Job Application

1. Job Application Resumes and C.Vs Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

2. A brochure selling a product • Your C.V / Resume is a brochure • The brochure sells a product (You) • High quality products have high quality brochures • High quality companies spend more time developing their products • High quality companies make sure the packaging looks right Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

3. What a resume is not • A history of your past • A story of your personal life • Your likes and dislikes • Your hobbies • Your dreams Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

4. Basic C.V format • Contact information • Education history • Employment history (training etc.) • Special Skills • Achievements Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

5. P-A-R • P = Problems (solved) • A = Actions (taken) • Results (accomplishments) The PAR format shows you can: • Solve problems • Show initiative • Get results Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

6. What’s special about you? • Show that you already have some of the skills they are looking for • Have you ever had a part-time job? • Have you ever helped someone do something? • Have you ever been a member of a club? • Have you had a position of responsibility at school or MMTC? • Have you ever taken care of anybody or anything? • Have you ever been responsible for housework / cleaning • Have you ever taught anybody anything? • Have you ever participated in a game / event / competition • Have you ever helped organize an event / ceremony Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

7. You have more skills than you think Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

8. Your experience • List any jobs you have done • Highlight key skills in it (Key words) • List any activities events etc. • Highlight key skills in it Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

9. P-A-R prepares you for interviews • So, what was your greatest accomplishment at MMTC? • So, can you give me an example of when you have had to solve a problem? • What are your strengths? • What are your weaknesses? Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

10. Matching your resume to the job • Look at the job advertisements • Highlight any key words • Look at your experience • Make sentences that fit in with the key words • Match skills that fit in with the key words Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

11. Format • Every sentence starts with a power verb • Avoid the use of personal pronouns • If you can delete a word … do it! • Recruiters want to skim the resume and get the key information Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

12. 20 Seconds • 200 resumes for one interview • 20 seconds spent reading a resume • First 2 lines of objective • First 3 words of each experience • Compnay, skills, responsibilities Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

13. Objective • A position that utilizes my skills and qualifications to achieve my ambitions • I want exactly the job you are offering. I am the best candidate because I recognize the qualities that are most important to you and I have them. I want to make a contribution to your company. Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

14. Personal Information • Personal information : • Age: 23Nationality: ThaiReligion: BuddhismHeight: 83kgWeight: 177 cmMarital Status: Single Military Service: Passed Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

15. Education • Education • 2011-Present : Navigation science, Merchant Marine Training Centre, Paknam, Samutprakan GPA : 3.16, Will receive graduation 2015 • 2010 : Math-science program at Assuption School, Bangna, Samutprakan, GPA: 3.05 Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

16. Training • Sea Training Experience • Sea training on MV.SakornWisai 15 days, Bangkok to Singapore • Duties / Responsibilities: • -Planning navigation route -Checking safety equipments and fire fighting equipments -Handling wheel when the ship is underway -Sounding fresh water and ballast water -Communicating with other vessel for safe-navigation -Recording logbook -Measuring the altitude of the sun with sextant -Finding position of vessel by using astronomy and GPS and Island Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

17. Certificates • Certificates and Training • -Security awareness training for all seafarers -Medical first aid -Elementary fist aid -Fire prevention and Fire fighting -Personal survival techniques -Personal safety and social responsibility Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

18. Work Experience Jul 2012 - Mar 2014 : Surveyer at Mersk.Co,Ltd. Responsibilities: -Inspecting cargo quality -Ensuring good quality of cargo -Recording quantity of cargo -Managing trucks to carry cargo -Issuing permits for trucks Jan2011 - Apr 2012 : Cashier at 7-Eleven Responsibilities: -Receiving money from customers - Receiving deliveries -Arranging products on the shelf -Cleaning the store -Checking product stock Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

19. Projects Activities : - Organising a project to help build toilet facilities at a school - Heading the fitness club at MMTC - Assisting in the preparation of ‘Freshy Week’ activities - Managing parking areas on graduation day - Being responsible for the welfare of cadets staying in dormitories - Planning trip to plant trees at Bang Saen Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)

20. Skills • Skills • - Basic maintenance and repair the vessel’s machineries • - Basic welding , lathing and grinding steel • - Work shop operation • - Basic English communication skill • - Work well under pressure and Hard working • - Basic speaking , reading and writing in English Created by James Worden (Merchant Marine Training Centre 2014)