From the category archives:
You’ve written a compelling resume and posted it on several job boards. Yet when you pull up the resumes in your job category, you see hundreds of people with your same level of experience and skill set.
How can you make your resume stand out from the pack?
Recruiters and hiring professionals use keyword searches to find [...]
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Almost every big company today requires employees to take personality tests that will allow managers and human resources officers to perfectly peg all new hires – or avoid making what could be major staffing mistakes.
The problem with this is that some managers have developed formulas – or adopted formulas from books — that require a [...]
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Almost everyone I know who currently hates his or her job had a premonition that things wouldn’t go smoothly when they first signed on to the company.
Why did they take the job, then? In most cases, the answer was money, plain and simple. And if you’ve been out of work for a prolonged time [...]
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I was reading a blog the other day written by a woman who was livid, positively livid, that a prospective employer had made a comment that she says alluded to her less than stellar wardrobe.
I don’t know what the comment was. The post was a rambling invective against the interviewer – another woman – that [...]
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Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the former mayor of Arlington, Ore., knows from personal experience how dangerous it can be to not monitor one’s online presence. Kontur-Gronquist was removed from office in February after a firestorm erupted – much of it via the Internet – when some snooping citizens found photos of her posing in her lingerie on [...]
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“I am interested in a position with your company. My resume is attached should something become available, at which time I ask you to contact me for an interview.”
I have to say that this may be one of the most ridiculous e-mails I have ever received – which is pretty sad when you consider that [...]
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The smart job seeker today conducts a focused job search that begins with research into companies from which he or she seeks employment. Gone are the days – if you’re smart – of slapping a resume on a job board and waiting for someone to call. There’s simply too much competition to leave your fate [...]
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I once had a friend who was so focused on a particular salary that she turned down a number of jobs that could have yielded her an amazing career in favor of a dead-end job that gave her the money she wanted immediately – but with no hope of a promotion unless someone else in [...]
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In my years of hiring, promoting, and firing people, I saw a lot of resumes come across my desk. Most of them, frankly, were boring. Some of them were interesting and intriguing, and in many cases, the owners of those resumes won jobs and career advancement.
However, even those wonderfully formatted, intelligently worded resumes of stellar [...]
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It’s a little scary that the laws have been set in favor to the banks to pray on the consumer and what we need to do is get educated. This documentary, run originally on PBS, has some amazing interview footage.
Consider this: those who pay off their credit cards every month are called “deadbeats” by [...]
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