Friday, May 29, 2020

Six reasons you havent met your goals

Six reasons you haven’t met your goals by Amber Rolfe OK, so meeting your goals should never be that easy….Whether they’re related to your education, your career, or something a little more personal, failing to hit your targets can be incredibly frustrating. But although it’s easy to blame things on a number of factors outside of your control â€" understanding the roadblocks could be the key to hitting your objectives.To help you get back on track, here are six reasons you haven’t met your goals â€" and what you can do to turn things around:  You’re only thinking long-term When it comes to big goals, it’s easy to focus on the finished product.For example, maybe you really want to pass your driving test this year â€" but you’re more focussed on planning road trips than practicing your parallel parking.Where’s the light at the end of the tunnel? And, how are you actually going to stay motivated if you’ve got no real way of tracking your progress?Setting measurable, short term targets is vital if yo u want to reach your long term ones. Not only will you be less overwhelmed, you’ll also get a sense of achievement each time you meet them.Otherwise, you’ll only end up blinded by the bigger picture.  You’re procrastinating So you’re feeling good about your goals. You’re totally going to learn a new language, get a new job, and study a course by next month.But other things keep getting in the way â€" and you keep convincing yourself that they’re far more important; even if they’re not. Because as much as you’d like to think it, using your free time to go to the pub will not help you learn a language. And no, watching the football in Spanish doesn’t count.So although ignoring a big goal can seem like a good way to destress, it definitely won’t help you out in the long run.Instead, stop procrastinating â€" and create clear step-by-step actions to align with your goals. Then, incentivise them with timeframes, consequences, and rewards. Trust us, it’s the only way. ‘Future you’ will be grateful.Six ways to beat procrastinationYou’re scared of failingMany goals can seem hard to reach.And what do we do when things seem unobtainable? Run away â€" possibly to a smaller, less challenging goal â€" like watching Netflix. And/or sleeping. After all, not trying means not failing.Unfortunately, it also means not getting anything done.And it’s not just a fear of failure that can cause a lack of motivation. Sometimes you might be scared of succeeding too. After all, that big promotion might be your dream, but it could also mean other parts of your life will change.But instead of seeing the possibility of failure (or success) as a roadblock, see it as a part of your journey. And focus on small wins to give you the confidence to keep going.After all, if you don’t fail â€" you’ll never learn.  You don’t know what you want Goals are often influenced by ideologies.In other words, what you think you want isn’t really what you want. And even if i t is, it’s not well-defined enough to be a real possibility.For example, maybe one of your goals is to ‘get a good job’. Aside from being an unrealistic aim without additional sub-goals (e.g. get qualified, apply for jobs, prepare for the interview) to help you reach it â€" it’s also extremely vague.To give you some real direction â€" ask yourself; what defines a ‘good job’ for you? Is it that you want a better salary? An easier commute? Flexible working hours? Whatever it is you’re looking for, use each factor to build a more specific goal.Because when you know exactly what you’re working towards, you’ll be far more likely to pursue it.  You’re trying to do too much at once Newsflash: you can’t do everything.In other words, trying to tackle all of your goals at once will never end well. It might feel like you’re being productive â€" but eventually, you’ll probably just get overwhelmed and/or discouraged by the heavy workload.So to make sure you’re workin g towards the bigger picture (instead of lots of little ones) â€" it’s vital to prioritise your goals (based on importance and timescale), and do them one by one.Then, regularly track your progress. Many goals fall of a cliff purely because you forget about them after a week â€" so creating your own personal development/career plan is a great way to keep yourself in line.Six things productive people do every day  You gave up too soon Learning something new can take its toll on your patience â€" and if you’re not seeing results straight away, giving up can seem like the easy way out.But before you head for the door (see also: throw in the towel, call it quits, insert other metaphor here) â€" it’s vital to re-evaluate your aims.Are your goals realistic? Are they measurable? Are you tracking your progress? If you haven’t considered any of these things, you might find that you’ve given up before you had a chance to achieve anything.After all, nothing’s going to happen overni ght.And if you’re still struggling? Maybe you don’t really want to do it. Sometimes goals are influenced by others, or what you think you should do â€" but they aren’t actually what you want to do.Figure out what’ll make you happy, and you’ll be far more likely to succeed.Still searching for your perfect position? View all available jobs nowFind a job What Where Search JobsSign up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Career Development

