Blue Sky Resumes

When we moved into our home 11 years ago, the garden was completely overgrown with ivy and weed vines. I spent a few years chopping them back and finally got it to the stage where I could plant flowers. But after clearing all those vines, I also discovered a few plants from some other previous [...]

Is there a more maligned group of marketers than real estate agents? They’re famous – and frequently mocked – for their ability to spin straw into gold. But read through a few real estate listings and you’ll see strategies that are amazingly useful when writing a resume. 1) It’s not a house, it’s a whole [...]

You’ve worked long and hard on your resume – you feel certain it represents you effectively. You send it out and eagerly await the responses …. and hear nothing. The problem might not be your resume content – it might be your file format. Of the resumes we receive to review each day, 10-20% are [...]

Most published resume writing advice is focused on content. In this 4th post in my ‘How to Write a Resume’ series, I want to get you to focus on something I think is every bit as important – resume design. It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it Have you ever been [...]

This is the 3rd post in my ‘How to Write a Resume’ series and it’s maybe the most important of them all. Learning how to strategize your resume is the absolute #1 secret to opening doors and getting interviews. No exaggeration. What is a Resume Strategy? Developing a resume strategy means sitting down and figuring [...]

This post is the second in my ‘How to Write a Resume’ series. If you missed the first one, you can find it here. In my first post, I talked about the importance of feeling employers’ pain – knowing your audience is a crucial first step to writing a resume that really works. Now we’re [...]

Writing a resume is a chore for most people. I know this because whenever I do an online search for the term ‘how to write a resume’ or ‘writing a resume’, I come across someone tweeting “ARRRGH I hate writing my resume” or “I have been trying to write this stupid resume for weeks. I [...]

If you’re looking for a job in this current climate, the bad news is that you have a lot of competition. The good news is that most of them have no idea what they’re doing. I meet a lot of job seekers during the course of my work as a professional resume writer. From executives [...]