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Business Communication Today,
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Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
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Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
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Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
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Weird Things Written on Resumes

Monday, March 8th, 2010

When Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs.com, was hiring for her entry-level job site, one particular resume stood out from all the others.
The reason? The applicant claimed to be a “Pig Wrestling Champion” and included details like weight of the pig (see photo, left), number of competitors, and months of training.

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How to Build the Ultimate Resume Using Social Media

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Social media resumes are important for attracting hiring managers directly to you, without you having to submit your resume, blindly, to them. The problem with submitting your resume online to job postings is that most job postings aren’t even vacant, might not exist, and 80% of jobs offers are received through networking.
With a social media [...]

Seven Phrases That Kill Resumes

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Most resumes sound like corporate lorem ipsum.  Like someone dropped buzzwords, lingo and jargon into a blender and hit puree.  What comes out is a mush of language that says something, but doesn’t communicate.
Got your resume handy?  Take one minute and read the first 5 sentences.  Go on, we’ll wait.
Now, pretend you don’t know the [...]

The Perfect Resume

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Writing the perfect resume is harder than it sounds, even for the experts. “I wrote a book on writing resumes, but even I’ve found that writing my own resume is tough,” said Robert Meier, director of workforce talent liaisons for Tampa Bay Workforce
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Employment: Job and Resume Sites

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

For most people who are job-hunting on the Internet, this is where the rubber meets the road. When most people are job-hunting, their instinct is to go directly to the job boards and see what is available. Some are richly rewarded; some are bitterly disappointed. Clearly, this is not what the Internet does best when [...]

150 Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers, and Blunders Ever

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

People write the strangest things on their resumes, sometimes downright hysterical. Why should only recruiting managers get to laugh at these?

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Collegegrad.com: Preparing a Resume

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Know your product. Great advice for a sales rep. But critical for a job seeker. A sales rep can say “I don’t know the answer to that, but I’ll find out and get back to you.” You can’t. The resume is a starting point to knowing and selling your product (you), and yes, it [...]

Ten Deadliest Resume Phrases

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

My daughter is an avid junior anthropologist. She observes her own peer group like a hawk. On the first day of middle school, she drew me a social map of the lunch room, showing the locations of all the middle-school cliques, from jocks to nerds and popular girls and everyone in between. She [...]

Online Resumes

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

How many keywords are in your resume? If you are applying for jobs online, you need to think about your resume differently. We talk with recruiters and job searchers about what it takes to get noticed by employers checking you out in cyberspace. Tips on creating an effective resume.

Resume Pet Peeves

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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Three career experts call in to describe their pet peeves about resumes.

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