Monday, May 25, 2020

The divide between your personal and professional brand has faded thanks to social networks - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

The divide between your personal and professional brand has faded thanks to social networks - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career The college days I was first introduced to the power of Facebook during my junior year of college. I remember it like it was just yesterday. My friend came running down the hall saying I just got Facebook for our school. Of course my first question was what the heck is Facebook? He explained it to me and forced me to view the website on his computer. I completely blew it off and he tried to recruit many other friends in the dormitory to very little success. It wasnt until the middle of the semester when many of us had very little work and a lot of time on our hands. We decided to enroll in Facebook and see how it would make our social lives easier. One year later, as a senior in college, students were using it to communicate with high school friends and also created events that others could sign up for on campus. In general, Facebook was simple and effective, with very little clutter and with the ability to catalog photos from social events the night before. Welcome to the business world! If you had told me that Facebook would be for organizing, collecting and connecting with professionals, I would have laughed in college. Facebook was branded and positioned as a tool for college students to keep in touch. A lot has changed since then, as Facebook has opened up their platform to the world (yes high school students and 80 year olds can even sign up). They have even allowed users to develop their own applications within Facebook, how clever. There are now thousands of widgets handpicked and placed on different profile pages. Professionals are now leveraging the platform to build their client database and reach new customers. Now for the issues Facebook is a place for your professional and personal lives now. It has evolved and broadened its audience, to increase the installed base. For college students that used Facebook pre-business days, our concerns are real. How would you like it if you established a social friend network and then had your manager and advertisers adding you as a friend and sending you messages? What about the fact that instead of light pages, there were numerous widgets all over, cluttering the page? Yes, for those who are just starting out, you werent there when Facebook was simple and social. Of course as an entrepreneur who was just introduced to the platform, you will use it for business, but for the original college students, there are issues. We are also in a position, where we are forced to set privacy preferences because we dont want business contacts to see our social life. I see this as both a threat and an opportunity. Your turn Do you feel that both parts of your life have been integrated and exposed through social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace? If yes, what strategies do you have in place to counter this exposure? If no, do you think its beneficial to match your personal and professional life to establish one consistent personal brand?

