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What to include on your resume

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Post date February 26, 2021
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Your resume is one of the most important documents in a job search. Your resume describes your qualifications and what makes you unique. To stand out among other applicants. Employers use resumes to get a deeper understanding of candidate skills, strengths and experience. Your resume should reflect achievements, awards, education, experience and any other outstanding accomplishments.

What to include:

Identification– Name, email address, street address, and telephone number.
Resume summary– goes right after your contact information, this is a few sentences describing your qualifications and accomplishments throughout your career.

Education history– you want to include the name of school, the address, when you graduated, and any relevant achievements or awards granted during your time at this school.
Job experience– Here, you should list all of your most relevant work experiences, beginning with your most recent job. You should focus on your experiences from the last 10 to 15 years. Include the name of the company, the position, and dates of employment. List a few tasks that you executed while at this job.
Skills-List any other skills you have that relate to the job but are not included elsewhere in your resume. You can include any tools you’ve mastered or certifications you’ve obtained as well. Make sure you think about what’s relevant for the job though; don’t just list a bunch of skills that won’t help you in their job.

Community involvement/volunteer services– this shows off your leadership and involvement in your community. Only include those that are relevant or that may help create a better picture of who you are as an individual as related to the position you’re applying for. Want to include the dates you volunteered and the organization name.

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Consistency With Your Career

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 25, 2021
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Consistency is a great characteristic to build and implement in your life. The key to consistency is setting and achieving specific goals. Start by determining how you want to be more consistent in your life, and aim for these small goals. To have consistent behavior, strive for consistent thinking. How Consistent you are with your Job, How inclined you are towards a Role, these are questions you should ask yourself when starting your dream career. If you are not willing to be consistent with your work , you will not get the results that you’re looking for. Consistency is the key to success, it builds habits and those habits turn into your everyday ritual that keep you focused on your goals and priorities. Anthony Robbins said “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” To be consistent requires a commitment on your part. It requires that you commit yourself to a sustained effort of action over the long-term. This consistency will build consistent content for your business, consistent marketing or networking, and then it will cause your audience to be consistent and now your business is thriving from consistent revenue. You have to be willing to put in the work and the dedication, a business cannot grow over night.

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Tips on How to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 22, 2021
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Choose an appropriate profile picture

– Your profile is the first impression that jobs will have of you, and introduces them to your profile. Your photo should be a nice head shot with limited people or distractions in the background. You want to wear what you would wear to work, it gives the job an idea of how you would represent yourself if they were to do an in face interview. According to LinkedIn, profiles with headshots are 14 times more likely to be viewed than those without a profile picture. We would even suggest updating your background photo as well, your background photo allows you to be more creative and show another aspect of yourself that ties in with your business or career.

List your relevant skills

–There are so many opportunities for you too list your skills through your your profile wethers it’s in your header, or summary but LinkedIn has a specific area strictly for listing your skills. You want to promote skills that are relevant to the career that you want. A long list of skills that aren’t really core to who you are and what you do, can start to feel unwieldy.

Have a summary

–So many profiles leave the summary portion blank but the summary portion gives you a chance to tell your story and your background. Your summary is the one place you define yourself in your own words, free of start dates and titles. You highlight your biggest achievements and goals of your career.

Get active on LinkedIn

–It is not Enough to just update your profile you want to show employers that you are networking. When someone looks at your profile, they can see how active you have been on LinkedIn and how often you have posted or shared information.

Complete your LinkedIn profile 100%

–LinkedIn has a profile strength meter that will track the strength of your profile for your career The strength of your profile will increase as you add more relevant content to it. The feature recommends which profile sections you could add to in order to improve your profile. When your LinkedIn profile meets their criteria for completeness, your profile is more likely to land higher in search results.

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Day 3 : Marketing Strategies

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 18, 2021
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Always update your content, Updating your content can result in better search rankings, more links, more traffic, social shares, and new customers discovering you. It is extremely important to keep your content up to date as the content produced is what your clients have confidence in.
Search engine optimization also known as SEO, is a process that allows you To plan outline and implement steps to improve search engine rankings and bring more traffic to your website. The higher you rank in search results for keywords related to your business, the higher the chances that searchers will click to visit your website.
Blogging and posting relevant content is an incredibly useful tool to increase traffic to your website and to your services. Brand awareness is an immensely important element of marketing and blog posting will allow you to show your followers a personal side of your business. You can open up your brand message and engage existing and perspective customers in a way not possible through outbound marketing mechanisms and techniques. Blogging is also the perfect way to establish a brand voice, becoming recognizable to customers and growing loyalty. A great blog shows that your brand has its own unique personality.
Email marketing helps you connect with your audience to promote your brand and increase sales. It is a highly effective way to keep people engaged with your brand. Email marketing is a digital marketing strategy based on sending emails and developing relationships with prospects and customers. An effective email marketing strategy convert prospects into customers, and turn first time buyers into recurring customers. Email can be an effective promotion channel for the high-value content you create on your website.

