The wait after mailing out a bunch of resume can be frustrating as it can be mindnumbingly depressing. That’s the easy part. I can see you rolling your eyes. First, you shouldn’t be waiting. You should be doing. You should be doing something. Mail out more resumes. Network. Attend toastmasters. Join a job club. Anything […]
Advice to Write That Unbeatable Resume
I am forever amazed at some of the “dumb” resume mistakes that just seem to live on. Writing a resume is fairly straightforward – I think. You list your relevant work experiences. You list your relevant skills and educational background. You list your relevant personal contact information. You list whatever you think is relevant to […]
What Is A Resume Addendum?
As we head into the weekend, let’s talk some pointers on writing resumes. Look it, I know weekends are for resting, but… But, if you’re not working or you need to move to a new job desperately, then my friend, you need to spend some of your time this weekend on job hunting. So, let’s […]
Job News For Today…
Let’s check out some of news hitting the job front today… Beecher Tuttle is telling us that Bank of America is cranking up its junior banker hiring plans. That’s good news if you have plans to get into the banking industry. You can read more about it here: In the latest hiring roundup, Bank of […]
Resume Writing is a Difficult Task: 4 Books on Resume Writing
Resume writing is a difficult task. And that of course, goes without saying. Having just helped my wife write a very basic, bare-bones chronological resume; I can definitely attest to that. It helped that I have some familiarity with writing resumes, but my wife was lost. Writing a resume can test the confidence of many […]
Seven Interview Questions That Kill Careers
Some thoughts to get you going for the week. I thought I’d start with this great article from Kelly Eggers. She writes for a number of online outlets on a variety of job search-related issues and generally provides great info. She knocks it out of the park with this one: Seven Interview Questions That Kill […]
Can You Identify The Top Three Mistakes That Can Eliminate Your Resume Immediately
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a perfect recipe with the perfect set of ingredients that could guarantee a perfect resume, each and every time you wrote one. Man, that’d be sweet! Okay, back to reality… Regardless of whether you do it yourself with a book from the library or Barnes&Noble; use a template […]
How NOT to Write a Resume
By Kevin Donlin, You can learn a lot about how to do something right by first learning what NOT to do. Take resumes, for example. I review about 200-300 a month, and most have at least 2-3 mistakes. Yet, all those hundreds of mistakes can be grouped into just a handful of categories, which you […]
Quick Resume Tip – Emailing the Resume
In today’s inter-connected world, someone may ask you to email your resume to you. Of course, that someone (perhaps a hiring manager – one can hope) is asking for a resume is a great relief from constantly sending it out – unsolicited. And you would not be wrong in moving that task to the number one stop […]
Are You Making These Four Resume Mistakes?
Wrote a great resume. Sent it out to a half dozen hot companies you painstakingly researched. 4 weeks later, you’re wondering where the heck are the responses? Why aren’t they beating down your door? Who knows? Could be an infinite range of reasons… Or… Maybe you need a few of the mistakes that Charles Purdy […]
Write a Better Resume – Go Back to College!
Wanna write a better resume – Go back to College! But before you start rolling your eyes and clicking outta here – hear me out. But first… You have two choices when it comes to writing a resume. You can either have someone write it for you or you can write it yourself – pretty obvious, […]
10 Resume Tips…From Me
There’s a lot of great resume advice out there. You could go to www.gm4jh.com or www.resumedictionary.com. And of course, yahoo, MSN, AOL and the like all link to either Monster or Careerbuilder with all their great resources. Plus, all those blogs and websites that you could google. I would not ever presume to be your […]
Words and Terms That Make Your Resume a Deal Breaker
My attitude and approach towards resume writing is scattered everywhere on Landing On Your Feet. You need it. It needs to be spot on. Not a deal breaker. But… Only not a deal breaker if the resume comes in after the contact, after the interview, after the vetting, etc. But if you lead with the […]
Is the Paper Résumé Dead?
Ms Ensign poses an interesting question, and then gives the right answer. With Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all the rest; it might seem that a paper resume is fast becoming outdated. And if all the hiring managers were in their early 20’s, that argument might have some legs. But no… Most hiring managers – however […]
The Key To A Great Resume in 2012
With the start of the new year, there are a lot of resume writing suggestions and tips floating out there in the blogosphere. I want to do what I can to pull some of that together here for your edificaion – along with some of my own tips, of course. First, this caveat – the […]
