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If you are good with resumes can you suggest me how to prepare a good looking resume? I have two masters degrees (MBA and MPA) from United States colleges and since I couldn't find a job I am returning back to my home country. Needed a work permit unfortunately.This makes me so upset. Does US companies evaluate resumes from out of country? Please answer seriously. My suspicion is that your inability to find work in the US has nothing to do with you resume or CV. Rather it has everything to do with your visa status. As you state, you do not have a work permit. If you were here on a student visa (F1), you can't really get career type employment. And if you applied with companies in the US, the firms who you applied with probably couldn't or didn't want to get you a Specialty Occupation visa (H1B). US companies do evaluate resumes from outside the US -- but it presupposes that you have a skill set that is unavailable from a domestic candidate. Remember: the cost of getting you a visa equates to increased hiring costs. Because you don't offer the particulars of your personal situation, I can only offer you general advice: 1. Tailor your resume to each job that you apply for. Remember that employers are risk adverse. They want someone who they can put into a position and get productivity almost immediately. Assume that they lack imagination; be able to explain how you are qualified for the job. 2. To demonstrate (1), when you mention work experience and internships, try to explain how that experience has prepared you for the job in question. Don't loose all hope. I have a friend. She's an assistant district attorney. She's Canadian. Resumes should be concise and very to the point! Pay special attention to focusing on a specific position if that is possible in your situation. As far as whether or not US companies will review resumes from outside the US, yes they will. Typically they are looking for the best candidate for the position(s) they are looking to fill. They don't pay a lot of attention to where the resumes are coming from. Be certain that you are eligible for a work visa, etc. This is very important now in the US!!!! Besides setting all margins to 1", the most important criteria for setting up a professional resume besides relevant text, is "scanability." Here are some helpful tips: 1. Place just below your identification header [your hame, address, phone, email address] any Conditional Warning Statement such as "Confidential Resume,"Do Not Contact Current Employer," etc. 2. Always fill-in an Objectives category [just below the Conditional Warning Statement] and make sure that he Objective will contribute to the profitability of your future employer; 3. Select a mono-type font such as Helvetica, Arial, Courier or Times Roman; do not select any cursive handwriting styles which cannot scanned; 4. Keep font sizes within a range of 10 to 12 pts.; 5. Avoid styling text with a justified alignment, keep it flushed left; 6. Instead of using tabs to set up blocked text entries, generate a table and use the column and row settings accordingly; 7. Do not place an i.d. picture anywhere on the resume, this is a major taboo due to discrimination issues; 8. Do not place any graphic text [saved as .gifs] onto the resume since it may be overlooked during the scanning phase; 9. List at the very end of the resume your interests which should include travel experiences, language skills, social interactions such as golf, team sports, tennis, etc. In conclusion, the above helpful hints were designed to allow ease of scanning of your resume into PDF which can then be text captured for seach purposes by your potential employer. Failure to conform the resume to appropriate fonts and styles as outlined above will result in rejection of the resume simply due to the inability of the scanning device to properly index relevant resume entries. Good luck! |
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