Designing a winning CV

Designing a winning CV

Torun Rahman

CV

CV or Curriculum Vitae (Latin for ‘course of life’) also known as a Résumé is a latest word that came to us through the wave of the globalization replacing the word bio data.


CV versus Biodata

There is a difference between CV and Bio Data. CV is a summary of academic and professional history and achievements. And Biodata is a commonly used term in Industrial and organizational psychology for biographical data. Biodata surveys generally contain factual kinds of questions about life and work experiences, as well as to items involving opinions, values, beliefs, and attitudes that reflect a historical perspective. A company needs information on your skill, education, experience etc rather than the information of your family.

Shooting a killer CV

An efficient CV can unlock the opportunities for you. It is your representative to the recruiters. It talks, argues, motivates, refreshes and reasons your recruiters to win a golden job for you in your absent. Still we have many misunderstandings on CV writing. Basically, there is no single system or rule to write a CV. Golden rule to write a CV is that it must focuses all info that a respective company wants at the front part. Here we will show you how to write a CV. We can divide the CV into two parts: (1) Cover Letter - CL (2) Body Letter – BL. There are more issues before or after sending a CV.

The cover letter:

Cover letter is like the first date, the first impression to win. Recruiters mirror you through it. It is the core of your CV. You have to convince the selectors to look at your CV from the thousands of CV. Many of us still submit CV without writing a cover letter. It is a non-pardonable error. Only this single error can lead your CV to waste bin who ever you or what ever you write in other pages. Because your recruiter may think, you do not know how to write a CV. So do not send a resume without a cover letter. Let us now see the rules to write a cover letter – CL.

Top rules to write a champion cover letter

1. Consider your and company purpose

You must match your skill with the company requirement. You have to understand the company need. You have to write different cover letters for different industry. Suppose you are writing a cover letter for Grameen phone that may not suit for AKTEL. In the same industry, they have the different vision, mission, objective, market position, risks and challenges. Therefore, at first must study on the company before writing cover letter. You can visit the company website as well as any employee. You have to mention how and why you can be the best fit in the position. Rather than the claiming ‘competent’ and ‘qualified ‘cites example and relate them to job the requirements.

2. Keep it smart but sweet – KISS

Limit the letter to one page dividing into three paragraphs. Do not repeat any thing. Use active voice and powerful verbs for lively communication. Avoid outdated sentences like ‘Enclosed please find my resume for your review’. Be careful to write flawless and grammatically correct sentences. You must avoid the words like beg, kind, humbly, faithful, obedient etc.

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Expressive couple lives longer

Expressive couple lives longer

Suzan Rehman

After your marriage if you find your spouse is a talkative person or aggressive in verbal communication you may be frustrated, even you may pass some sleepless nights picturing your whole life living with such a person. But it is the time for your remedy that no needs to worry about your spouse’s angry behavior. Better you should marry a conflicting one, best is to marry a debater. Recently a survey finds it. A good argument with your spouse could be work better than any medicine. Preliminary results from a survey of married couples suggest that disputing husbands and wives who hold in their anger die earlier than expressive couples

"When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," said researcher Ernest Harburg, professor emeritus with the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Psychology Department. "Usually nobody is trained to do this. If they have good parents, they can imitate, that's fine, but usually the couple is ignorant about the process of resolving conflict."
So while conflict is inevitable, the critical matter is how couples resolve it.
"The key matter is, when the conflict happens, how do you resolve it?" Harburg said. "When you don't, if you bury your anger, and you brood on it and you resent the other person or the attacker, and you don't try to resolve the problem, then you're in trouble."
The findings add to past research showing that the release of anger can be healthy. For instance, one study revealed when people are angry they tend to make better decisions, perhaps because this emotion triggers the brain to ignore irrelevant cues and focus on the meat of the matter. Individuals who express anger might also have a sense of control and optimism over a situation, according to another past study.
Bottled anger adds to stress, which tends to shorten lives, many studies show.
In the current study, the authors suggest a combination of factors to explain the higher mortality for couples who don't express their anger. These include "mutual anger suppression, poor communication (of feelings and issues) and poor problem-solving with medical consequences," they write in the January issue of the Journal of Family Communication.
Over a 17-year period, Harburg and his colleagues studied 192 married couples in which spouses ranged in age from 35 to 69, focusing on aggressive behavior considered unfair or undeserved by the person being "attacked." Harburg said that if an attack is viewed as fair, the victim doesn't tend to get angry.
Based on the participants' anger-coping responses to hypothetical situations, Harburg placed couples into one of four categories: both partners express their anger; the wife expresses anger; the husband communicates anger while the other suppresses; and both the husband and wife brood and suppress their anger.
The researchers found that 26 couples, meaning 52 individuals, were suppressors in which both partners held in their anger. Twenty-five percent of the suppressors died during the study period compared with about 12 percent for the other remaining couples.
In 27 percent of the suppressor couples, one member of the couple died during the study period, and in 23 percent of those couples, both died during the study period. That's compared to only 6 percent of couples where both spouses died in the remaining three groups combined. Only 19 percent in the remaining three groups combined saw one partner die during the study period.
The results held even when other health factors were accounted for, including age, smoking, weight, blood pressure, bronchial problems, breathing and cardiovascular risk.
Harburg said the results are preliminary, and his team is now collecting 30-year follow-up data. He expects the follow-up to show almost double the death rate compared with the preliminary findings.
Depending above theory we can relate that our out spoken politicians are also good for our democracy. The chaotic political situation is better than those of silent conspiracy and plotting in many parts of the world. However if your spouse is calm in every situation then it is the time now to rethink and worry because holding anger inside is very dangerous. Better release every thing to your spouse. Talk always; instigate your partner to talk, express, release...
- Source: LiveScience.com