Unbeatable Resumes (65 page)
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Authors: Tony Beshara
Full-time work for Exxon Corporation in Baytown, TX, on Phenol Plant complex; designed 6 plants for Exxon Corporation during summer work.
LICENSES
Supreme Court of Texas (October 1975âpresent); Federal District Court for the Southern District of Texas (December 1975âpresent); Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (January 1976); Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (January 1976âOctober 1982); Patent and Trademark Office (December 1975âpresent); District of Columbia Court of Appeals (December 1977âpresent); the United States Supreme Court (December 1978âpresent); Supreme Court of North Carolina (August 1979); Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (October 1982); Canadian Patent Office (January 1983); Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (October 1982âpresent); Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (1988âpresent); Southern District of Texas (1989âpresent); Court of International Trade (1985âpresent)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association of Trial Lawyers of America; America Patent Law Association (Committees on Awards, Antitrust Law, and Chemical Patent Law); America Bar Association; Licensing Executives Society; Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Patent Lawyers Association; Houston [Texas] Bar Association; Buncombe County [North Carolina] Bar Association; Houston [Texas] Patent Law Association; Houston [Texas] Junior Bar Association (former member); Texas Trial Lawyers Association; American Trial Lawyers Association (1983âpresent); Licensing Executive Society (1983âpresent)
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Résumés for CEO and other high-level positions (CFO, COO, CTO, etc.) can be a bit more difficult to organize. More often than not, these high-level folks are “tapped” by executive recruiters rather than being in the position of “looking” for a job. Executive recruiters often are retained by the companies with the openings to fill.
So, the key is to have your “biography” available, online, and out there every other way possible when you are not really looking for a job. Then, when the job or recruiter “comes to you,” the person usually will do so having seen your bio already posted (sometimes even posted on your present company's Web site).
This kind of résumé needs to be quick, informative, andâagainâinvite the “tell me more” response. A CEO or other such leader may have a more traditional résumé than what follows here, but this one is included for general awareness. These high-level résumés are as “personal” as business.
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Most CEO résumés are more like biographies, providing a sense of the person's character as well as accomplishments.
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Shouvik is Chief Executive Officer of Adea. He has been with Adea for more than seven years, and has held leadership roles in strategy, delivery, and operations. He is responsible for leading the company to year-over-year profitable growth and for expanding global operations and sales. He has been instrumental in transforming the company in the last three years into a global consulting firm with diversified services in high-growth areas.
In April 2008, Shouvik was profiled among “12 Global Leaders for Tomorrow” in
Chief Executive
magazine. In January 2009, he received the Bharat Gaurav award, recognizing his contribution to the industry as a nonresident Indian. He was named “CEO with HR Orientation” by the Asia-Pacific HRM Congress in September 2009.
Prior to joining Adea, Shouvik was with Booz Allen Hamilton in New York, where he applied his management-consulting experience toward serving several industries, including oil and gas, telecom, energy utilities, financial services, and education, for clients in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Shouvik started his career with the Tata Group in India, working in engineering design and captive power plant operations. He subsequently held managerial roles in sales and marketing, supply chain, and information technology divisions. He then worked at InfoUSA Inc., in the United States, where he was Director for Offshore Operations.
In other management and technology consulting roles, Shouvik has implemented large-scale enterprise resource planning systems and customer-care solutions; he has redesigned supply-chain processes for global food and chemical companies, and has led consulting teams at Verizon Communications in strategy, planning, metrics, and program management.
Shouvik regularly speaks at conferences worldwide on various aspects of management, including the Global Offshoring conference in Xi'an, China; the MIT Venture Capital and Private Equity conferences in Boston; a CEO conference in Beijing; and the Minority Enterprise Summit in Dallas. He frequently speaks on the emergence of China and India in the world economy and reflects on implications of the “Chindia” concept.
Shouvik was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has an MBA from MIT's Sloan School; he is an alumnus of the well-respected Indian Institute of Technology. Recently, he has been involved in setting up a Merchant Bank in China, focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. His research interests include Entrepreneurial Finance, China's outbound investment market, and trends in India's BPO sector.
While growing up in India, Shouvik was actively involved in theater, sports, and music during the time he was receiving his education at Sherwood College, in the beautiful northern Himalayan hill station of Nainital. He was captain of a leading tennis team at university level, and played the Sarod, a rare Indian classical instrument, on Indian television. Shouvik is based in Dallas now, and often surprises his clients and employees by playing guitar and performing country western songs.
