How to Describe Your Interests in Your Resume

How to Describe Your Interests in Your ResumeIf you want to be successful at getting a job in the financial services industry, then it is a very important element of your resume. The importance of your resume lies on how well you explain your resume interests. One way of doing this is to include the areas where you have been active or interests. This will give you an idea of what areas that you can talk about when it comes to these.However, even if you don't have any particular area or interest that you're interested in, there are some ways to discuss that and also different areas. A resume with different areas is great because you can simply say 'My experiences vary'. This kind of approach allows you to emphasize and describe the experiences in various fields. For example, if you have a degree in accounting, you can list your internship and volunteer activities. On the other hand, if you have a degree in finance, you can mention your previous jobs or volunteer activities.The first e xample with different types of careers will make it easier for you to find out what kinds of skills you have. You should find out how many years you have worked in different fields and note down all of those years.The second example of different resume interests includes the areas you have volunteered for or has participated in an internship. This is an effective way to highlight your capabilities and to describe why you are qualified for this particular area.Another example of different resume interests is the information you have. The difference here is that you're going to get to highlight your strengths in terms of your experience and you can also discuss the areas in which you lack the most.The resume also needs to be interesting and targeted to the field. In order to do this, you must first know what your career goals are and you should try to identify what skills you have that are useful to the industry. If you do not have any special skills or areas that you need to focus on , then you may use bullet points.Career experts suggest that you focus on only the skills that are needed in your field, although you must take into consideration all the areas that you need to develop. You can also use bullet points to highlight your most important skill or area of interest. As a last note, you should always present your resume to several professionals so that they will be able to read through it and evaluate it for their potential employers.

