Showing your executive resume around to get feedback? Doing so can be a career-killer, especially if you’re blindly seeking resume tips from resources that are unfamiliar with effective resume-writing practices for today’s competitive job market. Here are 5 groups you might seek out for an honest, effective perspective on your leadership resume–including some resources that […]
How to Write a Great Resume Summary With Examples
A resume summary is a concise summary of who you are and the value that you can bring to an organization. Today (2018), all strong resumes are expected to have resume summaries in place of the antiquated “Objective.” The resume summary is essentially your elevator speech, which is a very brief “commercial” of who you […]
Career Advice On How To Write A Resume Effectively For All Industries
A resume is very much important as it will give the first impression to the employers at the time of submitting your job application. There are lots of experienced professionals who actually find it difficult to write a resume for any new role. Each industry requires a resume which is not much different from the […]
Resume Writing Tips – Do’s & Don’t’s of Printing Your Resume
The internet has transformed the job search. Professionals can now create and email a resume to several different potential employers simultaneously. Headhunter sites allow us to create and store cover letters and resumes in electronic format making the process more convenient. However printing electronically formatted resumes may raise some concern. When would a printed resume […]
Example of a Cover Letter from a Graduate Direct to a Potential Employer
It can be difficult for a new graduate to know what to include in an exploratory letter to a potential employer. This is an example to show how a cover letter from a graduate direct to a potential employer should look like. In this case the fictitious organization ‘Yorkshire Investments Limited’ is known to employ […]
The 8 Most Important Elements of an Effective Resume
There are many great resume writing websites and software packages. This article will not give you all the specifics on how to write a great resume but rather will hit on some of the major design considerations you need to keep in mind. The single objective of a Resume is: To secure an interview. As […]
Do Resume Guarantees Guarantee You a Better Resume?
In today’s competitive marketplace, you will find some resume writing firms offering guarantees for the products they deliver. How do these guarantees work, you ask? They typically commit the resume company to reworking the product if the client has not earned an interview in a certain amount of time, say 30 or 45 days. OK. […]
Effective Resume Writing – Top 5 Tips to Help You Write Better Resumes
Resumes are your first step towards getting hired to the best job that you have always wanted. Of course, resumes are the first that employers get to see and read and if you have made a bad mistake with your resume, your application can be trashed right away. Of course, you can also find ways […]
Study Different Resume Examples to Learn the Intricacies of Resume Writing
If you are one of those people who do not want to become an entrepreneur, then seeking a job and settling down in your preferred career line is the best option left. For hunting a job, one needs to be good in writing an interesting cover letter and resume. These profiles should communicate your strengths […]
How to Write a Better CV (UK), or Resume (USA and elsewhere)
The first point to make is that the terms “CV” and “Resume” (with or more often without the French acute accents over the e’s) are virtually interchangeable in the UK; they mean the same thing, but if anything the norm is CV. In the USA and elsewhere, the CV (Curriculum Vitae to give it its […]