Resume Mistakes To Avoid How would a busy recruiter react to your resume? Would it make the “A” pile, or get tossed into the “round file” (i.e., the trash)? To find out, I interviewed Victoria Potter, an experienced recruiter from Edina, Minn.-based Princeton Search Group (www.princetonsearch.com). She reads nearly 300 resumes every week and has …
Guerrilla Marketing: Why it Works The government estimates that between 20 -40 million Americans change jobs every year. That’s a staggering number when you think about it. There are no statistics on the number of mismatches vs career advancers – it’s been this way for years. Already reeling from the struggling economy, competition for the …
Taking Charge: How to be Persistent I just returned from vacation in the Dominican Republic – great place. One of the most interesting aspects for me as a “social scientist” was watching the interaction between the sunbathers and the folks selling cigarettes, sunglasses and hair-braiding on the beech. Every morning the same team of 5-6 …
Are you too easy to let go? Where you one of those guys in high school that always seemed desperate for a date?If so it was probably because you were a real pleaser, An eager beaver? Did it annoy you that the guys who seemed indifferent where the ones the girls where most interested in? …
How To Start An Instant Job Search How soon do you want to get hired for your next job? Today? That would be nice. Yesterday would be even nicer, right? We all want instant results. Well, I can’t promise you’ll get hired in an instant, but I can give you three ways to generate job …
Resume Mistakes To Avoid As a professional résumé writer with 12 years of writing, hiring and managing experience, I’ve seen the same mistakes time and again in résumés. Mistakes in your résumé can damage or even kill your career. Because a sub-standard résumé can prevent you from ever being called for a job interview. But …
Mistakes To Avoid When Looking for Your Next Job Is your job search going nowhere? You can blame the economy or the summer hiring slump. You’ll have lots of company if you do. Or … you can look to yourself. Are you secretly sabotaging your job search? You might be. Let me tell you the …
Getting Ahead: How to Write an Unsolicited Cover Letter Here’s a question I hear frequently. “I want to work for a company that is not advertising any openings on the Internet or in the newspapers, but I can’t figure out how to write my cover letter. Any suggestions?” The good news is, you don’t have …
Speed Your Job Search Up with These Tips Got a difficult problem in your job search? Say, a lack of networking contacts? Or trouble answering interview questions? Well, you’ve got company. Problems in a job search are as common as potholes in March. But … have you ever written your problem down on a piece …
Getting ready to write a resume and cover letter? Here’s a tip — use Plain English. I say this because far too many job seekers succumb to the urge of filling their career documents with highfalutin gobbledygook instead of good old-fashioned English. It’s a career-wrecking mistake I refer to as a “superabundance of polysyllabic terminology,” …
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