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Resume – Top 15 Words Hiring Managers Want To See
Over 2200 hiring managers and HR professionals ranked the best and worst words for job seekers to use on their resumes, according to a recent survey conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder. It’s a great list comprised of some impactful action verbs, and I think you’ll be happy to see what’s been … Continue reading
Job Search / Unconventional Resumes
To combat that, many job seekers with coding and design experience go to extreme creative lengths to stand out and demonstrate their skills in a tangible way. From designing a personal Amazon page complete with reviews to making a candy bar wrapper to showcase job skills, here are some of the most creative resumes we’ve … Continue reading
Job Search – Resume / You need to include soft skills
Incorporating soft skills articulately means describing how you helped tame heated meetings and how your ability to communicate orally or in writing helped forge alliances, influence solidarity and/or move projects so they steamed ahead and achieved bottom-line goals Continue reading
Resume / How Long Should it Be?
How long should your resume be? The answer is that the length of your resume depends – on how much experience you have and what level candidate you are Continue reading
Social Media / Do You Still Need A Resume ?
The primary challenge with many articles written by these forward-thinking bloggers is that they want to present a replacement to the resume. But the resume story itself is a separate living, breathing entity Continue reading
Digital Badges / Building a 21st Century Resume
A growing number of foundations, government agencies, companies and non-profits are exploring “digital badges” as the 21st century equivalent of a resume-builder Continue reading
Job Search / 10 ways to screw up
10 ways to screw up – Here is the accumulated wisdom of three longtime coaches, Sarah Stamboulie, Anita Attridge and Ellis Chase. Continue reading
Job Search / 5 Ways Nanny Resumes Differ
What’s so special about nanny resumes, anyway? Why aren’t they just “resumes”? Are they really that different from traditional corporate resumes? Continue reading
Internet Job Search
We all need to sharpen our job search tools each time we go looking for employment Continue reading
A Résumé / Interviewing Steven Spielberg (video)
As a kind of Résumé, Christopher Woodring made this fake video of him interviewing Steven Spielberg,
Job Search / Resume and LinkedIn Profile
Your resume, on the other hand, is both an active and a passive job search tool. A passive job search tool: Upload your resume into resume databases, and it operates like a social media profile, making you visible to people who are actively looking for professionals like you in that particular database. An active job … Continue reading
Job Search / 10 Viral Resumes
When the job market is tough, candidates need to try even harder to stand out. A few job seekers who are talented web developers, designers, videographers and writers have created such impressive resumes and cover letters, their job applications have gone viral. The following applications have gotten people jobs at big tech companies and at … Continue reading
How To Make A Great Resume, From Someone Who Hates Resumes
Whenever a position opens up at my company, I cringe a little. Job hunting is hard, but so is hiring a new employee. Resumes flood our office via fax, email, US mail, in person deliveries and any other method people can think of to get noticed. Usually about half of the applicants are totally unqualified, … Continue reading
Job Search Tolls: More Objectives statements to customize
Many of the objective statements below are short, but that’s about all they have going for them. Most are too general. You can and should change your resume to fit every employer and job you apply for.
Job Search Tool / 200 Action Verbs for Resume
Each point in your experience description should begin with an action verb (using past tense for previous experience and present tense for current experience) to make a vivid and powerful impression of you as a productive contributor—avoid personal pronouns altogether. 200 Resume Action Verbs Achieved Acted Adapted Addressed Administered Advised Aided Allocated Analyzed Approved Arbitrated … Continue reading
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