How To

Improper dates in your job descriptions could keep recruiters from finding your resume. You’ve worked hard to establish a distinguished career. You worked hard to craft a resume to match. But all of the effort could be undone by something as seemingly insignificant as the dates on your resume. Little noticed on the paper document, … Read More

Write and don’t stop until you have a body of material to edit. “Where do I start?” “How do I start?” These are good questions. Whether composing business correspondence during your job search or tackling another writing task, the author must begin without knowing the answers to these questions. They just need to initiate the … Read More

A job interview is like dating — you want to seem interested but not overly interested to the point where you’re undesirable — available but in demand, agreeable but with limits. People look for jobs for all sorts of reasons. You may want more money. You may want to work in a field that offers … Read More

Make your resume more ”findable” on sites like Ladders — optimizing your Web site is very different from doing that to your resume. I often get questions about how to “optimize” resumes for search engines so that they will be “easier to find.” Most of the people who ask the question are already somewhat aware … Read More

Some career results are so over-the-top or irrelevant, they can skew your job chances. She moved through several rounds of interviews at a large financial institution, but the process eventually broke down. Was she unqualified? No. Lacking quantifiable achievements? Quite the contrary. In fact, she had insisted on listing on her resume her involvement with … Read More

Your brand is what you’re known for and what you’re known for knowing. Use that to your advantage in making a career transition. You’re not in the job market — you’re in the opportunity market. As such, branding is no longer a novelty; it’s a necessity. It’s the price of admission. And it’s got nothing … Read More

Recruiters and hiring managers use four dimensions to evaluate the people they Google. There’s no debating it, your online reputation will impact your ability to get a job. The facts: 83 percent of hiring managers and recruiters research candidates online. [ Execunet, 2007 ] 70 percent of recruiters have eliminated candidates based on information they … Read More

Some hiring managers relish the opportunity to counsel a job candidate on what he could have improved. You just have to ask the right person, the right way. Read More

Test the letter you send after you didn’t get the job to make sure it’s gracious enough to build bridges. Before you send a letter to the company that hired somebody else, run the content through this quick test. 1. The letter is addressed to… A. the person who spent the most time interviewing you. … Read More