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Day 2: Tips on How to Use Networking as a Good Marketing Tool

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 17, 2021
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-Attend business networking events, The first step in successful networking is knowing where you should go to make connections. Networking is not about selling, but rather developing relationships that can lead to sales or referrals. The idea is to get to know people and allow them to get to know you.

-Always have your business cards, Successful networking benefits from business cards. A catchy business card (and a memorable elevator pitch) helps promote you to others and stay in their minds once the conversation has ended. You want to have a business card people will remember and not get thrown at the bottom of someone’s bag at the end of the conversation. Make sure your business cards are straight to the point and easy to read, It’s tempting to reduce the font size and include every social network profile, a slogan, or more, but this leads to information overload and nothing memorable.

-Find reasons to follow up with the connections that you’ve encountered. Following up provides another chance to interact with the new people in your network. You want to Build a reputation as someone who delivers on their promises and is persistent. People will like that you took the initiative to reach out after the event, and it shows how invested you are in your business. Networking is where the conversation begins, not ends you have to take steps to keep the relationship going.

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Day 1: How to use social media as a good marketing tool for your business

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 16, 2021
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Create A plan and a goal that you want to reach For using social media as a social marketing tool to promote your business
Create a name and a profile picture for your social media platforms, that ties in with your business that will draw your audience in. It is the first thing that catches their attention so make sure it is professional, and something people will remember.
Know your audience and whose attention you want to attract too your company. Targeting the right people with your social media marketing is important you want to Create your social media strategies around your audience because they are going to be the ones to help promote your business and create revenue.
Select what social media platforms work for your business, you may or may not use every social media platform. Depending on the social network you’re posting on, you’ll need to learn the various purposes of each network. To make sure you’re using social media for business effectively, you’ll need to conduct some research of your own. This will help you to understand how your specific audience spends their time online.
Create images and posts to continuously promote your business. You want to always keep your audience drawn in, and up-to-date with your business changes. You don’t need to be a graphic designer to design stunning graphics for your brand. You can utilize tools like Canva to craft alluring images to wow your audience.

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3 Ways to Stay Motivated While Working From Home

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 2, 2021
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Create a schedule- Following a schedule allows you to prioritize your tasks. It allows you to be more organized and consistent with your work. Without a structured workday, time can get away from you and it’s easy to get complacent. Take the opportunity to work from home to prepare your schedule, prioritize your workload, and start the week the right way.

Self care- Good self-care strategies allows you to put your best foot forward, and perform at your peak with your work. We are all less able to handle the stresses that come our way when we’re depleted by physical and emotional exhaustion. Having healthier eating habits, or Exercising on a weekly basis is not only good for your body and mind, but it’s also great to become happier, healthier, and more motivated in the long run. Even little things like getting out of your pajamas and putting on work clothes will give you the motivation to take on the day.

Establish a dedicated work environment- even though your bed might feel like a comfortable spot, create a workspace somewhere else. Create a workspace with limited distractions and interruptions. A proper working environment can get you in the right headspace that you need to work productively.

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Tips on How to Balance Working From Home + Homeschooling

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date February 1, 2021
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Create a routine: Not only is important for you to have a schedule, but it’s also even more important for your children to have a daily routine. One of the biggest keys to finding balance is creating blocks of time for work, school, self-care, and family time. With school being temporarily closed you’ll want to build a “school” environment for them. You should organize your work around your family’s needs and child care opportunities. Your children are going to look to you in this time for guidance and taking the role of a “teacher”. Children thrive on routine and are happiest when they know what to expect.
Expect the unexpected: Expect interruptions and unanticipated shifts in priorities. Unexpected interruptions will occur especially with the children being homeschooled, so it is important to be alert. Take breaks to check on the kids, prioritize things that way when something unexpected does occur you’re prepared for whatever gets thrown at you. Some days will be harder than others be efficient, don’t panic, and adapt.
Limit your distractions: it is important to identify what is distracting you from work, so you know how to avoid or limit those distractions. When you have a solid plan that you can follow through, it makes it easier for you to focus and get less distracted. Also having a good workspace to yourself can limit interruptions, When you have a separate space, which ideally should not be your bedroom or the couch in the living room, then you are less prone to get distracted.
Let the children make some of their own decisions: Set up routines and systems so your child can independently handle situations like replacing the toilet paper, sharpening a pencil, or feeding the family pet. Encourage the older children to step and to help each other first before calling for your help. In this time you want to help your child build independence for example little things like having their food prepared the prior day and allowing them to get it on their own, daily chores, or an older sibling helping the younger with homework.
Communicate with your employer: You want to immediately notify your job, of the changes at home so they can also expect the unexpected. If you communicate with your manager, most times they will work with you to accommodate your situation. Your job will be more understanding about interruptions if you warn them ahead of time.

