Inefficiencies In Job Search Can Result In A Job Search Career

Resume is just a tool to get you face time with the company. You could spend 12 hours a day sending it out, but unless it reaches the right person, your efforts are as good as none. Use your job search time efficiently!

Accounting Degree Does Not Get You A Dog Kennel Assistant Job

260 job applicants submitted their resumes to fill the position of a dog kennel assistant. Among them a few teachers, accountants, graphic designers, photographers, customer service reps, waiters and construction workers.

What Makes A Resume Successful?

What makes a resume successful? A perfectly balanced mix of what the hiring manager wants to see, your past experience as a proof that you are capable, your promise of delivering in the future, and a personal touch of you, in a format that catches attention.

Ghostbusters… Ahem… Job Search Myth-Busters

Drinking eight glasses of water per day will get you the job of cooking eggs with cellphones, and other myths surrounding job search.

Superhero Resumes, Or Aggressive Claims Of Extraordinary Achievements

It seems as though the trend for the bigger and better (clearly seen in the way people choose their cars, houses and dinner portions) has made its way into resume writing.

Start With A Blank Page

Your entire job application is about these: 1) They have a vacancy. 2) You are the right candidate. 3) Here is why.

Resume Tips: (4) Personal, But Not The First Person

Tell the story of you, while avoid using the first person narrative “I”.

Resume Tips: (3) Single Page Yelling or… Being Human

JOHN DOE – SEASONED PROFESSIONAL at many things, including IMPORTANT THINGS. 20 years of ACHIEVEMENT in the area of ACHIEVING RESULTS.

Resume Tips: (2) Catch 22 – Job Defines Candidate Who Defines Job

Help them fill the vacancy they cannot clearly define by making them realize that you are the solution to the problem they did not know they had.

Video Resume – Do You REALLY Want to Be Seen?

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.