Curriculum Vitae or CV writing - 5 must includes

CV is a written format of oneself. Hence you should be very careful in what you are projecting about yourself. Your CV would stand as an instrument to reach to the recruiters and also serve as tool to keep track of your career.

I am here trying to bring out some of the most important areas that needs more focus and should be making an appearance on your CV in one form or other.

1. Your Objective:

Though some feel this obsolete. I would give it weight-age as it would give a high level picture of your personality. If the recruiter is a professional enough he would never miss a read for this section.

While writing you objective make sure you summarize your way of life and work.

For example: If you are a bold person who likes to take risks and have tasted success that way then... "Sharp focused, result oriented and go-get attitude towards the responsibility I undertake" would make more sense.

2. Your Hobbies:

Another section which is ignored always. Hobbies would give some insights to the personal life attitude of yourself. The recruiter would try to connect all of these sections in your CV to create a complete mental understanding of the candidate.

Hence enter activities/things under "Hobbies" which you are passionate and love doing in you life.

3. Roles and responsibilities:

Often I have seen resumes with 4 + pages with lengthy job responsibilities section for each prior jobs. I would strongly suggest to keep two things in mind while entering your previous employment details:

a. Keep it short, meaning keep each of the responsibility points short so that it would give you an opportunity to speak about them.
b. Only enter those responsibility pointers which make sense and are more meaningful.

4. Add a picture of yourself:

Adding a picture of yourself would be an extra detail which is lacks in most of the profiles. This gives an initial impression about the candidate to the recruiter.

5. Not to exceed two pages:

Always try to make sure that your Curriculum Vitae/CV as whole would not exceed two or maximum three pages. The recruiters interested dies if he sees a unreasonably long CV with huge amount of text in each sheet. He might not go through all of the details provided and may lose interest in you candidature. Hence keep it short and crisp.

Give yourself a chance to speak and paint picture verbally during the interview rather than trying to paint the whole career story in five pager CV

Some references:
vandelaydesign.com/blog/business/37-stylish-resume-templates/
bashooka.com/template/20-best-resume-templates/

Email etiquettes - tops 7 things to look for

We all write emails be it personal or professional. personal emails can still have some lenience as it is more often than not addressed to your dear ones.

But when it comes to business emails, you need to consider many things before you hit the send button.

Some of the important email etiquettes:

1. Make sure you are diplomatic and not harsh. Just imagine you are the person who is going to receive the email and draft the email. Not to miss on checking spellings as well (remember hitting F7 on MS Outlook would not find all the spelling mistakes).

2. Never commit for anything until or unless you have a sure shot approval or proof that you would be able to provide the requested content on time or you would be able finish a certain assignment on time. Remember your commitment on email is simply saying on a bond paper that you would complete the requirements within the stipulated time line.

3. When providing any sought of time lines always remember that you need to have week's buffer time and then decide the deadline date.

4. No bold letters or capitalized letters while writing a business email. As it would signify that you are unhappy about something.

5. All the things written in a business email is assumed to be well verified, hence do your homework/investigation thoroughly before writing something about something.

6. All get it reviewed if you are not sure of any content in the email (at least in the early days of the job you are doing). As this would serve as good practice so that you are polished better in shorter time frame.

7. No personal addressing come what may. Also do not use any sms-lingos or smiley's or anything that feels or gives an impression to the reader that you are trying to get more personal. (If you are trying to build a good rapport with the person whom you are writing email for, better get on a phone conversation as it is more verbal and would give you real time feedback of the opposite person)

8. Actually first but not the least, always begin an email with proper salutation and do not end without signing off.

Happy emailing!

Some references:

www.businessmarketingblog.org/effective-email-marketing-tactics/
www.verticalresponse.com/blog/9-emails-business-sending/

How to lose weight without exercise

This is arguably the most sought after solution on earth when 2/3rds of the younger generation is trying to look slimmer.

I am sure you would have found at least a dozen link offering solutions to become slimmer. I am just giving you some practical tips on this subject which are more natural and minus side effects. But one per-requisite is you need to have some patience to achieve this.

Tip #1
Have lots of fruits be it any time of the day or night. Fruits help mitigate your hunger  simultaneously reducing the fat content across the body thus helping you lose weight.




Tip #2
Lots of water is good for health. Always keep your body hydrated and avoid any soft drinks. If you feel you need to have liquid have water.

 

Tip #3
Stop having coffee rite now. Start having green tea. Green tea has high antioxidant capacity, boosts metabolism, burns fat which makes it a perfect drink for people who want to lose weight.


Tip #4
Use these generously: Cinnamon, Black pepper and ginger as these are substance which are hot they would help decreasing the fat content in your body.
 

Tip #5
Have a satisfactory sleep. Good sleep always makes the body relax and give time to set most the internal organs work efficiently to complete the basics assigned to them which otherwise would not happen and you would feel all sorts of disorders happening in you body.

How to count unique values in pivot table

More often than not if you are using any version prior to Microsoft Office Excel 2013, you would have faced the problem of counting uniques in a pivot table.

I found this solution sometime back which in-corporates the countif function so beautifully that you would think "that was so simple"

Check out: Download the example excel file here.

How to fix the mind and improve concentration

Yes the mind is the most wandering if considered for the best wandering subject.

In today's world there is simply so much data inflow that if becomes difficult for even the best computer, the brain God had built to keep track of information and process the same.

Our brain is not able to sustain the bahemoth of data despite multitasking making us more focused and less competent in certain areas of life.

Firstly, we need to channelize the information that is fed to the mind for thinking. To achieve this you would need to simply stop thinking about anything for a moment and hit the mind's restart button so that all the data in the temporary memory is erased.

Now, if you are able to achieve the above then you can proceed to next step, else try few mental focus exercises like meditation spiritual yoga so that you can gain control of the mind slowly and increase/improve concentration.

Secondly, always focus on the current moment because you cannot change what has already occured and you have no idea of what lies 2 years (for e.g.) down the line. Try to stay in present and that itself will bring in lot of mental focus on the job you are at now.

Thirdly, do not try to take contract for thinking on behalf of others. Everyone has a brain and has the capacity to think. you are not here to share your brain's resources when the person in need is self sufficient