Resume

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

The new year is the perfect time to reflect on milestones, refresh the accomplishments and performance numbers and put it all down in your resume, should you need one in 2011. Something felt wrong. The business development executive was concerned about the viability of his company. He and his career development coach, Chris Westfall, thought … Read More

Using color, though not on your resume, to stand out in your next job search will catch a hiring manager’s eye and separate you from the other candidates. Make your resume into your personal brand. Read More

Don’t reduce the font size and increase the margin on your resume to shrink it to two pages. How long should you resume be? Three-page resumes are certainly not extinct, but they should be rare. Professional resume writers urge their clients to first try to trim their resumes down to a maximum of two pages. … Read More

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

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

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

Abhinav Khanna, a computer security specialist in New Jersey, had an ace in the hole when he attended a job fair in India. Abhinav Khanna faced a daunting task at the SiliconIndia Job Fair on June 26. With hundreds of desperate job seekers all vying for the same few positions among the world’s leading software … Read More