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2WayResume iPhone / iPad App uses Apple’s native “copy & paste” function, geo-location and email client to simplify and optimize the resume creation and distribution process.  Combined with career expertise, technical short cuts and social media savvy, the app produces achievement-driven resumes, designed to get into the employment system quickly, bolstered by social media reach and validation.

•    Guidance on keyword matching.  In today’s job market, an employer or his software will search a database of resumes for certain keywords: skills, certifications, degrees, job titles and more. 2WayResume  guides the job seeker through the process of mirroring back the keywords used in the employer’s job description and on the employer’s website
•    Matches Employer / Job Board Technology to Assure Faster Processing. By including a plain text version of the resume, along with a PDF version, 2WayResume eliminates an average of 3 weeks processing time placing a resume in an employer or job board applicant data base.

As traditional job boards continue to evolve into more social and interactive sites, as the mobile web gains increasing prominence and resume apps command a slot in the job seeker’s arsenal, 2WayResume app breaks ground by introducing social sharing on a resume app:

•    Enables Social Networking. 2WayResume taps into what many say is the best way to find a job: leveraging the contacts one already has – a friend, associate or family member who’s sold on the job seeker and his or her skills. The app enables the job seeker to update  Facebook and Twitter networks and enlist support in a targeted job search with a keyword rich, accomplishment driven resume.

•  Check out our reviews!  Users recommend  2WayResume Appshort cuts to make resume creation simple, attractive and effective. Not only does 2WayResume App enable you to empower your network in your job search, it delivers your resume to employers and job boards two ways in a single email, each with its own distinctive benefits,80% of employers prefer the plain text resume to go directly into their keyword searchable database.Others like the convenience of a PDF format to store or pass around for review by multiple team members. 2WayResume App performs both these functions, filling a critical void on both sides of the job placement equation.

• Practical guidance, tips , proven strategies from career experts to help shape your resume.
• Copy & Paste -  keep it simple: start fresh, if you want, or use Iphone’s native “copy & paste” feature to copy and paste your Linkedin or other resume into 2WayResume, then edit, customize for each employer.
• Contact Info, with automatically calculated time zone, helps global and remote employers know best time to call you for phone or Skype interview.
• Your cover letter will be distilled into a pithy sentence, embedded in your email subject line, removing the final barrier to getting into the system immediately.
• Stores up to 8 different targeted resumes.

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2WayResume iPhone App Leverages Career Expertise to Optimize Job Search: Appmodo

2WayResume on App Shopper

2WayResume iPhone / iPad App Addresses Global Job Market

2WayResume 2.0 Released – iPhone and iPad App Has Gone Social and Global

2WayResume, an iPhone and iPad app by award winning career site, AdvancingWomen

Reviews

Create a Killer CV With 2WayResume for iPhone

shauncampbell | January 8, 2012

Price: $1.99 Score: 8/10 Category: Business

“Developed by Advancing Women, 2WayResume is a CV creation app that features easy-to-construct resume templates and harnesses the power of your social networks to land that next big job opportunity.

The app is straightforward and easy to use, with a streamlined interface for easy navigation…”

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About

Award winning career site, AdvancingWomen.com, developed  2WayResume, a resume creation app, using strategy and techniques from 16 years experience in online technology and job markets to optimize job search for app users.

2WayResume iPhone / iPad app was developed as a strategic tool for job seekers, incorporating features designed to speed up the job matching process.  The developer’s strategies were derived from it’s 16 years of experience in the online job space;  corporate recruiting clients have included TMP Worldwide, Inc.,Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Commerce,National Association of Women Lawyers, CareerBuilder.com, Fedex Kinko’s, Accenture Technology Solutions, and Guidance Software Inc.  Features were designed to optimize matching a candidate with a job and include the following:

Resume How To

Make your resume accomplishment-driven.  Remember to be succinct and to the point.  An effective resume is your marketing brochure.  Say just enough to catch the attention of the employer or hiring manager and whet their appetite to learn more. Your real goal with a resume is to get a foot in the door for an interview so you can dazzle in person.

Customize, then customize further

Remember to customize your resume for every job or , at least, type of job, then, when you apply for a specific job, customize your resume further. And make it compelling.  Pretend you’re at a dinner party and are seated next to the person you’ve wanted to meet all your life.  You have two minutes to describe all your work accomplishments.  What would you say? What have you accomplished that makes you unique and a perfect fit for the position you are seeking?

