Job 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here are some tips for creating resumes that are short and sweet. These tips will help resume readers see you as a great applicant. Your credentials will stand out immediately. Eliminate the summary of your experience. People often include a summary of the experience at the top of a resume. The information in your summary…
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,…
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…
Resume objective examples: Using a resume objective can help a hiring manager or a recruiter decide to whether to continue reading your resume. Likewise, using a resume objective can help a hiring manager or recruiter decide not to read your resume. Write your resume objective with the resume reader in mind. Your resume objective must be brief, to…
The purpose of resume titles is to target jobs that you are seeking. The wording of a resume title is different from stating an objective for your resume, but serves a similar purpose. By carefully selecting resume titles, you will add words to your resume that will come up in database searches and will…
Best Words for Your Cover Letter and Resume The best words for your cover letter and resume are words that will get you an interview. A hiring manager or a recruiter spends just seconds reading either one. The cover letter is usually an email. Often, the hiring manager will decide to read your résumé based on the keywords…
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…
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?…
If you are you having trouble keeping your resume to two pages, cut common space wasting things. Are you using puffery? Puffery means that you exaggerating, giving opinions, making unsupported statements, or creating an inflated image of yourself. You are puffing. You are revealing pride and arrogance. Some examples of puffery are the words…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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,…
Have you ever noticed how some word documents are lit up with red and green lines? Those lines are the method word-processing software uses to call attention to errors in a document. To most of us, that information is common knowledge. Therefore, I am surprised when I see those lines show up so often in business letters…
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