CV Resume Blog

Economy crisis has made many Europeans to loose their jobs and many of them are getting prepared  for cv boost.

EURES Program is a program of European Employment Services cooperating to facilitate the free movement of workers within the European Economic Area;Switzerland is also involved. Partners in the network include public employment services, trade union and employers’ organizations. The network is coordinated by the European Commission.

As EURES program responsibles say:

“The purpose of EURES is to provide information, advice and recruitment/placement (job-matching) services for the benefit of workers and employers as well as any citizen wishing to benefit from the principle of the free movement of persons.

EURES is much more than the Job Mobility Portal-.

EURES has a human network of more than 700 EURES advisers, trained specialists who provide the three basic EURES services of information, guidance and placement, to both jobseekers (including advices on resume writing) and employers interested in the European job market.

In European cross-border regions, EURES has an important role to play in providing information about and helping to solve all sorts of problems related to cross-border commuting that workers and employers may experience.

Set up in 1993, EURES is a co-operation network between the European Commission and the Public Employment Services of the EEA Member States (The EU countries plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and other partner organizations. Switzerland also takes part in EURES co-operation. The joint resources of the EURES member and partner organizations provide a solid basis for the EURES network to offer high quality services for both workers and employers”.

All people looking for a work in Europe should enter their professional resume in EURES database

Despite the huge number of unemployed youth in the nation’s labor market, few are willing to go into the teaching profession and few are who look for adding it in their job resume.

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola said last week  “How many of you graduates want to teach? Nothing would please me more than to have a degree holder in Mathematics do a training program in teaching methods and teaching our secondary school students Mathematics,”. Even business schools directors are encouraging graduates to become teachers for cv, in words of Director of Etisalat CSR Centre “Many of our brilliant youngsters don’t want to go into teaching,” he said. “In the 60s and 70s, the best brains in each faculty ended up staying on as teachers. But that is not the same today.”

Young people are not attracted to this job because of low salaries. As Helen Akamnonu said “Even though I did my youth service as a teacher, I don’t think I would like to continue being a teacher,” she said. “I enjoyed it while it lasted but even the students I taught did not have much regard for we that taught them. Most of the students I taught want to be politicians so they can earn much money, and I am talking about students in Junior Secondary School. They have looked around and observed that politicians are richer than teachers and therefore won’t like to be teachers.”

Despite this inconveniences teachers all over the country are enjoying their comfortable profession as  Tanley Ukwah, a former teacher with over 10 years teaching experience in her resume, gives a perspective to people’s dislike for the teaching profession. “The reason why young people don’t want to be teachers again is very obvious,” she said. “There is no prestige attached to the profession and it is the fault of our leaders. When they don’t pay proper attention to the people who are responsible for molding the future of people, their respect would obviously be down played. They rather pay more attention to banking and engineering jobs rather than the people who taught these bankers and engineers.”

Job seekers are not only fresh college graduates or people who has been recently dismissed but young people looking for a part-time job so they can afford buying a new car of going out on vacation with friends.

If you are a student looking for your first job you should now having a well-written resume is important even if you do not have a lot of work-related experience. Consider including volunteer experience, school-related experiences such as being on the debate team and/or being elected to Student Council as these also show leadership and initiative.

Always present yourself and your qualifications in a positive way to employers. Make sure you have no typing or grammatical mistakes and use clean, white, heavy stock paper to print your resume and don forget to attach a recent photography.

You can find cover letter example and CV template on the Internet that will make easier to write your first resume. You can use a model as following from about.com:

FirstName  LastName
6 Pine Street, Arlington, VA 12333
home: 555.555.5555
cell: 566.486.2222
email: phjones@vacapp.com

Education

Arlington High School, Arlington, Virginia
2002 – 2006

Experience

Pet Sitter
2004 – Present
• Provide pet sitting services including dog walking, feeding and yard care.

Child Care
2002 – Present
• Provide child care for several families after school, weekends and during school vacations.

Achievements

• National Honor Society: 2004, 2005, 2006

• Academic Honor Roll: 2002 – 2006

Volunteer Experience

• Big Brother / Big Sisters
• Arlington Literacy Program
• Run for Life

Interests / Activities

• Member of Arlington High School Tennis Team
• Girl Scout
• Piano

Computer Skills

• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Internet