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Friday, July 30, 2010

Resume Writing Services: Your Best Bet to Get You That First Interview

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Not all resume writing services are created equal. There, I've said it! Knowing this, job applicant beware! Now, I don't recommend people do their own resumes for many reasons, some of which I'll cover in this article. The biggest reason is that your resume may become too unfocused and unaware if you undertake the writing yourself. That's also the biggest reason to use resume writing ...

The Five Worst Job Interview Questions Ever—And How to Deal With Them

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Jobseekers hate interviews. What's to like? You have to dress up in your most uncomfortable clothes, put on the shoes that pinch your feet, and go somewhere you have never been before to try and impress people that you don't know—and already don't like. What makes it even worse is when you finally get to the interview, you are asked vague and meaningless questions meant to make you trip and ...

Job Interview Thank You Letters: If You Want to Be Hired, You Better Mind Your Manners!

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One of the cornerstones of clear communication is acknowledgment. With it, we can end a cycle of exchange while indicating that we have understood the message. Without an acknowledgment, we are never sure if our message has been received or perceived as intended. Job interview thank you letters should begin with a gracious "thank you" to the employer for their time and consideration and for ...

Choosing the Right Resume Format to Maximize Your Job Search Results

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With hundreds (if not thousands) of people competing with you for that dream job, how can you get ahead of the pack? The resume is the primary tool used to land a job. It reflects upon your past and, more importantly, it can dictate your future. Your resume acts as a bait to lure the big fishes. If you can write a good resume, your chances of getting hired are greatly increased. When ...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Powering Your Resume With Targeted Keywords and Action Verbs

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Your resume only has about 30 seconds to make an impression. Take advantage of targeted keywords and action verbs to create the lasting impact that gets you hired. Targeted Keywords Why Targeted keywords, such as those used by employers in job postings are representative of the skills that they value. Paint yourself as the perfect candidate by matching the skills they want ...

How to Thrive in Today's Job Market: Five Tips for IT Professionals

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The days of the IT department existing in the back office and not communicating with the front of the business are gone. IT professionals need to take a leadership role, take initiative when making decisions and understand the business. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rich Milgram outlines the skill sets IT professionals need in order to ...

Subtle Ways to Tell Your Story in Your Resume

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A frequent theme of our blogs is limiting your resume to information that's truly relevant to the position for which you're applying. You should feel free to leave off your high school job serving fast food or your college job working retail if you have years of subsequent work experience. Also, listing only the achievements from your previous jobs can actually omit an important component of ...

3 Ways A More Expensive Resume Writer Will Save You Money

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Three job seekers (just in the past two days) have complained to me about their experiences with other resume writers: "This resume doesn't say anything about me." "They left out the most important part." "They just didn't get me." The common thread? Each of these three people paid $150 or less for their resume. They went the inexpensive route, a seemingly smart maneuver when money's ...

Resume Tips For Overcoming Recession-Related Challenges

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Give employers the real scoop, not just your work history. Recessions tend to push hardworking people into two groups. On the one hand is the layoff survivor handling the load of multiple former employees. On the other is the hyper qualified job seeker who nevertheless remains overlooked. Both types of people often need to write a new resume, and neither can afford to do it the same way they ...

The Top 5 Problems with Resumes and How to Make Them Shine

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If you're a job seeker or thinking about looking, you've probably already given thought to your resume. That seems to be the first place we tend to go when we're in that job search mode. I don't agree it should be the first thing on our mind, though I do understand why. The resume is a representation of us as it relates to work experience and skills. It's one of the most tangible elements in ...

Should You Apply Even If You’re Not Qualified?

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A friend of mine recently left his position at our former company to start his own business. He has 15 years of excellent work experience, including 10 years of managing others, and an MBA. His former job is now advertised online, and over the weekend I met a woman who had applied for it. This woman was unhappy with her current company and had noticed that my friend's former position paid ...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Employees Want Stability, Money

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"Give me a job, give me security, give me a chance to survive. I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line. My God I'm hardly alive." When Styx first sang that 32 years ago, the Netherlands went to the World Cup finals, Iran was killing 122 protesters, Afghanistan was in turmoil, unemployment was spiking in Cleveland, and a fleeing filmmaker was in the news — by the name of Roman ...

Factors That Degrade Employee Referral Program Performance — Reducing Results from Great to Good

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Without even knowing the name of your organization I can predict that throughout the most recent downturn you let your employee referral program "go," so to speak. By failing to take advantage of new trends, technologies, and tools, and decreasing efforts to update and keep the program highly visible, your organization has allowed a number of program-performance-degrading-things to ...

10 Questions to Help You Hire Better People

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As a recruiter, how would you describe the culture at Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, or at your own organization? Being able to distill the essence of an organization's culture into a few well-thought-out adjectives is worth a lot. Sometimes I ask a wide variety of people to come up with a few adjectives that describe a company and then use a tag cloud technology such as Wordle or TagCloud to generate a ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

2010 IT Spending is Predicted to be Strong

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In a report released by Forrester Research, spending on technology products and services is predicted to continue to expand around the world throughout 2010. The most IT growth will occur in the US at a rate of 9.9%, while the rest of the world will grow at 7.8% resulting in a total of $1.58 trillion. Here's a percentage breakdown of the IT spend:

Using LinkedIn to Follow Potential Employers

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Many people think of LinkedIn as a tool to network with individuals. While LinkedIn is certainly useful for this purpose, it can also provide invaluable information about which companies you should target during your job search. Did you know that LinkedIn now allows you to follow all the activity related to a particular company? You do this by searching for the company on the site and ...

