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    No Experience!! What Do I Put On My Resume?? Please Help!

    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!

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    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.
    Paul

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

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    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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    I'm agree with them, and just to add up. You can also add all your certification, seminar or training that you have attended so far because these may help you building your resume and background as well.


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