Online Career Tips

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By Ryan Harding
Originally posted to Career Services Blog – Jan. 24, 2011

This past summer American Public University and American Military University held their first ever Virtual Career Fair through a virtual career management tool called NACElink. The Fair acted as a bridge connecting job-seeking students with employers explicitly interested in hiring AMU and APU students and alumni. Leading up to the career fair I encountered a number of students who were somewhat, quite rightly, befuddled by the prospect of a virtual career fair. In the same way that an interview conducted via Skype or some other digital platform is similar to the types of questions asked in an in-person interview, a virtual career fair parodies a traditional career fair. However, by virtue of the fact that it is being conducted online, a virtual career fair comes with its own unique set of rules and challenges. APUS is planning to hold another Virtual Career Fair this February, and in light of this, I thought it might be useful to share a few helpful tips to participating in a virtual career fair.
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Have you added a few workshops or skills to your resume lately that you don’t really have a claim to? Even though you may not be lying outright, but fudging parts of your resume to beef it up could hurt you in the long run.

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For example, saying you’re an expert at a certain program but you’ve used it only a couple times. The problem with this is it could be one of the deciding factors to you getting hired. And imagine working on a project where you have to use this tool at an expert level…but you don’t know what you’re doing.

You don’t want to show holes in your resume, instead go in strong with what you know, and in the meantime to finding a job actually attend virtual workshops for more experience, or watch videos to fine tune your skills.

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