P-A-R format

Eor students and recent graduates, completing the Emplo)unent History section is often the most difficult part of writing a resume. One of the best ways to tackle this important part of the resume is to learn the P-A-R format focusing on problems, actions, and results. 

The P-A-R format is a resume-writing format designed to highlight your work experience by emphasizing three things ... 

As stated earlier in the chapter, most resumes focus on job responsibilities. The P-A-R format focuses on job results by specifically describing your work experience in terms of ... 

In other words, the P-A-R format enables you to sell your credentials in terms of your ability to solve problems, take initiative, and, most important, get results. 

Exhibit 2-2 is a sample resume that illustrates how to use the P-A-R format effectively. 

A good way to illustrate the concept behind the P-A-R format resume is to go back to the narmy illustration of a few pages ago. Lef s say there was a wide age span in the three children under the narmy s care and a problem was entertaining all of them, despite their different interests. What action might have been taken to overcome this obstacle ... 

Today s prospective employers look for people who do more than their basic job responsibilities—they have to add "value"—just like the nanny and retail-store employee in the last examples. The P-A-R format shows a prospective employer that you can be counted on to do just that Solve problems when they arise—as they always do—and take action without being told. In order to showcase these talents, your resume needs to prove that you were, indeed, valuable to previous employers. The P-A-R format helps you prove it by quantifying the results of your actions. 

There is another advantage to putting your resume into P-A-R format It is excellent preparation for job interviews. In fact, you can look at your P-A-R resume as an outline, or a summary of your accomplishments. Because most interviewers base their questions on information from your resume, you will be better equipped to answer them if you have already organized your thoughts and articulated your accomplishments. This, of course, is what the P-A-R format encourages. So when a difficult interview question comes your way, such as, "So Susan, what do you think was your greatest accomplishment at the XYZ company " you will be ready to answer. 

Finally, remember that your cover letter and resume give potential employers their first glimpse of you, so do your best to demonstrate that you will be a proficient and valuable addition to each company you write to. And don t forget to use the P-A-R format to demonstrate your full capabilihes ... 

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Strictly speaking, the flow analogy is valid only for consecutive irreversible reactions, and it can be misleading if reverse reactions are significant. Even for irreversible reactions the rds concept has meaning only if one of the reactions is much slower than the others. For reversible reactions the free energy reaction coordinate diagram is a useful aid. In Fig. 5-10, for example, the intermediate 1 is unstable with respect to R and P, and its formation (the kf step) is the rds of the overall reaction. 

An example of a reaction series in which large deviations are shown by — R para-substituents is provided by the rate constants for the solvolysis of substituted t-cumyl chlorides, ArCMe2Cl54. This reaction follows an SN1 mechanism, with intermediate formation of the cation ArCMe2 +. A —R para-substituent such as OMe may stabilize the activated complex, which resembles the carbocation-chloride ion pair, through delocalization involving structure 21. Such delocalization will clearly be more pronounced than in the species involved in the ionization of p-methoxybenzoic acid, which has a reaction center of feeble + R type (22). The effective a value for p-OMe in the solvolysis of t-cumyl chloride is thus — 0.78, compared with the value of — 0.27 based on the ionization of benzoic acids. 

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It seems likely that benzene forms a n complex (12) with, for example, Br2 (cf. p. 131), and that the Lewis acid then interacts with this. The catalyst probably polarises Br—Br, assists in the formation of a a bond between the bromine molecule s now electrophilic end and a ring carbon atom, and finally helps to remove the incipient bromide ion so as to form a [Pg.138]

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