Great! Thanks for these tips Marina! I tell people I work with that the resume is literally a love letter where you’re courting the company. You want to do everything to tick all their boxes! A major challenge remains how people are able to present their transferable skills, this is where people go all out with the lies…. So please cover it in the resume cafe and help people see that they don’t need to lie on their resumes. Since it’s in person, I’ll share the link for the Resume Cafe with a couple of friends in Saskatoon. Way to go Marina! Let’s get this!!!!
Thank you Marina. First time to come across your channel. Very succinct and infirmative. I've been helping some people in Zimbabwe to write their CVs. I'm retired from Nursing, Midwifery, Health visitor 40 yrs in UK, with an honours degree in psychology. My area is child development, assessing children and advising parents with children with special needs. I did that in UK for 29 years. I'm a free lance. Stay blessed. Zim/UK.
Thank you for each video following the job search/ application videos. So we'll structured tips in the right order. Looking forward to your next one about cover letters. Thanks for the efforts and guidance. Take care
CV/Resumé is the river where newcomer immigrant boats sink in Canada's cold waters📑✍🏽Well educated Africans struggle to get jobs, until they learn these your fundamentals, Marina. Thank you ✔️
Thank you for this session. I am looking forward to the video and cover letter. Also, for the live session, can you kindly consider those that are not in Saskatchewan?. Thank you
Ma what about those of us that graduated 10yrs back with no work experience, due to childbearing. I'm currently doing a small business .hoping to come to Canada with my family. How then do i tailor my cv to suit a job description
Thank You Marina...I like to know what do I do if I have more than one experience over several years of work e.g. in HR, Administrative Assistant, Contracts Administrator and Business Development....but my current role is in HR and i want to apply as a Contract Administrator (I worked and gained experience a couple of years ago) - should i state it as my current job? what if the recruiter contact my current employer who has HR role as my offer? I like to understand having separate resumes but with experience gained years ago when applying for current openings.
You don't have to remove your current experience to emphasize previous experience. You can use a cover letter to highlight the transferable skills you have. It is okay to keep you role title and timeline as is but call out the specific skills that the job posting is asking for.
Thank you for sharing ma. We need tips on how to nail interviews because getting interviews and no job offer is so draining and discouraging! (Personal experience- You interviewed so well but the selected candidate has more qualifications!) What are the qualifications recruiter? ask me first, I have it !!!😭😭😭
I can understand. The thing with interviews is that you can do all the right things and still not be the one they choose. If we interview three great candidates with only one opening, we will have to turn down 2 great candidates. That you are getting to the interviews is proof that your resume is great so dont get discouraged, keep at it and the dream job will come. All the best!
I am in my first month at Fanshawe studying BusinesuAanlysis and we were told to send cv as a word document. Me and my friend approached our coop lecturer to tell her that industry practice is to send as a pdf and she said word document is better. So now I dunno what to do.
Word isn't bad but sometimes, you have to download and enable editing before you can use it while pdf opens with one click. The format Word is also more likely to change with different ATS. I find pdf to be more stable and easier to work with. Some things look different in real life from what it is in a textbook.
It will depend on the skills you have and if it is in a specialized area. It is worth trying. May not be easy given the way the job market currently is but you can try. All the best!
Please Madam, it is advisable to capture all your work experiences in one CV? e.g 10 years job experiences in various job sections, kindly advise. Thanks
Please just show us a resume that you were impressed with so we know what to put on. By now we sort of know what not to do. What to do is what we don’t know.
I will have to be careful with that so I don't breach privacy and I will prefer not to use a generic one. I will maybe use mine as the illustration during the Cafe session. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you Marina for the detailed what not should be in a resume. However, you see what you have highlighted on the things that shouldn't be in a resume. Some recruiters would tell you put full address, nationality and those unnecessary things. My take is there should be a best practice for resume or best practice for human resources like the way other professional sectors like accounting. They would say for every debit entry there should be a corresponding credit entry and it is so all over the world.. But you see this HR best practice is on the mud 😢
Recruiters in which location? There are recruitment best practices and a lot of them border on human rights laws. Asking people for their nationality as a condition for hiring is illegal and is discriminatory because race and nationality are prohibited grounds. If somebody asked you for nationality or country of origin in Canada, report it because that is illegal.
Also, HR can not have the same global standards because labour laws are jurisdictional. What applies in one country will be different from other countries so you can't have one size fits all like accounting.
Great! Thanks for these tips Marina!
I tell people I work with that the resume is literally a love letter where you’re courting the company. You want to do everything to tick all their boxes!
A major challenge remains how people are able to present their transferable skills, this is where people go all out with the lies…. So please cover it in the resume cafe and help people see that they don’t need to lie on their resumes.
Since it’s in person, I’ll share the link for the Resume Cafe with a couple of friends in Saskatoon.
Way to go Marina! Let’s get this!!!!
I couldn't have put it any better. Thank you very much
Thank you Marina. First time to come across your channel. Very succinct and infirmative. I've been helping some people in Zimbabwe to write their CVs. I'm retired from Nursing, Midwifery, Health visitor 40 yrs in UK, with an honours degree in psychology. My area is child development, assessing children and advising parents with children with special needs. I did that in UK for 29 years. I'm a free lance. Stay blessed. Zim/UK.
Thank you very much!
