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Once you know the jobs you are targeting, highlight the skills and experience relevant to the position.

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List your current experience or last-held job title first. If you have no experience or are a recent graduate, consider creating a skills-based CV. Refer to our student or graduate CV examples.

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Includes your full name, address, phone number, email address, and link to professional websites, online portfolios, or LinkedIn.

This brief summary at the top of your CV focuses on your skills, experience, and career goals. It's your chance to make a great first impression and give employers a snapshot of who you are as a candidate. Refer to our personal profile article for more CV examples.

List your current and previous jobs, starting with the most recent job. Include the job title, the company's name, the dates of employment, and a brief description of your duties, followed by measurable achievements. Refer to our work experience article for more CV examples.

Remember that education can come in many forms, formal and informal. List your qualifications in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent. Make sure to include the name of the institution, the degree or qualification you earned, and the dates of attendance.

It's important to keep a few things in mind. Instead of listing all your skills, consider organising them into hard, soft, and technical skills categories. Additionally, highlight any transferable skills throughout your CV that may be relevant to the position you're applying for. Refer to our skills article for more CV examples.

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This section on its own should be used for experiences more than 15 years ago or that are short-term. It can also be leveraged by including volunteer experience, hobbies, and interests relevant to your job targets.

These are important throughout your CV, but having a section called achievements or career accomplishments could set you apart from other candidates. Check out our article on how to list achievements in a CV.

An additional section accompanying your skills and work experience. It should be brief, concise, and targeted to your career goals. Learn more about how to list certifications and courses on a CV.

List your language skills in a dedicated section on your CV or under the skills or education section. Before adding them, carefully review the job requirements and company website to determine if including them is relevant. Refer to our article to learn more about effectively showcasing your language skills on a CV.

A good CV is one that effectively showcases your skills, qualifications, and experience in a concise and clear manner. The information should be relevant and tailored to the job. Moreover, a clear structure should be applied while incorporating keywords and phrases from the job description.

An ATS-friendly CV is a curriculum vitae optimised for applicant tracking systems (ATS), software tools employers use to screen job applications. Our CV examples have been designed to ensure that the ATS can accurately read and interpret the content.

If you are a student or recently graduated, consider a skills-based CV format where you focus on your skills over work experience. We have various CV examples and guides, including students and graduates, which you can use for inspiration.

This depends on the type of job and industry you are applying for. Different layouts to suit different job types and categories, such as chronological, functional, and combination formats. Choosing a layout that highlights your skills and experiences is essential and easy for the hiring manager to read and scan.

Writing a CV with no experience can be challenging, but there are several things to consider, such as highlighting your skills and achievements or making use of a functional CV format (also known as a skills-based CV). This format highlights your skills and accomplishments rather than focusing on your work history.

To ensure coherence between your CV and cover letter, it is crucial that both are tailored to your career goals. Your CV provides a comprehensive overview of your skills and experience, whereas a cover letter expands on some of the key points within your CV, showcasing why you are the best candidate for the role.

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My recent column addressed the importance of employee development and identified the 10 most common problems in the work environment that hinder that development and a company's overall success. This column presents those 10 problems and provides solutions to each.

1. Inadequate job descriptions

A well-written job description eliminates misunderstandings between management and employees and becomes the very foundation of performance reviews, creating a baseline of measurement. Job descriptions serve as a documented record of what an employee should accomplish in their position and what activities they must perform well to meet those objectives. This should be treated as an employment contract, creating the tool to measure job performance. Make sure that job description documents are provided to all employees and that they are utilized regularly.

2. Lack of training

Nothing has become more apparent in today's workplace than the lack of employee training. Some companies merely throw new employees onto the front line, forcing them to learn on their own through trial and error. Others provide formal training, but in the wrong manner. Both are equally detrimental to corporate performance.

