Curriculum vitae are commonly known as a CV. CV is a marketing tool that contains your personal information, job history, skills, and achievements. A document that presents a candidate’s history in front of the employer in one or two pages is known as a CV. CV plays an important role in presenting a candidate’s personality in front of others. A CV is an appropriate marketing tool, which helps in promoting a candidate’s skills and capabilities, and a CV is a kind of broacher that lists the benefits of a particular service. Writing a CV is an important issue which a number of candidates do not consider important. Always view CV from employer’s point of view. Before writing a CV a person should ask the following question: Will I be able to stand in competition with other candidates and would the manager like to talk about a possible job? A nice, clear, and concise CV opens the door to a bright future. It’s a first step that helps in impressing an employer. A CV is an initial step with potential employers and opens the door. A CV is an essential tool in a job hunt, whenever a candidate needs to apply, CV is required in order to create a candidate’s first impression in the eyes of the employer. In the United States and Canada CV is considered as a document that includes a comprehensive listing of professional experience, in terms of employment, academic achievements, and other certifications. The following elements should be clearly listed in the CV: Header, Personal information, Contact details, Career Objectives, development of career objectives, Goal, and achievements, education and training, professional training.
The header contains your name, email, personal information with contact details, Career objectives state the type of work you desire, and some heart-hitting points which will prove that a candidate will be a perfect choice for a particular job. Visit the company website and note down all their product details and services and reflect objectives that are used in a job that the candidate applying for. Education and training include your degree and training, school details where candidate graduated, certification, and awards, candidate should review literature by Smith which states that the education and training section should include educational qualifications. Over 80% of recruiters felt that major grades and information all schools attended should appear on resumes. Area of interest, details of degree and other relevant details, professional training, and courses should be listed in the resume. Following tips would be helpful in writing a cover letter, there could be three to four paragraphs in a cover letter, the first paragraph must contain the reason for applying for a job, the second paragraph should contain complete details of skills, the third paragraph must show interest in the position, and the fourth paragraph must contain closing off letter. There is a number of skills that have worth in eyes of employers, some of them are: communication skills, interpersonal skills, computer skills, work experience, analytical skills, GPA/ academics, career focus, writing skills. Extra circular activities also add life to your resume like leadership, teamwork, creativity, captain of a baseball team. Affiliation with certain professional associations and relevant affiliations to the company make your CV impressive. The achievement section includes what the candidate did, for whom, result, event when the candidate was a successful job description, feedback, think back. A candidate must show excellent verbal and communication skills, good customer service, and proficiency in MS word, good work ethics, and phone skills in order to get a job. Every candidate desire to be employed in an established organization and the organization strength totally depends on leadership and management.
Every employee in an organization should indorse some efforts in organization’s benefits. Complete management of an organization should be united and work for achieving a common goal. Unfortunately, in number of organizations a huge number of employees are not properly trained for jobs, there is a strong need to provide training to number of employees for respective jobs. This need doesn’t only lies for workplaces, but hospitals, learning institutions and correctional centers also require mentors and coaches in order to train their employees. Mentoring and coaching has nevertheless similar to one another. Brock bank (2006) stated that mentoring and coaching should be provided to all employees under managerial control. Mentoring is a relationship between more or less experiences professional as elucidated. In order to establish and increase productivity of an organization mentoring and training should be provided to all employees. The primary goal of mentoring process is to increase employee’s and organization’s productivity. It also helps in decision making and tremendous improvement at organizational level. It has been observed that in number of organizations not all employees are suitable for jobs. If a new student enters in university, new candidate needs guidance and support from his seniors and mentors, the first problem usually student faces is inability in communicating in English. There are some responsibilities of mentor towards it mentee; First of all, mentor must know that which direction should be steer in whole mentoring and coaching process. The first step of mentor is to create healthy relationship with mentee. At the initial stage mentee need to solve some problems on his own. The mentee is on safe side when mentor exactly knows the difficulty area and how to resolve problems. Second step on which mentor needs to work is to make mentee familiar with location and environment. The mentor can provide resources in order to make mentee familiar with locations and environment. A critical aspect in assessment of mentoring and coaching is to evaluate success and failure of both phenomena. Good methods, techniques and problem skills are usually cultivated when the process is successful. The third step of mentoring is totally focused on adoption of mentee into the new system.
