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Tips from the Grassroots HR Advisor!

Before you start writing out your resume, do a little thinking ~either with a friend, a
counselor, or with a Grassroots Advisor. For a consultation, call Mobile: 09999998480, or
email: career@grassroots.net.in

Worksheet for a Great Résumé

Exercise 1. List Your Contact Details

Name: Professional/Career Objective:

Address: City/State/Pin:

Daytime Phone: Fax: Other:

Mobile: Email:

Exercise 2. What’s In It for Your Prospective Employer?

You will typically be hired on the basis of what you can provide for your prospective employer and their
organization. On your résumé, your value can be expressed as three components:

1. Skills are specific talents that you offer a prospective employer – that is, your ability to contribute
to an employer’s goals and objectives.
2. Qualifications include specific training and preparation, such as academic credentials,
certifications, and licenses. Your qualifications may be formal (a Master’s degree or a driver’s
license or informal (attending training courses, workshops, or seminars), but relevant to a
particular position.
3. Intangibles are neither skills nor qualifications, but they are valuable to an employer just the
same. If a person has a strong and respected reputation in a community or an industry, for
example, this reputation would be a valuable asset to a company that is seeking to make an impact
in that community or industry.

Spend some time thinking about the job responsibilities that you’ve had in the past, or are preparing to
take on. Ask yourself what skills you have that make you employable. How would you answer when an
employer asks: ‘Why should I hire you? How would you contribute to our bottom line?’

A hiring decision is made only to take care of a concern, such as data entry or cloud computing, or
answering phones in an organization. The moment that an employer can see that you posses a skill that is
a match for his or her concern, is when your chances of being hired are better. So be clear about your
value.

Are loyalty, dependability, and hard work skills? NO. These are character traits. Focus on concrete skills.
Avoid fluff and ambiguity. Instead of saying, “I have good communication skills,” go a step further and
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say, “I have good writing, negotiating, and public skills.” Instead of, “I have good people skills,”
consider, “I have outstanding mediation, conflict resolution, and rapport-building skills.”

Sample skills: teaching and empowering – team building/team leadership – management and supervision
– purchasing – bookkeeping/budgeting – accounts payable and receivable – maintenance and repair –
inventory control – public speaking – curriculum development – technical troubleshooting – problem
solving – start-up management – new product introduction – classroom management – meeting planning
– computer programming – expense/cost control – regulatory compliance – customer service

Worksheet: Identify your value message.

After giving it some careful thought, list 10 skills, qualifications, and intangible values that you could
bring to a potential employer. These value messages must answer the question – “Why should I hire
you?”

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Worksheet: Identify Your Career Highlights

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Worksheet: Create Your Personal Profile

Write three sentences that powerfully create who you are for your prospective employer. (Stand in your
prospective employers shoes and listen from over there)

Two Ways to Identify the Right Messages

The 8/90 Rule.

In any résumé, in almost any hiring situation, there are only 6-8 core messages that make 90% of the
difference in getting hired. Just 6 to 8. Either the prospective employer finds them, or doesn’t. Determine
those few significant core messages that, when communicated on a résumé, and supported by evidence
(experience, education, volunteer work, and so on), will trigger action – an interview opportunity.

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