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American Marketing Associates
—AMA—
Mission Statement

We will provide our clients with the highest quality, do-it-yourself (DIY) workbooks for:

• creative resume guidelines,
• cover-letter formats,
• interviewing skills techniques,
• career coaching guidance, and
• job-leads sourcing.

Our mission is to provide timely, positive, and targeted published information, plus templates and/or materials, or assistance focusing particularly on: creative resume writing, effective interviewing skills , attention grabbing cover-letters, credible job-lead ideas, effective techniques for job-searching, and other relevant job-getting, career coaching, “tips” that might lead to job interviews and finally, a job offer.

A Commitment To Our Clients

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1. Identify your “Primary” or “Generic” skills—AND— write them down.

Example: You have a college degree. The primary, or generic aspect of this is:
•   you are teachable,
•   you are flexible, and
•   you started a project (education) AND finished that project.

Example: You have work experience. The primary/generic aspects, you have:
•   organizational skills, or
•   technical skills, or
•   administrative skills, or
•   management skills, or
•   mechanical skills, or
•   teaching/instructional skills, or
•   sales skills, or
•   financial skills, or
•   communication skills, or
•   creative skills, and/or other skills.

2. Using “Non-Paid” experiences can also be useful —AND— write them down.

Example: If your only jobs have been unpaid experience working in a family business, as a community volunteer, and/or even in-depth hobby experience? These experiences can also be, if you have a mix of paid and unpaid jobs.

IT IS STILL WORK EXPERIENCE

3. Identify your “strongest, hands-on” skills—whether paid, or not.

Example: skills required for selling, computers, mathematics, managing, etc.

4. Spend lots of time developing your resume.

Example: This is the most important document you will ever write, so:
•   allow absolutely—NO SPELLING ERRORS, and
•   keep to just one, or a maximum of two pages. Ideally, only one (1) page.

5. Think “BROCHURE” Like a brochure, your resume needs to capture attention.

Example: Avoid listing DETAILED job duties, keep points more general
•   Use bullet-point style formatting with each bullet a maximum of 2-lines.
•   Use a format that emphasizes your job title in bold, all caps, underlined.

6. Create “Achievement Statements” —But—use only one point per bullet-point.
Example: Develop statements of examples of actions you have taken that made a difference in the job, company, department, team, project, or?, such as:
•   measurable in dollars ($s), time (hours), percentages (%), or etc., and
•   note “Special” accomplishments versus day-to-day duties/responsibilities.

7. Understand the DIFFERENT resume formats NEEDED today.

Example: The traditional, standard resume format is #1, but you ALSO need:
•   a Faxable/Scanable format, and/or
•   a E-mail format.

8. Prepare an “ORAL SUMMARY” a 30 to 60 seconds summary of your experience.

9. Send a “Thank you” letter.

Example: Keep your letter to 3 paragraphs, maximum, including:
•   First, a “Thank you" (and your colleagues…) letter, followed by a statement of your choice, and
•   end by, saying, “I have a serious interest in this position, and look forward to hearing from you..."
•   This, lets the hiring manager know that you DO think you want the job.

10. NEVER, NEVER, EVER GIVE UP and you will be successful.

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