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The vast majority of résumés in this book are for positions in private industry. However, a résumé for a job with the federal government is different. According to Kathryn Troutman,
*
author of
Ten Steps to a Federal Job
, a good job with the federal government may be waiting for you.
Many jobseekers do not realize that the federal government is the largest employer in the United States, with almost 2 million employees, excluding the Postal Serviceâway more than the nation's largest private employer, Wal-Mart! The federal government is hiring now, and the pay and benefits often exceed what private industry is paying for equivalent work. You do
not
have to have security clearance to land a federal job. If the position requires clearance, the process will begin after you are hired.
The best place to begin looking for a federal job is at the official Web site of the government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM):
www.usajobs.gov
. Most federal jobs are listed there, though some of the intelligence positions (CIA, NSA, NGA, etc.) are posted on those individual agencies' Web sites. The U.S. Congress and Senate have their own Web sites with their own job listings.
You need to know, however, how to prepare a résumé for one of these government jobs. Here are a few points critical to first-time applicants for federal jobs:
1.
Though your private-industry résumé will probably be two pages, the federal-government résumé should be longerâan average of four pages. The résumé must
prove
that you have certain experience; that's why it runs longer.
2.
Though you can use the same résumé to apply to multiple specific jobsâfor example, accounting specialist,
budget specialist, financial management specialistâyou need to change the résumé slightly for each “occupational series.”
3.
Each federal job title requires a specific set of skills, knowledge, and abilities, with corresponding key words. These skills and key words should match the “occupational series.” This means about a 15 percent change, mostly in key words.
4.
The language you use has to match the language used in the USA JOBS vacancy announcements.
Applying for a federal job involves taking multiple steps. Ninety-five percent of all federal job applications are submitted online, and you begin by submitting your résumé into a “builder”; there are several résumé builders, and several automated job sites for identifying federal jobs. Be prepared to copy and paste your résumé into the résumé builder. At this time, you set up your account in USA JOBS so that you can see the entire application process. Next, you may have to answer some Assessment questions related to the position. You will be asked to fax some documents, such as a college transcript, military DD-214, or certifications to prove that you have certain professional designations.
If you do not follow the directions, you will lose consideration for the federal job
.
Vacancy announcements are a critical piece of information in writing your résumé. In these announcements, you will find the key words and required skills in the following sections: Summary, Mission, Duties, and Qualifications. The announcements are long and complex, but reading them thoroughly is essential to landing a stable, well paid position with excellent growth opportunities. Your first federal application may take several hours to research and write.
The format most recommended is a modified
chronological résumé
. This format allows you to feature the most important skills for the job within the context of previous jobs. The book
Ten Steps to a
Federal Job
contains 24 samples using this format (called the “outline” format in the book) for preparing a federal résumé. This format has been highly successful, and federal human resources (HR) specialists appreciate how easy it is to read.
The skills and key words found in the vacancy announcement should be featured in ALL CAPS in the outline format. An HR specialist may receive 300 to 1,000 résumés for an opening. The USA JOBS system is not an artificial-intelligence system, and so an actual person will read and review your résumé to determine if you are qualified for the job. The Assessment questionnaires are automatically scored, then the résumés are reviewed by staffers. That's why the résumé
must
be easy to read, with the most important skills featured.
Your Accomplishments are critical, too. If your résumé is referred to a supervisor, then the listing of accomplishments can help make the résumé stand out, so that you can land an interview.
The Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities narratives are being eliminated soon in this process, according to John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, who is determined to simplify the federal hiring procedures (great idea!). However, the short essays and examples within the Assessment questionnaires may or may not be eliminated. You may see requests for writing samples. Be prepared to give examples of your work experience that demonstrate specific skills. These are pre-interview questions and are important in the application.
Your federal application is basically an examination, and it is scored. The résumé and your answers to the Assessment questions are scored. The highest score for a nonveteran is 100. You can ask the HR specialist for your score; usually you have to ask for it. Veterans receive 5 to 10 extra points for serving their country. Thus, if you get a score of 100, a veteran can get a score of 110.
The federal job-search process is faster now than it has been in years. The OPM has made recommendations to the agencies that they should hire in 90 days. We have seen that the hiring can be much faster than that.
For information on résumé writing or on completing the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities sections of your résumé, visit
www.resume-place.com
. There, you will also find information on government salaries, official job titles, and position descriptions, plus some articles on federal jobs. The following sites also have information on federal jobs:
