We may now be living in a world of technological advancement but the importance of résumé writing has not diminished over the course of time. It still remains the single most important and potent weapon in your arsenal in your quest to land that dream job. Take a close look at your résumé: Is it…
Competition is fierce for marketing jobs. If you want to work for an ad agency in Utah, you have to set yourself apart from the competition. Here are five of the top skills ad agencies are looking for today. 1. Creativity Marketing team members need to be able to look at a product from an…
Reaching out to prospective employers is best accomplished with an effective resume. Likewise, employers can quickly weed out candidates that don’t match their hiring criteria. Because a resume is the best opportunity to document your relevant experience, coursework, special abilities, honors and education, you want to make certain it is written in a manner that…
If you happen to be an extremely skilled and experienced tech professional, your resume could start to read like the technical version of a Tolstoy novel. In other words, your application might be too exhaustingly long for a reasonable hiring manager to sift through. As it turns out, including anything and everything on your resume…
The decision to look for a job in your later years can be a daunting one. There are a ton of new positions and new tools to use while working at them, and figuring out how to make the current job market work for you can be pretty intimidating. While most employers will insist that…
For those of us working in a more creatively-oriented field, such as writing, animation, or video production, there are a lot of interesting ways to present yourself for employment. The right impression that you make upon your potential employers is an incredibly important part of the job-seeking process, and can mean the difference between simply…
You’ve spent time crafting what you thought was a pretty darn good resume, you’ve taken it out around town and online, putting it to the test. So why are you not being flooded with calls and requests for an interview? Believe it not your resume might be getting passed over without so much as a…
I’d like to talk a bit this time about automated resume screening software (also known as Automated Tracking Systems or Hiring Management Systems). With the overwhelming number of applications received in today’s tough job market, many larger companies are using these automated screening software systems. As a hiring manager, I typically see resumes after they’ve…
There are basically two different resume formats that you should consider. As a hiring manager, I’ve seen all sorts of different formats, some of them wildly creative and some of them virtually unreadable. By far, I (as well as most other hiring managers) prefer one of the following commonly accepted formats: the “Chronological” resume format…
In my last post I talked about common resume mistakes. This time, I’m going to drill down a bit further and discuss three specific items you should never include on your resume and why. First: any statement about a “job objective” or “career objective”. This is a rather large area of controversy among resume writing…
Due to popular demand, and since It’s been many months since I’ve posted any advice about resume writing, my next few posts will focus on this very important tool in your job hunting arsenal. Before getting too deep into resume writing, I’d like to review some common resume mistakes to keep in mind before you…
Did you know that one misspelled word or grammar problem can cause your resume to get put in the trash? The hiring manager may not even look at the rest of your resume and see all the benefits you bring to the table. They feel that if you couldn’t send in a proper resume, then…
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