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Does Your Resume Contain the Essential Ingredients

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Can your resume generate worthwhile job interviews? If not, it's probably lacking one of the five necessary components that all the best resumes contain. However, it's important to remember that the goal of the document is not to secure employment but to land interview appointments. With that limited aim in mind, it's easier to craft a well-crafted, one-page summary of your education, experience, and personal characteristics so prospective employers will grant you 30 minutes of their precious time. It's those short chats, most of which are very formal, that lead to job offers. … [Read more...] about Does Your Resume Contain the Essential Ingredients

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5 Crucial Tips for Creating and Formatting Your Resume

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When creating and formatting a resume, you need to make sure that the final product is not only polished but also professional. Those who do not achieve this with their resumes might not even have a chance of any hiring manager having a second look at their job application documents. … [Read more...] about 5 Crucial Tips for Creating and Formatting Your Resume

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Changing Jobs? Use These Online Tools to Help With Your Resume

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Putting together a resume is hard work. But, did you know that the average recruiter only spends 6 seconds reviewing a resume? How do you make sure your resume gets more time than 6 seconds? If you want to make sure your resume stands out from the pack, it’s important that you use the right tools to create your resume. But, what tools should you be using? Check out this guide to discover the top online tools to help you with your resume.  And click over to make a video resume tool. … [Read more...] about Changing Jobs? Use These Online Tools to Help With Your Resume

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How to Age-Proof Your Resume

by Werdna Yug Leave a Comment

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It may be illegal, but age discrimination exists in the hiring process, and the pace of technological change has only intensified the problem. Today’s hiring managers often assume that workers over age 40 will be too expensive and won’t have the technological savvy or adaptability needed to add value to the modern workplace. The solution? Construct your resume with the assumption that hiring managers will have reservations about hiring a mature worker. Your resume needs to convince them that the value you will bring to their organization should override all their concerns. Article contributed by LiveCareer. … [Read more...] about How to Age-Proof Your Resume

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Create a Resume for a Career

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Creating a resume is like fishing. Your resume is the bait that you disseminate into the workplace of a company that you would like to consider a career with. You cast your resume into the human resource pond hoping to hook a job. Resumes are all about catching the attention of management to consider you for an interview, not a job yet, just a face-to-face. … [Read more...] about Create a Resume for a Career

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Creative vs. Traditional Resume: Which is Right for You?

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The job market has so many resume styles that you can choose from, making it even harder to know where to start when you are creating your own. However, once you’ve had a grasp about the different types of resumes out there and when to use them, picking the one ideal for your situation is easy. Since your resume is the first communication with a potential employer, it needs to stand out. … [Read more...] about Creative vs. Traditional Resume: Which is Right for You?

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How to Stretch Your Resume to a Full Page (Without Lying)

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  If you’re just starting out in your career, you’ve chosen a particularly good time. And while you probably don’t have extensive work experience, you still have a lot to offer a prospective employer. Everyone has a career story to tell. Whether it can fit on one resume page or several, the key is showing how your unique skills and abilities contribute to the success of the hiring organization. Don’t think that having just a one-page resume is a bad thing at all. Even for experienced jobseekers whose resumes are several pages long, the first page is usually the only one that gets seriously looked at. That’s one of the reasons resume experts advise putting the most important content on the first page. … [Read more...] about How to Stretch Your Resume to a Full Page (Without Lying)

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How to Write an Objective for a Resume

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If you’re a college student looking to land an internship, or a post-grad professional who’s laser-focused on the type of position they know they want, knowing how to write an objective for a resume is an essential skill. But what are the best things to keep in mind for a career objective statement? In this article, we’ll go over career objective examples and tie everything together. … [Read more...] about How to Write an Objective for a Resume

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Benefits of Using Free Resume Templates

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In a job market that seems to get more competitive with each passing day, you know how important it is to have a standout resume. Of course, as you may have already discovered achieving this is a lot easier said than done.  Whether you are meticulously crafting your very first resume or you feel like your tried-and-true one suddenly needs a major facelift, free resume templates can be extremely helpful. Not sure where to get free templates? Get started here: 279 free samples in MS Word. No Experience Needed  Well, no experience is needed to write a resume with a template anyway. This may not hold true for the position you are applying for. Many people simply do not know where to begin. They sit there, looking at a blank document on their computer, and just feel a little lost. Does this sound familiar? You may be wondering what headers you should use? Where do the indents and bullets go? It can all be very intimidating. When you use a free template for resumes there is no guess work. … [Read more...] about Benefits of Using Free Resume Templates

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Increase Your Job Search Success by Using Perfect Resume Sample

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While determining the resume requirement, it is written to communicate your skills, qualifications, and interest to serve particular types of functions. Hence, it performs the function of a tool; it needs to be effective and powerful to gain the desired effect. Take coordinated efforts to define your profile summary well, and catch the employer's attention. Get online resume help to enhance the professional format and design equally well suited content matter. Increase your job search success: You can increase your job search success by using a perfect resume sample that will serve the  resume writing requirements. To know, how to improve your job search success, go through the given guidelines or features.          Communication tool: Handle resume as an effective communication tool, that will introduce you to the organization, for the first time. Create good impression by utilizing such opportunity in every possible aspect, and bring a close coordination in your career … [Read more...] about Increase Your Job Search Success by Using Perfect Resume Sample

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