Marina sounds most reasonable Compared to most similar videos out there. Just my 1st impression
Video filled with critical information. Cant wait for the cover letter video. Thanks again
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you for each video following the job search/ application videos. So we'll structured tips in the right order. Looking forward to your next one about cover letters. Thanks for the efforts and guidance. Take care
Glad it was helpful!
CV/Resumé is the river where newcomer immigrant boats sink in Canada's cold waters📑✍🏽Well educated Africans struggle to get jobs, until they learn these your fundamentals, Marina. Thank you ✔️
Thank you for pointing out these mistakes. This video is an eye-opener
Thank you so much Marina.
You are so welcome!
Very insightful, loaded pack, educating and highly informative. Thanks very much and well done.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the information, especially the professional summary section.
Glad it was helpful!
This is indeed insightful 👏. Thank you for the detailed advise Marina
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much Marina😊🙏🙌🏼😊
You are so welcome!
This is very insightful.....Thanks Marina
Glad it was helpful!
This is quite helpful.
I'm looking forward to the next video. Hoping to switch careers soon.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for everything
Thank you for sharing this informative video
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this session. I am looking forward to the video and cover letter. Also, for the live session, can you kindly consider those that are not in Saskatchewan?. Thank you
Great suggestion! The first one will be in person and subsequent offerings will most likely be virtual.
Thank you, Marina. 😊
You're welcome 😊
Difficult, time consuming and daunting smh.
Thanks for this informative video
Thank you marine.
Welcome!
The is so helpful. Thank you ❤️
You're so welcome!
Ma what about those of us that graduated 10yrs back with no work experience, due to childbearing. I'm currently doing a small business .hoping to come to Canada with my family. How then do i tailor my cv to suit a job description
Thank You Marina...I like to know what do I do if I have more than one experience over several years of work e.g. in HR, Administrative Assistant, Contracts Administrator and Business Development....but my current role is in HR and i want to apply as a Contract Administrator (I worked and gained experience a couple of years ago) - should i state it as my current job? what if the recruiter contact my current employer who has HR role as my offer? I like to understand having separate resumes but with experience gained years ago when applying for current openings.
You don't have to remove your current experience to emphasize previous experience. You can use a cover letter to highlight the transferable skills you have. It is okay to keep you role title and timeline as is but call out the specific skills that the job posting is asking for.
Thank you for sharing ma. We need tips on how to nail interviews because getting interviews and no job offer is so draining and discouraging! (Personal experience- You interviewed so well but the selected candidate has more qualifications!) What are the qualifications recruiter? ask me first, I have it !!!😭😭😭
I can understand. The thing with interviews is that you can do all the right things and still not be the one they choose. If we interview three great candidates with only one opening, we will have to turn down 2 great candidates. That you are getting to the interviews is proof that your resume is great so dont get discouraged, keep at it and the dream job will come. All the best!
Thanks you ma
😊
I am in my first month at Fanshawe studying BusinesuAanlysis and we were told to send cv as a word document. Me and my friend approached our coop lecturer to tell her that industry practice is to send as a pdf and she said word document is better. So now I dunno what to do.
Word isn't bad but sometimes, you have to download and enable editing before you can use it while pdf opens with one click. The format Word is also more likely to change with different ATS. I find pdf to be more stable and easier to work with. Some things look different in real life from what it is in a textbook.
Hello Marina, can one get job from Uk in Canada. I really want to relocate. Please your candid advice
It will depend on the skills you have and if it is in a specialized area. It is worth trying. May not be easy given the way the job market currently is but you can try. All the best!
Please Madam, it is advisable to capture all your work experiences in one CV? e.g 10 years job experiences in various job sections, kindly advise.
Thanks
Yes, you can do that. If they are in completely different fields, use a cover letter to highlight your transferable skills.
Thanks for the response
Please Madam what do you mean by (Up caps ) on the CV, please explain better
All caps means having a resume in all uppercase letters.
Please, any free resume generator format?
But they say send it as word doc now you wrote send as pdf!11 is either ok? Or just pdf ? Thanks
Who asked that you send as word? I have never heard that. If you are applying as an email, word is fine. But some ATS can alter the format.
@@MARINAESIRI Thank you, I should send it in a PDF. I heard it from some TH-camrs
Thank you
Keep it simple; white paper, black ink😊
Make my life easy pleaseeee
Please just show us a resume that you were impressed with so we know what to put on. By now we sort of know what not to do. What to do is what we don’t know.
I will have to be careful with that so I don't breach privacy and I will prefer not to use a generic one. I will maybe use mine as the illustration during the Cafe session. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Hello Marina. You mentioned you were a recruiter.
Do you recruit abroad as well? Any foreign recruiters you could recommend for your subscribers?
Thank you Marina for the detailed what not should be in a resume.
However, you see what you have highlighted on the things that shouldn't be in a resume.
Some recruiters would tell you put full address, nationality and those unnecessary things.
My take is there should be a best practice for resume or best practice for human resources like the way other professional sectors like accounting. They would say for every debit entry there should be a corresponding credit entry and it is so all over the world.. But you see this HR best practice is on the mud 😢
Recruiters in which location? There are recruitment best practices and a lot of them border on human rights laws. Asking people for their nationality as a condition for hiring is illegal and is discriminatory because race and nationality are prohibited grounds. If somebody asked you for nationality or country of origin in Canada, report it because that is illegal.
Also, HR can not have the same global standards because labour laws are jurisdictional. What applies in one country will be different from other countries so you can't have one size fits all like accounting.