If you’re looking for work, you know that the tough economy is making it very hard to get the attention of recruiters and hiring managers. More often that not, it feels as though your carefully crafted resume and cover letter just went into a black hole. You rarely even get a response – even when […]
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It’s taken me a few days to sort out my thoughts about Steve Jobs. His death affected me far more than I would have expected and I’ve been trying to work out why. Yes I love my iMac and my Macbook Pro. And my iPad. And my iPod. But even though I love my Apple
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Today I came across a couple of articles that got me thinking about the workplace and what makes us happy. The first was an oral history of a Toronto Canada landmark – a massive record store on Yonge Street called HMV. A Happy Place to Work HMV was my employer for 13 years and in
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Many people struggle with how to start their resume. Should you write an objective statement describing the type of position you seek? Or should you just launch right into your career history, figuring that\’s what employers most want to see? The answer is neither. Instead, I recommend starting your resume with a strong resume headline
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Today I had an email from a senior-level job seeker who is frustrated at the response to his resume. He has posted his resume on several boards and he spends hours each day scouring job postings and applying to as many as he can. The result? Almost no response. He asked me to take a
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I recently received an email asking whether we have any experience in writing functional resumes. After talking to the job seeker on the phone, I learned that he’s making a career change. He thinks that he needs to distract employers from her background in one industry so they can imagine him in another. For this
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One of the most common mistakes people make when writing a resume is to try and explain everything. Every detail, every situation, every technology used, every job held no matter how short – everything. But this is a mistake. The job of your resume is not to tell the clearest story of what happened –
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I’m a big fan of LinkedIn and encourage all my clients to use it actively. I’m even writing a guide on how to make the most of it as a job search tool. But not everything LinkedIn does is a good idea and the Resume Builder tool is a perfect example of this. It sounds
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Not long ago, I was invited to join a brand new business social networking site. Because I like the person who sent the invite, I clicked ‘yes’ and signed up. But having looked around, I decided it was much too early stage to spend time on. For the last 3 days, I’ve received an email
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Just lately, I’ve read a rash of articles claiming to reveal the hard and fast rules of resume writing. They have titles like “5 rules of a great resume” or “10 words you must never use on your resume.” Maybe you’ve read some of these articles. Maybe you’ve even made changes to your resume after
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