How hobbies can kill or give your CV/Resume a chance ahead

Never neglect the place of hobbies in a resume

One of the most neglected parts of a resume is “Hobbies” it is usually located before the reference. Experience and observation have shown that graduates don’t understand what a hobby is or that they don’t know how to apply it in their resume or curriculum vitae.

Like other section in a resume, hobby has a crucial part as it helps to create a spider web link to one of the sections in a resume most specially the skills and ability section.
Hobby section deserves the same time devoted when writing other section. Many resume as failed because of this section. The question is how?

1. Your hobby above other things, tell your recruiter more about your social life.
2. What you do when you’re not working
3. How you manage your time
4. How you use your skills and ability in an informal settings
5. Your availability for team work.

With this 5 point, you can see a gap in your resume when you neglect the place of hobby.
No recruiters would want to employ a robot as employee. Hobby gives your recruiter a clearer picture of you. One of the benefit of hobby in a resume is that is can create an atmosphere for discussion with your recruiters during the job interview.
Now that you know the important of hobby, you should be careful not to lie or list all the hobbies you can think of. Three to four is enough. You might want to ask why.

If you list all the hobbies you can think about, then your recruiter might be force to think that you might never have time to do any formal work outside the work environment.
So what are you waiting for, start editing your resume if you have one already.
And remember, except you are writing a general resume (fresh graduate), try to tailor your hobby to match your job specification and not just that, make sure there is a linking or connection with your skills and ability or other section in the resume.
Example
If you write internet research as one of your skills then there should be reading or writing in your hobby... there is a link between internet research and writing/reading. This is just a sample. There can be other things which can link each other in a resume apart from the example above and below.
Creative thinking can link chess/Sudoku/scrabble game

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How to get that dream job

For fresh graduate...

Are you a fresh graduate with little or no experience in working in that dream job of yours?
Well don’t think further, you can get that job. But how?
When you see a job opening advert but it is not in anyway related to your field of study and you think the job is not meant for you. The truth is, you can still apply. It is not a limitation but an invitation to sell yourself to the prospective employer.
Another way fresh graduate limit themselves is when they see a job opening advert with the requirement of 3-5 year experience. Since they are still fresh from the university, the job is not meant for them. Like i said earlier, it is an invitation and not a limitation. It all depends on packaging.
I remember when i was still serving (NYSC), i sent my resume to different organisations through a job website and i have no experience that was required from them. The next day, i got a message from one of them to come for job interview
Two days after i got the first job interview message, another job interview was sent to me. In one week, i got five job interviews. In did not move out of my room to look for job. All i did was to make use of information resources in the World Wide Web. And did you know i did not go for any of the interviews?

Well i was not chanced neither in a rush.
But how did i manage to get such job interviews so fast without any experience?
It was all simply packaging embedded in my resume.
To get that dream job of yours, you must know how to write a resume. Not the copy and paste type of resume. I have seen many graduates using the same old format to write a resume. If you don’t know the old format, then wait for my next article on “how a fresh graduate should to write a resume” even on the web i seen have articles that teaches how to write a resume but they don't teach this things on the individual perspective. That is, the content of a resume should be in uniformity with the qualities of the writer/owner...
I know this article will be incomplete without the next article but if you know how to write a fresh graduate/entry level resume already, then sit down and repackage your resume. Look at your propspective organisation's goal, value and objectives, what do they produce or what kind of service do they render. What category of people do the employ, what is their history, why are they seeking for a new work force in this section/department etc. This are some of the questions that if answered can help you formulate an attractive resume. In this present generation, resume is no longer about you but also about your prospective organisation.
If you have a resume and you want to check if it is employable, i will advise you to submit your resume to PushCV.
They can help you out if you still need some correction.. i will also be kind enough to review the first 50 resume i get in my email for free.
So don't be limited by job adverts, your only limitation is your resume.

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