Your Resume, Your Cover Letter and Your Interview

By Patrick Taranto

Everyone wants to venture into the right career and get the perfect job. But sometimes it is hard to know where to start your journey to greatness. By getting a copy of Your Resume Your Cover Letter and Your Interview, a book written by a career coach with over 30 years of experience, you get the best advice based on real-life situations that covers all the topics from choosing the right career path to getting your dream job. It is the perfect guide for young graduates, executives, inventors, and anyone who needs guidance.
Here is what you will get in the book:
•How to define your interest, values, skills, experience, education, and knowledge
•Job search management: defining your goal and planning for the job search
•Communicating your offer through advertisement, resume, and cover letter writing
•LinkedIn tips and tricks that can land you your dream job and connect you to the right people
•All about interviews, contract, and salary negotiation

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick Taranto
• Release date: Feb 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005899325

Patrick Taranto

-Strategic International Partner -Business Developper -Recruiting- Talent Innovations Executive- Writer- Publisher-Career Architect with nearly 20 years’ experience in the industry-Experience with Human Resource recruitment, international recruiting, global searches and head hunting-Exceptional recruiting, hiring, coaching, mentoring and consultancy skills-Excellent knowledge of profiles and positions within: IT, TELCO, Finance, communication, sales and marketing, HR and supply chain-Well established leader with proven success-Outstanding strategic business management and people management skills-Well Developed negotiation and customer service skills-Superb interpersonal, organizational and communication (written and verbal) skills-Dedicated team player and leader committed to ongoing growth and development-Learns new tasks quickly`; excels in diverse, fast paced, ever-evolving environments

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This guide is a working document of which you are the sole owner. It aims to help you define, present, and implement your professional project in France and abroad.

The Importance of Your Choice:

Career choices are very important decisions in our lives. Your choices affect your future income, your happiness, and your health.

Our goal is to:

● Provide you with tools and a simple and proven methodology to manage your career in France or any place abroad.

● Provide you labor market outlook in 2023 according to countries and sectors; reveal the opportunities that will work for you.

● Indicate the best ways to achieve your career plans at local or international levels.

● Help you write your resume and cover letter both in English and French.

● Help you to develop an immaculate LinkedIn Profile to increase your chances of success.

● Give you the best advice for landing successful individual job interviews.

Instructions for use

If you wish, you can make yourself comfortable. Have a coffee or an herbal tea. Are you ready?

Consider this document as a friend, converse a dialogue with it; some spaces are reserved for your notes, and do not be surprised to discover some personal reflections of the author in these pages!

Tactical or strategic approach?

Two cases are possible:

● You already know what you want! Just skip the first chapters and go to the practical parts of this guide straight away.

● You have no idea what awaits you on the next stage of your life race; then you have to determine your career plan.

You are then in a strategic move. So let's Move!

Chapter 1: Your Professional Project

Section 1: Choosing a Career (expressway):

To determine your career plan, several methods will help you discover over the following exercises:

Exercise 1: Your Professional Vision

Here or there is no vision the people are at risk Proverbs 29: 18 Old Testament Bible

Do you have a professional dream? What does your ideal career look like? Do you have a vision of your professional life? What is your philosophy of life? To help you understand, you can cut a log of images that illustrate your professional vision.

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Exercise 2: Your Professional Mission

Imagine that you have no limitation just a moment, imagine that you have all the time, all the money, all the training, all the experience, all the friends, all the contacts, all the resources, absolutely everything you need to accomplish what you want, what would be your job?

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Exercise 3: Help yourself with a test to determine your career plan

There are many tests in the market. Best known in this guidance is the MBTI. However, you can also go thought the test (link is provided hereunder):

https://psychcentral.com/

This test is free. The results are quite interesting. The test determined that I had an affinity with the trades of human resources consulting. You can only imagine my satisfaction ...

Moreover, this test is part of our economic era.

It helps you become aware of our new era: the era of information and we learn to adapt to it, making us the knowledge workers i.e information workers.

http://www.assessment.com

This test has the advantage of being free.

