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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Have you looked at public agencies? There are financial analyst jobs heavy on budget that around here start at about
$70k with great benefits and promotional opportunities up to about $110k before getting to management. Even if you don't make a career of it, you will get great experience. Your resume reminds me of the requirements for our financial analyst I jobs (sorry, no openings at this time) which require 3 years experience, but you are pretty close to that with 2001-present.
I would add language to your resume that shows experience in variance reporting and investigation, and accruals.
I am a busy HR manager. I take 30 seconds to look at a resume. What CATCHES MY EYE.
Bullet Points
Judacious use of words
Keep it clean, simple AN EASY READ. A very easy read.
Your resume is a wall of words. too much information. Prune it. Get to the meat of the matter. two word sentences. Bold face the most important words.
Prune
Get the interview first. THEN THEN THEN you can explain your heart out. In 30 seconds you have to SELL what you can do for your prospective employer. Find out EXACTLY what they are looking for and use THOSE words in your resume.
Base on my prior work in job placement-what stands out for me is the wordiness. Seems like an overuse of key words. Prune it down, and personally, I would leave the months of employment off and just put down the years. Makes it seem like less job hopping. You will probably need to put the months down eventually on an application, but at this stage what you are trying to do is get attention. You want to be clear, and concise.
Put your objective first, your education second, and your experience third. I personally would leave the Nordstrom job off the resume, but its up to you.
Or, you could start with your objective, then education, then focus on the SKILLS you have acquired, and last, your positions, leaving off the monthly dates again. --- Just my opinion
Edit: and I would leave off the "relevant courses" section. You can talk about that in the interview
I think Americans in general should think about leaving United States for better countries like Australia, New Zeeland and United Kingdom at least if you are below 40 years of age and ended up being fired. The OP has enough experience to be competitive in the Australian market. Many young minds leave for Australia were jobs still exist for the educated and for fairly good wages. The unemployment rate among youth below the age for 30 included university graduates in Greece and Spain is pushing 35-45 percent. Young Spaniards and Greeks give their home-countries their finger and leave for better opportunities elsewhere. I think more Americans also should think about doing so. The old united States – were a college degree at least guaranteed you your first qualified job are long gone. If you are not among the top 30 percent in your class in High School – don’t bother going to college. Get that trade degree instead. It is better to be an electrician making 50 000 US dollar a year than live in your parents basement until your parents kick you out and you end up on the street - begging for a living.
Australia has been organized as a "workers paradise". Nothing of the sort exists in the US. There is no safety net, and labor is cheap. The hollowing out of the middle class is becoming more apparent ever day.
SKILLS:
Strong Excel and Access skills with particular focus on financial modeling and the use of advanced features of spreadsheets.
Knowledgeable in Brio Financial Reporting, AP Workflow, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and social web media
Proficiency using internal database systems for analyses and creating reports
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Add information of your GPA, then they may believe what you say is true.
For example, financial modelling using advanced Excel/Access, for sure, if you're academically well, you are competent doing this
Yes brocco, I took a couple of courses there when I first moved to Atlanta and was job seeking.
I took out Nordstrom before, and it left a gap of about a year on my resume! So I put it back in depending on what job I am applying to. Government & Administrative positions I leave it on there since I think they want the resumes to be more detailed..?
And you are correct, I did use "interim" to fill in gaps.
Thanks for the replies thus far!
Your resume is not a biography of your work, it is to show what relevant skills you have for the position. Whether you have one month, one year, or five year gap does not matter.
On your application, that is where you list the previous how many jobs you had, and where if a company is concerned about gaps, will tell them you had one, and they might ask you to explain any gaps.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Budget Allocation Project Management Accounting
Market Analysis Financial Research Procurement
Forecasting Payroll Operations Time Management
Strategic Thinker Multi-tasking Detail Oriented
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punctuations , hard to see boundaries between items
I guess the items you listed are as follows :
Budget Allocation
Project Management Accounting
Marketing Analysis
Financial Research
Procurement
Forecasting
Payroll
Operations
Time Management
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Basically, when employers say lists of items ( area of expertise ) like this, usually think it's for the ones who have working experiences that used the items.. . for example, if you list Budget Allocation, it means you ever worked in a managerial position that had authority to allocate budget and your proposal of allocating the budget was proven efficient working well for the company/department
I guess your Budget Allocation and Project Management Accounting were meaning same thing, for example, you know how to allocate budget in a project , together with procurement ( purchasing , strategic sourcing ), maybe you are looking for a project management position
quantitative skills and some accounting knowledge are involved in project management, for example, allocating budget , cost and profitability analysis, but if you say Project Management Accounting it looks like you are project manager for years and recently get CPA accountancy credential.
Marketing Analysis is for another job in division of specializations , irrelevant to other items..
Financial Research ??? it sounds research job in field of banking, acturary/insurance, investment
This was an old thread. Hopefully OP found something perm.
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