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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Lessons-Learned: Keep Track of Your Personal Record
You are filling out a job application form with a respectable company. You’ve got all of your job history filled out with ease. The next page requires your background information. Where did you go to school? No problem. Where did you live in the past 10 years? Hmm… You’ve moved around a lot. That’s going to take some times to get them all down. What are all of the names you’ve used in the past and when did you use them? Well… That would have been no big deal if you weren’t a woman who grew up in a multi-family names environment on top of being married. It still takes time to get all of this information down. What if you prepare a cheat sheet ahead of time? All you have to do is copying it down.
Even when you got all of the information, sometimes what you have is still not detailed enough. Here are some tips that we found helpful over the years:
- Keep them all together: You can add your roles, starting and ending compensation, bonus, length of stay, reason for leaving, supervisor’s and references’ names along with the contact information (address, phone, emails) right on a separate copy of your resume as a cheat sheet. Many online forms have the reference part mixed into the experience section.
- Account for the idle time: If you have a gap between your jobs, add the gap onto the record as well. If you have to fill out the background check, accounting for the gaps matter.
- Get your dates down: Although the majority of the forms only ask for the month and year, it never hurts to have the dates down anywhere you can. Some online forms use the calendar selection. Your dates will come in handy.
- Volunteering and additional activities are necessary: To those who don’t have years of experience or are changing the field of work, list all of your hobbies and side line activities on your record in chronological order. Non-profit organization and forward-thinking hiring managers always look for this kind of self-motivated characteristics.
- Don’t forget banking and dependents: This kind of information might not need to be on the very same file as your other non-private information, but it will save you a lot of time whenever you have to fill out the direct deposit and medical insurance coverage.
- Save your prescription and doctor’s visit history: We often throw away the stub that comes with the medicine. This information is required when you apply for independent health or life insurances. They usually want to know the doctor’s name, office address, diagnosis, prescribed medicine or remedies together with the dosage. If you don’t have it ready, you might end up with several phone calls with the representatives before your application goes to the underwriter.
Last but not least, always keep your personal record up-to date. You never know when you’re going to need this information, but when the time comes, you’ll be ready!
Even when you got all of the information, sometimes what you have is still not detailed enough. Here are some tips that we found helpful over the years:
- Keep them all together: You can add your roles, starting and ending compensation, bonus, length of stay, reason for leaving, supervisor’s and references’ names along with the contact information (address, phone, emails) right on a separate copy of your resume as a cheat sheet. Many online forms have the reference part mixed into the experience section.
- Account for the idle time: If you have a gap between your jobs, add the gap onto the record as well. If you have to fill out the background check, accounting for the gaps matter.
- Get your dates down: Although the majority of the forms only ask for the month and year, it never hurts to have the dates down anywhere you can. Some online forms use the calendar selection. Your dates will come in handy.
- Volunteering and additional activities are necessary: To those who don’t have years of experience or are changing the field of work, list all of your hobbies and side line activities on your record in chronological order. Non-profit organization and forward-thinking hiring managers always look for this kind of self-motivated characteristics.
- Don’t forget banking and dependents: This kind of information might not need to be on the very same file as your other non-private information, but it will save you a lot of time whenever you have to fill out the direct deposit and medical insurance coverage.
- Save your prescription and doctor’s visit history: We often throw away the stub that comes with the medicine. This information is required when you apply for independent health or life insurances. They usually want to know the doctor’s name, office address, diagnosis, prescribed medicine or remedies together with the dosage. If you don’t have it ready, you might end up with several phone calls with the representatives before your application goes to the underwriter.
Last but not least, always keep your personal record up-to date. You never know when you’re going to need this information, but when the time comes, you’ll be ready!
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