Turn Your Side Job Into Your Main Job 3 Entrepreneurs Speak

Turn Your Side Job Into Your Main Job 3 Entrepreneurs Speak Whether it’s running an Etsy craft shop or building the occasional website for a friend, there are few of us out there who’ve never had a side gig. Not only does it help you pursue a passion, but having the extra income can also help you pad your budget and make progress toward your financial goals all the faster. But the benefits that come from a side gig don’t stop at the payout. For many, it can be a good way to test-drive a new career, get a foot in the door of a new industry or polish skills that can ultimately help lead to a more fulfilling or lucrative full-time job. Ed McMasters, director of marketing, communications and design for FusionWRX, a marketing engagement agency in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, says he hired his current graphic designer because he was impressed with the work she put into her side gig as a designer of invitations. “We had a couple people come in [who said] they had side gigs or were freelancing but they only had one or two pieces of workâ€"whereas her portfolio showed she had been doing invitation design for years. It was fantastic,” McMasters says. “In my opinion, [giving time to your side gig] is broadening your horizons and giving you the opportunity to learn something new and different, and ideally you can adapt it to your 9-to-5.” Inspired yet? To show you some examples of how a side gig can help you get ahead in your full-time job, we asked three people to share their successful career-shift stories. ‘My side gig helped me get a foot in the door of my dream industry.’ Who: Brittany Johnston, 27, marketing assistant, New York City Former Job/Side Gig: Elementary school teacher/Style blogger How My Side Gig Helped Me Land My New Job: I graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a degree in elementary education, so the natural thing to do after school was to get a job as a teacher. My real dream, however, was to work in fashion in New York City, but everyone around me said getting a job in a field unrelated to my degree was slim. I had started a fashion blog in 2010, but not much came of it because I wasn’t confident enough to publicly put it out there and I didn’t know exactly what I was doing. So I just kind of had it on the back burner. After graduation, I was determined for it to take flight. When I finally launched my new blog NotAnotherBlonde.com in January 2015, it received a lot of positive responses, and it’s been growing ever since. I then decided to switch paths from education to marketing because I didn’t see a lot of growth opportunities as a teacher. In marketing, the sky’s the limit. If you’re good at it, you can create the life of your dreams, and I also saw this as a way to pursue my dream of getting a job in fashion in New York City. In January 2016, I took a leap of faith and moved from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to the Big Apple. After 80 applications and eight interviews, I was beginning to lose hope of getting a fashion job, until I finally came across a fashion recruiting firm, 24 Seven. I interviewed initially as a recruiter, but that position didn’t work out. I was heartbroken and had one month’s rent left in my bank account when I got a call saying they had another opening, this time in marketing. I interviewed for that position and nailed it. I had put my side gig on my résumé because that was something I’d been consistently working on, and the skills I had gained through that were invaluable: digital and social media marketing, trend forecasting, coding, networking, content curation, photography, self-discipline and time management. I can confidently say my side gig didn’t just help me, but it was essentially the deciding factor in landing the job. My Advice for Others: Find someone who’s doing what you want to do and copy their strategy. Listen to what they’re saying, but more importantly, watch what they’re doing and how they execute. Look for the little gems in what they do, because nobody puts something out there without a strategy behind it. Read More: My Money-Making Side Gig: ‘I Teach Bloggers How to Turn Likes Into Paychecks’ ‘My side gig helped me ramp up my professional experience.’ Who: Ryan Taylor, 38, network operations center manager, greater Los Angeles area Former Job/Side Gig: IT system center administrator/Co-founder of a website that connects parents with local child sports teams How My Side Gig Helped Me Land My New Job: Sports has always been a big part of my life. Growing up, I played baseball and basketball, and I’ve also coached a girls’ Little League softball team. In fact, it was while I was coaching and sitting on the Board of Directors of the local Little League that I realized parents needed help figuring out what teams their daughters could join next after they reached the age ceiling. So one of the other board members and I decided to start a directory of youth sports teams called AllTeamz, which enables players to find teams and teams to find players. We’ve been going strong for over three years. At that time, I worked in IT as a system center administrator, but about a month after I launched AllTeamz, I got laid off. I can say, however, that the skills I developed working on the site helped me land my next job. I’d been working in IT management for some time but prior to developing AllTeamz, I always felt like I was the least experienced person in the room. Now I could say I was the site’s administrator, architect, development team, sales and marketing team and, last but not least, the sole individual responsible for our customers. I leveled up my technical skill set and quickly became a jack of all trades. I learned more about infrastructure build and maintenance, coding and customer empathy, among other key skills. All this helped me land my current job as an engineer and tech manager for a major provider of tax and accounting software. I’ve been with my current employer for about three years, and being part of operations here means being responsible for the availability of services to external customersâ€"and lots of them. I wouldn’t have been able to operate in this environment without the knowledge I gained from my own side project. My Advice for Others: Too many people give themselves roadblocks for why they can’t do something. The truth is, the best thing you can do is just start. When I decided to launch AllTeamz, I first went to a whiteboard and drew what I thought the site should look like. Getting started was the secret sauce. Read More: My Money-Making Side Gig: ‘My Husband and I Lead Local Food Tours’ ‘My side gig helped me launch my own business.’ Who: Melissa Weinberg, 46, sunless-tanning entrepreneur, Wellington, Florida Former Job/Side Gig: Mortgage post closer/Spray tanner How My Side Gig Helped Me Land My New Job: In 2010, I was diagnosed with skin cancer and being fair-complected, I knew I would never be able to achieve a tan the natural way again. So I purchased a spray-tan machine and started airbrush tanning myself. Once I noticed that there weren’t many businesses offering spray-tanning services in my area, I decided to give that a shot as a side business and began taking on clients on the nights and weekends. At the time I was working in the mortgage sector, and since the recession, I’d been unsure about the future of the industry. I really felt that I should follow my passion and learn about the beauty trade, just in case something happened to my full-time career. Plus, I really wanted to do something different at this stage of my life. So I continued to grow my clientele and knowledge of the industry, and in June 2014, even launched Perfect Glow Sunless, my own proprietary line of professional airbrush tanning sprays, along with Melissa Weinberg Tanning Beauty, a retail self-tanning and skincare lineâ€"all while still working my full-time job. But I got to the point where I knew I needed to give up the comforts of the corporate world in order to expand my brand. It was scary giving up things like a steady paycheck, health benefits and my 401(k), especially as I was basically a one-woman show, doing everything from sales to customer service to marketing to packing daily orders. With so much going on, I just couldn’t continue to do both jobs. So in June 2015, I finally left my day job. This was the right decision for me. My business has continued to expand at a fast rate; my products are now used in over 300 spray-tanning salons. I am currently looking for larger retail and warehouse spaces, and I recently brought on my first sales account executive. My Advice for Others: First, your side gig has to be something that you enjoy, because your passion is going to fuel everything. Whether it’s a beauty service or a tangible good, people can read honesty, and if you’re passionate about what you’re doing, it’s really going to show. Second, your side business has to be feasibleâ€"there has to be a need for it. If it doesn’t fulfill a need for somebody, then you might run into problems being successful in the long term.

