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Classic Resume Gaffes

1. Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.

5 Sure-Fire Ways to Make your Resume Unforgettable (job-search tip)

We all know that the resume is your single most important job-search tool.  Aside from representing you and all your accomplishments, education and employment (in one page or less) it will actively go around and knock on doors to find you a job.  It’s true!  Except for that last part about finding you a job.

Kill your resume objective statement.

We’ve written several times about how to write an objective statement and when you should have one instead of the summary statement, but when I was talking to John the other day about writing resumes in general I wondered why have an objective statement at all.

Everyone knows, for your resume to have a fighting [...]

Three tips to help you better sell yourself in the job search

Nothing succeeds like hard work but these three tips will improve your odds of success [...]

Discrimination the easy way with Facebook and Linkedin!

A recent Washington Post article about Age discrimination and emails from one of the list-serves I belong to  got me thinking about the whole discrimination thing. Before I get into this, lets me state for the record, ‘ I don’t condone any form of discrimination’. OK !

That said, lets see what trouble I can get [...]

How to get noticed

Not for the timid job seeker !

A cautionary tale – feedback required

When all is not what it seems to [...]

Are you qualified?

The current job market is awash with highly skilled, well trained and experienced job seekers. How do you make the cut? Are you really qualified for the position? With so many options how does an organization make a [...]

3 Alternatives to the resume Objective or Summary statement

While the debate about whether you should use a Summary statement or an Objective statement continues (and here), there are other things you can have at the top of your resume instead.

First though, why is there so much talk about the summary statement or objective statement

How important is the appearance of your resume?

Looks and content in the resume do [...]