Friday, May 22, 2020

Using the SDP Scale to Evaluate Yourself and Others - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Using the SDP Scale to Evaluate Yourself and Others - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career There are no simple tests to know when you will be successful at something. However, there are a few factors that can be applied to create what I call the SDP Scale that may help you get a better feel for what will likely lead to success. The SDP Scale It’s simple in it’s elegance, yet can be hard in it’s application. The SDP Scale is an acronym for Skills, Desire and Passion. It is not a scientific scale, but does require some rigor and involves making challenging decisions. Below are the core points with a brief description of each. Skills Skills can be taught. Skills develop over time. You may have a passion for baseball, accounting or the legal system. These are learned skills. They take time to develop. To truly develop them to their full potential you will need to exercise your Desire and Passion muscles. You will only be able to achieve excellence by putting in the time. The ability to put in the time will be fueled by your desire and passion. Desire Desire cannot be taught. I tend to agree with Pete Rose here. You either have it or you don’t. If you don’t have it for what you are working on at the moment that’s OK. It is incumbent on you  to keep looking for something that stokes your desire. As I wrote about in Is Someone Getting the Best of You? only you can decide  when  and where your best work will happen. You cant teach enthusiasm. You cant teach desire. ~Pete Rose Passion Passion can be learned and can develop over time. As success happens, sometimes quite serendipitously, you may find you have a skill and a desire that leads to a lifelong passion. Or, as I wrote about in Stoke Your Passion and Elevate Your Career  you might find that some passions are short lived, but still 100% worthy of your time and rewarding in their own way. Combining all three of these can provide you with an SDP Scale that can be used to objectively measure how likely you are to succeed at something. Of course, the SDP Scale can be used to evaluate others too. For example, your peers, your team and your organization. It can be a simple scale of 1 to 10 or it can be as simple as Yes or No. However, I think the Yes or No scale might be a bit arbitrary and not allow for nuances. A Few Simple Questions Can a few questions determine the ultimate success of something? Not completely, but they can provide a starting point. Of course, the reality is that these are not truly simple questions. Or, to say it a different way … these are very simple questions in that they are fundamental to understanding yourself, your team, your manager and others. Yet, in their simplicity they are very hard to address in a brutally candid fashion. One where you need to hold a mirror up to yourself and others. One where you are asking life and career decisions. Decisions that have both short and long term implications. Choose Wisely! Do you have the Skills, Desire and Passion? Ask yourself. If you dont have these why are you here? Ask your team. If they dont have these why are they here? Ask your organization. If these are not  part of the core culture how will the business succeed? When you can evaluate your Skills, Desire and Passion in an objective manner you will be able to do more with your time, more with your career and be able to give more back. The same is true if you are a manager. You need to be able to take a hard look at the traits that will keep your team energized and moving forward. It is possible and encouraged to interject your Skills, Desire and Passion into your management style. It will be up to you to determine if your SDP efforts are having the desired effect and impact. If not, you will inevitably need to make a change. The nice thing about the SDP Scale is that you can learn to utilize it in an objective manner to quickly assess a situation. You can use the SDP Scale to grow yourself, your team and (if you are so empowered) your organization. Reality Check Not every situation is going to command 100% of your Skills, Desire and Passion. This is  OK and is to be expected. This is when you have the opportunity to Delegate, Empower, and Allow others to shine. In fact, a trait of a great leader is their ability to let go. This is your chance to let go. What if you can’t delegate or otherwise assign others? There will be times where you just need to suck it up and do the work. That’s ok and that’s life.  Everyone has situations like this and they will always crop up. However, if you are true to yourself you can use the SDP Scale to align your future projects with your Skills, Desires and Passions. When you do this you will Stand Out in your Career. You will be more satisfied with the work you commit yourself to do and it will show in your results. Your ability to get more done will be wrapped up in your desire and passion to do more. As you get more done you will be allowed (by yourself and others)  to take on more tasks and stretch yourself. When this happens your skills will grow and you will develop additional complimentary skill sets. Of course, these are more commonly known as career management and skills development. However, I think there is more to it. When you apply the SDP Scale to yourself and others you will be able to focus on what you truly want to do. It is when this happens that you can truly shine. What’s Next? Put the SDP Scale to the test today. Evaluate yourself, your team and your organization. If this is the first time you’ve used this model  you will have a baseline to evaluate, implement and plan for your next endeavor. As you become familiar with the SDP Scale you will find you can quickly evaluate yourself, your team and your organization. The ultimate goal is to find or create your best possible scenario to maximize your Skills, Desires, and Passions.

