It’s been said before – your resume has just seconds to get past that initial skim read and into the keep pile for a deeper
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Five Questions to Make Your Resume Read like a Brochure and Not a Blueprint
The reality of today’s job market is that you are lucky to get a 6-10 second skim read during the first round of resume reading.
Transforming a Cover Letter into an Easy-to-Read Email
Are Cover Letters Important? Studies and articles are all over the map when it comes to a cover letter’s importance. While some say they are
How Generalists Had the Advantage Pre-recession, a manager wearing a multitude of hats running accounts payable, doing a little marketing and managing a customer service
How to Go from Passive to Active on LinkedIn and Gain a Competitive Advantage
To be cutting edge back when LinkedIn launched back in 2003, all you needed was an account and a profile that outlined your jobs, titles
Four Ways to Go the Extra Mile and Get Hired
No doubt about it – job hunting is rough. While the economy is improving my anecdotal observation is the landscape still favors employers and not
Job Hunting by the Numbers
As countless can attest, today’s job market is not what it used to be ten and certainly not 20 years ago. Gone are the days
Four Ways to Help Recruiters Find You on LinkedIn
As I mentioned in a previous post I learned a lot from the FAVAR Method of LinkedIn Profile Creation webinar I recently attended, which focused
Four Ways to Increase Your LinkedIn Recruiter Visibility
The tool LinkedIn Recruiter, purchased today by industry leaders and recruiting organizations nationwide, has changed the way talent is searched for and found on LinkedIn. Below are four easy