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First step when looking for a job is resume writing, then you send your cover letter and attached cv to any company who is hiring for a job you would like to do and, eventually you received a call placing you for a personal interview at human resources department. Here comes the first doubt, what should i wear in the meeting?

Sure many people will tell you always need to wear  siut, and tie, when going for a job interview. However at some companies ir you show up wearing so formal dress code everybody will know that is your first time.

Once you receive the call, first thing to do it investigating how the company works; what they really do, how many employees does it have and , of course, what kind of dress code workers are required.  Anyway you need to know what kind of job they are offering to you; employees are suppose to follow a strict dress code when they attend to clients face to face that if they are working at backstage.

In case you are applying for a job where uniform is required and provided by company, business casual wear will be formal enough to show a good impresion. A good advice is to dress confortable but not too sporty: jeans and shirt will be ok but be sure not to wear gym clothes.

Sometimes much more important that what are you wearing is how you wear it. Don’t wear too aged , old-fashioned clothing and be cautious about how clean are you clothes and yourself. Nobody likes to work everyday with someone who looks like he or she were allergic to water and bath products!

Thanks to new technologies resume writing and sending is not the only way to get a job. Social media services have spread very quickly among the Internet users in the last few years and many of these users are not aware how powerful this services can be when you are looking for a new job.

Social media profiles show to the world who you are and what you can do so employers have started to look for candidates in this sites. In this way the employers can access many information to find the perfect person to hire for a certain job that they couldn’t find reading a professional resume.

However you must remember that every you post on the Internet with public access can be find too. So be careful and wise when talking about something you didn’t like at your actual job. Employers don’t like controversial and troubled employees and once they get a bad impression about you i doesn’t matter anymore what your resume says about what have you done.

You have to manage social media as if you were working as public relations services for yourself. It you want to have a personal profile in which to feel free to publish anything be wise about who can reach that profile, don’t accept as a friend anyone who request it ir he or she is not an actual close friend.

You have to think in your resume as it were a spot that is selling you. You need to appear more interesting to the employer than the other candidates to receive the call for a personal interview and, eventually, get the job you are applying for.

In order to get the attention of the employer there are some common mistakes to avoid:

1.    Write a CV  template presenting the same data every time.  Be aware that some data that it is really important in some jobs , it is useless for others.
2.    Spelling and grammar mistakes. Check your resume as many times as you can before print it or send it to the employer, it is really important that it has not any kind of language mistake when somebody read it.
3.    Title the document as CV or resume. Anyone who takes the document already knows it is a resume and titling in that way seems to be a resume example of and office suite.
4.    Use too many acronyms of hard-to-understand expressions although you are applying for a technical job. Sometimes at human resources department are not experts and using abbreviations would be a barrier to understand your presentation and make clear you are a good candidate for the job.
5.    Lying about your qualifications or your skill it is always a bad idea. You could be asked about this aspects at the interview and you would seem like a cheater in front of the employers and nobody wants to hire a liar.

Remember that when someone reads your CV it has to attract enough to make him or her call you for a personal contact and it would not happen if your resume looks like a mess.