Job candidates often give no thought of designing their resume for the new digital world. Once sent, a system will likely review their resume several times before it lands on the desk of a real-live person. There are several major things a candidate can to do to help themselves when building a resume destined to be submitted online. (more…)
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5 Steps To Designing Digital Resumes
Thursday, March 11th, 201012 Things Not To Do When Writing Your Resume
Friday, February 26th, 2010Since the resume is a key tool in finding a job, taking some extra time preparing it is time well-spent. While updating your resume on a regular basis is a very good thing to do, there are definitely some “do not’s” when it comes to making a best resume. I am sure the following list is not all inclusive, but represent items that bother me the most: (more…)
Make Your Resume User-Friendly and Persuasive
Thursday, February 25th, 2010When writing your resume, it must be usable, user-friendly and persuasive in conventional as well as cyber formats. (more…)
It’s Important To Emphasize Right Skills In Your Resume
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010You must determine which skills and experiences are relevant to your position objective. You are writing a word picture of yourself in the proposed new job, created out the best of your past experience.
Steps in building this word picture include: (more…)
3 More Resume Writing Tips That Pay
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Whether it was a misspelled word, the wrong prefix on a word, or fragmented sentence, many hiring managers have a zero tolerance when it comes to resume mistakes. Following are more writing tips for Professional Resumes and Executive Resumes inspired from things seen on people’s resumes during my career in human resources. (more…)
8 More Resume Writing Tips That Pay (Part 3)
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Whether it was a misspelled word, the wrong prefix on a word, or fragmented sentence, many hiring managers have a zero tolerance when it comes to resume mistakes. Following are more writing tips for professional resumes inspired from things seen on people’s resumes during my career in human resources. (more…)
Your Resume Leadership Advantage
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Picture this:
You are tasked with interviewing new college graduates for work in a “fast-track” manager training program. The job requires participants to work in each functional area of the company then be assigned to a position in operations. Most candidates are the “cream of the crop” with impressive academic credentials from top business schools. Each of them spent time abroad studying or traveling. They have excellent grades, a fine resume, speak intelligently, and present themselves with aplomb.
But one of the candidates is different from the others. He had “B” –level grades in college, went to a well-known but smaller university, and was employed full-time as a parking lot supervisor for a downtown professional sports stadium while attending school. He worked many nights and weekends, and had responsibility for hiring/managing as many as sixty people. On the strength of the information in this true story, should he be considered for the job?
Education Is Good, But What About Experience? (more…)
Resumes – Less is More
Friday, March 27th, 2009On the surface it would seem that resumes should be chock full of information. Especially if you have reached the executive level, a common trap that people fall into is to think that all of the history of achievement and experience needs to be put into their resume to display how accomplished they are and how much experience they have. Overwhelm them with breadth of your experience. Sure, a lot of that information is important, but when you get to the executive level a lot of things are assumed by possible employers. To get to the executive level you have to have a pretty impressive past employment history. They know that. So, you need not mention every single thing that you ever did. (more…)