Saturday, March 1, 2014

[WNO] Digest Number 1813

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Digest #1813
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Fwd: Library events by "Westchester Networking Organization" wno1635
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Fwd: quick question/opportunity by "avi wagshol" awagshol
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45 Quick Changes that Help Get Your Resume Noticed by "Keith Bogen SPHR" hrslugger2002

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Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:52 am (PST) . Posted by:

"avi wagshol" awagshol

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From: <kenk@bellsoftinc.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Subject: Need Windows Migration Lead in Windsor, CT
To: aviwagshol@gmail.com

Hi Abraham,

We have following immediate requirement available, if interested and
available, send me your resume, rate and
availability.

Title - Windows Migration Lead
Location - Windsor CT
Start - Immediate
Duration - 9 Months

Description:
Experience with Windows 7 and/or Windows 8 migration projects.
Experience with application discovery and remediation with regards to
desktop migrations.
Experience with several of the following: SCCM 2007/2012, Microsoft
Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Wise Package Studio, Flexera Admin Studio, MDOP,
VBScript, PowerShell. Broad understanding of networking, system management,
and Windows operating systems.

Excellent Communication skills (written and verbal) to all management
levels within customer organization.
Ability to listen carefully and extract key issues. Conflict resolution and
negotiation skills/experience. Excellent interview and documentation skills.
Ability to socialize and generate consensus for new ideas and to overcome
resistance.

Candidate will have to travel from time to time but will also be able to
work remotely.

*Regards, Ken Bellsoft Inc. Contact: 770-347-7455 <770-347-7455> Email:
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<888-847-9008> Address: Bellsoft, Inc. 3545 Cruse Rd, Suite 102
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:59 am (PST) . Posted by:

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Library events
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:53:07 -0500
From: Schulman, Sylvia <sschulman@westportlibrary.org>
To: Schulman, Sylvia <sschulman@westportlibrary.org>

Hello everyone,

Here is information on March Westport Library seminars that I think may
interest you.

NOTE: When you attend a daytime program, please be sure to park in the
upper level parking lot where there is no time limit on parking. All
spaces in the lower lot are limited to two hours, and you don't want to
get a parking ticket!

*Jobseekers: Energize Your Job Search*

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Gain an advantage by using valuable online tools such as /Reference USA,
LexisNexis /and /Plunkett Research. /Learn how to identify your key
companies, spot industry trends, and get in-depth background information
for greater success in networking and interviewing.

Internet Marketing With Email

Wednesday, Mar 5, 2014 6:00 PM- 8:00 PM

*David Fischer* of Solutions for Growth presents a practical workshop on
the use of email in marketing. This step-by-step how-to guide includes
titling, best times, layouts, calls to action and analysis of reports.
Moderated by Jeff Seaver of Seaver Interactive. Advance registration
with SCORE at scorenorwalk.org
<http://www.scorenorwalk.org/workshops.html> is suggested. Sign-in at
5:30 pm; workshop at 6 pm. /Co-sponsored with Fairfield County SCORE./

Running a Successful Nonprofit Business

Wednesday, Mar 19, 2014 6:00 PM- 8:00 PM

*Cynthia L. Russell* of management consulting firm CrossSector Partners,
leads a discussion on the key components of operating a successful
nonprofit. Topics will include defining an organization&#39;s mission, the
importance of strategic and business planning, working with a Board of
Directors and communications and outreach. Nonprofit executives *Angela
R. Andersen* of the International Institute of Connecticut and *Kate
Morrison* of Safe Haven for Youth Ethiopia will discuss lessons they
learned as they implementing growth plans. Advance registration with
SCORE at scorenorwalk.org <http://www.scorenorwalk.org> is suggested.
Sign-in at 5:30 pm; workshop at 6 pm. /Co-sponsored with Fairfield
County SCORE./

*Inventor's Series: Local Resources*

Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Have you been tinkering in your cellar or garage since you were young?
Have you considered taking your project to the next level? Fairfield
County has several organizations of creative people who meet and share
their knowledge regarding inventions and projects. Join us for a panel
discussion featuring the Bridgeport Innovation Center, Fairfield County
Makers Guild, Inventors' Association of Connecticut, Westport HUB and more.

