Resume

Don’t think you can hide anything; HR veterans know all the tricks for cloaking employment gaps or skimpy experience. Once upon a time, resume writers had a fallback format to deal with career-changers, resumes light on experience or clients with gaps in their employment histories: the functional resume. This type of resume format plays up … Read More

How to get over your humbleness and bring on the brag. Consider the meek: They may in fact be set to inherit the earth, but it’s not easy for them to portray that birthright in their resumes. Toward that noble end, Susan Cucuzza, an Executive Coach with Live Forward LLC, sits humble introverts down, one … Read More

Don’t let the challenges of a resume rewrite overwhelm you. Take a look at your skills and successful resumes to get your head in the game. She never had to look for work. As a Truman scholar and a top-notch statistics, marine biology and water-quality expert with two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., work looked … Read More

What grabbed the recruiter’s eye was the security pro’s certification, on top of his resume and smack dab in front of her face. CISSP: How’s that for a resume title? The acronym stands for Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Listing just the acronym without spelling it out, let alone using a more generic term such … Read More

After 25 years with a major retailer, Tommy M. was ready for a change. He had been steadily promoted through application-development and project-management positions based on consistent success, but his resume had rarely been seen outside internal HR. He knew that resume – comprising 40+ bullets scattered across four pages – was not going to … Read More

How does your cover letter rate? Use this test to score your cover letter before you submit it with your resume and job application. Before you submit your cover letter to recruiters and hiring managers, run through this battery of questions to gauge its readiness. Q: How is your cover letter addressed? A. Personally addressed … Read More

Why unconventional resumes drive hiring managers and recruiters nuts. Steve Silberberg is into a lot of things: certified Wilderness First Responder; published in scientific journals; and, according to his database-driven, configurable, searchable online resume, maintains a collection of over 2,100 air sickness bags. Everybody hates this resume. Only about five hiring managers over the years … Read More

Don’t let these common errors brand you as unprofessional. Resume screeners can be very picky: they have that luxury. You want the job, and so do hundreds of other people. These busy professionals develop criteria to “disqualify” some of the many potential employees/business partners. It’s easy to knock out a candidate for lack of correctness … Read More

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