The holidays are over. We said goodbye to one of the worst years and decades in recent history. Now is the time to be hopeful and start our job search anew.
Before my well deserved holiday respite (being a bum is hard work) I posted about using search keywords in you resume and using social networking [...]
Back in September I wrote a post about how job seekers can learn a few things from online marketeers by using SEO techniques in there resume. It seems that I was not the only one thinking that way. According to an article by Lisa Vaas of the fee-based job site The Ladders, “The importance of keywords [...]
After I received the “world’s fastest rejection” that I wrote about in my previous post I started thinking about the automated systems many companies use to go through the hundreds of resumes the receive. As I thought about how these systems work (I am from the tech industry, after all) I began to equate them to [...]
I have noticed a growing trend in trying to stand out from the herd of job hunters is to create and publish an online resume. This can be as simple as creating a resume on one of the free sites like MyResumeOnline.org or VisualCV.com. These services and others like them allow you to create a [...]
I thought I would add a bit on resumes. These are the windows by which prospective employers do their shopping for prospective hirees, yet they end up for so many of us limiting our possibilities for jobs we are not only qualified for, but would excel at. Today’s employment scene is driven by hiring personnel [...]
