Friday, March 5th, 2010
Not getting the results you want in your job search?
Don't give up! Learn what you can do to take your search to the next level. The Smarter Job Search Workshops are interactive, information-packed one-hour workshops designed to make you more successful in a number of ways:
Create winning re…
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Andrew Hudson has a great list of job search time wasters - I wholeheartedly concur!
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1956-Denver-Jobs-Examiner~y2009m11d30-Job-Seeking-Skills-Top-Time-Wasters
If you find you have been wasting time in one, two, or all five of these approaches, call me so that…
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
More than ever before, a job seeker's resume must be carefully composed in such a way that each word on the page supports a specific career objective. And it better be all about benefits of hiring you: 75% or more of the content needs to prove your worth and demonstrate the RESULTS you will bring to…
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
If you've been searching unsuccessfully for a new job for some time now -- or if you're about to start a job-search -- you'll want to review the 10 job-hunting concepts we discuss in this article. We refer to these job-search concepts as re…
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
An esteemed colleague of mine, Carol Ross, writes a brilliant blog, often putting lucid words around the topics that I find myself pondering (though with less clarity). Her most recent, The Upside to a Recession, is about "realistic optimism" --an oxymoron better known as the silver lining…
Friday, February 27th, 2009
The following article is based on an e-mail I received from a "recently re-employed UNIX Guru" - we'll call him Louis, because, well, that's his name. Fresh from a relatively short period of unemployment, he still identifies with those still in job search mode - and nice guy that he is, he wanted to…
Friday, February 20th, 2009
By Frank Fox
Your resume is the one step in your job search over which you have total control. It is your personal career marketing document. Based upon the strength of that one or two pages of information, you will either be selected for an interview from among potentially hundreds of other cand…
Friday, February 20th, 2009
A survey of HR managers and recruiters on resumes and related issues
As the moderator of an HR / Recruiter Panel Discussion at the 1999 Professional Association of Resume Writers' convention, I learned that professional resume consultants, just like job seekers have plenty of questions than ever w…
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Don't use your middle initial
In my years as a career services professional, I have found that approximately 90% of my clients are hell-bent on having their name appear on their resumes as follows:
"George M. Smith" or "Susan W. Dingle"
It ends up on the resume only about 5% of the time. I wi…
Friday, February 20th, 2009
In my business, I naturally see a lot of resumes, written by amateurs and other professionals. Lately I've seen a rash of resumes that seem to have lost their minds. Is your resume "headless?" If your resume reads something like this, you may be missing a critical section.
JOHN T. FRUGALBERRY (w…