Formal training is a must. Effective training must directly pertain to the employee's job description. It should address how an employee can best accomplish position objectives and complete supporting activities. Additionally, training must include accountability. Every skill taught must be paired with performance accountability, which requires management to measure each employee's progress. In many cases, training classes never receive another mention from management after they're completed, and, as a result, nothing ever changes. The final aspect of effective training is using the right trainer. All too often, human resource people teach classes. These are individuals who have read the books but don't have practical experience on the subject they are to teach. Great teachers have walked their talk.

3. Ineffective job performance reviews

In an ineffective performance review, the boss often does all the talking, doesn't know what they're talking about, or doesn't have all the information. They are often only completing the review because they have to.

To put performance reviews back on track, management must first recognize the stakes. The few hours spent discussing an employee's performance will affect what the employee thinks and does for the next full six months to a year. A lot of homework and heart needs to be put into reviews. Managers should make sure to use the employee's job description and review their performance in the context of a discussion. The manager should ask the employee to share their perspectives on each subject first. And, the manager should first focus on performance strengths before addressing areas that need improvement.

A successful performance review ends with agreement between the employee and manager, and with a jointly designed set of performance objectives going forward. This leaves the employee with a sincere vote of confidence.

4. Lack of two-way communication

Great managers know how to do a great job and great leaders know how to get employees to do a great job. Regular two-way communication lies at the very foundation of what great leaders deliver. When employees know what a manager knows, it creates an attitude and behavior of company ownership that leads to excellent performance. Management should make a regular concerted effort in communicating with all employees through as many mediums as possible.

5. Ineffective employee recognition

It's nice to have awards and contests at work, but what counts most is the daily thank you. This turns employee recognition from a project into a culture. This takes a concerted effort by management and an understanding that there is always something positive that can be said to each employee each day.

6. Lack of job-related accountability

What irks great employees more than anything is witnessing poor performing employees being allowed to continue on being poor performing employees. This can lead to corporate financial failure, as good employees either leave or shrink down to being equally as poor as the rest. As important as it is to recognize great employee performances, the job performance review process provides the means to enforce accountabilities. Follow proper training and corrective action, and if employees fail to measure up, terminate employment. Too many employers are being held hostage by poor performing employees, when in fact they would be miles ahead if they were rid of them.

7. Improper or excessive company policies

All companies must have policies that all employees follow. However, a company should strive to have as few policies as possible. One of the most recent discoveries is that a business environment that provides freedom and the invitation to be creative always leads to the highest performing employees. Too many policies stifle employee performance.

8. Lack of equipment and facilities

Management must make sure to pay attention to the type and condition of equipment that is being utilized by the employees. Capital expenditures on equipment and facilities are a very high percentage of operation expenses. Know what is needed, furnish it and then maintain it. And, make sure employees participate all the way. Safety goes up, right along with morale.

9. Lack of charitable community involvement

Charitable community involvement has proven to be a powerful element of employee development. Employers should support employees' opportunity to spend, for example, one day per quarter serving a charitable organization within the community and paying them for doing so. Businesses that commit to this culture earn employees who have a much higher appreciation for their jobs and company.

10. A lousy manager

A positive business environment includes the presence of managers who are good role models for employees. Measure success in this area by seeking evaluations from employees. It is key for management to ask how they're doing.

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An is someone who starts and manages their own business. Starting a business and making it a success is difficult, so it takes a certain kind of person.

Entrepreneurs come from all walks of life but are generally confident, enthusiastic, and innovative people. Famous entrepreneurs include Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey.

TV shows such as Dragon's Den and The Apprentice (once hosted by Donald Trump) celebrate the 'entrepreneurial spirit'. Small and medium sized businesses employ the most people in our economy and, as they grow, create the companies that will drive our economy in the future.

Becoming an entrepreneur

It takes a lot of hard work to be an entrepreneur, and there is no guarantee of success. If you want to start a new business you need to do extensive research to answer the following questions:

Do people need my product or service?

How do I make my product or deliver my service?

How much money will I need to start, and how will I get it?

Will I need to employ staff? How much will this cost?

How will I market and promote my product?

How will I sell my product, in a shop, online or somewhere else?

Where will I operate my business?

What transport costs will I have to pay?

