March 10, 2010
- How to Safely Job Seek While Employed
Sometimes the need to look for a new job occurs at the most inopportune time – like when you’re still employed by another company. However, there’s no denying that when it’s time to go, it’s time to go.
March 5, 2010
- Improving Your Resume Is Easier Than You Think
Have you ever felt that while your resume didn’t seem to be getting you the results you want on the job front, you’re clueless as to what you should do to make improvements? Sometimes, making improvements is about making little subtle changes while other times it’s about making a complete overhaul of your resume.
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March 3, 2010
- Don’t Make These Job Seeker Mistakes
As a job seeker, sometimes it’s difficult to know exactly what you’re getting yourself into when you start your job search. Most people know to write a resume and search for jobs online or in newspaper ads, but that’s about as far as it goes.
February 26, 2010
- Why Haven't I Been Hired Yet?
Sometimes conducting a job search can make you feel truly frustrated. After weeks, or possibly months, of searching, it's hard to think that the job search possibly could not have resulted in a job yet.
February 24, 2010
- Great Places to Submit Your Resume
As you go through the process of searching for a job, one of the most challenging parts of the process is figuring out what to do with a generic resume once you've created one. Often times, if you get resume assistance from a professional then you can also get assistance with where to submit your resume. But if you are going at it alone then take a look at these suggestions.
February 17, 2010
- Key Questions Your Resume Should Answer
Sometimes it's difficult to know just what a resume should address when writing it. While you know that you want to express the desire of being considered for a position, it is often challenging to know how to get this message across.
February 12, 2010
- Sites for Posting Your Resume Online
After you've taken a lot of time to create a perfect resume – whether on your own or through professional great writing certified resumes – you want it to be noticed. Of course, there are the traditional ways of getting this done, including shipping the resume off via snail mail or email. However, job search engines make it very easy to post your resume online for recruiters to find you.
February 10, 2010
- 4 Ways to Annoy a Hiring Manager with Your Resume
We all know that our goal when applying for a job is not to annoy the hiring manager. In fact, this is the exact opposite of what we set out to do. However, this sometimes inadvertently occurs when certain mistakes are made to the resume.
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February 5, 2010
- Creating Your Resume When You're Overqualified
In a tough job market like we're facing today, sometimes we're required to get out there and apply for positions that we know we're a bit overqualified for. However, in order to put food on the table, we do what we must.
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February 3, 2010
- 4 Ways to Successfully Brainstorm for Your Resume
Probably one of the biggest challenges of writing a resume is determining just what should be included. You may know exactly what tasks you performed everyday while on your various jobs, but for some reason it's not easy to put it all into words. The same goes for writing your objective and determining exactly what you have to offer.
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January 29, 2010
- Try to Avoid These Resume Mistakes
Have you ever felt that your resume just wasn't a winner? For some reason, it just seems that you can't catch a break when it comes to getting a call for an interview. This may be because errors are being found on your resume that you don't know about.
January 27, 2010
- Can My Resume Help Me Switch Careers?
The thought of staying in the same career for some people is more than they can bear. While they may have followed the track they started in college, they find now that they career path they choose simply isn't for them. This is not an uncommon occurrence; however, it is a rare for people to actually make the switch to a new career because they're afraid they won't be able to successfully.
January 22, 2010
- Addressing a Gap in Employment on Your Resume
When applying for a job, it's never fun to think that something could hinder the process. However, those who have gaps in their employment tend to bite their nails every time they send out an application.
January 20, 2010
- Resume Tips for Entrepreneurs Switching to Employees
Are you contemplating leaving your life as an entrepreneur to head back into the workforce – or enter it for the first time? There are many people who have decided to take a break, or completely leave behind, their business so that they can have a great sense of stability with a corporate job.
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January 15, 2010
- How Much Information On Your Resume Is Too Much?
We're in an era where relaxed standards and sharing a lot about oneself is much more the norm than ever before. Standards have relaxed on television, people on the job are much more comfortable risqué topics and you may even be able to cross the line with professional associates into religion and politics without offending someone.
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January 13, 2010
- Writing a Job Fair Resume
Are you headed to a job fair and want to make sure you carry along an impressive resume? Well, this is good news because many job seekers barely know that they should carry a resume with them, let alone try to carry one that is impressive.
January 8, 2010
- Dealing with Job Termination On Your Resume
Writing a resume is difficult enough without having to deal with sensitive topics such as gaps in employment, or the the big one, job termination. Because it is something that usually needs to be handled delicately, many people go ahead and seek professional resume writing help rather than going at it alone.
January 6, 2010
- When Will My Resume Find Me a Job?
Have you found yourself looking for a job for weeks, months, or even half a year, all the while wondering what has gone wrong with the job search? In other words, do you ever ask yourself "When will my resume find me a job?"
January 1, 2010
- Is There an Appropriate Resume Length?
One question that plagues many job seekers as they write their resumes is whether they should make theirs one or two pages. This is something that is easier for resume writing specialists to determine because they're used to making this choice, but you may feel a bit more conflicted about the decision.
December 30, 2009
- Ready to Spring Clean Your Resume?
If your job search hasn't been moving at the pace you'd like and you're not getting the interviews you want, it may be time to spring clean your resume. Sometimes a few tweaks can help you turn your "blah" resume into one that could have been written by a certified resume writer.