It also provides interesting information about careers with which you are most aligned.

If you have no vocation or are not completely satisfied by the methods described above, we propose another method. The next section will detail the Adequatis Methodology.

Section 2: The Methodology Adequatis:

If all previous conventional methods that you have chosen for your career path do not meet your expectations, then we suggest that you follow our decision support model. Follow this method that we provide you to help you put the odds on your side to win your next position. Our method increases your freedom of decision.

As a last resort, follow your hunches. The approach resembles a game.

However, this is not a game of chance, but rather a strategy game, that needs to gain maximum vigilance; it will be necessary to reflect, to measure the options, to assess benefits, to hire experts, to optimize your profits, and reduce your risk.

This method is exposed in several steps in detail below.

Throughout these steps, we will serve as an analytical framework or model called Adequatis sheet.

Before you start I’ll request you to look at the clip shared below and identify your true calling.

Click here to View the clip.

Here are the links to the free Mind Map Softwares that you can use to streamline your professional project. Click on the link to access:

Mindmeister

Zapier

Here is the model illustrated by one single graph

Step 1 : My professional project or career goal :

You will discover and fill in as we advance together.

For your next job or your next course, you have to follow 5 steps:

● Step 1: Define any possible professional projects that are of interest to you.

● Step 2: Define the criteria for choosing your professional project.

● Step 3: Make your personal and professional assessment.

● Step 4: Identify the requirements of recruiters on professional projects that interest you.

● Step 5: Confirm the adequacy of your profile with respect to projects of your choice.

● Step 6: Prioritize options.

● Step 7: Choose and take decisions.

Step 1: Identify the Possible Professional Projects of Your Interest:

Define your career plan, which you want to do in terms of:

● Job

● Sector

● Country

● Business Type

It represents the best match between your profile and the professional opportunities, the best product / market (You / job offers).

This is your best niche where you have both the greatest personal and professional strengths and at the same time when the job market offers maximum opportunities. This is your area of excellence, the area where you are a genius!

Why have career plans?

The professional project allows you to:

● Better define your priorities.

● Set a target for your research, clarify your goal.

● Formulate your marketing mix and particularly build a suitable distribution strategy.

● Become an actor of your professional development.

● Better write your resume and cover letters.

● Be more confident in maintenance, because you built a pitch and you'll answer without hesitation the question:

○ What type of job are you looking for?

○ What motivates you for this position?

○ What are your strengths to succeed?

○ What occupations attract you?

○ How do you see yourself in five years?

1. Establish a first step, a list of functions you might enjoy:

Exercise: Your Favorite Functions:

What are the functions of the business that you like the most? (e.g Marketing, Sales, HR, Engineering, Operations...)

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2. Choose Your Industry:

Exercise: Your Preferable Industry:

What are the sectors that you like? (e.g Banking, Education, Manufacturing, Retailing...)

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3. Choose Your Sector:

Exercise: Are you attracted to a large or a small structure of a firm? (Large with developed policies and slower growth, or small with higher growth and higher learning involvement).

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4. Choose Your Location:

Exercise: Would you like to work on projects at a local or global dimension?

Are there any regions or countries where you would particularly work?

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Due to the globalization of business, (accentuated by the creation of the Euro area) you will be working in an international context:

Globalization Trend Update: Globalization is not as trendy as it used to be.

Write here the 5 professional career opportunities or projects that interest you most (We will define a view by crossing a function in a sector in a region e.g trader at a bank in London is a perspective):

1. Perspective 1. ....................................................

2. Perspective 2. ....................................................

3. Perspective 3. ....................................................

4. Perspective 4. ....................................................

5. Perspective 5. ....................................................

Be creative, express your desires!

Step 2: Create a List of Criteria for Choosing Your Future Career Plan:

The criteria are factors or keywords which are common to both an individual and the vacancy. In other words, they allow you to assess yourself and understand the business. These criteria are used to establish a correlation between you and positions in business