Monday, May 18, 2020

How to Build an Engaged Online Community Around Your Business

How to Build an Engaged Online Community Around Your Business What does it take to develop and maintain a truly engaged online community around your business? What challenges are communities facing? And what skills should community managers have? We had a chat with  Richard Millington who is founder of FeverBee to get some advice on developing  a more engaged community. Listen to the interview on iTunes, SoundCloud or keep reading for a summary. And dont forget to subscribe to The Employer Branding Podcast. About  FeverBee and Richards Role: What Feverbee do: So what FeverBee does is take a lot of complicated psychology out there, a lot of sociology, a lot of proven science about how to build online communities, how to increase engagement, and distill that into simple lessons that we use for our clients, for our audience, for the people that attend our events and things like that. What weve been trying to do for the last maybe three to five years, I think, is figure out what are the proven, battle-tested ways to increase engagement. Richards role:  What my role is there is, besides running the business, is to try and figure out whats on the cutting edge of this.  So Ive got to try and figure out what works and what doesnt, and how we do that in a scientific way and how we do that in a way thats actually useful to the people that were trying to help? Which is the practitioners that are trying to get more engagement for their online communities, or their collaboration efforts, or their knowledge sharing efforts, or getting their customers to support them and give them great ideas. The  challenges that communities face: I think what weve seen for the last, maybe 10 years or so, is that for a lot of communities, the level of growth and the level of activity has gone up and up and up, and there are many reasons why that has happened. One of them is that there have been more people online than ever. The Internet speeds are getting higher and higher. People are spending more time on the Internet, which has been fantastic, but now were seeing a couple of things beginning to occur: One is that this endless supply of new people to join communities is coming to an end, and unless youre willing to increase your audience to different languages or different sectors entirely, were dealing with a plateau there. Two, is that theres more competition for limited attention. There simply arent enough people to participate in all these communities that we create today, and the failure rate, especially by communities that are created by brands, by organisations, is getting so amazingly high. Thanks to @socialmedia2day we found this cool #infographic for #CommunityManager.s! https://t.co/iiPAIeIbgF #cmmgr pic.twitter.com/qMG26oNHqi Sotrender (@sotrender) November 12, 2015 I think the third one is the value of the work that we do. Whether you work in social media or online communities, and people that work in PR and other sectors as well have the same challenge, but how do we prove the value? I think part of it is that online communities as an industry, I dont think it really exists. I think we need to figure out what industry are we really in. So are we in the collaboration industry? Is our job to help people collaborate much better with one another? Are we in the customer retention industry? Are we in the customer loyalty industry? What industry are we in and how we do we move up the value chain, how do we move up to higher levels within that? Because I think if we focus just on online communities, its a very tiny, narrow approach to achieve our goal. What is  visible engagement and valuable engagement? We began to notice that people that did engagement really, really well got a lot of clicks, they got posts, they got comments, and then later on they got likes, they got shares, they got retweets and things like that. And we looked at that and we thought, Wow, thats what a successful engagement program looks like. So what happened is that we began thinking, How do we optimise to get more clicks, to get more likes, to get more shares, and get as many comments as possible? And what happened is that we began simplifying what we asked people to do. We began making our content, our updates as entertaining as they possibly could be. And the problem with that is that whilst this gets a lot more visible engagement, we can count the clicks, likes, shares, links, whatever, it doesnt get more valuable engagement. It doesnt get engagement that changes the level of behaviour over the long term. It doesnt get the kind of engagement thats going to solicit a decent level of contribution from me. Visible engagement = making an article easier to share. Valuable engagement = making people keen to share more articles. Richard Millington (@RichMillington) January 5, 2016 What we want to be doing instead is doing deep engagement work, which is the kind of engagement work where if you have a challenge of getting people to share information, you begin by thinking, Why arent they sharing information right now? That means interviewing the people youre trying to reach. Understand is it because they dont know who to share information with, they dont know what information, they dont know how to share information, are there rivalries, and then begin stitching those relationships together: introduce them to the right people, building more of a sense of community among them. Thats doing deep engagement work that is less sexy, but lasts much, much longer than just chasing the visible metrics. Because one of the challenges we have is that a lot of people in the social media space are just jumping around from one engagement idea to the next, hoping that something is going to have a long-term impact, and thats not how it works. What we need here is a method, a method that lasts over the long-term, so every day when you go to work, you know exactly what the next step of that process is, because its underlined by the psychology behind what drives engagement. So valuable engagement is about doing that long-term work. The  micro skills that  community managers need: What Im talking about by micro skills is the gap between the people that are running these communities and knowing what they want to achieve. So, with the knowledge that we just talked about here, how do you actually put that into action? And one of the challenges we have is that people dont have the skills to do it. So micro skills is a term from counselling, I think, where it meant you cant be a psychologist, or you cant counsel someone, you cant help someone if you dont have these core skills. And back then, it meant skills such as looking people in the eye, building a sense of empathy and rapport with them, asking questions the right way and having the right tone of voice. What were talking about in this context is slightly similar, which is most people who are doing social media, most people who are doing any kind of online community work whatsoever, need to spend a little bit more time working on the core skills they need. By micro skills, Im talking about things like how do you write persuasively? So for example, most job descriptions say that you must be a great communicator and have good written skills, but they dont say what that means. Does that mean being able to write without making a mistake, or does it mean being able to write in a way that persuades people? And persuasion is a whole separate craft, and there are ways of doing that. There are ways of making things more visual. So it seems like  being able to write in persuasive way, encoding your messages in a way that they actually get read, and theres a lot of psychology behind that. Its about being to interact with a stranger, someone you havent met online, and turn them into a friend. And that sounds really easy, but its really difficult when you get so many emails every single day and almost every person wants you to do something that helps them. And its going to be things like how do you display the right cues that you are a credible person to listen to. If you read as many blogs as I do, if you read as many books as I do, you know that generally, its people talking about the same stuff over and over again. I think for this field to advance, for us to get much better, we need to go outside of that field. We need to bring in skills from speech writing and psychology, copywriting, and other fields that are like that, and bring them into this profession, because I think thats the way that we achieve results. How to  spot valuable engagement: What valuable engagement looks like is whatever your end result is. So its the hardest thing in the world. This is one of the reasons why we go for visible engagement instead of valuable engagement, because valuable engagement is much harder to see, because its mental. What we try to do is that if the end goal is to increase customer retention, then we measure that. If the end goal is to get your customers buying more, you can measure that. If your end goal is to improve collaboration, then there are ways of measuring that by reduced duplication of work, productivity ratios. If the end goal is knowledge sharing, then you can measure, not just the quantity, but the quality of the knowledge thats shared. Did you achieve your goals more than what you used to? The next big thing for online communities: I would predict that there will be a new, big platform that comes along and everyone says that you should join it. But heres the interesting thing about all of these platforms: what happens is that, and this is what I remember doing communities 10, 15 years ago, is that back then you had just one platform, it was a forum or whatever, and that was it, that was all you had. So you spent all your time on this one platform, making it as good as it can possibly be, and you usually did a really great job. Then came Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Foursquare, and all of a sudden, all these people came along and said, You need to be on all these platforms. And what happened is that we began driving our audience to every one of these, we began separating them, we began dividing them, and at the same time, we increased the amount of work we had to do significantly, whilst dispersing the engagement across all these channels. So Im going to predict, in the short-term, there will be a big, new thing, and that will get all the attention, but wont really change much overall. What I do think will happen, and I dont know how quickly it will happen, is online communities as a profession begins to die out. I think what will happen is that it will be assumed within broader roles. What weve noticed, and weve been tracking this on LinkedIn for a long time, how many people list themselves as a community manager and online community manager, and last year, for the first year ever, that number went down. There are less community managers today than there were a year ago.  Theyre still doing online community work, but theyre doing it either as part of a broader thing or in a related role, theyre doing it in a slightly different space, and thats really, really interesting. So what I think is going to happen is that we need to evolve with them. We need to start acquiring a broader set of skills. We need to start understanding the psychology behind why these online communities work, and then we need to begin implementing it, and we need to get very competent and very good at understanding how to convince our own organisations. Click here to  subscribe to The Employer Branding Podcast.

