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Objective (optional)
What do you want to do? If you include this section it should be a sentence or two about your employment goals. A customized objective that describes why you are the perfect candidate for the job can help your resume stand out from the competition.

Career Highlights / Qualifications (optional)
A customized section of your resume that lists key achievements, skills, traits, and experience relevant to the position for which you are applying can serve dual purposes. It highlights your relevant experience and lets the prospective employer know that you have taken the time to create a resume that shows how you are qualified for the job.

Experience
This section of your resume includes your work history. List the companies you worked for, dates of employment, the positions you held and a bulleted list of responsibilities and achievements.

Company #1
City, State
Dates Worked

Job Title
Responsibilities / Achievements
Responsibilities / Achievements

Company #2
City, State
Dates Worked

Job Title
Responsibilities / Achievements
Responsibilities / Achievements

Education
In the education section of your resume, list the colleges you attended, the degrees you attained, and any special awards and honors you earned.

College, Degree
Awards, Honors

Skills
Include skills related to the position / career field that you are applying for i.e. computer skills, language skills.

References available upon request
There is no need to include references on your resume. Rather, have a separate list of references to give to employers upon request.

Customize Your Resume
In all cases, be sure to personalize and customize your resume, so, it reflects your skills and abilities and connects them with the jobs you are applying for.

Many companies use recruiting management software to screen applicants for jobs. When you use resume keywords that match the jobs you’re applying for it will increase the chances of your resume being compatible with a job that’s open and your resume showing up in the hiring manager’s search results. There are also other ways to write your resume so it stands out from the pack.

Here’s advice on how to write a resume including choosing a type of resume, using resume templates, resume writing tips, and where to get help with resume writing.

What you wear counts right down to, for women, your pantyhose. I received more feedback than I ever imagined when I asked whether you should wear pantyhose to an interview. To take it a step further, everything you wear matters, regardless of your gender. Nobody, in a professional setting, wants to see your your underwear. And that really does mean nobody. It shouldn’t show.

It’s important to know how not to dress for an interview and how you should dress for an interview, because that first impression really does make a big difference in whether you get considered for a second interview or a job offer.

Also, before you go, brush up your interviewing skills and review the standard interview questions that you’ll be asked.

Illusions of lightness and brightness can help reveal the nature of lightness computation in the human visual system.

It appears that low-level, mid-level, and high-level factors can all be involved. In this chapter we have emphasized the

phenomena related to mid-level processing. Our evidence, along with the evidence of other researchers, supports the notion that statistical and configural information are combined to estimate the lightness mapping at a given image location. In outline, picture looks like this:

• At every point in an image, there exists an apparent atmospheric transfer function (ATF) mapping reflectance

into luminance. To estimate reflectance given luminance, the visual system must invert the mapping, implicitly or explicitly.

The inverting function at each point may be called the lightness transfer function (LTF).

• The lightness of a given patch is computed by comparing its luminance to a weighted distribution of neighboring

luminances. The exact computation remains unknown.

• Classical mechanisms of perceptual grouping can influence the weights assigned to patches during the lightness computation. The mechanisms may include proximity, good continuation, similarity, and so on. However, the grouping used by the lightness system apparently differs from ordinary perceptual grouping.

• The luminance statistics are gathered within an adaptive window. When the samples are plentiful the window remains 

small, but when the samples are sparse the window expands. The window is soft-edged.

• The adaptive window can change shape and size in order to avoid mixing information from different atmospheres.

• Certain junction types offer evidence that a given contour is the result of a change in atmosphere. The contour then acts as an atmospheric boundary, preventing the information on one side from mixing with that on the other. A series of junctions aligned consistently along a contour produce a strong atmospheric boundary. Some evidence suggests that straight contours make better atmospheric boundaries than curved ones.

2. Be yourself. If you act like someone else and they like you, they don’t actually like YOU. They like the person you’re pretending to be. If you end up getting a job there, you won’t be able to keep up the facade for very long anyway. Honesty and authenticity are very appealing characteristics. If both parties stay true to themselves, they’ll know if they’re right for each other. And in the end, that’s usually what matters most.

3. Relax. Interviews are not really interviews at all. They’re conversations. Treat them like conversations, and the tension will slowly dissolve. Remember: when you walk into that office, you don’t have the job to begin with. In theory, you have nothing to lose. You either come out way ahead or back where you started. If you approach the situation with a “win-draw” mentality, most of the pressure will fall by the wayside.

4. Appearance counts. Before you meet people, virtually the only judgment you can make is based on aesthetics. What you’re wearing matters. What they’re wearing matters. How you sit, stand, shake hands, hold your pen and walk up the stairs counts. Not enormously, but enough. First impressions are huge. Also, how does the building look? Is the lobby clean and organized? Are the cubicles bunched together? Is the ceiling high or low? Does it look like a fun place to work? Does it invite you to come back?

5. Fit is crucial. All the smarts, skills and experience in the world mean nothing without the right fit. If your values aren’t aligned with those of the company, you’re doomed. If you like to have fun and they’re always serious, don’t even bother. Seriously. The more you fit in, the more you’ll want to come back every day and bust your butt. If you’re always at odds with your coworkers, you’re going to hate your job. Simple as that.

6. Liking means more than talent. The days of standing in line and putting decals on widgets is over. People don’t hire you because you’re capable. They hire you because they want to work with you. If you don’t get along, and get along well, the interview will probably be fruitless. Unless, of course, you applied for the “Assistant Placer of Decals on Widgets” position…

7. Be persistent. It’s incredibly easy to get lazy, give up and feel sorry for yourself. People will turn you down, never call you back, and forget your name over and over again. None of that matters. What matters is perseverance. If you can’t handle losing a few battles along the way, you’re in for a tough road ahead. Getting a job is like winning a war. It takes patience, planning, time, effort, dedication and a little bit of luck. The chips will fall your way sooner or later. If you stay persistent, you’ll at least give yourself a chance to catch them.

8. Bring an insane amount of (intelligent) questions. Nothing feels worse that not being prepared. If you don’t bring loads of questions, you’re not prepared. At some point, the interviewer will ask you what you want to know. For the record, you want to know everything. Be curious. Be interested. Be engrossed. Ask your question, and then get ready to listen. Don’t think of what you’re going to say next. Just soak up every word like a giant sponge. The more questions you ask, the more you’ll get out of the experience. And as a bonus, they’ll know you care deeply about their business. When you care about what they care about, you both start to align, and that’s when the magic happens.

9. Focus on their needs, not yours. It’s tempting to sell ourselves, to talk about how great we are, and to show off our past experiences. But guess what. No one cares. What they really care about is how your “amazingness” will translate into success for their company. Don’t focus on your talents, focus on what your talents will do for them.

10. Blogging will give you a HUGE leg up. Blogging forces you to analyze, collaborate and create solutions. It also gives you plenty of ideas for improving customer experiences, businesses and relationships. These skills (among countless others) will give you confidence, poise, energy and know-how when it comes time to explain yourself. Your insights will be sharper, your thinking will be deeper, and your ability to express your opinions clearly and concisely will be much stronger. Blogging will prepare you better than any “How-To” book in the world. Trust me.

These 10 things are just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more we can learn from each other about this process as a whole, so please feel free to share.

What are your best interviewing tips? What do you wish you would’ve known? For those of you who’ve been on both sides of the table, what have you learned from each situation?