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7 Ways To Get Out Of Feeling Stuck In Your Career!

Post author By Ruth McCrackin
Post date October 1, 2019
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🌸Do you you look forward to the weekends?
🌸Do you hate Monday mornings?
🌸Are you majorly stuck in a career jam or in a job you hate?

You may no longer even hate your job, but you know you are way better than what you are doing right now and you looking for more challenges that pays you.

In the past, I used to live a double lifestyle – working a day job I hated and then coming home and being a “job applicant” after work and on weekends. I used to be totally stuck and didn’t understand how to get out of this process. All I knew is that I needed to get out! It took years for me to realize a way out… that applying to jobs online didn’t work due to the fact I wanted to increase myself higher first by tapping into my purest highest self and apply certain tools in the process. As quickly as I did that, that dream job just beginning popping up left and right. Eventually, I didn’t even have to practice for jobs because these jobs would just come to me. There are many errors job searchers make when trying to get out of being caught in their career.

Here are 7 Step You Can Take Today to Get Out of Your Own Way In Your Career Jam And One Step Closer to Your Ideal Job or Career:

1. Examine Your Current Situation

Make a list of key items in your current workplace that you love and hate and take your time to find what it is your in present vs what you prefer in your next job. This is going to assist you to focus during your job search and make sure that you don’t just jump into some other job that you in all honest you hate! Think about the everything that is complex in that job together with your work environment, your co-workers, your manager, your drive time, your hours, your co-workers and your clients. I mean a brain dump of it all.

2. Take a Day Off

The first factor you can do is to take a mental health break, which is a free day to think about what you are going to do. The secret is now not to schedule something that day and absolutely suppose about what you favor to do with your life. The reason why a weekday is better than a weekend day is most weekends you are busy and you have a ton of stuff to do. But, having a day off of work is a free day to reflect on your goals, read on an article on someone you model from and have some unusual quite time, which you wouldn’t normally have had.

3. Create New Habits

Other things to do are to make some new habits in your life, such as beginning to wake up earlier, creating a to-do list earlier than you depart work for the subsequent day, adding a 30-minute workout to your day or setting apart an hour of reading each and every day. Change one little habit, and it can change your lifestyle in as little as 30 days. Once you begin making this habit, it is much simpler to keep.

4. Discover a New Hobby

Also, you ought to research a new hobby. I always had a desire to speak fluent in Spanish, coming up in Miami it was necessary too. However, we frequently have a list of things that we would love to do or learn if we only had the time. Well make the time and change up your schedule. If you have usually desired to do something, sign up for a class and start now.

5. Connect With New People

Talk to different people is a terrific way to get out of feeling stuck in your career since it allows you assess yourself and finding out more who you truly are, what you want out of your lifestyles and the subsequent steps to take. Most folks are very open to provide you advice, and you will likely be surprised at how many geniuses truly prefer to assist you.

6. Apply Things You Enjoy To Do In Your Job

Try to add little things to your plate that you enjoy and choose to learn. These things you can ultimately apply on your resume and can essential attract you to your next high end new job position.

7. Utilize Your Nights and Weekends

Use your nights and weekends to do what you love and to learn greater about what you may favor to get into. Instead of coming domestic and observing TV all night, use your time higher to research your future career.

Just select one of these matters and get began today. The key is to make forward motion each day. If you follow these tips, you can also be surprised that your new career is proper round the corner!

WHO AM I?

Hi, I am Ruth McCrackin

Your Career & Success Strategist Coach with well over 11 years of experience working hand in hand with Human Resources and Business Partners in achieving company goals and mission. It is my wish for high achievers to getting their high-end position in attracting their dreams and passion. Avoid the loop holes of missing great opportunities by applying job search strategies, LinkedIn Branding, storytelling and much more to up level your career and lifestyle. Start Your Transformation Now!

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