These are just a few of the things you need to know before you start. Get any one of them wrong and your business could be in trouble. You can already see that being an entrepreneur is no picnic.

So why do people do it?

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Are you indispensable to your team? When team collaboration succeeds at high levels, projects and businesses thrive. To be one of these top-performing team members, here are 13 tips to help build your teamwork skills.
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Teamwork Skills At Work

Most types of work involve you working as a team. Good teamwork means everyone working well together.

Your teamwork skills can help you at work in all sorts of ways. Perhaps you're working in construction and thinking about the health and safety of yourself and your team mates. Maybe your team has work together to create a report for a client to a tight deadline. Teamwork also helps gets things done when you're planning a birthday party for someone you work with!

Having teamwork skills will make it a much better experience for everyone, whether you are working long hours or trying to choose which cake to buy.

Building teamwork skills at work will help you:

Achieve a team goal in a quick and positive way

Improve your communication skills, e.g. listening, taking instruction and offering support and ideas

Good teamwork skills will give you more chances to move forward in your career, too. People can see you as someone with a positive attitude who thinks the company's goals are important. This can help you get more opportunities, responsibility, training and promotions over time.

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Knowhow Nonprofit (2016) highlight how involving volunteers adds value to organisations and helps them to achieve their objectives. They say that involving volunteers can help organisations to:

Engage a more diverse range of skills, experience and knowledge

Reach more beneficiaries

Raise awareness about the organisation's cause, its profile and what it does

Build relationships within the community and contribute to supporting others in the community. Providing volunteering opportunities, provides opportunities for social inclusion, skills development and potential routes to employment. There is also evidence that volunteering can help to improve health and wellbeing for individuals

Inform the development and delivery of activities, projects or services by bringing in new opinions, ideas or approaches. This can help organisations to adapt, stay relevant to what their beneficiaries and community need as well as identifying opportunities to improve what they do

Deliver service or projects in a more effective and efficient way which can help to save money and resources. However organisations do have to invest in supporting volunteering for this to work effectively.

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By Lana Burgess | Found on MedicalNewsToday

The muscular system consists of various types of muscle that each play a crucial role in the function of the body.

Muscles allow a person to move, speak, and chew. They control heartbeat, breathing, and digestion. Other seemingly unrelated functions, including temperature regulation and vision, also rely on the muscular system.

Keep reading to discover much more about the muscular system and how it controls the body.

How the muscular system works

The muscular system contains more than 600 muscles that work together to enable the full functioning of the body.

There are 3 types of muscles in the body:
Skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscles are the only muscles that can be consciously controlled. They are attached to bones, and contracting the muscles causes movement of those bones.

Any action that a person consciously undertakes involves the use of skeletal muscles. Examples of such activities include running, chewing, and writing.
Smooth muscle
Smooth muscle lines the inside of blood vessels and organs, such as the stomach, and is also known as visceral muscle.

It is the weakest type of muscle but has an essential role in moving food along the digestive tract and maintaining blood circulation through the blood vessels.

Smooth muscle acts involuntarily and cannot be consciously controlled.
Cardiac muscle
Located only in the heart, cardiac muscle pumps blood around the body. Cardiac muscle stimulates its own contractions that form our heartbeat. Signals from the nervous system control the rate of contraction. This type of muscle is strong and acts involuntarily.

Eleven main functions of the muscular system

The main functions of the muscular system are as follows:

1. Mobility

The muscular system's main function is to allow movement. When muscles contract, they contribute to gross and fine movement.

Gross movement refers to large, coordinated motions and includes:

Fine movement involves smaller movements, such as:

The smaller skeletal muscles are usually responsible for this type of action.

Most muscle movement of the body is under conscious control. However, some movements are reflexive, such as withdrawing a hand from a source of heat.

2. Stability

Muscle tendons stretch over joints and contribute to joint stability. Muscle tendons in the knee joint and the shoulder joint are crucial in stabilization.

The core muscles are those in the abdomen, back, and pelvis, and they also stabilize the body and assist in tasks, such as lifting weights.

