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The Most Important Section of Your Resume
A Qualifications Summary is your first and best chance to make a favorable impression on a hiring manager. It is a marketing tool that sells your unique skills to the targeted company. To be effective, a Qualifications Summary must: 1. Provide a snapshot of you as the ideal candidate for the position. 2. Be concise [...]
- Tuesday, July 6th, 2010,
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Resume Do’s and Don’ts – Avoiding the Major Pitfalls
1. Poor or Inappropriate Formatting: The first impression a resume makes is generally the most lasting. Large blocks of uninterrupted text, small margins, text that is very small, or an abundance of bolding, italics, and “designer” fonts make documents difficult to read. 2. Lack of Focus: An effective resume should indicate to the reader within [...]
- Tuesday, June 15th, 2010,
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Overcoming Age Discrimination
You’ve heard the saying, “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better.” Well maybe so, but employers don’t necessarily think that way when scanning resumes. Unfortunately, many of them shy away from hiring seasoned people because these pros are perceived as inflexible, over-trained, and worst of all, too expensive. Your resume can overcome this obstacle in [...]
- Tuesday, June 8th, 2010,
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New Graduate with No Experience – How Do You Wow a Hiring Manager?
If you’re just starting out in your chosen profession and you’re faced with having little professional experience to offer an employer, there are ways to maximize what you do have. 1. Focus on Academics in the Chosen Field or Relevant Training: Rather than placing education or training last, as is the case in most resumes, [...]
- Thursday, June 3rd, 2010,
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Minimizing Lengthy Employment Gaps
What do you do if you have gaps between jobs? It’s not that you decided to drop out for a while to find your inner self. Perhaps you were laid off at the beginning of this historic recession and like millions of others have had difficulty finding a job in your industry or in a [...]
- Tuesday, May 11th, 2010,
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How to Tailor Your Resume for Maximum Impact
A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO TAILORING A RESUME: 1. Use online resources to determine job requirements within the targeted industry: Search online job sites such as HotJobs or online versions of newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times for employment openings. Then match your skills/knowledge/abilities to their requirements. 2. Prioritize [...]
- Tuesday, May 4th, 2010,
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Reverse – chronological versus functional or combination resumes
The skills and experience information in modern resumes can be listed using three separate formats: 1. Reverse chronological 2. Functional 3. A combination of the two Reverse chronological Generally speaking, hiring managers prefer that employment data is provided with the most recent job listed first, followed by the next most recent, and so on. In [...]
- Tuesday, November 17th, 2009,
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