7.What if you don't have any experience in the kind of work you want to do?

　　要是在你想要從事的領域沒有任何經驗怎么辦？

　　Get some! Find a place that will let you do some volunteer work right away. You only need a brief, concentrated period of volunteer training (for example, 1 day a week for a month) to have at least SOME experience to put on your resume. Also, look at some of the volunteer work you've done in the past and see if any of THAT helps document some skills you'll need for your new job。

　　8.What do you do if you have gaps in your work experience?

　　要是發現在你社會經歷中出現空白期怎么辦？

　　You could start by looking at it differently. General Rule: Tell what you WERE doing, as gracefully as possible--rather than leave a gap. If you were doing anything valuable (even if unpaid) during those so-called "gaps" you could just insert THAT into the work-history section of your resume to fill the hole. Here are some examples:

　　1993-95 Full-time parent -- or

　　1992-94 Maternity leave and family management -- or

　　Travel and study -- or Full-time student -- or

　　Parenting plus community service

　　9.What if you have several different job objectives you're working on at the same time? Or you haven't narrowed it down yet to just one job target?

　　如果你同時有好幾個職業目標怎么辦？或者你一時之間無法做出選擇怎么辦？

　　Then write a different resume for each different job target. A targeted resume is MUCH, much stronger than a generic resume。

　　10.What if you have a fragmented, scrambled-up work history, with lots of short-term jobs?

　　如果你的社會實踐多而雜，且時間短怎么辦？

　　To minimize the job-hopper image, combine several similar jobs into one "chunk," for example:

　　1993-1995 Secretary/Receptionist; Jones Bakery, Micro Corp., Carter Jewelers -- or

　　1993-95 Waiter/Busboy; McDougal's Restaurant, Burger King, Traders Coffee Shop。

　　Also you can just drop some of the less important, briefest jobs. But don't drop a job, even when it lasted a short time, if that was where you acquired important skills or experience。

　　11.What's the best way to impress an employer?

　　最能吸引雇主的辦法是什么？

　　Fill your resume with "PAR" statements. PAR stands for Problem-Action-Results; in other words, first you state the problem that existed in your workplace, then you describe what you did about it, and finally you point out the beneficial results。

　　Here's an example: "Transformed a disorganized, inefficient warehouse into a smooth-running operation by totally redesigning the layout; this saved the company thousands of dollars in recovered stock."

　　Another example: "Improved an engineering company's obsolete filing system by developing a simple but sophisticated functional-coding system. This saved time and money by recovering valuable, previously lost, project records."