3 Strategies for Displaced Workers

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As we all know, the recent economy has displaced a lot of workers from career paths on which they had been for many years. At one time, my town had a lot of mortgage professionals; these days, my town has a lot of former mortgage professionals. If you now find yourself in this situation, don't be discouraged; there are several ways to move forward. Find a similar position at a different ...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Hate Your Job? Have a Plan Before You Quit

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I had lunch with a friend the other day who left her job earlier this year. She relayed to me how she had gotten fed up with a particular client, and so she decided to quit. She had about four months of living expenses saved up, so she figured she was good to go while she looked for another job. Four months later, she finds herself running out of money with no prospects in the pipeline. I ...
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Articles


Intel Corporation Reports Record Sales for Q2

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It looks like companies are spending again as evidenced by an increase in Q2 sales—On Tuesday, July 13th, Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, reported record sales for quarter two. Intel also predicts that Q3 sales will exceed expectations as large companies have started to replace old PCs. According to Intel president and CEO, Paul Otellini, this was the best quarter in the ...

Four Secrets to Achieving Financial Security in Today's Economy

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Is there a way to have financial security and grow a sizable nest egg safely and predictably? The answer is a resounding "yes," although you probably won't hear about it from your financial advisor or stock broker. Here are four secrets to achieving financial security – regardless of what's happening in the stock market or the economy. These tips can help you bank on yourself, rather than ...

It Takes More Than a Resume to Get a Job

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If you're visiting this Web site, you understand the importance of having a polished looking resume to use during your job search. Whereas having a marketable resume is extremely important, a fantastic resume by itself won't get you a job. So, what do you do with your resume now that it has been tweaked (and proofread three times) and is ready for distribution? Send it to your ...

How NOT to Start Your Cover Letter

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If you're looking for some awesome cover letter advice on how *NOT* to start your cover letter (and some great examples of how you should be starting it) then read on! On a weekly basis any hiring manager probably receives between 50 and … well, probably hundreds of resumes and cover letters. The key is to catch his or her attention from the start; and the best place to do that is in your ...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Where to Use a Branding Statement

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You've been working on your resume, and you fashioned a fancy branding statement for yourself. Of course, you want to display it across the top of your resume, but where else should you be using it? Cover letter: Format your cover letter to match your resume by copying your contact information and branding statement in the same format. Thank you letter: Same as your cover ...

Reminding Your Network That You’re Looking

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Recently I spoke with a woman who has been looking for work for some time. She devotes a significant amount of time each week to networking activities. She said something that stood out to me: "I wake up every day and think about being unemployed, but my contacts don't think about me until I remind them". Remind your contacts that you're looking All too often, those who are looking ...

Facebook: The Untapped Job Board

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Most of what you hear about facebook while looking for a job involves keeping your information as private as possible from potential employers. While this is good advice, facebook can also be a valuable tool in your job search, as many smaller companies post their job ads on their facebook pages. If you are looking for work at a smaller local company, "liking" their facebook page can often be ...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

The Unpaid Consultant

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Over the last twenty-five years I have heard more than my share of bad ideas when it comes to effective selling. Here is the worst one that I have ever come across: "Don't be an unpaid consultant". I was recently reminded of this when I was asked to participate in a phone conference involving one of my clients. The company had a number of their senior executives together for a ...
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Careers: Did You Wind up in a Default Career? Prevention and Remedy

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As a career coach and former High Tech manager, I've noticed that most people wind up in careers that are completely out of line with their college degrees or interests. When you ask people how they "chose" their careers, many of them answer with something very much like a track through the jungle. They didn't know where they were going but moving forward was the direction they took. When I ...

Are Managers Mentors?

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"Are managers mentors?" is probably one of the most common questions in the corporate workplace today. While a good manager should have mentorship qualities, and the ability to get the most potential productivity from subordinates, are both roles possible for a supervisor? Some executives think it's not only possible, but necessary. Others believe the two roles must remain completely separate, ...
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Friday, July 2, 2010

The Best Time to Write a Resume

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Imagine for a moment that you've just heard the dreaded words, "We're going to have to let you go." A lot of people have heard this phrase over the last several years, and most have probably reacted with some degree of panic: How am I going to pay my bills? Where am I going to go? What am I going to do? Obviously, this frame of mind is not a great launching point for your next job. Writing ...
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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Resumes for Every Generation

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This past week I attended a presentation about Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers, and Millennials learning to communicate and work well together in the professional world. The speaker provided great tips for understanding each generation and how to effectively use their strengths to the best advantage. While the presentation focused on helping everyone work well together, I couldn't help but think ...

Using Networking Groups to Your Advantage

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I know what you're thinking: walking into a room full of strangers and announcing that you're unemployed is as far from your comfort zone as you can get. Networking is awkward and makes you feel desperate. Do you really have to do it? The answer is no. Some people do find work without assertively networking. It just generally takes them a lot longer than those who are out actively saying, ...
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