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3 Best Tips to Update Your Resume For the New Year

Posted on December 30, 2015May 26, 2021 by caitlinhoward

As you begin to write down your resolutions and goals for the new year, don’t forget to add ‘Update Your Resume’ to the top of your list. Whether you’re looking for a new job, or happy in your current position, it’s a good idea to update your resume yearly with new accomplishments and clean up any outdated information. Discover three tips to help you update your resume for the New Year and the opp...

Seven Tips for Reentering the Workforce

Posted on December 7, 2010January 8, 2021 by KathleenSteffey

Original Post: By NicoleWilliams.com staff Reentering the workforce can be a challenge no matter how good your excuse is: volunteering, working or studying abroad, starting a family, caring for a sick relative or coping with your own illness, or investing in your future by completing a graduate degree. Your search can be made more difficult by the poor economy and a bias against people who have la...

Top 10 Online Job Search Tips

Posted on October 12, 2010January 8, 2021 by KathleenSteffey

Original Post: CareerBuilder.com While the popularity of online job boards puts millions of jobs at one's fingertips, it has also made the job applicant pool that much bigger. For this reason, national job search sites and the Internet as a whole have gotten a bad rap from some industry professionals as an ineffective job seeker tool; on the contrary, the Internet actually can be a great re...

13 Ways Your Resume Can Say ‘I’m Unprofessional’

Posted on September 21, 2010 by KathleenSteffey

Hiring pros share the faux pas they find in real resumes, including wacky e-mail addresses, defunct phone numbers and cookie-cutter templates. Original Post By Lisa Vaas, The Ladders No offense, thebigcheese@domain.com, but if nobody has told you yet, we’re telling you now: That e-mail address is not making you look particularly professional. Unprofessional e-mail addresses are just one way of se...

Can Recruiters Find YOU? 5 Online Methods to Borrow

Posted on May 25, 2010 by KathleenSteffey

Joe Turner was a recruiter for more than 15 years, so job seekers often ask him for advice on how to meet recruiters and how to make working with recruiters a beneficial experience. His reply is not always what they want to hear: Top recruiters don't want to meet you. They don't want you to call them, and they don't want you to send your resume to them. They are already wired into their own netwo...

Where Does Your Resume Really Go When You Apply Online?

Posted on March 12, 2010June 23, 2022 by KathleenSteffey

By Barbara Safani We'd all like to believe that when we send our resume via a job board or a company Web site that there is someone eagerly waiting on the other side ready to read every word of it. But these days, job applicants are lucky if an actual person is reading any of it, at least on the initial screening. As companies continue to be inundated with resumes, more and more employers are tu...

Secrets Buried In a Sales Person’s Resume

Posted on November 17, 2009May 11, 2022 by KathleenSteffey

The vehicle that introduces sales people to companies is a resume, but there are secrets hidden in the resume that hiring managers should know before they interview a candidate. In Lee Salz's sales management career, he would bet that he's seen about 5,000 resumes for sales people. Yet, he still hasn’t seen one that shows someone who has achieved 40% of quota. Every single resume shows 100%, 200%...