Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management
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Getting a job or a graduate position requires having special knowledge and skills. These are in general knowledge about the field of interest but also about how to get the job. Being the best educated person about a topic and being "a perfect fit" for an announced job may not get you the job. Blame it on or claim luck, but getting a job requires having knowledge and abilities, then getting the job is conditional upon
If the probability of each of these is 0.80, then the odds of getting the job are only 0.21. Getting rejected is not fun. That number may help.
Alternatives to increase the odds:
| you have to know "the target" to hit it |
SeeThe Resumé and interview advice in several search sites such as www.Google.com See www.jobweb.org and other sites found through the Internet search procedures.
The resumé is dead. Or soon will be, according to H. Perry Boyle's Labor Daze commentary from the Sept. 29, 2000, issue. The catalyst for his prediction is the HR-XML Consortium's announcement of the release of a new protocol for posting job listings on the Internet.
Virginia Tech has begun experimenting with a ePortfolio
Comments (email March, 2001) from Doug Holt
Subject: What should job applicants include in their resumes?
After having hired about 10 technicians during the last two years, here are some suggestions that I would make.
First, contact your references before you put them down. More than once I contacted a reference to find out that they did not know a great deal about the applicant's work experience or even worse, had some reservations about recommending the person in question. If a reference has some concern about a person's ability to perform, I move that application to the bottom of the pile immediately.
Secondly, I would like to see a boatload of related experience, but that is not always possible. Like others, I had to work my way through my undergraduate education. The chance of finding a part time job during school in this field is very slim, especially since you are not the only one in you major. Everybody that you are in school with is looking for the same thing. I would suggest using all relevant work experience and then filling out your resume with other work that you have done as needed. After all, some technician jobs require data entry as well as data collection and an office job while in school may equip a person to handle data entry very well. I think the thing that impresses me most about an applicant is their ability to work hard and learn what is required of them. Most times this can be determined by talking to references at jobs in fields other than wildlife. We all had little or no experience at some point in time and somebody was willing to give us a chance and our resumes grew from there.
I prefer that everybody that send me an application include e-mail addresses and phone numbers for references. I prefer picking up the telephone to check references. I think you get more from a conversation than an e-mail message. However, some people are not easily reached by telephone and e-mail is an efficient way for them to give a reference when they have a little time to spend on it. I don't mind being called or receiving e-mail about somebody that has included me as a reference. I think this is a function of the amount of time that we have to spend on each task that is put before us on a daily basis.
Doug Holt
Graduate Research Assistant
Mississippi State University
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