The second tool, Define Success. How can you achieve it if you do not know what it is?

Complete this sentence three times.

I know I am successful when I …

This is not an easy exercise; so do not give up easily! Once you define success for your Self, then you can ensure success by making every decision count for that success and not against it. It is important that you define success in terms you can control! For instance, following are not in your control and therefore are subject to failure. I know I am successful when I …

*am financially independent *my wife loves me *my children grow up to be successful

Turn these statements around to read:

I know I am successful when I …

*live within my means and do my best to ensure financial independence *do my best to earn my wife’s love *provide my children with best opportunity to ensure their success however they define it

Make sense? Define your values and success for you, and you will have tools you require to ensure every decision you make is another step in ladder of a life built on your values and your definition of success. This brings about life that I believe we all seek. One filled with happiness, joy and love.

Watch for free upcoming teleclasses on both of these tools!

Don't rely solely on your spellchecker as it would miss these common mistakes:-

"part time" or "party time"

"great" or "grate"

"six" or "sex" or "sax"

"rapid" or "rabid"

"clerk" or "cleric"

A good way to check a resume is to ask a friend to read resume to you, whilst you follow a copy. It's amazing how many errors you can pick up. And it is quite a thought provoking exercise having your resume read aloud. This method is what's known as "reading back" and is adopted in legal and financial professions for important documents.

5. Fluff, Long-windedness and Jargon With up to 400 resumes per vacancy, recruiters have very limited time. They will spend on average no more than 20 seconds on each resume. They want applicant to make their job easier by getting to point quickly. Reveal benefits of hiring you for job and cut fluff and superfluous language. Remember what MDR is of your resume...to get interview.

It is not to reveal what a nice person you are, or how many children you have or that your sports team won 6 games on trot while you were captain. YAWN YAWN

"Sometimes some people can take an age to make point that they intended to make at start, but then they get carried away with padding and irrelevant facts within their sentence, which leads recruiter who is reading to conclude they have not read their resume, nor know where heck this point is leading."

Long-windedness does not help if you see what I mean. :-)

Try this motto...

"Get to point!"

Candidates who include fluff, cliche, long-windedness and those than hide behind esoteric words break flow of their resume and thus alienate reader.

Communicate information necessary to evaluate your ability to do job. Use language that is appropriate to industry or field, but be aware that jargon may not speak to those who are intermediaries between you and ultimate hiring manager. Your resume must appeal to widest possible audience. It is often said that you should aim your resume at an 18-year old with limited knowledge of your industry, if you want to appeal to widest audience...it is like journalists are taught when writing articles to reach widest possible audience in a clear and concise way.

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