Resume Advice

How Résumés Find Black Holes » What do job seekers and astronomers have in common? Dumping your résumé into a corporate receptacle is like plunging into a black hole in… Read more

Optimizing Your CV So A Recruiter Will Find It: 3 Basic Rules » These days writing a good CV is more than just about making it look good on the… Read more

Get Hired Despite Red Flags in Your Story » Debra Ann MacDougall advises job seekers with troubled pasts or obvious disabilities on how to present themselves to hiring managers. She… Read more

Top 8 Ways To Get Your Resume Thrown Out » Landing the job starts with successfully getting your resume to the hiring manager. If it never gets there, or if… Read more

Signs That Your Resume is Raising Red Flags for Hiring Managers » In every job application pool is likely to be one or more candidates who are considered to be… Read more

Gone in Seven Seconds – the Resume Review » I really liked this article from Brad Remillard at Impact Hiring. Here he is really honest about how he, as a… Read more

A Sloppy Résumé Tells Employers That You’re a Sloppy Worker » One of my first military memories is an instructor ripping an “Irish pennant” (piece of string) off of my… Read more

Hiring Managers Share Most Memorable Resume Mistakes in New CareerBuilder Survey » With 14.9 million people unemployed in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pressure to… Read more

Job Hunting? Avoid These Mistakes and Impress Hiring Manager » It’s hard enough landing an interview, so when you do, you don’t want to blow it. Here are 10 mistakes… Read more

September is Update Your Resume Month » Another year has passed, bringing with it months filled with new job responsibilities, achievements, continued education, and other mentionables worthy of including in… Read more

Resume Padding: A Dangerous Game » Fudging your hire date or your end date for a past job. Inflating your job duties. Adding a few tenths of a point to… Read more

5 Mistakes Job Seekers Make on their Resume » I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to think of a new way to say the same things I’ve already… Read more

Time To Ditch The Resume? Strategies For Landing A Green Job In A Tough Market » I just read a great article that begins to highlight something that I hear… Read more

Jobless and Staying That Way » Americans have almost always taken growth for granted. Recessions kick in, financial crises erupt, yet these events have generally been thought of as the… Read more

Sales Resumes Should Have Sales Numbers » There is one thing that hiring managers are really looking for when scanning resumes of sales reps for medical device, laboratory sales, biotech… Read more