Posts Tagged ‘resume’

How To Write A Cover Letter

How To Write A Cover Letter

Writing a cover letter can be quite a bit of a challenge especially for people who are still trying to figure it out. While a resume lists your education and work experience and tells the recruiter about your job responsibilities, the cover letter is the one that actually gives you the opportunity to describe what [...]

5 Reasons Why You Should Have a Personal Brand

5 Reasons Why You Should Have a Personal Brand

Social Media has dramatically changed the job landscape. Today’s job seekers must remake themselves as a brand. Think of McDonald’s golden arches or Ford’s iconic script logo. People remember these brands because they set themselves apart from the rest. People don’t settle for any old hamburger when they know what they will get at McDonald’s. [...]

10 Tips for a Winning Resume

10 Tips for a Winning Resume

According to an HR professional, a resume has only 10 seconds to make an impact on the HR executive. Only 10 seconds! Even the everyday commercials that we see get more than 10 seconds to sell their detergents and soaps to us.   You have to utilize these seconds and sell your abilities to the [...]

Resume Secret: Tailor Your Resume Twice! Here’s Why

Resume Secret: Tailor Your Resume Twice! Here’s Why

Tailoring your resume is very important in your job search, but you need to remember to tailor each and every resume you send to potential employers. What is tailoring your resume? You want to be sure to use specific information from the online job description and update your resume with applicable words and acronyms from [...]

What’s The Right Length For My Resume?

What’s The Right Length For My Resume?

In my work as a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), the single biggest question I get from clients is: how long should my resume be, really? The Internet is filled with conflicting advice on this issue, so it’s not surprising that jobseekers frequently feel insecure about it. After all, a resume that’s too long will [...]

Tips on How to Write Your Resume

Tips on How to Write Your Resume

Starting your resume, updating and rewriting it is not the easiest task to achieve. You might think it could be since its basically writing a condensed version of your skills, knowledge and professional experiences on a piece of paper but think again. Your resume is the first impression that an employer has of you. It is [...]

Resume Mistakes Job Seekers Make

Resume Mistakes Job Seekers Make

Any job seeker who has tried writing a resume knows resume writing is much more complex than it actually looks. There is an art to designing a resume and when job seekers get it right, they increase their chances of gaining of interviews. Let’s take a look at resume mistakes the majority of candidates make: [...]

5 Reasons Your Resume Isn’t Getting Read

5 Reasons Your Resume Isn’t Getting Read

Have you applied for countless job vacancies only to receive silence in return? There are a few common blunders people make that cause employers to toss their resumes after only the first few sentences. Read on to be sure you aren’t committing these Resume Crimes:   1. Your resume is not relevant to the position [...]

10 Things to Remove From Your Resume

10 Things to Remove From Your Resume

20 seconds. That’s the average amount of time that an employer will spend scanning your resume. The phrase “Less is more” has often been used for design purposes, but it can apply just as well to your resume. The point is to keep only information on your resume that is clear, simple and that supports [...]

Resume Writing Tips to Succeed in a Tight Job Market

Resume Writing Tips to Succeed in a Tight Job Market

It’s an undisputed fact – today’s job market is tighter than ever before. During this period of economic strife and instability, competition for the best jobs is extremely stiff. Job stability seems practically non-existent. Turnover rates are at an all-time high, given the number of layoffs and agency closings. Millions of individuals are unemployed and [...]