| The Five Best Ways to Land Your Resume in the Trash by Jessica Holbrook Hernandez - Dec, 2009 After reading a few resume articles online and feeling completely frustrated by their bad advice I decided to clarify a few important points. Given the multitude of misinformation out there regarding resume tips, strategies, and techniques I want to help set the record straight. Here are t... | |||
| Curtain-Raising Cover Letters: Full Disclosure by Rosa Elizabeth Vargas - Dec, 2009 Cover Letters Get Tossed. Haven’t You Heard? Quite a conundrum--creating an alluring and candidacy strengthening cover letter without reciting your resume. So why do some dislike the cover letter? I’ll tell you what I’ve heard and why sometimes I too don’t like them... Many undere... | |||
| When Should You Contact a Professional Resume Writer? by Beth Colley - Dec, 2009 I’m sure that many job seekers are wondering, Should I contact a Professional Resume Writer? Of course, I’m slightly biased on this subject. However, I’ll do my best to give you some unbiased strategies of when and how to contact a resume writer and help you determine whether or not you sh... | |||
| How To Make Your Resume Work For You! by John Crant - Dec, 2009 Your resume should be doing a lot of work for you. Many people have resumes that grow and grow over time. That may seem okay, as we do add more capability and expertise to our list of skills that we are ’selling’ when we are looking for a new job or a new career. But over time, your resume... | |||
| How To Sabotage Your Job Search by Tai Goodwin - Dec, 2009 Your job search strategy is about more than just getting someone to see your resume and call you in for an interview. The foundation of a successful job search is having the right attitude and doing the work necessary to position your self as the best candidate for the job. Bottom line: yo... | |||
| Mind The Gap! by Harry Urschel - Dec, 2009 If you’ve ever been to London you’re probably familiar with “Mind The Gap”. The signs and announcements are everywhere throughout the Underground / Subway system. They, of course, are a warning to be careful of the gap between the trains and the platform when you’re getting into or out ... | |||
| Minimize the ‘Hops’! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 I received an email from someone trying to figure out how to minimize any negative impressions his resume may make to potential employers because he had worked a number of contract and consulting projects. When he lists his entire job history, it looks like he’s been hopping jobs way too o... | |||
| Create an 'Ageless' Resume To Avoid Discrimination by Laura Smith-Proulx - Nov, 2009 If you’re job hunting in your 40’s, 50’s, or 60’s, it’s certainly occurred to you by now that age discrimination is alive and well in the market. Employers spend considerable time filtering out the candidates that they consider outdated and expensive in order to focus on the right demo... | |||
| “Fair and Middling Talent” Only, Please by Jessica Lewis - Nov, 2009 One of the fun things about Twitter is I can see a tweet linking to an article, read the article and think, “Huh, that’s interesting. Maybe I should blog about it,” see another tweet a few hours later linking to an article, read that article and see that it is a response to the first artic... | |||
| Seven Tips to Get Your Resume the Attention It Deserves by Caitrin O'Sullivan - Nov, 2009 In spite of all the gloom and doom about unemployment today, there still are good jobs out there. Only problem is, now you’re up against record numbers of competing applicants for that spot. HR teams are overwhelmed by this massive influx of candidates, and often have to wade through hundr... | |||
| “Dumb Down” Your Resume? by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 There was an article in the Wall Street Journal recently, titled: The New Resume: Dumb and Dumber with a subtitle of: "Job Seekers Play Down Their Credentials to Avoid Looking Overqualified" The story was about people that took graduate degrees, years of experience, or titles off their ... | |||
| Do Thank You Notes Really Matter? by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 YES! EVERYBODY sends a Thank You note after an interview...Right? Wrong! Having been in the Employment Placement industry for 23 years, I’ve found that only around 10% to 20% of candidates actually send a Thank You note after an interview. And of those, fewer still send one after eac... | |||
| Give Your Résumé a Little Punch Up - It May Make All The Difference by Debra Wheatman - Nov, 2009 What are some of the things you are doing to stand out from the crowd? We all know that as technology continues to evolve and there are more and improved ways to communicate, getting your résumé noticed by hiring managers, recruiters and members of the HR community can be difficult. There ... | |||
| How To Write a ‘Hard-Working and Strategic’ Resume! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 As a Recruiter, I see a LOT of resumes. If I were to compile statistics of characteristics of the workforce based on resumes, I would find that the vast majority of today’s workers are: * Hard-Working * Strategic * Professional * Successful * Dynamic * Results Oriented * ...... | |||
| What is an "Elevator Speech"? by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 A “30-Second Resume”; an “Elevator Speech”; a “Marketing Blurb”...what are they, and do I really need one? Imagine you walk into an office building for an appointment. You’re looking sharp because you’re on your way to a meeting with a recruiter on the 22nd floor. You step onto the elev... | |||
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