3. Posture

Skeletal muscles help keep the body in the correct position when someone is sitting or standing. This is known as posture.

Good posture relies on strong, flexible muscles. Stiff, weak, or tight muscles contribute to poor posture and misalignment of the body.

Long-term, bad posture leads to joint and muscle pain in the shoulders, back, neck, and elsewhere.

4. Circulation

The heart is a muscle that pumps blood throughout the body. The movement of the heart is outside of conscious control, and it contracts automatically when stimulated by electrical signals.

Smooth muscle in the arteries and veins plays a further role in the circulation of blood around the body. These muscles maintain blood pressure and circulation in the event of blood loss or dehydration.

They expand to increase blood flow during times of intense exercise when the body requires more oxygen.

5. Respiration

Breathing involves the use of the diaphragm muscle.

The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle located below the lungs. When the diaphragm contracts, it pushes downward, causing the chest cavity to get bigger. The lungs then fill with air. When the diaphragm muscle relaxes, it pushes air out of the lungs.

When someone wants to breath more deeply, it requires help from other muscles, including those in the abdomen, back, and neck.

6. Digestion

Smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal or GI tract control digestion. The GI tract stretches from the mouth to the anus.

Food moves through the digestive system with a wave-like motion called peristalsis. Muscles in the walls of the hollow organs contract and relax to cause this movement, which pushes food through the esophagus into the stomach.

The upper muscle in the stomach relaxes to allow food to enter, while the lower muscles mix food particles with stomach acid and enzymes.

The digested food moves from the stomach to the intestines by peristalsis. From here, more muscles contract to pass the food out of the body as stool.

7. Urination

The urinary system comprises both smooth and skeletal muscles, including those in the:

The muscles and nerves must work together to hold and release urine from the bladder.

Urinary problems, such as poor bladder control or retention of urine, are caused by damage to the nerves that carry signals to the muscles.

8. Childbirth

Smooth muscles in the uterus expand and contract during childbirth. These movements push the baby through the vagina. Also, the pelvic floor muscles help to guide the baby's head down the birth canal.

9. Vision

Six skeletal muscles around the eye control its movements. These muscles work quickly and precisely, and allow the eye to:

maintain a stable image

scan the surrounding area

track moving objects

If someone experiences damage to their eye muscles, it can impair their vision.

10. Organ protection

Muscles in the torso protect the internal organs at the front, sides, and back of the body. The bones of the spine and the ribs provide further protection.

Muscles also protect the bones and organs by absorbing shock and reducing friction in the joints.

11. Temperature regulation

Maintaining normal body temperature is an important function of the muscular system. Almost 85 percent of the heat a person generates in their body comes from contracting muscles.

When body heat falls below optimal levels, the skeletal muscles increase their activity to make heat. Shivering is one example of this mechanism. Muscles in the blood vessels also contract to maintain body heat.

Body temperature can be brought back within normal range through the relaxation of smooth muscle in the blood vessels. This action increases blood flow and releases excess heat through the skin.

Five fun facts about the muscular system

1. Muscles make up approximately 40 percent of total weight.

2. The heart is the hardest-working muscle in the body. It pumps 5 quarts of blood per minute and 2,000 gallons daily.

3. The gluteus maximus is the body's largest muscle. It is in the buttocks and helps humans maintain an upright posture.

4. The ear contains the smallest muscles in the body alongside the smallest bones. These muscles hold the inner ear together and are connected to the eardrum.

5. A muscle called the masseter in the jaw is the strongest muscle by weight. It allows the teeth to close with a force of up to 55 pounds on the incisors or 200 pounds on the molars.

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New Mexico Orthopaedics offers a full spectrum of services related to orthopedic care and our expertise ranges from acute conditions ó such as sports injuries and fractures ó to prolonged, chronic care diagnoses, including total joint replacement and spinal disorders.

Because our team of highly-trained physicians specialize in various aspects of the musculoskeletal system, our practice has the capacity to treat any orthopedic condition, and offer related support services, such as physical therapy, WorkLink and much more.

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