You Consult a Professional for Everything Else in Your Life
When you are sick, you go to the doctor.
When it’s time to pay your taxes, you go to an accountant or tax service.
When you need legal advice, you go to a lawyer.
When your car breaks down, you bring it to an automotive technician.
Professional resume writing? You may never have even thought of it.
The biggest decision in your life is waiti...
Writing a resume? A quality resume is the key to getting a call back and an interview. Once you get one of those, you can charm any potential employer and dazzle them with your myriad skills, right?
Without that excellent resume though, you may not even get a second look for a job you’re perfect for.
When it comes to writing a resume, there are some words that shouldn’t appear anywhere.
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As you’ve probably already heard, executing the art of compelling resume writing can be the difference between landing a dream job and simply crash landing into a sea of comparably boring applications. Maintaining a professional tone while avoiding the dreaded bland zone can be a delicate balance.
To create a compelling resume, start with the basics and consider the ABC’s of resume writing that will have empl...
How to improve your resume? You’ve heard the advice: Fill your resume with accomplishments instead of job responsibilities! But that is easier said than done, isn’t it?
It is often hard to remember accomplishments from past positions. Even if your memory is fresh, identifying your accomplishments requires thinking about your work in a different way.
The following 21 accomplishment questions will help. Use...
It’s Wednesday morning.
Most of your friends are well into their workday, slugging down their fourth ‘get-me-through-another-meeting’ coffee, laughing at the boss’ latest lame attempt at a joke.
But not you. Not today. Today, you’re headed to an interview.
If you are like most people, you’re thinking of 50 ways to shade the interaction to your favor, even as you’re terrifie...
Time management…it seems like it should be simple, but for so many it is one of the greatest challenges.It’s every job hunter’s hidden secret. While you might claim you’re spending every minute reading job postings and tweaking your resume, it’s not actually true. Don’t worry — even the most hard-pressed job seekers can’t physically handle the stress of dedicating EVERY free minute to the hunt.It’s smarter to tailor your ap...
Social media. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and over 400 other recognized social media sites have helped to create a smaller world than ever before. While concerns grow over privacy rights and whether etiquette and ethics can keep pace with this constantly evolving milieu, there is no question that social media is a pervasive in our daily lives. Online networking, it seems, is rapidly becoming the communication medium of...
People change jobs often throughout life.The average person born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-1964) held 11.7 jobs from age 18 to age 48, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.While there are different methods used when attempting to find a job, gaining new employment when you are already employed may be especially tough.What behavior types are “reasonable” and when are you “going too far?” While yo...
Have you ever struggled with writing a resume? Is this you?You’ve decided to look for a new job. You scour the job boards – Monster, Indeed, Simply Hired – and find several jobs you’re confident about. You get to work writing a resume and then send it, and possibly cover letters, to the top five.A week goes by with no response. You look for new listings, making sure they haven’t been out there too long. (You forgot to check...
An upcoming networking event can cause anxiety for even the most outgoing job hunter.“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”While this old saying (seriously old – it was used in a New York Tribune article in 1918) is usually thrown about negatively when someone’s complaining about not getting that job or promotion they wanted, there is truth in these words.A quick google search of “best way to get a job” will bring up...