How to Write a Resume Avoiding the following items will shorten your resume. Additionally, omitting these items will make the focus on why you are the leading candidate. • Objective • Summary • Hobbies • References or References Available on Request • Compensation • Long paragraph formats • Long-winded discussions of core responsibilities • Too…… Continue reading Complete Guide for Writing the Perfect Resume
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Employment Gaps on Your Resume and How to Handle Them
Employment gaps on your resume will raise questions of your stability. In most cases, employers will want you to explain them. Therefore, knowing how to handle unemployment gaps on your resume is important. A word of encouragement: you are not alone. Many people lose jobs for reasons beyond their control. Here are some ideas that…… Continue reading Employment Gaps on Your Resume and How to Handle Them
Resumes that Get Interviews
Resumes that get interviews: Working through stacks of resumes, hiring managers and recruiters spend just seconds on deciding whether to save you resume or delete it. Job seekers must know how to write resumes employers will want to read. I based the following information on feedback I have received from hiring managers, staffing managers, and other…… Continue reading Resumes that Get Interviews
Success Story: Resumes that Land Job Interviews
Success Story: Is your resume a success story? Have you included job information in a way that makes your job history stand out against the competition? Even employers who do not know what they are looking for are going to get more excited when they read a resume that reads like a success story than…… Continue reading Success Story: Resumes that Land Job Interviews
Career Change Success: The Elements and Actions of Making a Job Change
Career Change Success: In this article you will find powerful tools that others have found helpful in making an effective career move. Career Change Success: 5 Essential Elements Resume Resume Cover Letter Interview and Interview Preparation Thank You Letter Extra Tools and Tips You don’t have to do everything for success. But you do have…… Continue reading Career Change Success: The Elements and Actions of Making a Job Change
Skills Development: Hard Skills and Soft Skills
Skills development: Skills come in two categories: hard skills and soft skills. In writing you resume and interviewing, you will be more effective when you understand the different types of skills you are listing. Hard Skills You can learn hard skills, and you can learn soft skills. Hard skills are your ability to perform tasks. These…… Continue reading Skills Development: Hard Skills and Soft Skills
Resume Headlines: What Good are They If No One Reads Your Resume?
Resume Headlines: Do headlines help or hinder in compelling the recruiter to read your resume? What you say in the headline makes all the difference. “Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.” – The Score Takes Care of Itself:…… Continue reading Resume Headlines: What Good are They If No One Reads Your Resume?
Resume Headline: A Distraction or a Compelling Title
Resume Headline: Do headlines help or hinder in compelling the recruiter to read your resume? What you say in the headline makes all the difference. “Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.” – The Score Takes Care of Itself:…… Continue reading Resume Headline: A Distraction or a Compelling Title
Powerful Resumes: The Critical Details for Getting Job Interviews
Powerful Resumes: Are you sending out dozens of resumes and not getting job interviews. Here are some resume basics that will increase the power of your resume. Truth and Accuracy Lying or stating inaccurate information on your resume can cost you an interview. Furthermore, lies can live forever. Six months into the job, your employers might…… Continue reading Powerful Resumes: The Critical Details for Getting Job Interviews
Business Writing: A Skill that Successful People Master
Business writing is a skill everyone can learn. ~ www.jaywren.com Writing is part of the job for most business professionals. Business writing includes emails, proposals, contracts, Internet posts, letters, business plans, memorandums, reports, job descriptions, and resumes. The measure of effective writing is how well the reader can understand the writer’s message. Therefore, the writer must…… Continue reading Business Writing: A Skill that Successful People Master
Resumes Must Close the Sale on Getting a Job Interview
Resumes must close the sale on getting a job interview ~ www.jaywren.com Resumes: Do you have all the qualifications and are not getting job interviews. Look at your resume. These resume tips might help. I owned a recruiting company for thirty years. Like most recruiters, I spent a couple of seconds scanning for the correct…… Continue reading Resumes Must Close the Sale on Getting a Job Interview
Interview Preparation: Three Steps That Will Land You the Job
Interview Preparation: Are you frustrated with rejection when you have the qualifications for the job? These three steps will help. Fifty percent of the effort for the best interviews is in the preparation. ~ www.jaywren.com There are three distinct steps in preparing for an interview. #1 Interview Preparation: Everything About You In the first step,…… Continue reading Interview Preparation: Three Steps That Will Land You the Job
Resume Writing Made Simple: Here’s How
Resume Writing: Are you sending out your resume and not getting interviews? These tips will help you write a resume that attracts interviewers. Resume Writing Made Simple: Here’s How The fact is that most people don’t read your resume. If they look at your resume at all, they spend 5 or 6, maybe 10 seconds…… Continue reading Resume Writing Made Simple: Here’s How
Resume Headlines and Why They Matter
Resume Headlines and Why They Matter “Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.” – The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership, Bill Walsh Resumes headlines are also known as resume titles. They serve several purposes. Here…… Continue reading Resume Headlines and Why They Matter
The Simple Way to Write a Killer Resume
The Simple Way to Write a Killer Resume “On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. It follows that, unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.” David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man During the three decades I worked as…… Continue reading The Simple Way to Write a Killer Resume
Employment Gaps on Your Resume
If you have employment gaps on your resume, you are not alone. It is not usual for job seekers to have employment gaps. People take a year off work to travel. Some people have these employment gaps from periods of recession. In other cases, job seekers have been in a situation where the need for…… Continue reading Employment Gaps on Your Resume
Curriculum Vitae or Resume?
