Archive for the ‘Resume Help’ Category
Resumes For Executive Jobs – Tips on Length, Formatting and Style
Job seekers often ask how long their resume should be. Some people can barely stretch theirs to a single page, while others have difficulty fitting it into four pages. What makes this decision so difficult? You want to include all of the relevant information that will inevitably get you hired. However, you also don’t want [...]
Resumes For Executive Jobs – Tips on Length, Formatting and Style
Job seekers often ask how long their resume should be. Some people can barely stretch theirs to a single page, while others have difficulty fitting it into four pages. What makes this decision so difficult? You want to include all of the relevant information that will inevitably get you hired. However, you also don’t want [...]
Sending Your Resume Via E-Mail the Right Way
When submitting your resume to a company for employment consideration, it’s become almost a rule to do so over the Internet. Many companies use software and other electronic methods to evaluate some resumes, and as such they’ll refuse resumes received via any other method. So now that you know that you will very likely continue [...]
Increase Your Interview Chances – Put Up a Remarkable Resume
Probably, you also have heard that only 27.3% of the present world’s population is employed. Have you then ever thought of the 72.7% unemployed ones? Have you ever imagined their poverty experiences; how they are left at the mercies of friends and relatives? Possibly you have never tried to know why life has been so [...]
Turn Your Resume Into a Powerful Marketing Tool
If you think the sole purpose of a resume is to present your work history and credentials, think again. Hiring agents are seeking candidates who not only possess relevant experience, but understand how to PRESENT it effectively. Stop looking at your resume as a summarization of your career and start looking at it as your [...]
Writing a Resume For a Career Change
One of the hardest decisions you will probably encounter during your professional career is either a change in position or a change in occupation. Many people think the safe decision is to stay in your current job or line of work, which is the place where you know what to expect and where you feel [...]
Including Temporary Employment on Your Executive Resume
While searching for an executive level job, have you spent time working temporary positions? You might have considered omitting these temporary jobs from your executive resume’s next draft. However, most employers are certainly used to seeing temporary occupations listed. As many executives know, some temp jobs can be as challenging and rewarding as full time [...]
Tuning Your Resume to the Right Keywords
At large companies, recruiters rely on a computer program called an applicant tracking system that stores and filters resumes to find the best candidates for a job. To make the match, ATS software relies on keywords – words and phrases that tell the program a candidate is a good match for a specific job description. [...]
Four Simple Steps to Update Your Resume
With the doldrums of Summer hiring behind us, Fall is a great time to update your resume. Labor Day to Thanksgiving is typically an active interview season. Don’t be late when opportunity knocks. If you haven’t updated your resume in the past year the following four steps will help you bring your resume up to [...]
Phrases to Avoid in Your Resume
If you want to avoid being passed over for an interview, stay away from the dozens of “boilerplate” phrases littering thousands of resumes. Recruiters and H.R. reps are likely to move on to the next candidate’s resume after spotting a couple of terms like “results-oriented” and “go-to person.” Replace these tired cliches with more original, [...]