Regards,

Sylvia

*Sylvia A. Schulman*

*Business Librarian*

*The Westport Library*

20 Jesup Road

Westport, CT 06880

p: 203.291.4844 f: 203.291.4856

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Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:38 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"avi wagshol" awagshol

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From: Jason Berman <JMB@themcintyregroup.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:06 PM
Subject: quick question/opportunity
To: aviwagshol@gmail.com

I hope all is well. I am working with a company in Wilton that is looking
for a BMC Consultant for a 2-3 week engagement. The person would need deep
experience with "Track It". Person would help with implementation,
customize installation, highlight features that people might not know, etc…
Would you know of anybody that would be interested (as well as have the
time). Even for a short assignment we will offer a referral bonus.

thanks

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Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:19 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Keith Bogen SPHR" hrslugger2002



 http://www.themuse.com/advice/45-quick-changes-that-help-your-resume-get-noticed

45 Quick Changes That Help Your Resume Get Noticed
By The Daily Muse Editor, February 25, 2014
There is certainly a time and a place for a resume overhaul. Taking a couple hours to really clean up your resume is worth doing before you start a job search, or even just once a year as a tune-up.
But sometimes, you don't have that kind of time. Sometimes, you just
have a few minutes, and you want to spend them giving your resume a
quick polishing-up. And for those times, we made you this list of resume updates that only take a few minutes, but that can make a big
difference in making your resume shine.
Choose how much time you have, pick a (mini) project, and get ready for your resume to be that much more eye-catching.

If You Have 2 Minutes
1. If it's not done already, switch the font of your resume to
Helvetica, Arial, or Times New Roman—in other words, make sure it's not
hard to read (or stuck in Word's standard Calibri). Using a common,
clean font may not make your resume the prettiest out there, but it will make it more readable (and less likely to be rejected by applicant
tracking systems).
2. Remove "References Available Upon Request" (if they want references, they'll ask for them!), and use the extra
space to add a detail about your abilities or accomplishments.
3. Delete the career objective. That boring boilerplate "I am a hard
working professional who wants to work in [blank] industry" is a bit
obvious—why else would you be submitting your resume?—and takes up
valuable space.
4. Spell check (fo' serious), and correct any mistakes.
5. Save your resume as a PDF if it's in any other format. That way, the
formatting won't get messed up when your resume is opened on a different computer.
6. Change the file name from "Resume" to "[First Name] [Last Name]
Resume"—it makes things easier for hiring managers and ensures your
resume doesn't get lost in the crowd.
7. Remove your address. If you're not local, recruiters might not look any further. If you are, recruiters may take your commute time into account and turn you down if they think it would be too long.
8. In its place, add a link to your LinkedIn profile, as well as any
other relevant social media handles (Twitter if it's professional,
Instagram or Flickr if you're applying to social media or creative
positions). Caveat: Never include Facebook, no matter how clean you keep it.
9. Don't want to drop your whole ugly LinkedIn URL onto your resume?
(Hint: You shouldn't.) Create a custom URL to your public profile using
simply /yourname (or some similar, simple variation if somebody already
has your name). LinkedIn has instructions on its website.
10. Make all of your hyperlinks live. Your resume is most likely going to be read on a computer, so making things like your email address,
LinkedIn and other social profiles, and personal websites clickable
makes it easier for the recruiter to learn more about you.
11. Omit any references to your birthdate, marital status, or religion.
Since it's illegal for employers to consider this when looking at your
application (at least in the U.S.), they can't request it (and offering
it makes you look a little clueless).
12. If you're more than three years out of college, remove your
graduation year. Recruiters only really want to know that you got a
degree, and you don't want them to inadvertently discriminate based on
your age.
13. While you're at it, do a little rearranging, and move education down below your experience. Unless you're a recent graduate, chances are your last one or two jobs
are more important and relevant to you getting the job.
14. To improve readability, increase the line spacing (also called leading) to at least 120% of the font size. To do this in Word, go to Format and select Paragraph. In the pulldown
under Line Spacing, choose Exactly and set the spacing to two points
above the size of your font (so, 12 if your font is 10 point).
15. Need a little more space to work with? Reduce your top and bottom
margins to 0.5" and your side margins to no less than 0.75". This will
keep your resume clean and readable but give you more room to talk about what you've got.

