1) In case you are unaware, there are currently 60 million unemployed people in the USA and another 60 million that are only able to work part-time, seeking to advance in their careers or trying to make a career change. This means there is more competition than ever before (60M + 60M = 120M a […]
Resumes For Recent Graduates – 5 Great Tips to Organize Your "Education" Section
If you are a recent college or even grad school, law school or medical school graduate, your education section is probably the first on your resume (after your header and possibly a summary/branding statement). Why? Because school what you’ve done most recently, and it is most relevant to your potential employer. (There may be exceptions […]
Resume Formats to Improve Your Chances of Getting That Job Interview
Have you been downsized as a result of your company’s need to tighten the purse strings? Are you employed but want to find something more rewarding or in line with your values? Are you somebody who believes in always being prepared? If one of these sounds like you, you are probably wondering whether or not […]
Win More Job Interviews by Using Stronger Keywords In Your Next Resume Cover Letter
It’s widely accepted by recruitment professionals that increasingly higher competition among today’s job seekers is making it harder for many applicants to successfully obtain interviews for positions in the organizations they wish to join. In order to overcome this situation, the successful job seeker is learning more and more to use power words to help […]
Who You Should (and Shouldn’t) Turn to For Executive Resume Writing Tips
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 […]