Sample Resumes For Young People

KPMG iPad App Helps College Kids Land Jobs

KPMG, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm has launched their new KMPG Go  iPad app designed to assist college students with their hunt for a job. Delivering videos, articles, blog posts and other insightful information directly from their network of over 138,000 professionals and more than 7,900 partners, this app endeavors to teach young people just how to prepare for entering the job market.

With contributors that include HR professionals, recruiters and interns, the advice contained within the app should be considered very valuable. Especially since the timing of KMPG Go couldn’t be more relevant, with the economy in the dumps having an edge while job hunting is imperative.

This app focuses on three key areas:

Resume Building – Offers help creating a polished and professional resume that represents you in a meaningful way while carrying the most impact possible. Interview Skills – Providing sample interview questions so that you can be prepared as well as offering tips on what you should wear and how to stop being so nervous! Reputation Building – Gives tips and tricks for establishing and maintaining your reputation, particularly with the growing online social networking scene.

The overall message of this app is that KPMG wants to help college students brand themselves, giving them the best chance of not only landing a job… but landing a job that they really want and can make into a career.

In all honesty, I think we could all stand to download this app and spend some time looking through the information they have compiled. You might already have a job that you are happy with, but it can never hurt to learn a little more about branding yourself or conducting yourself in a way the professional world expects.

The KMPG Go app is available for free from the App Store.

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The job market is still tough out there, even for college graduates.

Some studies show an increase in employment for college graduates, but studies that take into account under-employment or “true unemployment” reveal the true problem to be persistent.

Only about half of college graduates are getting a job that requires a degree, fewer still are getting jobs that require their degree. Most recent college graduates are either unemployed, working a temporary job just to get by, or working part-time when they’d rather be working full time. While a lot of young people’s time and talent out there is going unused, the more innovative ones have found other ways to use their energy and advance themselves.

Improving hire-ability

While many college graduates remain unemployed or under-employed, they continue to try and land better jobs. One way is by continually polishing their résumés to make them unique, professional, and impressive. A second way is by going to different career websites or temp offices to try and develop professional profiles and get hooked up with employers. A great way to develop a professional persona and do some networking is ResumeBucket.com . Of course, the prevalence of these career sites has greatly increased the amount of applicants for the average job.

Starting a company

The bravest and most risky thing that recent college graduates are doing is making their own startup companies. With success stories like Mark Zuckerberg out there, it is clear that anyone out there with good web skills and a brilliant vision is a potential billionaire. With no more-stable options to shoot for, many young people are shooting for the stars. The problem with this is that, of course, the vast majority of these brilliant ideas don’t “make it,” and their founders wind up in even worse financial situations than they started.

Re-thinking living situations

Social norms in the US seem to be changing. No longer are children moving out and getting their own place the moment they turn 18. The new generation is known as “the Peter Pan” generation for their resistance to “growing up.” It is increasingly prevalent for children to stay with their parents well into their 20s. As people need more and more education just to get a decent job, they become dependent on their parents for longer and longer. When students do finally get their degree, they are finding themselves under-employed and saddled with student debt, and they still can’t afford to get out of the nest.

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