How to plan for re-employment or return to work or school Part Seven
December 15th, 2005 by Terry Keith
Creating a Selling Tool for Yourself and Others
The process of creating a resume can help you clarify your direction, qualifications, and strengths; boost your confidence; and/or start the process of committing to a job or career change.
The resume is an advertisement.
A great resume doesn’t just tell what you’ve done but asserts that, if you buy this product, you will get these specific, direct benefits.
It presents you in the best light.
It convinces the potential employer, banker, scholarship fund, landlord, volunteer organization:
that you have what it takes to be successful.
That you have the requisite educational level, number years’ experience, stability etc.
It establishes you as a person with high standards and good writing skills, based on the fact that the resume is clear, well-organized, well-written, well-designed and uses quality printing and paper.
For persons in the art, advertising, marketing, or writing professions, the resume can serve as a sample of their creativity.
This entry was posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2005 at 1:05 am and is filed under Drug Addiction, Drug Rehab. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
December 16th, 2005 at 3:26 am
I definitely appreciate this last line of job prep pointers alot. Few endeavors were so hard for me after leaving treatment than finding a job. It took me persistance, organization & a bit of luck to finally land one. I could never have done that while still drinking & using.
However, one of the things that I had to learn to prepare for was anticipating the bumps along the way. Even after someone lands a job, there’s no way at all that every day will be smooth. At times, co-workers may cause problems, or circumstances might just be a bit more difficult than we had suspected. Either way, if someone has first conquered the underlying problems of his/her addiction, then these bouts of turbulence should be handled with ease. The future gets better & better indeed!
This is one of the points that we stress in the Passages Malibu Drug Treatment Program. Our rehab program founder, Chris Prentiss, just recently even published an entire book on curing alcoholism & addiction devoted to the principles behind this incredible new strategy for alcohol & drug rehabilitation. I would encourage anyone to read it.
Good luck everyone!
*ap