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David White used Ladders and his knowledge of the market to land a CIO position near his home in Wisconsin. David White was under no illusions that his position as director of project management for a large Wisconsin health-insurance provider would be permanent. As a former consultant, 46-year-old White reviewed local and national job boards … Read More

Amy Montalbano’s expertise is in sales operations, but her bullet-riddled resume failed to sell what she offers her next employer. A simple recipe for a do-it-yourself resume: Just use the standard Microsoft Word resume template, replete with all-bullet format and objective statement at the top. It’s quick, it’s cheap – and it screams “inexperienced” to … Read More

Marcus Crayton is looking for a job as a marketing director though his functional experience is disparate. With help from certified resume writer Mary Schumacher he was able to turn a wordy resume into a concise marketing document. When crafting a resume, you can use the bow-and-arrow approach specifically to target a job, or you … Read More

To pursue opportunities in the United States and Japan, Mark Suzuki needed two sets of tools. Mark Suzuki was working for a data-storage management company in Japan, looking for a job with the U.S. based company. Whether he’d end up working in the United States or in Japan was up in the air. So he … Read More

Despite the recession, people are, in fact, changing jobs by choice. Voluntary job changers who have trouble explaining why they’d look for work in a tight economy can use these three tactics to answer this tough interview question. If you just read the newspapers or watch television, you might think that most people are hanging … Read More

Revamping a sales-focused resume for a career change This month’s “Does Your Resume Stink?” contest winner is a sales professional who wants to steer her career away from sales jobs and towards marketing and brand management jobs. Yet her original resume still emphasized her sales skills over her marketing prowess. It needed a near-complete overhaul … Read More

You’ve likely been a part of goal setting for your last company. Take the same principles that lead to a strong organizational strategy and apply them to creating a strong job-search strategy. Any successful organization got to where it is today, because they decided long ago to focus on a goal and craft a plan … Read More

Anne Neczypor soothed personality disputes and eased tensions in her last role as editor of Broadcast Standards & Practices. But how do you detail these accomplishments without writing a “fluffy” resume? In the writers’ room, creative teams used to answer phone calls from the corporate office formally, rigidly, even coldly. It didn’t take long before … Read More

Former HR VP Kathleen Roesing had trouble standing out. With the help of a certified professional resume writer, she added detail to her hr generalist resume. Everyone can use a little help with their resume, including, ironically, former recruiters. Take Kathleen Roesing of Bucks County, Pa. Roesing is a human resources generalist with 20+ years … Read More