Start by studying the actual job description and its requirements.  Analyze what achievements you have which are a good match for those requirements. Note the keywords used in the job description by the employer.  Take those keywords, or other powerful keywords and connect the dots from the keyword to a bullet point that lists a specific accomplishment of yours, relating how you’ve used that keyword skill to achieve a specific positive result.

In other words, demonstrate through your past achievements that you have the skills necessary to perform this job at a very high level. If you have qualities, born out by your past performance that would be assets in doing this job, put them in: people skills, work ethic, high energy level.

The employer has a need.  Use your past achievements to show that you are the person who can be the solution to his problem.

Difference between an objective and a profile

It’s simple: a profile talks about you and your career goals;  a resume objective, on the other hand, talks about employer’s goals, what the employer is looking for and how you can meet those specific needs.

The objective is targeted to a specific vacancy.  Only include an objective statement if you are targeting a specific job, and use it to relate your skills and experience directly to that employer’s needs for that job.

An objective limits your options so don’t use one if you are qualified for more than one job in the organization or to submit at a career fairs, to a website or job board

Since an objective is so specific, you should write a new one, or tailor the existing one, for each vacancy you apply for.  ( You can note that in the title of your resume, which is only for your use, not viewable by the employer.)

Powerful Keywords

The employer or his software will search a database of resumes for certain keywords.

Employers and their software looking for skills, certifications, degrees, job titles, names of products or services, names of processes, names of hardware and software, company names, names of professional or trade organizations, or names of schools.

Mirror back the keywords used in the employer’s job description and on the employer’s website.

Use power verbs like “achieved,” “managed,” “resolved,” and “increased”.

 Why Use 2WayResume For This Process

Enter your data once and 2WayResume provides you with both an ultra utilitarian  plain text resume, and its more attractive twin, a .PDF version, both with your accomplishment-driven resume. The text based resume is for those 80% of companies who prefer a text based resume as it cuts down on processing time by several weeks.  Also, some companies have a policy against downloading attachments due to viruses and other precautions. The .pdf version is for 20% of employers who still prefer the formatted document version of your resume attached to an e-mail message as it will be more attractive and will make a better presentation in print, if required.

Your resume will be saved, in both versions, and you may store up to eight different resumes.  Your text resume will also be embedded in an email and your .pdf will be attached.  Sending your resume in text-based format directly in the body of an e-mail message removes all barriers to an employer’s placing your resume right into a searchable database

Also, your cover letter will be distilled into a pithy subject line:  ”Please find attached my plain text resume & .pdf copy, if required”, along with a job or position identifier.

Now, with a click, you are ready to send your resume on its way, destined to hit the head of the line, and the searchable data base almost immediately.

Jobs

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Careers.AdvancingWomen.com,  a diversity job board  or AllTopTechTalent  for online workers

As the economic scene darkens, more people are going online to look for jobs. As job cuts hit, domino style, industry after industry, job seekers need to get a little more creative and persistent in their search.

Sometimes, when flocking to the big boards, job seekers overlook the niche job listings which might be a perfect fit and have just the right job for you. Niche job boards focus on a specific industry or demographic. Careers.AdvancingWomen.com, our job board, for example, is a diversity job board where employers seek women and minorities, the disabled or other diverse groups. AllTopTechTalent is our job board for all who work on line. But there are plenty of niche job sites out there, one of which may be right for you.

Interested in Anthropology / Archeology Jobs? How about Dance Jobs, Environmental Jobs ,Equine Jobs (that’s horses)? Yep, all of them have niche job boards. Even Retirement Jobs, Winery Jobs ( sign me up!) and Zoo Jobs have their own boards. How cool is that?

Want more niche job sites to pore over? Look up Niche Job Sites Directory

Another source not to overlook is job aggregators like Indeed.com. Companies like Indeed.com scrape jobs from a variety of sources and describe themselves as “a search engine for jobs; jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the web – one search. all jobs.” Well, not quite. Although job aggregators, like Indeed.com, are another tool in your job searching tool box, there are more.

Don’t forget the jobs sites of big corporations. Although they may be advertising in many job boards on the web and in news papers there, there’s a good chance they have three to ten times that many jobs advertised on their own corporate career site.

So, here’s the strategy. Set up your 2WayResume with your basic resume, then be prepared to customize for each potential job you find. Go to the big boards like Monster. Go to the niche sites in your industry or your demographic. Identify some corporations you’d like to work for. Then go to all of them, and, if you don’t see what you want on first visit, set up an rss feed or an alert so that you don’t go looking for the jobs, the jobs come to you. And we invite you to go post your resume and get an alert from our diversity niche board, Careers.AdvancingWomen.com or AllTopTechTalent

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