How to Choose the Best Resume Format The unthinkable has happened and you have been downsized from the company where you have been employed for the past ten years. In all this time, you haven’t touched your resume and now find that you must completely rewrite it. Being the intelligent person that you are, you
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Projected Hiring And Job Search Activities For The Upcoming Quarter CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s largest online job site with more than 20 million unique visitors and over 1 million jobs, released the results of its latest survey tracking projected hiring and job search activities for the upcoming quarter. The survey, titled “Q4 2005 Job Forecast,” was
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Retiring workforce – Deloitte survey Looming talent crisis signals need for organisations to employ new strategies for talent management Impending baby boomer retirements, a widening skills gap and outdated approaches to talent management are combining forces to produce a “perfect storm†that threatens long-term business performance, according to a new survey conducted by the Human
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Good job hunting I suppose Notre Dame does a good job of filling us with enough anxiety and terror concerning our post-grad life. The barrage of Career fairs, expos, seminars and practice meetings is starting to drive me a little crazy especially now that I am a senior. Thus, instead of getting asked about my
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How to Answer These Tricky Interview Questions Does the thought of going on a job interview cause your palms to sweat and your body to break out in hives? Stop itching; you’re not alone. The vast majority of job seekers admit to emotions ranging from mild uneasiness to downright panic leading up to their interviews.
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Seven Habits of Highly Successful Job Seekers In the job search craze, there are those who land a job right away and those who struggle through the process of finding one for a long time. ‘Luck’ is usually the response one hears from disenfranchised job seekers when they find out that their neighbor down the
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Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume In my line of work, I see hundreds of resumes, and I often see the same patterns over and over again. I frequently observe resume tendencies that are not necessarily mistakes, yet the jobseekers behind these resumes could have much nicer, cleaner, more readable resumes if they just
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Smart strategies can get older workers in the door – 09/12/05: Why is it so difficult in some professions to find a job when you have 10, 15 or 20 years of experience? Sometimes it is because employers discriminate and other times it is because hiring managers make assumptions about middle-aged or older employees. If
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Jobless execs need not apply: Out-of-work managers face special perils. Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bait and Switch†is a worthy companion to “Nickel and Dimed,†her engaging and infuriating 2001 expose of the hard lives of working-class Americans. The new book provides a victim’s-eye view of the world of unemployed white-collar workers – people struggling, mostly in
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Hiring tests: the right fit: Bruce McWilliams, general manager at Lee’s Summit Honda, credits a 15-minute pre-employment psychological profile with reducing employee turnover and boosting sales at the car dealership. Rich Mellor, a loss-prevention advisor and division vice president at Helzberg Diamonds, believes a pre-employment integrity and attitude assessment has improved staff quality and cut
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Coaches, marketing plan can boost midcareer job seekers: Midcareer professionals who market themselves for today’s competitive workplace are getting noticed — and are being hired, according to job counselors. By working intensively with coaches and employment specialists, workers in their 40s and 50s can receive the assistance they need in brushing up on their job
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Being Good With Figures Paying Off: If you love to crunch numbers, here’s some good news. Employers in Connecticut seem to be in a hiring mood for those gifted in accounting and finance.At least that’s how the Robert Half International financial-staffing organization sees it. Its fourth-quarter survey of Connecticut chief financial officers shows a renewed
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Can you fudge on your resume? A resume is a marketing tool. It should showcase your experience and qualifications in the most succinct and relevant way possible. And that often means being selective in the kind of information that you include or being crafty in your wording. But that doesn’t mean you should lie. A
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Resume can make or break job hopes Your resume is a lot like your breath on your first date: If it’s bad, you’re not getting anywhere. And while a cover letter and resume rarely alone land a person a job, they are often the deciding factors in whether the candidate gets an interview. The reason
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Can you fudge on your resume? A resume is a marketing tool. It should showcase your experience and qualifications in the most succinct and relevant way possible. And that often means being selective in the kind of information that you include or being crafty in your wording. But that doesn’t mean you should lie. A
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