I am Amila from Kurunegala. I am forwarding my C.V. I am worried because I don have enough funds to follow a course. Therefore please advice me as to how I must get an international loan to study abroad. Can you Please help me as this qualification can I apply for MBA
Amila Huruggamuwa (CV attached)

Dear Amila,
To ensure your resume makes the best possible impression, it's essential to meet six challenges regarding its presentation, format and content. These challenges and resume writers' advice on solving them follow:

1. Presentation
You'll need both a print and an electronic version of your resume. Each version has different visual issues. Your print resume is considered your primary marketing document and its appearance is critical. To survive next to those of hundreds of equally qualified candidates, it must look sharp and dynamic. Don't have it typed on an outdated word processor and printed onto plain bond paper

2. Format
Format shouldn't be your primary consideration when preparing a resume. Don't take a format you like, and try to manipulate your information to fit it. Most job hunters make the same mistake. "You can't take an existing format and push your life into it,". "It simply won't work."

3. Spelling, Grammar and Syntax
Typographical errors signal job-search death, which may be a cause for poor performance typographical and syntax errors, as well as unpolished wording can spell disaster.

4. Content
Resumes aren't job descriptions. Still, you may have seen some that included such descriptions as, "This position was responsible for purchasing, logistics, materials management and distribution." Were you impressed with those? .Generalizations aren't impressive, a resume must include specifics -- numbers, percentages, details -- that communicate how well you performed in the workplace.

5. Focus
A resume doesn't work if readers can't quickly grasp who a candidate is and what he or she seeks to do. For instance, it's likely that you can baffle readers with an objective: "Seeking a position where I can contribute to the growth of a corporation."

6. Selling
A resume should be more than a list of past jobs. It should serve as a personal sales and marketing tool that attracts and impresses employers. Your qualifications, words, format and presentation must all be packaged to sell yourself.
To answer your second and third questions, you could explore many options but first you need qualification such CIMA or ACCA, and I don't think you could get into a recognized MBA programme with the qualifications you have, however you may want to explore other options available at local regional universities.
As far as loans are concerned this is a difficult task, however log on to Scholarships .com you may find something useful.
Try to build your critical competence first then you could move to the next level.

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