Archive for July, 2009

Resumes: Let’s Be For Real

When it comes to resumes, most job seekers know that honesty is the best policy. Never say you graduated from college when you didn’t or make a job last a year longer than it really did. But the verification process many employers use for resumes can trip up even workers who aren’t trying to fool [...]

Job Search Survival Guide

Undoubtedly, this is the toughest year on record to land a new job. Reaching your career goal will take courage and nerves of steel. Are you up to the challenge? Here are four tips for job-search endurance that will keep you on the right track toward your employment goal. 1. Keep your career goal realistic. [...]

Summer Job-Search Strategies

It’s easy to lose career focus during the summer months. Kids home from school, warm sunny weather and household projects tend to distract job seekers. Additionally, the interview process often gets disrupted while employers accommodate multiple vacation schedules. These interruptions become an easy excuse to put a job search on hold until September. Don’t give [...]

Finding the Best Professional Resume Writer

Job candidates in this economic recession are frequently turning to professional writers to create resumes that will attract the attention of employers. In today’s labor market, a good resume should help you land the right interview, for the right job, to start work sooner rather than later. With selected industries experiencing major shake-ups, like automotive, [...]

Learn How to Write a Resume to Land a Job

If you have a job, are looking for a job, or thinking about finding a new job having a good resume is essential. When you think about getting a new job you must think in terms of having something to sell and what is the best way to sell it. A well written resume is [...]

Anatomy of a Good Executive Resume – Advice from Recruiters (Part 2)

Job Chronology and Accomplishments – The Meat and Potatoes Be aware that many recruiters and employers are suspicious of functional formats because they too often get used to hide issues such as career gaps or job hopping. Many recruiters that I spoke to had a clear preference for reverse chronological formats, because it requires the [...]

Resume Strategy – A Conversation with Exec Recruiter Paula Marks

As part of my research on recruiters’ perceptions and expectations of résumé strategy for today’s job market, I had the great privilege to spend an hour in conversation with Paula Marks. Paula is a managing director with New York-based retained executive search firm Gilbert Tweed International, and the founder of Hire Resources, Inc. With a [...]

Learn How to Compare the Best Resume Services

When searching for a new job then you need a resume. It can benefit you to find a resume service that can help you write a professional resume. Many of these services charge a fee but it is well worth it to have your resume done by a professional. How to: Get Great Resume First [...]

Winning Resume Strategies – 4 Deadly Tips to Get the Job You Want

Have you ever struggled on writing a resume? It is possible that you have to take much time to find out how to properly present many year working or academic experience and all accomplishment into a short piece of your resumes. In fact, writing resume can be either an easy job or a tough job [...]

7 Great sites that will help you build a Resume

With millions of resume flooding the internet and tonnes of applicants for each posting, it is really difficult for the job seekers to differentiate themselves in the crowd. Given below are a list of popular resume building sites that can help you get noticed by the recruiters in no time. ResumeBucket ResumeBucket helps you build [...]