Archive for October, 2009

One Page Vs. Two Page Résumés

The desired length of a résumé can vary depending on the profession, school district, country, etc. When crafting your résumé, you want to make certain that you meet the potential employer’s guidelines or preferences. Some hiring organizations will post a maximum page limit on their job advertisement. If this is the case you must make [...]

Why Writing Your Own Resume is Difficult

Many job seekers find the task of writing their resumes and cover letters extremely overwhelming and time-consuming. They leaf through books by so-called experts, hoping to find just the right advice to fit their unquestionably unique situations. Meanwhile, the hours tick by, as do the lost opportunities. If you needed minor surgery to remove a [...]

Highlighting Your Areas of Expertise in Your Trades Resume

With the economy the way it currently is, it is now more important than ever to make yourself stand out when applying for a job. The first step toward successfully marketing yourself as a potential employee is designing an attention-grabbing résumé. The best way to achieve this is to showcase your areas of expertise or [...]

Engineering Resume: How it will help you land your dream job

Job seekers willing to make their mark in the field of engineering need an appropriate and effective resume that will portray their experience and technical proficiencies. The engineering profession seeks candidates who are confident and have sound technical knowledge that will help them meet their present and future goals and needs. When writing your resume, [...]

Pharmaceutical Sales Resume

Pharmaceutical sales jobs are some of the most lucrative sales positions available. Pharmaceutical salespeople can typically create their own schedules, form relationships with clients in their territories, and have the potential to earn high salaries and bonuses. Because pharmaceutical sales positions are some of the highest paid sales positions, they are very competitive. While a [...]

Resume Writing Tips – Resume Action Verbs

Verbs are a very important part of the human language. They describe things you are doing, will do, or have done. SO, it’s not hard to understand that when talking about your skills, verbs are crucial. On a resume, you want to communicate your experience, or what you have done, and you want to show [...]

How to compose attention catching cover letters for your dream job?

It is an evident fact that in order to pocket that dream job you must get an opportunity to interact face-to-face with people who might offer you that dream job, i.e. you are required to qualify for job interviews. So what in your opinion is the strongest, simplest solution to get you those dream job [...]

What is the Outline of a Basic Resume?

An outline of a resume should list all of the relevant information. Start your outline by gathering information on your previous education, work experience (employment), activities, and skills. If you are writing a chronological resume, as many people do, then you will want to list your relevant information in reverse chronological order; the most recent [...]

Common Errors in Resumes

Resumes are the most significant asset or the biggest liability for a candidate. Being the most important document ever written about a candidate, it is surprising how little time and thought is used in creating resumes. A number of candidates have told me that they have picked up a template from somewhere and started to [...]

4 EASY STEPS TO BETTER RESULTS WITH YOUR RESUME..

Is every job description you read the same? No. Is every job you submit your resume to the same? Of course they aren’t. If all these job descriptions are different, why do you submit the same resume? Every day, people send the same generic resume out as though each position was identical and each employer [...]