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GET IT RIGHT: The most important thing about structuring the resume is to know your audience. — Photo: Siva Saravanan

What do you think is the best way to structure a resume? What are your tips for writing a standout resume?

Sowjanya

The most important thing about structuring the resume is to know your audience. Here, research is another essential ingredient. What kind of resume you should use depends on the intended audience and on you. It is not a one-size-fits-all deal. People applying to financial firms, consulting firms should use a strict chronological resume with dates on the left. People applying for more creative positions would want a résumé that looks different, more energetic and free flowing. People applying across fields, career changers, may find that a functional resume works better.

So the bottom line is to match your style to your audience and to remember that a resume is a marketing tool, not a career obituary. It should be filled with the same qualities and the same energy that you think the employer is looking for.

They deal with

the mind

What is the difference between psychology and psychiatry? Is there a difference in the way psychologists and psychiatrists work?

Pradeep

Psychology is the study of people: how they think, how they act, react and interact.

Psychology is concerned with all aspects of behaviour, and the thoughts, feelings and motivation underlying such behaviour. Psychology is a discipline that is firstly concerned with the normal functioning of the mind and has explored areas such as learning, remembering and the normal psychological development of children.

Psychology is one of the fastest growing university subjects and is being increasingly taught in schools and colleges. Psychologists deal in the way the mind works, and can specialise in various areas such as; mental health work and educational and occupational psychology. It is useful to remember that psychologists are not usually medically qualified, and only a small proportion of people studying psychology degrees will go on to work with patients. Both, psychologists and psychiatrists use psychotherapy in different ways to treat patients. For instance: individual, group, couple and family psychotherapy. They are ways of helping people to overcome stress, emotional problems, relationship problems or troublesome habits.

There are many different approaches in psychotherapy.

These include `talking treatments,' which include; cognitive behavioural therapies, psychoanalytic therapies, psychodynamic therapies, humanistic and integrative psychotherapies, systematic therapies, hypno-psychotherapy, and experiential constructivist therapies.

Likewise, a psychotherapist may be a psychiatrist, psychologists or other mental health professionals who have had further specialist training in psychotherapy.

Increasingly, there are a number of psychotherapists who do not have backgrounds in the above fields but who have undertaken in depth training in this area. Consultant Psychiatrists in psychotherapy are medical doctors who are qualified in Psychiatry, and then undertake a three or four year Specialist Registrar training in Psychotherapy.

Their role is in the Psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with psychiatric illnesses, thus they supply an essential component of psychiatric care alongside physical treatments such as medication.

They also play a major role in training the mental health workforce in psychological therapies, and in providing staff support.

T. Muralidharan

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