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keneme26 · Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Career Advice: +0/-0

I need a resume as I am currently looking for a job. I just finished school to be an esthetician and I have no experience and do not know what to put on my resume. I have also NEVER worked a day in my life and Im 27. I dont know quite how to explain what I have been doing up until now. I just never had to work. But now I do and I have my esthetician license but am lost with how to go about writing a resume when I have nothing to put on it. Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Pauloz · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:33 am Post subject:

keneme26

This is a professional position. They'll be more interested in your qualifications than timekeeping on your age bracket, as long as you've got a good portfolio and presentation.

Effectively, you're going for an entry level position, just doing it a bit later than usual. At internship level, you don't need a work history beyond things like work experience, so suggest you target internships as your starting point.

The work history:

It takes time to get qualifications and licenses. You also needed a career direction, so you can say at an interview that you made a few false starts in your studies, wanted to try something else, didn't work out, etc. There are a lot of people in this position, who for one reason or another don't get started at 22-ish, and stagger through to their mid 20s under their own steam doing other things. I was one of them... after you get started, it's easy enough.

In this line of work, you're the event, in terms of presentation. If you've got good materials, good ideas, and good showmanship, nobody will care about the clock watching element.

Remember, this isn't one of the hack jobs of the industry, it's a higher specialist level. Not everybody has this qualification, and you can work on that angle pretty effectively. Prove your competence to the people who need to see it, and you're in.

OlaPK · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject:

If you don't have work career history, you can ellaborate extensively on your qualifications, personal competencies, course contents, potentials, prizes, and awards.

careeradviser · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:18 am Post subject:

As you don't have any experience, you can write the skills that you have acquired when you were studying. You can also put some honest details about how you can be an asset to the company you want to work for.

auburnfan23 · Newbie Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

Here is a website that has some Free Resume Templates

http://www.squidoo.com/resumetemplatesguide

Glen · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:28 am Post subject:

If your a fresh student and have't practical experience of any job then you have to high light your education and the skills which you have.

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