How To Create a Resume that Gets Results An effective resume is one that gets results. The purpose of a resume is to obtain an interview and ultimately to get the job or internship. All the effort spent on writing a good resume is worth it and the tips below will help you write a
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Ideally, the mutually-accepted final salary structure will be the outcome of a successful interview process. However, your expectations must be realistic. A little research on deciding upon the expected salary will be helpful. A realistic assessment should be done to calculate your worth as an employee, which should be tested against the present market or
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Branding Your Resume – Three Tips to Brand Your Resume the Right Way Have you heard all the buzz about branding yourself? Are you wondering how to make sure your resume is reflecting your brand? Here are three quick tips to brand your resume so it really reflects you at your very best. Tip Number
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In this ever-growing competitive job market, applicants need every competitive advantage to put their resume and or application on employers’ short list. The majority of people are focused on presenting a spectacular resume with impressive details about themselves. The big questions are, does the employer believe it and does the employer know more about them
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Online Job Hunting Hints By Penelope Trunk No matter whether the job market is good or bad, the best jobs require talent before you walk in the door you need to know how to use the Internet effectively in your job search. Here are six tips to help you improve your online results: 1. Big
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6 steps for making your best impression on job interview Congratulations, your job application has opened the door for an interview. The interviewer will be looking for clues as to your attitude, skills and experience that match both the job and work environment. Your time together will be limited. How can you prepare to make
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Job seekers turn to blogging A unique approach to the job search that’s showing promise is the blog. Ask John Lynk on Patriot Drive in Salisbury. The land development project manager has raked in more solid leads to a new career in the two weeks he launched “The Ultimate Job Search” than all the nine
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Unless you learn how to make a resume, it will cost you lots of money for a skill that you really need to know first-hand. With the right reference materials, the essentials of resume writing can be learned in an hour or two. I offer an excellent book on this topic at my website, if
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How to find a new job in trying times Things aren’t going as well on your current job as you’d hoped. But with bills to pay and the economy as it is, should you even be thinking about looking for something new? After all, you have a job, even if it’s not the job you
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Starting new career, business possible with careful planning Getting a new start in a different career often means making sacrifices and tough financial choices. Just ask D.J. Barker. Barker had two uncles who were policemen. After years as an officer with the Austell Police Department, D.J. Barker became intrigued by the financial industry. He researched
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Baby boomers looking for jobs find the landscape has changed Looking for a job was an exercise in frustration for Mike O’Bryan, and nothing was more aggravating than the interview. The Grapevine man’s 25 years in information technology turned out to be more a liability than an asset. Employers looked at the 60-year-old applicant and
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The buzz when looking for a job in the past few years has been around video resumes. Are they effective? Is this required by all job seekers? Although we can’t speak for all employers, we can provide you with our experience having screened and hired for many reputable companies. Personally we aren’t ready to endorse
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Quit Shuffling Your Feet: Focus On That Job Search Businesspeople constantly talk about focus, especially after they lose it. Job seekers have a particularly difficult time maintaining focus after they’ve established a target. This column will discuss three different people from the East, South and West and how their ability to focus simplified their job
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How to Write a Cover Letter You could write the best resume in the world and be highly qualified for a job, but if your cover letter is poorly written, generic, or misguided, you can pretty much throw your chances out the window. The cover letter is your first, and sometimes your only opportunity to
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Try Searching Instead of Planning for Career Success – Anne Zelenka Instead of planning your career top down, you might find a bottom up search process more effective. Planning works for well-defined and well-understood situations — for example, following a well-trod career path such as medicine or law. Searching relies on trial and error and
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