Company does not hire qualified candidate. Reason? Candidate applied there before, for a different job, and was not hired. What to do in this case?
Categories: Career Advice, Funny, Job Search
A heated discussion about using or not using professional resume writers yielded some interesting trends in the job-seeker community. While opinions varied immensely, trends persisted across all shades of the spectrum.
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A recent development in Southern California provides an excellent idea – two sure ways of making money. Read on to see which one of the two is for you. Actually, why not use both?
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Hoping to get a job without acting on it is like having a long term career plan based on winning a lottery on a non-purchased ticket.
Categories: Career Advice, Funny, Job Search
In addition to questions of the type “what kind of tree would you be?”, interviewers go above and beyond the traditional, expected ones. Some go as far as talking about the country of origin or literary preferences. Go figure!
Unemployment office is one of the fine examples of illogical, bureaucratic processes for the sake of process. This and other state and government organizations are, for the most part, overstaffed and underutilized.
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At Resume Solutions we decided to start our own professional certification organization, and call it WORK (Writers Of Resumes Klub)
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Until the day arrives when we communicate with people using video-phones, abandon handwriting, work in remote locations and have no face-to-face time, replacing it with video-conferencing and virtual white boards, the face of a candidate on the screen is not going to be a preferred way of applying for a job.
Categories: Funny, Job Search, Resume Writing
No manager will look at your interest as a nature photographer and say: “gee, we could use one of them for our Hedge Fund Manager’s position!”
Categories: Cover Letters, Funny, Resume Writing
We could use a good joke. Let’s use this part of the post – and the comments to it – to share war stories: funny things you have seen in resumes, said (or heard) in interviews, etc….
So, here is the first in the series… A career objective:
“I am working for 20 years in the same [...]
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