This past week I attended a presentation about Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers, and Millennials learning to communicate and work well together in the professional world. The ...
I know what you’re thinking: walking into a room full of strangers and announcing that you’re unemployed is as far from your comfort zone as you can get. Networking is awkward ...
Historically, having a significant gap in your professional employment has been seen as a huge negative on a resume. However, given that a May Gallup poll showed that 19% of the ...
People often ask me why anyone would seek professional help with writing his or her resume. The great part about resume writing is that I often work with educated professionals ...
If you’re currently searching for a job, LinkedIn offers a free and easy way to create a presence for yourself online. While some people think of the site as simply another place ...
I think I’m beginning to sound borderline preachy with my resume and cover letter advice. But I also feel I have a duty to share with job seekers the blunders and mistakes they ...
Knowing what I do for a living, friends sometimes call me when they see particularly outstanding resumes—good or bad. This week I got a call from a friend who’s a hiring manager ...
If you’re like me, you might have a weakness for drama-ridden reality television. While recently watching perennial favorite The Bachelorette, I was reminded that the “Would you ...
The way that your resume is written is one of the most important factors in whether or not you will get any job interviews, but equally as important is the appearance of your ...
Have you ever heard someone suggest that the only way to get a job today is to lie on your resume? I’ve heard several people say this over the last few years. That said, ...
What to put on a resume can be daunting, frustrating, and upsetting.
Will I cover all the bases? Will my accomplishments come across? How long should my resume be? And, what ...
In recent blogs, I’ve written a lot about the importance of investing time into every job application you submit, even if this means applying for fewer total jobs. While it’s ...
Writing executive resumes can be a challenging project, especially when you don’t write them on a regular basis. One reason this is the case is because they are so much more ...
Over the last few years, I’ve heard a lot of very intelligent job seekers casually remark that they had sent out hundreds of resumes while looking for a job. These people firmly ...
As you know, conducting a successful job search is an ever-evolving process. In the past, you needed to make sure you rounded up plenty of newspapers, found some good resume paper ...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just over 4 million Americans lost their jobs in 2009 alone. For those millions of people, a new reality has emerged that may include ...
One of the easiest traps to fall into when writing your resume is simply mimicking a job description by listing the responsibilities of your past positions. However, as soon as ...
It’s not always easy to know what to do with your executive resume when you realize that it’s not getting you jobs, but you don’t exactly know why. Sometimes your resume requires ...
If you asked your parents how to write a resume, they would probably tell you to list every job you’d ever had, and then detail everything you’d done at those jobs. Twenty-five ...
Technology is everywhere these days. It’s hard to get any sort of job that doesn’t require at least a basic knowledge of e-mail and word processing programs. Any position ...