Friday, May 15, 2020

What Does Labor Day Mean in the 21st Century - Career Pivot

What Does Labor Day Mean in the 21st Century - Career Pivot Labor Day Copyright: yupiramos / 123RF Stock Photo The post is being published on Labor Day, a United States holiday. Labor Day was created to celebrate the blue collar laborer. It came about when unions were organizing in the 1880s with the purpose of protecting workers’ rights. If you worked in a steel mill during this time, you worked about 84 hours each week. You probably made about $10 for that work. There was a huge divide between the rich and the poor. Hmm…does this sound familiar? Unions were gaining ground. What companies did to break the unions was brutal. In order to gain a deeper understanding, you might want to watch this History Channel video, Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike. Unions continued to grow throughout the 20th century. When companies had to negotiate with the unions, working conditions improvedâ€"but so did costs. Companies solved this problem by moving work offshore. It took a almost a century to for this transition to take full effect, which is that the union laborer is almost extinct. History of Labor Day The History Channel has a great video on the history of Labor Day. The first Labor Day celebration was in 1884 in New York City where there was much discussion about a 40 hour work week. If a worker wanted to participate in the event, they had to take the day off and forfeit their wages. The first legal Labor Day holiday was in 1887 in Oregon. Other states soon followed their lead. Listen to the most recent episode In 1894, there was a railroad workers strike. President Grover Cleveland sent in the equivalent of the national guard to break the strike. Two workers were killed. It was a political disaster and out of this came the first national Labor Day holiday. If you watched the two videos I mentioned, you know that it took either a political disaster or a movement from the masses to make change happen. Corporations were not in the business of doing things that benefited their workers, especially if those things affected their bottom lines. Labor Day in the 21st Century Labor Day has become the last gasp of summer. Though most kids have already gone back to school, it feels like one last summer break. It is no longer a celebration of labor. As I researched Labor Day for this post, I found that there are a lot similarities between the years 1884 and 2016. The divide between rich and poor is large Unions today are quite weak Workers are fighting to organize Since the great recession, many baby boomers have struggled to find work, even as the overall economy has improved. If you are over 60 and unemployed, you really need to look to alternative ways to make money. Is it just me, or are there a lot of similarities between 1884 and 2016 when it comes to workers and workers’ rights? What does Labor Day mean in the 21st century? I would like to hear your thoughts. Marc Miller Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights! Check out the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...