If You Have 5 Minutes
1. Remove anything high school-related unless you're a year out of college or need to bulk up your resume and did something highly relevant (and awesome) during your high school years.
2. Update your skills section. Add any new skills you've gained, and
remove anything that is a little dated (nobody wants to hear that you
have Microsoft Word experience anymore—they expect it).
3. If you have lots of skills related to a position—say, foreign
language, software, and leadership skills—try breaking out one of those
sections and listing it on its own ("Language Skills" or "Software
Skills").
4. Double check that formatting is consistent across your resume. You
want all headers to be in the same style, all indentations to line up,
all bullet points to match, and the like. You don't want the styling to
look sloppy!
5. Find any acronyms, and write out the full name of the title,
certification, or organization. You should include both, at least the
first time, to make sure the recruiter knows what you're talking about
and so an applicant tracking system will pick it up no matter which format it is looking for. For example: Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
6. Unless you are a designer or are submitting a (carefully crafted) creative resume, remove any photos or visual elements. On a more
traditional resume, they generally just distract from the information at hand (and can confuse applicant tracking systems).
7. If you have gaps of a few months in your work history, swap out the
usual start and end dates for each position with years only (e.g.,
2010-2012).
8. Swap out a couple of your boring verbs for some more powerful (and interesting) ones (check out our list if you need inspiration).
9. Swap out a couple of generic adjectives or titles (words like
"detail-oriented" or "experienced" are overused and don't tell a
recruiter much) with stronger language that better describes your more
unique strengths.
10. Worked multiple jobs within the same organization? Learn how to list them right on your resume, then update it as such.
11. As a rule, you should only show the most recent 10-15 years of your
career history and only include the experience relevant to the positions to which you are applying. So if you have anything really dated or
random, remove it and use the space to bulk up other sections or add
something more relevant.
12. Go through line by line and take note of any orphan words (single
words left on a line by themselves). See how you can edit the previous
line so they can fit—making your resume look cleaner and opening up
extra lines for you to do other things with.
13. Make your document easier to skim by adding divider lines between sections. Check out section three of this great guide to resume formatting from LifeClever for instructions.
14. Include any numbers on your resume? Go through and change them all to numerical form, instead of written out (i.e., 30% instead of thirty
percent). Even small numbers that are often spelled out should be
written numerically—it makes them pop to the reviewer and saves space.
15. Read your resume out loud. This will not only help you catch any
spelling or grammar errors, but it will also help you notice any
sentences that sound awkward or that are hard to understand.

If You Have 10-15 Minutes
1. Look at your resume "above the fold." In other words, take a close
look at the top third of your resume—the part that will show up on the
screen when the hiring manager clicks "open" on that PDF. That's what's
going to make your first impression—so make sure it serves as a hook
that makes the hiring manager eager to read more.
2. Make sure you have no more than 6-7 bullet points for any given
position. If you do? Cut and condense. No matter how long you've been in a job or how good your bullets are, the recruiter just isn't going to
get through them.
3. Give your resume to someone who doesn't know you well to look at for
30 seconds. Then ask: What are the three most memorable things? What's
the narrative? Take this feedback and think about how you can adjust
your resume to get it closer to where you want.
4. Similarly, drop your resume into a word cloud generator and see which keywords are popping out. If the most prominent ones
aren't what you want to be remembered by, or if there are important
words that aren't present, think about how you can tweak your resume to
make that more clear.
5. Go through your bullet points, and add as many numbers and
percentages as you can to quantify your work. How many people were
impacted? By what percentage did you exceed your goals? (And, yes, it's
OK to estimate as long as you can roughly prove it.)
6. Pick a few statements to take one step further, and add in what the
benefit was to your boss or your company. By doing this, you clearly
communicate not only what you're capable of, but also the direct benefit the employer will receive by hiring you.
7. Consider adding a qualifications section. (Perhaps in lieu of your
now-deleted "Career Objective?") This should be a six-sentence (or
bullet pointed) section that concisely presents the crème of the crop of your achievements, major skills, and important experiences. By doing
this, you're both appeasing any applicant tracking systems with keywords and giving the hiring manager the juicy, important bits right at the top.
8. Update your resume header to make it pop. You don't have to have a
ton of design knowledge to make a header that looks sleek and catches a
recruiter's eye—check out this example for some simple, text-based inspiration. (Hint: Use this same header on your resume and cover letter to make your "personal brand" look really
put together.)
9. Need to fill up more space on your resume, or feel like you're light
on the experience? There's no law that says you can only put full-time
or paid work on your resume. So, if you've participated in a major
volunteer role, worked part-time, freelanced, or blogged? Add a couple of these things as their own "jobs" within your career chronology.
10. If you need more space on your resume, check and see if any of your
formatting decisions are taking up unnecessary space. Does your header
take up too much at the top? Do you have any extra line breaks that you
don't really need? Tinker around with the formatting and see how much
space you can open up (without your resume looking crowded or messy).
11. Look at each bullet point and make sure it's understandable to the
average person. Remember that the first person who sees your resume
might be a recruiter, an assistant, or even a high-level executive—and
you want to be sure that it is readable, relevant, and interesting to
all of them.
12. Make sure all of the experience on your resume is updated. Add any
awards you've received, new skills you've taken on, articles you've
published, or anything else awesome you've done.
13. Hop over to your LinkedIn profile, and make any updates you've just
made to your resume to your summary and experience sections there.
14. Email three of your friends or professional contacts asking (nicely!) for a peek at their resumes. You might be able to get some inspiration
for your own (or even help them out).
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