Career Advice & Insights

There are eight words no resume should include because they’re “fluffy,” says Tina Brasher, a certified professional resume writer. Read More

You sure caught the attention of that Recruiter. Your glamour shot looks great, but now you have the Recruiter wondering if this is the type of thing you send in with a job application, what sort of stuff do you have posted elsewhere? Your lapse in judgment just cost you that interview. Check out the … Read More

By now, you’ve rewritten your resume more times than you can count. You’ve labored over every word and formatted it within an inch of its life. Blogs with titles like “Jumpstart your Job Search with 5 Resume Tips!” and “4 Foolproof Ways to Get a Recruiter’s Attention!” dominate your bookmarks. You’ve shown it to your … Read More

Explaining transferable skills is a critical component in navigating the job-search landscape. For the returning military veteran, finding a new job in the civilian workforce often comes down to how well they can explain their transferable skills. It can be a challenging task. Assembling weapons and digging ditches might not seem useful during peacetime, and … Read More

Resume writing can be a challenging task to take on yourself. There’s a lot to consider when it comes to resume formatting, keywords and job descriptions. These are all important elements of a stellar resume, but you may be overlooking the little things that show your attention to detail, or lack thereof. A small typo … Read More

Companies are screening more closely than ever before. Getting caught in a lie could raise enough questions about your character to cost you the job. When searching for a job, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. You can stutter during a cold call, get lost on the way to the interview … Read More

Use the right keywords to tap the ”hidden accomplishments” in every job description. Resume experts tell us that it is important to capture the attention of hiring managers through certain keywords that express “dynamic” concepts. This is often referred to as putting “action verbs” in your resume. These may be words such as “transform”, “forge”, … Read More

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