Having a gap in employment dates often raises red flags with recruiters and hiring managers. There are things one can do to minimize potential damage.
Categories: Career Advice, Resume Writing
Whether you are looking for a full-time or a contract job, you are bound to come across recruiting agencies. There are things you should know about how recruiters operate, which will help you maximize the relationship potential.
Categories: Career Advice, Job Search
An interview is your chance to evaluate the company, just as they are evaluating you as a candidate. Look, listen and learn as much as you can. And beware: interviewers make mistakes, consciously or unconsciously. Some are easy for you to overlook and even use to your advantage, others… just be careful!
Categories: Career Advice, Interview, Job Search
If you think that putting on a suit, walking around and handing out resumes is all job fairs are about, you are thinking like most other people. There are quite a few things you can do to distinguish yourself from other candidates. All of these things are easily attainable. As a matter of fact, there is no excuse for not doing them!
Categories: Career Advice, Interview, Job Search
Create multiple versions of your resume – and you may be considered not fully committed to your next career step…
Categories: Job Search, Resume Writing
Playing it fancy with flashy colors, chancing it with loads of bull, making it consistently repetitive, or playing it too safe will not get you anywhere!
Categories: 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
