Resumes & cover letters
Online Job Search and Recruitment Part III — Five Tips for Getting Your Online Resume Noticed
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So Many Resumes, So Little Time
In the late 1990’s, I helped my boss screen candidates for a new position. It was my job to review the resumes and separate them into [...]
Making a Resume: What to Do if You Make a Mistake
Mistakes Happen
You spent hours looking over your resume. You used spell check and proofread it. Then you printed it off and mailed or emailed it to your prospective employer.
But after you went through the process of making a resume and sending it off, you noticed an error that you missed before.
Should you re-send [...]
Resume Tip: Five Ways To Prevent Emailed Resumes From Getting Blocked as Spam
If you’re looking for work and creating a resume, you should not only carefully review the resume, but also consider some tactics to make sure your emailed resume isn’t getting lost in employers’ spam email filters.
If you’re on the hiring side of the desk, check for the same problem, which may be be preventing you [...]
Resume Tip: The 5 Most Basic to Remember
It’s not possible to just give one resume tip. When it comes to resumes, there’s a top five of Do’s and Don’ts.
1. Resume Honesty is Essential.
The first and perhaps most important resume tip is to not lie or exaggerate on your resume!
Exaggeration and outright lying used to be standard procedure.
People who supervised three [...]
Resume Style – Why Is It Important?
Personal and Professional Style and Your Resume
Your resume style reflects your own personal style, and the type of job that you’re looking for.
When it comes to searching for executive or professional jobs, a staid, conservative style is usually recommended.
You want light colored or white, heavy bond paper, with matching envelopes, which provide a professional [...]
Resume Format Sample: Choosing Yours
Importance of Resume Format
Regardless of what kind of job you’re looking for, you’re going to need a resume.
A resume lists your educational qualifications and your work experience, and is the first thing your prospective employer sees.
If your resume doesn’t impress, you won’t be called in for an interview.
That’s the goal of a resume [...]
Resume Assistance For You
It’s Rough Out There; Your Resume’s Key to Job Search Success
Competition for jobs is now more nerve-wracking and even cut-throat than ever. There’s a dearth of good jobs and an excess of people trying to get them.
Resumes were always an important tool to help you get a job — at the pay you wanted [...]
Need Help With Resume?
You’ve got an excellent education and good work experience. You’ve been sending out your resume to company after company, and haven’t even been getting a nibble, let alone a call to come in and interview.
Sound familiar?
Wondering what’s wrong?
Professional Resume Creation and Job Coaching?
It’s time to start thinking that there may be [...]
Creating a Resume: How Should You Go About It?
Thanks to the current economic climate, most people will have more competitors for the choicest jobs than ever before. Because of this, their resume has to represent them like never before.
Creating A Strong Resume
Creating a resume is actually a pretty easy process. What’s difficult is deciding what type of resume you want to use. [...]
How to Format Your Resume: Form Matters Just as Much as Content
When it comes to the resume you use to apply for a job, it’s important to remember that form matters just as much as content.
Although a nice looking resume can’t make up for one that is full of spelling errors, typos, and factually incorrect information, an unattractive resume can completely undermine even the [...]
The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting
Contrary to Popular Belief, Christmas Is an Ideal Time To Look for a New Job.
So says David Perry, professional headhunter and co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters: 400 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics to Land Your Dream Job.
“If you’re looking for a job, you’ve probably realized that the typical tactics like cold calling and [...]
How to Choose and Hit Job Search Targets Creatively
This guest post about some creative thinking for jobseekers is by Kevin Donlin, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap.
Be Creative In Your Job Search
Ever want to slap your forehead and say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
You might, after you discover how one New York man found the right job, largely as a result of blind luck [...]
Professional Resumes and the Debutante
Since when is resume writing a high-society experience? It all depends on the beneficiary of the resume writing and on the resume writer.
Guest post by Paul Freiberger, President of Shimmering Resumes, a professional resume writing service.
The Resume is Alive and Kickin’
This guest post from HireAbility, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap, argues for a continuing role of the resume in a largely electronic job application process, using resume parsing technology to bring the resume into the 21st Century.
Insider Tips to Put Your Resume On Top
In this guest post, Cynthia Shapiro, career expert and author of the best seller Corporate Confidential:50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You To Know – And What To Do About Them, offers some insider tips for resumes.
