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Navtej Kohli Resume: a recipe for success or so I would like to believe!

I personally believe that the resume is an important tool with one specific purpose: to win or claim an interview. If it does get you that job, it works. If it doesn’t, it isn’t an effective resume. A resume can also be thought of an advertisement, nothing more, nothing less.

A great resume doesn’t just describe what you have done or achieved but makes the same assertion that all good ads do: If you buy this product, you will get these direct and indirect benefits. It presents you in the best light. It convinces the employer that you have what it takes to be successful in this new position or career. It tells them that you offer something that the others don’t. To bring out this message is the No. 1 priority of a Resume.

Also, the Resume should be so pleasing and attractive to the eye that the reader is enticed and forced to pick it up and read it. It “whets the appetite,” stimulates interest in meeting you and learning more about you. It forces the prospective employer to pick up the phone and ask you to come in for an interview.

Hope all these “Navtej Kohli” tips will prove useful to you.

Its a proven fact now that best of the jobs people get are through their references…more often from their friends, previous colleagues and or relatives. For getting a successful career, now its imperative to build a good network of people, colleagues and niche professionals… In online industry as well, people are using most of the web 2 avenues to form their network and communities, whether its a professional network or on a particular subject and or liking.

Whether you are looking for jobs, promotions or new clients for your business, networking will do wonders in achieving your goals. My next post will be on networking for job and career success that will cover nuts and bolts of how, where, why, and with whom to network, and also addresses the psychological issues such as personality differences and importance of the right attitude.

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Navtej Kohli - Personality N Work Co-relation II

In continuation with my earlier post… I am citing some personality traits:

Reflective Extroverts

These are those who prefer to work in an open plan, noisy situations. It’s the buzz of life that gives them their moral and energy. Being the centre of attention and giving a lecture or two is not a problem for them. Their energy is external and they are outgoing extraverts.

Reflective Introverts

Those who prefer to reflect on issues, think things before discussing or to act. They tend to be tacit and are much more energised by reading a book than partying. At work they prefer an office of their own to open plan situations. These are the reflective introverts.

At the extremes these two personalities can cause each other problem. Extraverts worry that introverts don’t talk much and wonder what they think. Introverts just wish that extraverts would think first and talk when they have worked out their ideas.

Wide Eye Thinkers and Bird’s Eye Watchers

Some of us get in depth of the problems and neglect the big picture overview of the task, activity or project. Others have a good overview of the same but they hate to go in details. So the first one becomes Bird Eye’s Watcher and later the Wide Eye Thinkers. Bird Eye Watchers are more pragmatic and their feet are firmly on the ground. They do things sequentially and make changes incrementally. However, Wide Eye thinkers by contrast have more imagination. They rely on different sources for information and after taking information they apply “what IF” concept to put things in charge and they expect to change everything.

Naturally the ‘Wide Eye Watchers’ believe that ‘Bird Eye thinkers’ are lacking in creativity and imagination while ‘Bird Eye thinkers’ think ‘Wide Eye Watchers’ have their heads in the clouds.

Principle Oriented and People Oriented Persons

Scientists and mathematicians approach problem solving by deducing from first principles. Start somewhere and work logically towards a correct solution. Provided the logic is good the answer must be right. But will people accept it? ‘Principle oriented persons’ who work this way do the logic first and sell the solution to others later. Most, but not all, scientists and engineers are strongly analytical and principle oriented.

People oriented persons consider what kind of solution people want and go from there. They are those who use this approach to solve problems as though they were a part of it while analysts are able to be much more detached. One is objective the other subjective. The clergy and those in social work and politics are often strongly ‘feeling’ problem solvers. They may find analysts cold and unfeeling and vice versa.

Organized and Percieving Types
Do you plan, organise and think ahead? Some of us like structured thinking and implementation. They have to do lists and diaries. They plan their day, their week and year. Holidays are usually booked well in advance and perhaps they like them to be structured.

Others are percieving types, they prefer to go with the flow, work flexible hours, take life as it comes and be ready for new experiences.

Let me know your comments on the personality traits you observe in your workplace… I will be continuing the topic in days to come…

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Do you ever think that some of your colleagues are irritating? They seem to differ from your wavelength. They approach things very differently and you sometimes wonder about their cognitive abilities. If you come to know about where they have come from, working together could be so much easier for you.

Personality plays a big role in how we view others, gather information, tackle problems, organise our lives.

A team that includes a broad range of personality types is often better able to function well.

Myers Briggs, the 1920s psychologist, developed Jungian theory to analyse personality types. She came up with four ‘dichotomies’ that explain why we often have difficulty understanding colleagues whose personalities differ significantly from our own.

I will continue … this topic on my next post….

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