Resumes
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Monday, March 8th, 2010When 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, 2010Social 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, 2010Most 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, 2010Writing 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, 2010For 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, 2010People 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, 2009Know 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, 2009My 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, 2009How 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, 2009Click to play:
Three career experts call in to describe their pet peeves about resumes.
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