Monday, May 11, 2020

Insights into Where this Economy Will Bring Us

Insights into Where this Economy Will Bring Us Remember the transporters in Star Trek? You would step onto the platform and Scottie would transport you where you wanted to go. Pretty cool, right. It seems like everyone is trying to figure out what the next boon will be for our economy and world of work so that you can properly transport yourself to boldly go where no man has gone before. The Career Goddess wrote a summary of the Times article The Way Well Workon the 10 ways the work world will be different. She leads into her post by saying: Well, hang on to your laptops because the changes that are coming are going to require forethought in career planning and in job search management. Better to get some advance notice, is my motto. High Tech, High Touch, High Growth Training Managers to Behave The Search for the Next Perk Were Getting Off the Ladder Why Boomers Cant Quit Women Will Rule Business It Will Pay to Save the Planet When Gen X Runs the Show Yes, Well Still Make Stuff The Last Days of Cubicle Life So if that isnt enough reading, try 4 Visions of the Post-Recession Workforce from Pongo. Thisreferences an articlefrom CBSMoneyWatch. 1.Women will make up a majority of the workforce.2.It will continue to be a Baby Boomers world.3.The federal stimulus will spawn growth in green jobs.4.Flexibility can help workers maintain full-time schedules, but not necessarily at one job. See the overlap. I know theunemployment numbers are high, but people witha clear visionand resiliency andlackof fear are successfully securing new jobs every day.Beam me up, Scottie!

Friday, May 8, 2020

Resturaunt Manager Resume Writing Service

Resturaunt Manager Resume Writing ServiceIf you are looking for a good resume writing service, there are some things that you should look for before you sign on with one. If you are not sure how to get started, then rest assured that there are a lot of companies out there who will be more than happy to help you. By researching and finding a professional resume writing service you can be assured that you will have a professionally written document when you need it.Your first step in looking for a Resturaunt Manager resume writing service is to locate a site that offers resume services for the restaurants in your area. If you want a specific type of resume writing service, then go with the company that offers that type of service. However, there are other resume writing companies out there that can handle the types of services that you require. A good writing service will be able to help you develop a professional resume that is written with an eye toward current trends.You will want t o make sure that the writing service you choose for your Resturaunt Manager resume writing service uses only high quality templates that will stand the test of time. Using a template is a great way to ensure that you will receive the most updated template available for a fee. In addition, you will want to make sure that the resume is well organized and you are provided with plenty of sample resumes to help you fill in the blanks. When you receive your finished product, you will want to make sure that it is formatted properly so that it is easily legible.The Resturaunt Manager resume writing service that you work with will also give you the option of printing off copies of your resume for distribution to potential employers. This is a great way to make sure that you can meet the deadlines of your job application. If you have a family, then the business that you select for your resume writing service will give you the option of printing the resume in the traditional manner, as well as on letterhead, for the ease of distributing the resume to those whom you may not know personally.The style of resume that you use can have a great impact on the person that you are approaching for an interview. If you do not take the time to create a professional resume, you might find yourself passed over by a more qualified candidate. It is important to make sure that your resume is professionally designed to stand out from the crowd and be immediately recognized as your own.A Resturaunt Manager resume writing service can help you fill out your resume in a variety of different ways. You can choose to use a standard typewriter layout or choose to customize your own. The kind of formatting that you choose can be dictated by your specific situation, but you can always use a basic template if you feel like it.The most important part of a resume is the cover page. To properly create a professional resume, you will want to choose a professional design and put your personal information in a place that people will see. Whether you choose to include a photo of yourself, your favorite photograph, a brief description of your work experience, and other relevant information will all impact the effectiveness of your resume.When you have a professional resume, you can be assured that the interviewers will take notice of it. A well written, impressive resume can go a long way toward getting you the job you have always wanted. No matter what type of work you are applying for, a Resturaunt Manager resume writing service can help you to give your career a huge boost.