Applying for a Promotion or New Job? Don’t Make These Mistakes on Your Resume! by John Grobe You can have daily headlines from FedSmith.com delivered right to your desktop each business morning. The service is free and you don’t get junk e-mail as the price of your subscription. Just visit our newsletter page to sign
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Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted Our culture worships planning. Everything must be planned in advance. Our days, week, years, our entire lives. We have diaries, schedules, checklists, targets, goals, aims, strategies, visions even. Career planning is the most insidious of these cults precisely because it encourages a feeling of control over your reactions to
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Make Your Resume Pop With These Resume Writing Tips by Brett McKay These past few weeks, I’ve been slowly preparing for interviews for summer internships. Part of that preparation includes updating my resume. I’ve not only been updating it, I’ve also been looking at how to improve its presentation and make it pop. Here’s a
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Web sites help pros Net work When a pal invited him to create a profile on the career-oriented online network LinkedIn, Harry Barnes signed up out of courtesy and then forgot about it. But when the 36-year-old found himself back on the job market two years later, he turned to the site and others, including
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Your r̩sum̩: Lights, camera, action Job seekers say video r̩sum̩s can make them look better than on paper Video resumes allow applicants go beyond a piece of paper. Scott Levine landed a job with his video resume. Directing your r̩sum̩ Practice, practice, practice РYou spent so much time perfecting your paper r̩sum̩, so devote
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Are Resumes Obsolete As A Primary Job Search Tool? by Bill Knell In a day of background checks, pre-employment drug screening and multiple interviews, where do resumes fit in? According to many successful job applicants, not very well. An ever-increasing number of new hires say that resumes were not crucial in landing them the job.
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Job Interviews: Succeeding with Panel Interviews These days, job interviews often consist of a panel of three-to-six interviewers. A “team approach” to finding the best candidate can be beneficial for the employer. Each member brings a different set of skills, experience and judgment to the team, and can point out pros (and cons) about a
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Mastering the Job Interview – 5 Tips to Make Yourself Irresistible to the Interviewer So you’ve figured out, more or less what you want to do and where the opportunities are. Now; you have been called for an interview. Here are five steps for interview success for students and graduates: 1. Prepare, prepare, prepare. Thoroughly
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The Top 10 Tools For 21st Century Career Success by Linda Lopeke Career success isn’t rocket science – it’s a simple 3-step process. (1) Know what you want to achieve. (2) Define what success looks like (how will you know you achieved it?) and (3) Take action. The more you do, the faster you’ll get
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Business Cards – The Job Hunter’s Calling Card The job hunting business card highlights the skills and qualifications you possess for the types of jobs and industries you’re targeting. It provides personal contact information, and omits current employer information. It’s easy to carry, easy to use, and very discreet. It’s a great option when a
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Always an Interview, Never a Job Offer by Mary White Have you been on more interviews than you can count lately? While it is very encouraging to get called and invited to interview for a job that interests you, it can become very frustrating when the interviews never evolve into job offers. While many people
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