How To Train Yourself For Success - Work It Daily

How To Train Yourself For Success - Work It Daily Determination is the key to success. You've always been told that you can do anything you set your mind to. However, while the inspirational simplicity of such thinking rings true, it doesn't tell the whole story. As someone trying to get a law degree (while running my own small team of freelancers), I dream of a time when I might find my place in this kind of crowd. As I near completion of my studies, I find myself reflecting on the things I've learned during the process and the difficulties I've had to overcome to reach this point. One of the most important lessons I've learned was actually managing my team of freelancers. I've discovered that a successful mindset is the easy part in managing (after all, it's not predicated on success itself) and it is the practicalities of success that prove to be an obstacle for most. While we often have the abilities to intuitively understand and practice the skills we need to teach ourselves, procrastination often gets the best of us. It is often the tasks that are essential for progression that get put off first. Sometimes, we need to force ourselves to delay the easy tasks and complete those difficult ones first. The good news is that, if you put the work in, you can accomplish anything. The bad news is that putting the work in is more than just showing up every day. It is about constantly testing new approaches, failing, and trying again until you succeed. It is about taking the time to keep up with the newest changes in the industry to stay competitive. It is about constantly learning and evolving. I embarked on this pursuit of becoming successful knowing fully that it would not be easy. I was still surprised by how hard it was. I have found that, besides immense amounts of time and effort, having faith in yourself and in your choice of career is crucial. I have also found that there are universal skills that can help anyone reach their goals. Let me share more details about what these skills are, and why acquiring them can help you out immensely. Here's my take on how to train yourself for success: Read Between The Lines First off, let me say that good communication skills go well beyond being charismatic and talkative in business situations. Good communication involves figuring out what people think and what they want to say, then acknowledging them in a tactile way. Often, this involves disguising your own intentions, as well as seeing through to the veiled intentions of others. Though this may seem cynical, it is a fact of business that many interactions are not formed on friendliness and sincerity. Unconditional trust often causes as many problems as it may solve. Learn To Manage Being a one-man band, in a matter of speaking, means you have to familiarize yourself with many aspects of business that most people don't need to understand. Here, we face a Hollywood cliche: the ever-recurring character of a brilliant entrepreneur who dazzles the world with his genius and unconventional approach. Of course, this very rarely works in the real world, if ever. Honing your business skills and tackling various specific challenges in running a business will prepare you for success in any branch you choose. Keep A Cool Head Negotiating and resolving conflicts are art forms with very specific requirements in terms of communication. These skills have not changed much throughout history (as arguably human nature itself hasn't changed either). Learning how to remain calm and focused in all situations and not letting your emotions get the best of you is hard to do for many people. However, keeping a cool head is the most important weapon in negotiations and conflict resolutions. Enjoy this article? You've got time for another! Check out these related articles: 5 Things Successful People Do Before Breakfast 4 C’s To Career Success 10 Inspiring Quotes About Career Success Photo Credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!