A Great Resume Has Two Basic Sections

In the first, you make assertions about your abilities, qualities and achievements. You use powerful, but honest language that makes the reader immediately perk up and realize that you are someone special
The second section, the evidence section, is where you back up your assertions with evidence that you actually did what you said you did
This is where you list and describe the jobs you have held, your education, etc.

The Objective

Ideally, your resume should convey why you are the perfect candidate for one specific type of job, or a specific job. Effective advertising is directed toward a specific target audience.
Let’s look at a real world example:
Suppose the owner of a small software company puts an ad in the paper seeking an experienced software sales person. A week later they have received 500 resumes. The applicants have a bewildering variety of backgrounds. The employer has no way of knowing whether any of them are really interested in selling software. They know that many of the resumes are from people who are just using a shotgun approach. Then they come across a resume in the pile that starts with the following:
“OBJECTIVE - a software sales position in an organization seeking an extraordinary record of generating new accounts, exceeding sales targets and enthusiastic customer relations

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.

Motivation

Monitor your behaviour and keep records of your progress to bring yourself closer to your goals.
Practice relaxation techniques, reduce stress in your environment and plan ahead to stay calm and productive
Seek out people who appreciate you and settings that reward you.
This should all sound very familiar or will as this should be a core component of any program quality drug rehab program.

A Work History

As part of changing your life, whether you plan to seek work, go to school, return to the same job, volunteer, sit on a board, get an apartment, apply for a loan. . .
You need a current resume
Building a resume will help you look at your past accomplishments and formulate new goals.
Looking at your job history is an important part of assessing the impact of your past addiction on your employment and the impact of your employment on your past addiction.

Skill and Will

What can you do about lack of motivation at work or school?

Willing yourself to be motivated doesn’t work.
Skill and will, is the best way to change oneself.
Anyone can learn and practice new skills.
Skill acquisition has many advantages over will power alone.
Skill acquisition prepares you for the long-term; gathering up courage might get you through the next few minutes, but it’s hard to count on for the long-term.
The right set of skills will help you reach your goals and manage changing conditions such as a new boss or job.

Increasing Your Work/School Motivation

Create a workspace that helps energize you, and you surround yourself with people who bring out your best.
Use visualization techniques, thought-restructuring techniques and affirmations to keep yourself thinking positively.
Make both short-term and long-term goals, and formulate plans for how to achieve them.
Maintain a healthful lifestyle, exercise regularly, get adequate sleep and eat right to keep your energy high .
Make commitments to yourself and to others to arrange both positive and negative consequences for your behaviour.

Showing You Are Task Oriented

TASK CUES
reasonably rapid speech rate
eye contact
verbal fluency
choosing the head of the table
fluid gestures
well-moderated voice tone

DOMINANCE CUES
loud voice
angry tone
pointing fingers
lowering eyebrows
stiff posture
forceful gestures

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Showing You Are Task Oriented

How you present influences perceived competence.
Studies show women are still interrupted more and deemed to have less managing prowess, leadership ability, self-confidence, and business skill than men.
A domineering approach doesn’t work for men or women.
Ability to build a good rapport with clients, workers and managers is highly valued.
Women and men need to learn and demonstrate actions that imply ability and competence.
Studies reveal task cues imply competence and dominance cues imply control and threat.
Men and women who exhibit task cues are viewed as more competent, group-oriented, and likable. Those showing dominance cues are thought of as self-oriented and disliked.
In the workplace, poise, attitude, and approach matter more than most people realize.