Why Your Resume Isnt Working and How You Can Fix It

Why Your Resume Isnt Working and How You Can Fix It Your resume can lose you the job in a matter of seconds. All it takes is one glance at an outdated resume for a hiring manager to know you’re not right for the gig. To stay on top of resume trends, check out this article on resume tips 2016. Does your resume begin with an Objective paragraph? You know the usual: â€Å"Highly qualified and resourceful candidate seeking full-time job with excellent benefits?† That bland description of both you and the position you’re applying for would fit pretty much everyone on the market. Ditch it.If you’re applying for the job, the recruiter already knows that getting that job is your objective. Maybe it’s not your only objective, but for their purposes, they already know you’re interested. Why not use the space instead to brand yourself.How to  create your brandIt’s as easy as changing â€Å"This is what I want† to â€Å"This is what I have to offer you.† It’s a simple, but ef fective tactic at wowing them before you even make it to the interview stage.Take your elevator pitch and condense it further into 2-3 kick-ass sentences. Think of how you’d answer the â€Å"Tell us a little bit about yourself† question if you had time to sculpt that answer into the most dazzling and succinct nugget of description you possibly could.Things to focus onYour value- the ways in which you’ve succeeded and grown so far in your career.Your uniqueness- how you’re different from every other candidate in your field because of certain experiences and skills, and what makes you such a special snowflake. What drives you? What are you passionate about? Why are you likeable? The trick is to brand yourself as a hot commodity they’d be crazy not to fight to hire.You’ll have plenty of time in the body of your resume to deal with the nitty-gritty laundry list of your experiences and accomplishments. That will be the gravy. Focus on the idea of you as their employee. Don Draper yourself!Remember: if you can sell them at the very top of your resume, the rest of the process of landing the job will be a cinch.

Archaeopteris - The First Modern Tree on Earth

Archaeopteris - The First Modern Tree on Earth Our earths first modern tree establishing itself in developing forests emerged around 370 million years ago. Ancient plants made it out of water 130 million years earlier but none were considered true trees. True tree growth only came about when plants overcame biomechanical problems to support additional weight. The architecture of the modern tree is defined by evolutionary features of strength that builds in rings to support greater and greater height and weight, of protective bark that shields the cells that conduct water and nutrients from the earth to the furthest leaves, of supportive collars of extra wood that surround the bases of each branch, and of internal layers of wood dovetail at branch junctions to prevent breakage. It took over a hundred million years for this to happen. Archaeopteris, an extinct tree that made up most of the forests across the earths surface in the late Devonian period, is considered by scientists to be the first modern tree. New collected pieces of fossils of the trees wood from Morocco have filled in parts of the puzzle to shed new light. Discovery of Archaeopteris Stephen Scheckler, a professor of biology and geological sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, of the Institut de lEvolution of Montpellier, France, and Jobst Wendt, of the Geological and Paleontological Institute in Germany, analyzed a trove of these African fossils. They now propose Archaeopteris to be the earliest known modern tree, with buds, reinforced branch joints, and branched trunks similar to todays modern tree. When it appeared, it very quickly became the dominant tree all over the Earth, says Scheckler. On all of the land areas that were habitable, they had this tree. Scheckler goes on to point out, The attachment of branches was the same as modern trees, with swelling at the branch base to form a strengthening collar and with internal layers of wood dovetailed to resist breaking. We had always thought this was modern, but it turns out that the first woody trees on earth had the same design. While other trees quickly met extinction, Archaeopteris made up 90 percent of the forests and stayed around a very long time. With trunks up to three feet wide, the trees grew perhaps 60 to 90 feet tall. Unlike present-day trees, Archaeopteris reproduced by shedding spores instead of seeds. Development of the Modern Ecosystem Archaeopteris stretched out its branches and canopy of leaves to nourish life in the streams. The decaying trunks and leaves and the altered carbon dioxide/oxygen atmosphere abruptly changed ecosystems all over the earth. Its litter fed the streams and was a major factor in the evolution of freshwater fishes, whose numbers and varieties exploded in that time, and influenced the evolution of other marine ecosystems, says Scheckler. It was the first plant to produce an extensive root system, so had a profound impact on soil chemistry. And once these ecosystem changes happened, they were changed for all time.   Archaeopteris made the world almost a modern world in terms of ecosystems that surround us now, Scheckler concludes.