A curriculum vitae (CV) is similar to a resume. In the United States, applicants for jobs in research, education, and medicine frequently use a curriculum vitae. In England and Europe, job seekers more commonly use curriculum vitae instead of a resume. A resume has less information and is, therefore, shorter than curriculum vitae. Most resumes are one…… Continue reading Curriculum Vitae or Resume?
How to Bridge Employment Gaps in Your Resume
If you have gaps in your resume, you are not alone. Long recessions and a restructuring of the economy in the United States have created new complications for people who need to find jobs. New types of jobs often require that job seekers develop new skills. In some cases, job seekers must receive certifications, credentials,…… Continue reading How to Bridge Employment Gaps in Your Resume
How to Write a Resume
How to write a resume: having a resume is an essential part of getting a job for most people. I based the information in this article on two sources. The first source is the hundreds of resumes I have read as a corporate recruiter. The second source is the feedback I have received from hiring…… Continue reading How to Write a Resume
Common Resume Lies
Telling these lies on a resume creates complications for the applicant. A few years ago, a human resources manager told me that a position he had filled had reopened for search. He explained that a job applicant had lied on his application and on his resume. The applicant stated that he had graduated from a…… Continue reading Common Resume Lies
10 Things to Leave Off Your Resume
Remember that a hiring manager will only spend seconds looking at your resume. Cutting the clutter is critical to your resume getting you an interview. Recognize that you are sending personal information that stays in computer files for months to years. Ask two questions when you are writing your resume. Will this information get you an interview?…… Continue reading 10 Things to Leave Off Your Resume
Will that Professionally Prepared Resume Get You a Job?
Will that Professionally Prepared Resume Get You a Job? Some people spend a lot of money having a resume professionally prepared. The result can be outstanding. People who prepare resumes for a living have spent a lot of time and money learning how to prepare resumes. These people provide a valuable service for clients. It…… Continue reading Will that Professionally Prepared Resume Get You a Job?
Resumes for Recent College Graduates
THE BIRTH OF THE CAREER PLAN As you are graduating from college, you will be moving into a new phase of your career plan. In receiving a bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree, you developed tremendous skills. Those skills and the skills you developed through hobbies, college employment, and volunteer activity, have value to an…… Continue reading Resumes for Recent College Graduates
Resumes for Managers
Here is a simple resume format. Your name Street address, City, State Zip Home phone, Cell phone Email address OBJECTIVE AND SUMMARY Stating an objective or a giving a summary at the beginning of the resume is common practice. Stating an objective or providing a summary is optional. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (Most recent job first) Company…… Continue reading Resumes for Managers
Common Career Correspondence Mistakes and Steps to Avoid Them
The most common correspondence mistakes result from trying to do too much too quickly. If you are making a career move, you are competing against people who are taking time to review each aspect of each piece of correspondence. In you are writing for your current job, you want to write so that people will…… Continue reading Common Career Correspondence Mistakes and Steps to Avoid Them
Career Keywords for Resumes and Online Profiles
What are career keywords? Career keywords are names of skills, experience, tools, places, and companies. To find information on the Internet, search engines look up words or keywords. Hiring managers use keywords to find matches between the words in job specifications and the words in resumes and online profiles. Here are some examples of names…… Continue reading Career Keywords for Resumes and Online Profiles
Cutting Weak Wording From Your Resume
The people who invite you to an interview want to know what you have done and what happened as the result of what you have done. They are looking for measurable results. Your competitors as job seekers are writing resumes to focus on career accomplishments and career keywords. These words waste space and weaken your resume.…… Continue reading Cutting Weak Wording From Your Resume
Is Your Resume a Mere List of Responsibilities?
Is Your Resume a Mere List of Responsibilities? Take your resume to the next level by turning a list of responsibilities into a list of accomplishments. Occasionally I see people write a resume that is a simple list of their core responsibilities. The resume reads fine. It adequately communicates the information about the responsibilities a person has had in a…… Continue reading Is Your Resume a Mere List of Responsibilities?
Formatting Your Resume for the Internet
When sending a resume in an email or uploading your resume to a website, you want your resume to look as beautiful and read with the same impact that it has when you read it directly on your computer. I work with all types of document extensions (that is, .doc, .txt, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .html,…… Continue reading Formatting Your Resume for the Internet
Resumes: Experience Counts but Accomplishments Count More
Resumes: Experience Counts but Accomplishments Count More. Is the purpose of your resume to get a job? Of course it is. The best way to ensure that your resume helps you get a job is to write a resume that will set you out from the pack. Quite often I receive resumes from job seekers people…… Continue reading Resumes: Experience Counts but Accomplishments Count More
Resumes Employers Will Want to Read
Resumes Employers Will Want to Read: Working through stacks of resumes, hiring managers and recruiters spend just seconds deciding whether to save you resume or delete it. Job seekers must know how to write resumes employers will want to read. I based the following information on feedback I have received from hiring managers, staffing managers, and other…… Continue reading Resumes Employers Will Want to Read