How to Build an Effective Online Presence – Part 1: Your Resume
Regular readers know that I’m big on the need to build a strong online presence. There are a number of reasons for this: 1) Recruiters are increasingly using the web to source candidates and you want to be found.
Back in Action — A Day in the Life
Thanks to everyone who sent get-well wishes while I was suffering in my sick bed. I swear that my last blog post was not a ploy for sympathy, but it was nice to get some! And thanks to the good people at O Desk, who included this blog in their list of Top Freelancing Blogs . I am a big fan of oDesk and have hired several talented people through them. Check oDesk out if you’re a freelancer or contractor or someone who hires freelancers or contractors. I am finally feeling like a functioning human again and have managed to start digging out of my pile of unanswered emails and unfinished to-do lists
How to Lose Your Job on Twitter
Resume Bear has the scoop and some really eye-opening examples of the incredibly dumb things people post online. If you are searching for a job or applying to a college or even just hoping to keep the job you have you should be very careful what you say and post online
Template Bulk Pack: 600 Resumes & Cover Letters for 150 Positions
A resume template can help if your resume needs writing or rewriting. It’s always useful to review resume templates and samples when you are writing your resume, so you can get an idea of what a resume should (and could) look like.
Use a resume template or a sample as a starting point for creating your own resume. Add your information to the resume template, then tweak and edit it to personalize your resume, so it highlights your skills and abilities.
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Those samples represent a diverse range of professionals in some of the more common job positions. You can use these resume samples to get ideas on choosing a resume format, developing an introduction and preparing the body of the resume.
Creative Leaders Get Their Hands Dirty
In the last few decades, technology has encouraged our fascination with perfection — whether it's six sigma manufacturing, the zero-contaminant clean room, or in its simplest form, " 2.0." Given the new uncertainty in the world however, I can see that it is time to question this approach — of over-technologized, over-leveraged, over-advanced living. The next big thing? Dirty hands.
Too Many Resumes: Too Little Time
Scenario: What to do if you are drowning in resumes and still can’t find the candidate you need. They say you should be thrilled. The unemployment rate is so high that it is raining resumes. Your candidate must be in there, somewhere. Only thing is that you’re going blind from scanning resumes for the elusive, one-in-a-thousand, qualified candidate. As you do, you wonder whether this is what you went to college to do – repetitive, apparently useless sifting through CVs. With each successive resume, you casually wonder why candidates don’t read the job requirements. Then you wonder whether they can read. Oh yes, and then there are t he resumes that don't seem particularly truthful.
I Miss Sick Days
There are only a few things that I miss about working in Corporate America. I miss that predictable direct deposit into my account every two weeks, I miss paid vacations, and I miss paid sick days. I mention this because I have been a feverish, miserable mess for the past few days (don’t worry — you can’t catch it through a blog). I had hoped to recover over the weekend, but this evil strep monster is hanging in there
Things I Couldn't Tell You for 14 Years
ExecJobCoach on Twitter! (Come follow me!) For 14 years I was an executive recruiter and I was good! Well maybe not good for you but my mind's eye could select a preferred candidate from a mile away. But alas, there were all the other hopefuls interviewing their little hearts out attempting to impress me. Corporate executives, Directors, Managers and those in the trenches all attempted to become the chosen and alas, though they performed their jobs with genius, most performed miserably when attempting to secure an offer