Pillars of coaching
There are seven building blocks of mentoring and coaching according to Megnision et al (2006). Numerous steps are involve which are as follows: identifying the need of process, collecting supporting evidence, target setting, setting a plan how to achieve targets, find out the possible opportunities, observing feedback, and setting an optimal support for any observed setbacks. This systematic approach proposes an ideal solution of certain problems,. The GROW (Goal, reality, opportunity and will) model provides ambitions and targets. Willpower and goal orientation helps a lot in achieving targets. The last step of mentoring should pose a will for next course of action. A mentoring program, will involve the mentor and mentee getting know each other and share experiences. There are number of formal and informal programs. Under formal mentoring an organization can hire professionals and experienced personal in order to train individuals at organizational level. A firm can also relate training programs to mentoring under formal mentoring. Informal mentoring is quite different to formal mentoring; under informal mentoring the firm is liberty to provide skills through networking program and awarding experienced staff who offer mentoring services while being on job. Informal mentoring is always beneficial for university students.
Mentoring Advantages
Properly conducted mentoring process is always beneficial for individuals as well as for organizations. It reduces diversity issues by enhancing employee’s skills and capabilities and provide them confidence. Mentoring and coaching plays an important role in organization’s benefits. The process when effectively done always brings positive changes in organization’s benefits.
CV presents candidate’s impression in front of employers. CV writing is one of the most important steep in getting a job. Number of tips is available for guidance in order to get new and good jobs. It has seen that CV’s usually focus on academic qualification and experiences with the combination of achievements but it should more focused on career objectives and challenging aspects. CV’s should be concise and impressive with good language and designing skills. In regard to presentation, there was nothing stated about challenges and turning points in career life. It was unclear as overall purpose of presentation is to teach how to write cover letters and resume, adults are still unknown that why they should learn something before training begins. There should be some research perspective in order to make assessment better. The whole presentations are based on introductory points, there should little more literature support in order to make it effective and impressive. Educating students how to make CV and cover letter for job hunt is an excellent topic but it should be some literature based examples to show how creative CV’s helps in getting a good job. Different writing styles with CV designing should include in this assessment and teachers must choose suitable writing style according to student’s needs. There must be some linkage material with an online advertisement, this assessment should include an objective to educate students how to response on an online add i.e. according to relevant vacancy, how you can alter your CV in order to show interest in relevant area.
There should be one section on changing employer’s demand and how to impress employer in short time in interview. Teachers and professional must include few of their own experiences. Overall, the literature was good and fully supported by literature which facilitated learning process and assessment a lot. There are number of international students who found difficulties in writing resumes and cover letter. Presentation and material was too good but there should be some extra activity at the end of session for students so that students can demonstrate all their learning in hard format. There should be little activity of discussion with audience at the end of session so all can feel a part of session. Meyers and Jones et al, in Auster et al (2006) stated that theory and concepts are strongly emphasized by active learning, and can work effectively by involving students in the learning process through the use of “problem-solving exercises and little debates, informal small groups, simulations, case studies, role-playing, and other related activities. Overall, assessment was superb but there didn’t provide any exercise or debate session in order to get audience feedback and participation. Presentation and other material didn’t provide a feedback or sample resumes cover letter of highly skilled professionals for student’s idea. There must be some properly cited examples, highly skilled professionals’ resumes and cover letter. There must be little section for personal experiences by professionals and seniors. Trainer must have a strong eye contact through out the session so that trainer can get feedback from audience.
Conclusion
CV is a marketing tool which presents you in front of employers. Clear and attractive CV, resumes and cover letters attract employers towards candidate. Every candidate must understand the importance of CV, Resume and cove letter format and content in job hunt. There are some tips which ever candidate must keep in mind while writing a CV. Cover letter and resume are important in order to get good jobs. Mentoring and coaching process train people for their particular job roles. Mentoring and coaching process are really important for organization’s benefit. The overall assessment was tremendous and it will help a lot to new students. Although, there is a wide room for improvement in material which includes: Samples letter of professionals, writing styles, how to respond against an advertisement, some interview guideline etc. Overall, it provides useful tips and techniques and a perfect guideline for CV, resume and cover letter writing. Mentoring and coaching has number of advantages at individual and organizational level. Still, there is an enough space for improvement by which the whole program will work more effectively. Every candidate must memorize it that you are a product in front of employer and a candidate need to advertise himself in a most valid way. Before writing a CV or cover letter one must need to follow all tips and techniques of making attractive and impressive CV. Suggestion, presentations, and guidelines helps lot o university students and provide bridge to all beginners.
References
Brock bank A., & McGill, I. (2006). Facilitating reflective learning through mentoring & coaching. New York: Kogan Page Publishers.
Megginson, D., Clutter buck, D., Garvey, B. , Stokes, P. & Garrett-Harris R. (2006). Mentoring in action: A practical guide for managers. New York: Kogan Page Publishers.
Meyers, C. & Jones, T.B. (1993). Promoting active learning: Strategies for the college classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.