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[28 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 2,908 views]
Finding a new job is your new job

Congratulations! You’re hired. We have an exciting new job that has been tailored specifically to your experience, unique skills, and past responsibilities. This exciting new job offers long hours, lots of stress, and horrible pay. The job responsibility includes only one task, find and acquire new avenues of employment. Not only are you an employee, but in this job you’re an unsupervised CEO responsible for all activities of the company. The job title for this new opportunity is UNEMPLOYED. Again, you’re hired.
Face it! Your new job sucks, but it is …

Job Search, Job Tips, cover letters »

[23 May 2010 | One Comment | 4,738 views]
Impressive Cover Letters

In past articles, we’ve discussed the basic structure of a cover letter. In this article, we’ll walk you through turning your basic cover letter into an impressive cover letter.
Your resume outlines your career, skills, and experience. It is the most common means of advertising to potential employers. Unfortunately, few hiring managers enjoy reading resumes.  Your cover letter is a short concise means of selling the hiring manager on reading your resume. They don’t have to commit much time to read over the cover letter, so they are highly likely to …

Job Tips, Resume Help »

[14 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 602 views]
Highly Effective Resumes

Most people have never been involved in hiring an employee, so it is understandable that many have no idea what the hiring process looks like from the employer’s perspective. Even for those of us who have hired a employees in the past, it can be hard to remember the key points of the process when preparing a resume. The following points will help you optimize your resume to be the most effective resume possible.
Employer’s time: Most hiring managers will spend less than 3 minutes per resume. Many of them won’t …

Resume Help »

[25 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 1,499 views]
Common Resume Mistakes

There are a million reasons an HR person may pass on your resume. You may not have enough experience. You could have too much experience. You could have worked for the wrong boss in the past. Office politics, height, weight, skin color, hair color… Right or wrong the list goes on and on. But there is one reason that is absolutely unacceptable: A poorly written resume.
If you lose out on a job because of a poorly written resume, it’s no one’s fault but your own. The quality of your …

Career Advice »

[21 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 541 views]
That Job is Too Good For You

As a teenager I went to the grocery with my grandfather. I had my eye on a girl who worked the video counter. My grandfather caught on and told me to ask her out. Not thinking, I listed off a dozen reasons why she was too good for me. He responded with the best life (& Job) advice I’ve ever been given.
He said “In this life, plenty of people will take one look at you and list a dozen reasons why you’re not good enough. Don’t add yourself to …

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