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Transitioning Career Resumes
In this economy, many of us will be faced with leaving our first or even second careers to move on to the next. To successfully convey your old skill set to the hiring manager or recruiter in a new industry, it’s important to follow these key steps: Look for online job postings in your field [...]
- Tuesday, July 20th, 2010,
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The Only Way to Compete Against Hundreds of Equally-Qualified Candidates
When applying for a specific position, it is important to make sure you include as many keywords within your field of expertise in order to generate a potential employer’s interest. Companies are receiving thousands of resumes each day and yours needs to stand out among all the others. 1. If there is a specific position [...]
- Tuesday, July 13th, 2010,
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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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Burn Your Resume: Alternative Strategies to Get Your Dream Job
A dream job usually isn’t something conventional. Nor should your approach to getting hired. Have you ever thought of the whole resume process? You spend many hours, and in some cases many dollars, creating – fabricating – a document for that your potential employer is going to probably dedicate less than 30 seconds to reading it. [...]
- Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010,
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The CV Toolkit – LinkedIn
In this second installment of The CV Toolkit, I’m going beyond the paper resumé and into something that’s emerging as a tool to find really awesome people and really awesome work. I’m going to discuss the benefits of having a LinkedIn profile and keeping it updated. What is LinkedIn? “LinkedIn allows you to create a profile that summarizes [...]
- Saturday, June 19th, 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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25 Examples of Super Creative Resume Design
In today’s job market, it sometimes takes a little extra ingenuity to get noticed. We’ve heard of people printing their resume on florescent paper, sending baked goods along with a cover letter, even buying online ads or renting billboards to promote themselves. While we don’t always recommend such extreme approaches (read up on Aleksey Vayner’s “Nothing [...]
- Thursday, June 3rd, 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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The CV Toolkit – Resume Templates
Keeping your credentials up-to-date is crucial. In the ever-changing job market (and world, for that matter), it’s important to keep on top of what skills and experience you have acquired. It may seem onerous, but there are ways to do it quickly, easily and consistently – you can maintain both your productivity and resumé with [...]
- Sunday, May 30th, 2010,
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