How To

Don’t expect that the resume screener is an expert. It’s up to you (and your resume) to direct the conversation and match you to the job. If it’s done right, your resume is an inventory of your interests, skills, accomplishments, experience, goals and values that attempts to match you to a job that requires those … Read More

How do you find the inner fortitude to get up one more day and try again, even when the world kicks you in the shin with a golf shoe? I’m sick and tired of people saying, “This, too, shall pass.” Worst. Consolation. Ever. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a nice cliché and everything. But it … Read More

HR managers see these resume mistakes over and over again. Follow this checklist to make sure your resume isn’t one of the clunkers. Read More

If you’ve looked for a job in the past few years, you’re likely aware that employers are finding new ways to use resumes as screening tools. Web sites (Ladders included) devote thousands of pages to discussing the best practices of resume writing. Meanwhile, a cottage industry has grown up around certified professional resume writers (CPRWs) … Read More

The job description was lost in translation, and you may be interviewing for the wrong position. You might be interviewing for the wrong positions, and it may not be your fault. It’s probably not the recruiter’s fault either. The job descriptions that recruiters use to guide their candidate searches, and which you use to apply … Read More

The job interview process is really just a series of approvals and referrals. Ultimately you want a job, but broken down to its elements, what you really want is a series of approvals. The job interview process isn’t about convincing someone to hire you — not until the final stage, anyway — it is about … Read More

Experts weigh in on the do’s and don’ts of using social media to look for your next job. DO maintain your accounts. Update daily, if possible. (But DON’T update so much that your posts become white noise.) DO share articles, videos, blog posts and other content that people in your target industry, or at your … Read More

Sales engineer leaves Microsoft rather than relocate. Michael Numa is a confident guy. He’s not cocky, not arrogant — just confident. He has worked in Information Technology for more than 25 years and was considered a rising star at Microsoft for the past 14 years. But by 2010, it seemed to Numa that he had … Read More

A proper video bio that tells your story, and doesn’t simply repeat your resume, requires more than you and a video camera. By William Arruda and Catharine Fennell   When you strip away all the basic requirements that are expected in any given role — hard skills and experience — what’s left? Everything that cannot … Read More