November 12. 2008
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C areers E ducation
Head Start Inspires Learning
Giving low-income kids a solid foundation
year o f Head Start, and over
the years, it has consistently
provided for the educational
and personal needs o f our
youngest O regonians,” she
said.
H ead Start continues to
serve more children. Last year,
Oregon added l ,732 new state
funded O regon Head Start
enrollm ent slots and this year
it will add an additional 1,336.
By the end o f the 2007-
2009 biennium , Oregon Head
Start will have a total o f 6,554
state funded slots. C om bined
with funding from the F ed­
eral O ffice o f H ead Start
and o ther funders, m ore than
Educational leaders are cel­
ebrating Oregon Head Start
A wareness Week.
“This week is a wonderful
opportunity to recognize the
amazing contributions o f early
childhood educators in m eet­
ing the needs o f low-income
children and their fam ilies,”
said Oregon Superintendent
o f Public Instruction, Susan
Castillo. “The dedication of
the educators, support profes­
sionals, volunteers, families, Susan Castillo
and communities involved with and other early chi ldhood edu­
O regon Head Start is both cation provides makes kids
entering kindergarten prepared
inspiring and essential.
Castillo said the solid edu­ for success.
“W e are now in the 43rd
cational foundation Head Start
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Head Start provides com prehensive preschool programming for children ages three through five.
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“W e know that students
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often enter school at an aca­
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home, be less verbally ad­
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Use right words to make impact
(A P ) — L arry O 'T o o le
worked as a legal assistant
before switching to sales a
few years ago. But he'd really
like to work in a corporate
training department.
He's worked with a career
coach, joined a public-speak­
ing group to sharpen his pre­
sentation skills and spends time
each day searching for work,
but has not had any interviews
in his new field of choice.
O'Toole believes the skills
he's developed in prior jobs
qualify him to do something
like in-house corporate train­
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show experience in the pro­
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tempting to switch professions
at mid-career — how to get
noticed when applying?
An important step is to tai­
lor his resume to fit the criteria
for jobs he's targeting.
" Yourgoal with any resume
creation today is to get the
interview, and then in the in-
terview you can tell your
story," said Eric W inegardner,
a vice president at M onster
W orldwide Inc., parent o f job
hunting site M onster.com .
At many com panies, the
first review o f resum es is done
electronically, because hun­
dreds of applications are often
subm itted for one opening,
W inegardner explained. And
when com panies with jobs to
fill tap into a database like
M onster's, they do searches
through countless resumes "to
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that p ro v erb ial h ay stack ,"
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mid-career professionals may
rem em ber the days when the
way to get noticed was high-
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important for your resume to
contain the words or phrases
targeted by impersonal soft­
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you don't get missed acciden­
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have a certain keyword in that
electronic resume," said Tyra
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at MPS Group, a staffing firm
based in Jacksonville, Fla.
That's not to say applicants
shouldn't pay attention to the
paper quality or presentation
o f the resum es they carry
w hen m eeting p ro sp ectiv e
em ployers, Tutor said. "But
it's the electronic one these
days that's going to get you to
the interview .”
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one looking for a jo b in the
technology field might pay at­
tention to what software is
mentioned in an advertisement,
and if they know it, mention it
by nam e on their resum e.
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name, and if you haven't in­
clu d ed it, m aybe you get
missed," she said.
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looking at an advertisem ent as
the "Cliffs Notes" forthe job in
question. "Those words that
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same words that they are go­
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searching through resumes."
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