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6 Steps to a Remarkable Reapplication
OK, so you didn't get accepted at any of the schools you applied
to. What should you do now?
Deal. Get over it. And consider what you're going to do next
year. If you decide to re-apply, you need to assess what went
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Determine what you need to change. You definitely need to
do something different, because your previous approach didn't
work. Don't turn in the same essays.
Analyze your qualifications versus your target schools'
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applying effectively. You either need to improve your profile or
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Seek feedback. Some programs, particularly business and
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You want to hear the criticism as early as possible so that you
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Prepare to highlight valuable recent experiences. When
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How to Include Independent Work on Your Resume
Whether as a stint between "regular" jobs, side work during
conventional employment, or as a major career phase, working as
an independent contractor is increasingly common in today's
entrepreneurial climate. Professions and fields that lend
themselves to independent work include accountants, lawyers and
legal assistants, teachers and tutors, programmers and other IT
specialists, and marketing professionals. A plus of independent
work is that it shows resourcefulness and initiative; a negative
is that it could raise questions about credibility if there is
no conventional employment on your resume. To address this
latter concern, quantify and detail your accomplishments and
name specific clients.
How do you best present this type of work within your resume?
- If it is your sole employment for a given time period,
include it in your overall chronological employment. Give
the dates for the period as you do for other employment, and
write a relevant title for your employment and job
description, e.g., "Independent Marketing Consultant." Then,
in the first bullet point, describe the consulting in
general; for example, "Consulted for retailers in the New
York metropolitan area on developing, implementing, and
improving Internet marketing strategies." Then follow that
with bullet points describing specific projects and
accomplishments from the consulting work. In doing so,
follow the general "good resume" rules: be specific,
quantify.
- If you did independent work alongside a regular job,
there are several options, depending on how important the
independent work is to your presentation and to your
potential employers. If it is very relevant and substantive,
one option is to use the same approach as above, but clarify
that you did this work part-time so that the overlapping
dates do not confuse the reader.
Alternatively, you can divide your employment into two
categories, such as "Professional Experience - Employment"
and "Professional Experience - Independent." In that case,
it is still important to indicate the work is part-time, to
avoid confusion over dates. If the work is not that
important or relevant, but you want it on the resume, you
can include it as a bullet point in the "Additional
Information" section.
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
Member, Professional Association of Resume Writers
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