How To Build The Ultimate Professional Resume
I’ve reviewed more than 500,000 resumes during my career and have developed an optimal resume format that works for 95% of the workforce. Learn How To Build The Ultimate Professional Resume!
The Best Way to Unlock Applicant Tracking Systems to Get Noticed
I wanted to address an issue that plagues virtually every job seeker who applies online for a position. Let’s take a look at the best way to unlock applicant tracking systems to get noticed! To give yourself a leg up, you need to avoid the websites and ATS. You need to get directly to the right person’s inbox with a tailored message. Learn how!
How to Go from Military Veteran to Civilian Professional
Military veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce face challenges most of us don't. To help them, I've created this complimentary guide titled How to Go from Military Veteran to Civilian Professional! It's truly a complete job-search guide for anyone, but especially helps veterans overcome the two major obstacles they face when becoming civilian professionals.
How to Go from Stay-at-Home Parent to Professional in 12 Steps
When you’ve been “off work” for a year, three years, or a decade, returning to the workforce is daunting. As an executive recruiter, I’m often asked the best approaches to return to transition back to work successfully. I decided it’s time to write how to go from stay-at-home parent to professional in twelve steps!
4 Worst Resume Blunders and Their Antidotes
It’s time for another resume article. Yay! I’ve written a number of them. Each has its own story and offers unique insight. None, however, has focused exclusively on the worst resume killers, so I thought it might be time to discuss the four worst resume blunders and their antidotes. Before we address
The Ultimate Resume Template for Any 22-Year-Old #ifiwere22
How confused are you right now? How many resume samples have you reviewed? How many different opinions can there possibly be regarding this ridiculous piece of paper required to facilitate an over-in-a-blink-of-an-eye moment? Unfortunately, the answer to the last question is too many. Before we get you un-confused, let’s have a little fun
Just graduated? Use These 9 Tips to Jumpstart Your Job Search!
Times have certainly changed. When I graduated from college in the late ‘80s, the biggest struggle my friends and I had was choosing among our handful of job offers. Today’s market has more than “eradicated” those “struggles” of yesteryear. Trust me, my friends and I were no different than you are. Times
How to Write a Resume That Gets You the Job Interview
I’ve been blogging for a number of years and in 2012 wrote A Resume Quickie regarding the stylistic Dos and Don’ts of resume writing. At that time, the only two people that read my blog were yours truly and my mother (because she does, in fact, love me that much). Thanks to
The Art of a Successful Job Search
As you can imagine in my position, I receive many inquiries from job searchers. Since it's extremely difficult to spend the appropriate amount of time with each of them, I thought I'd share what I consider to be the art of a successful job search. I won't go so far as to say
