TM 14 with explanation

1. What is the first step that employers usually take when they need to find
candidates to interview for a job opening?
A. They search online for personal websites and e-portfolios that might
contain information about potential candidates.
B. They look inside the company for likely candidates.
C. They post job openings on job boards such as Monster .com and
CareerBuilder.com.
D. They run ads in the local newspaper.
2. Which of the following best describes the process of net working as it applies to
your career?
A. Making sure you are plugged into the online scene so that you don’t
miss out on any new Internet developments
B. Making connections with a broad sphere of mutually beneficial business
contacts
C. Asking as many people as possible to alert you to interesting job
opportunities
D. Making sure you get to know everyone in your company shortly after
accepting a new position
3. If you don’t yet have significant work experience but still want to become a valued
network member, which of the following tactics should you consider?
A. Limit your networking to people whose work experi- ence is similar to yours
so that you can share similar information.
B. Create a convenient, foldable, business-card-size ver- sion of your résumé
that you can give to everyone you meet so they don’t have to carry a full-
size copy of your résumé.
C. Avoid networking until you have enough work experi- ence to be able to
offer insider tips on the job market in your industry.
D. Research recent trends in the business world in order to have interesting
and useful information at your finger- tips whenever you encounter people
in your network.
4. Which of the following sections should be included in any résumé, regardless of
the format you’ve chosen?
A. Contact information, education, and work experience
B. Contact information, education, and personal references
C. Personal data, contact information, and education
D. Education, personal references, and career objectives
5. How does a qualifications summary differ from a career summary?
A. They are identical.
B. A qualifications summary offers a brief view of your most important
skills and attributes, whereas a career summary is a recap of your career
progress.
C. No one uses a qualifications summary anymore, whereas a career
summary is still popular.
 D. The career summary is best for recent graduates, whereas the
qualifications summary is best for people with a decade or two of
experience.
6. Which should come first on your résumé, your education or your work experience?
A. Education should come first.
B. Work experience should come first.
C. It depends on which is more meaningful to an employer, given where
you are in your career at this moment.
D. The best résumés today use a two-column format in which education
and work experience are listed side by side.
7. Which of the following best describes the level of quality you should achieve when
producing your résumé?
A. With the advent of email and social networking, most companies are much
more relaxed about grammar, spelling, and other old-school concerns, so
don’t sweat the details.
B. The typical recruiter in a major corporation sees so many résumés on any
given day that most errors pass by unnoticed.
C. Your résumé needs to be perfect.
D. Your résumé should reflect your work habits, so if you’re more of a strategic
thinker and don’t worry about insignificant details, make sure your résumé
reflects that.
8. Which of these is a significant advantage of online, multimedia, or social media résumés?
A. You can expand on the information contained in your ba- sic résumé with
links to projects, publications, screencasts, online videos, course lists, social
networking profiles, and other elements.
B. You can build up your résumé over time and don’t have to worry about
having every little detail in place when you launch your job search.
C. You can use lots of color.
D. You can use the flexibility of the web to provide extensive details on your
life history.
9. Why are many employers suspicious of the functional résumé?
A. It allows applicants to hide or downplay lengthy periods of unemployment
or a lack of career progress.
B. It doesn’t scan into computer databases as effectively as other résumé
formats.
C. It doesn’t provide any information about education.
D. It encourages applicants to include accomplishments that were the result of
teamwork rather than individual efforts.
10. How does writing the “story of you” help you plan your job search and craft your
résumé?
A. It helps you focus your résumé on your needs, rather than on the
employer’s.
B. It helps you think about where you want to go and how to present yourself
to target employers.
C. It allows you to avoid writing a traditional structured résumé.
D. It helps you plan the speech you should make at the beginning of every job
interview.