to solve problems or tasks, it has not been harnessed to its full potential in the world of outsourcing. Going beyond the usual tasks of crowdsourcing, outsourcers will seek the help of the community in developing an algorithm, code a new program or create a new method to build a better IT architecture. To do this, outsourcers may set up a managed crowdsourcing model with the help of service providers, who may define the way the process must work through a well-defined workflow or template. Crowdsourcing has the potential to dramatically alter the way outsourcing is done today, as it allows outsourcers to tap individual talent located in disparate corners of the world. Crowdsourcing can also help outsourcers develop quality solutions, as the community can rank the best solution for a particular issue or problem.

Trend 5: Outcome-oriented models :

With the growing adoption of cloud computing and the popularity of the “pay for what you use’ to reach, One can expect outsourcing agreements to be defined by outcome-based models where the service provider gets a huge opportunity to demonstrate its capability based on the level of efficiencies to achieve or the market share gained. This is a win-win situation for both the service provider and the client, as it focuses on the value generated by the deal.
However, as customer value is not a static asset, service providers will need to continuously reinvent themselves as markets emerge, technologies change, economies rise or fall and most importantly change based on what customers want and expect. If they succeed in doing so, they can easily convert small projects into engagements and engagements into long-term relationships.

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Future of IT Staffing in India

       Future of IT Staffing in India  

The Rapid growth of MNC’s is double raised with a great domestic organization’s ventures. Our Country India has placed in highest Position for the demand for staffing is like never before in the past decades. The whispers in the Indian market are that the staffing & recruitment in India is expected to grow more significantly by upcoming years.

Recently, Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), The top body of flexible-staffing industry in India comprising of about 30 members from the staffing industry, organized a National Conclave on Staffing – ‘The future of Employment to energize the recognition of staffing as a choice of employment both by employers and society’. It was noted that at a time of prospering the economy back, staffing could be a strategic and cost-effective approach taken by the companies.

In Staffing, India is one of the top countries among the five top nations in Staffing Services. “By the Economic Survival report, it becomes the more viable to make necessary provisions, like setting up guidelines to encourage the contract staffing in areas of roles, industries where it can add topmost value”.

India has been predicting to be among in the all largest staffing countries along with Brazil, China, and South Africa by the global staffing market. Staffing in India, like other developing countries, is at a very vital juncture as a large proportion of the workforce belongs to the unorganized sector having low or almost no social security. From current global experience, the demand for flexible staffing (for providing flexible solutions to both workers and employers) would increase predominantly in the coming years. In 2013, a modest growth rate was noted in the Indian Job market, owing to the increasing number of executive search firms and large-scale hiring by the public sector.

According to a report by Staffing Industry Analysts, the Indian staffing industry is estimated at Rs 26,650 crore, wherein flex (flexible) staffing accounts for 75% and is worth Rs 19,900 crore, permanent recruitment accounts for 12%  (worth Rs 3,250 crore) and other services 13 % (Rs 3,500 crore).

Nowadays the contract staffing increasing day-by-day.! The main reason for incessant contract staffing is to reduce risk factors and as a strategy to extenuate the risk uncertainty associated with the inflow of projects. It is something to do with the way the companies do their project costing. In real Life, contract staffing is lavish than the regular staffing except that the overhead in expenditure is less & Also, most of the contract staffing is for short-term assignments. Generally, no company wants to have regular staff for their 100 %requirements, and go for contract staff for 30 – 40 % of the total capacity requirement. This trend will continue irrespective of the quality issue because no company will be completely sure of their project inflows. Hence, contract staffing will continue to flourish.

Staffing Services by Bloom Software Consulting, Contract Staffing, temporary staffing.

 

 

Recruitment in the Social Media Platforms: Moving Toward an Intelligent Future

          Social Media Platforms: Moving Toward an Intelligent Future in Hiring

 

The rise of the social media platform is rapidly changing the rules of the recruitment game. Employee loyalty is on them degeneration, leading to growing talent attrition. This is also in part due to changing workforce demographics such as greater participation from a demanding millennial population. At the same time, unrestricted online marketing of jobs and ubiquitous connectivity have led to resume overload – recruiters are inundated with resumes, making it challenging to identify quality candidates. With more than 40% of all global employers reporting a shortage of talent, competition for human resources has become fierce – a situation further aggravated by the emergence of small and agile companies.

The result: Increased cost of hire without a corresponding increase in key performance indicators (KPIs) such as time-to-hire or quality of hire. It’s becoming increasingly clear to staffing organizations that they will need to move away from traditional decision-making models and adopt data-driven decision making to deliver greater value and efficiency.

How Social Media Platforms Helps Recruiters in Hiring : 

Several staffing leaders at global companies are making the digital (Social Media Platforms) transformation of their recruitment function a strategic priority. According to Global Recruiting Trends 2017, 39% of participants are looking to invest in new technologies while another 34% want to focus on innovative recruitment tools for assessment and interviews. Rapidly and creatively deploying innovative solutions leveraging next-gen technologies can help drive recruitment success in the new digital world.

  • Mobiles & Social Media Platforms underpinned by analytics for recruiting on the move.
  • Sharpening market and candidate intelligence to identify and target top candidates.
  • Enabling data-driven recruitment to achieve superior efficiencies and agility.
  • Deploying artificial intelligence and automation for competitive advantage.

To stay ahead, constantly look for ways to future-proof recruitment : 

As a purely information-driven function, recruitment is being impacted by digital disruption more than any other industry. Emerging technologies such as blockchain have the potential to further transform the industry. The candidate database, which has so far been a source of competitive advantage to staffing organizations, can come under threat as all essential information about candidates can be shared on a secure immutable blockchain network. This, in turn, can make candidate resumes redundant and disintermediate the entire value chain! However, the situation would be better if blockchain and smart contract based autonomous recruitment systems are explored as new revenue streams. It’s time to reinvent business models and make these technologies the engines of future growth and success.