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Here’s how to discover your best traits and communicate them on a resume, even the most eccentric. Andrew Salsman has what he calls “the uncanny — and many say stupid” — ability to name every Academy Award Best Picture winner in less than a minute. We all have unique abilities. Maybe your best trait is … Read More

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Resume Numbers Game Andrew Klappholz

John Ord, a New York IT manager, stacked the resume deck in his favor every time he applied for a job opening. On the surface, it might look like John Ord got lucky. After a relatively short job search, he was offered an opportunity to be the cloud manager for an IT services company in … Read More

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5 Signs You’re Ready for a Professional Resume Rewrite Barbara Safani

You might need a resume rewrite, and you might need help from a professional, but you might not be ready to work with one. Maybe your resume hasn’t attracted the attention from recruiters that you thought it might. Does the work experience on your resume seem to stop short in 1997? Are you in a … Read More

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Sample Resumes for Technology Executives Lisa Vaas

A tech pro’s resume has to match the speed of this fast-changing industry. IT pros, polish those resumes: Technology staffing firms and recruiters say hiring is finally growing at a steady pace again. “IT is [becoming] stronger and stronger each month,” said Dave Willmer, executive director of IT staffing firm Robert Half Technology (RHI). Willmer … Read More

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9 Resume Tips Hiring Managers Wished Creative Pros Knew Lisa Vaas

Recruiters from advertising and Web marketing agencies share their advice for would-be job seekers applying for positions in creative fields. They send their resumes in pizza boxes. They send in construction boots with notes about getting a foot in the door. They send in resumes with black backgrounds and white text that make hiring managers’ … Read More

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Applicant Tracking Systems Keywords: Tuning Your Resume to the Right Keywords Lisa Vaas

How can you find and deploy the right keywords to aim your resume at the job you want? Keywords: They’re buzzwords that identify an industry or a profession. They’re also the currency of the job search. Keywords are the terms and phrases hiring managers supply to human-resources managers and recruiters to create job posts and find matching … Read More

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Are your video resumes ready for their closeup?Lisa Vaas

Video is one way to stand out, but so is networking, researching the company and writing directly to the right person. Here’s how to ace it. Read More

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7 video resume tips from a video pro Lisa Vaas

Townley Paton, president and owner of InterviewClips.com, shared these additional tips on how to best produce a video resume. Read More

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Lying on Your Resume: How Far to Stretch the Truth Lisa Vaas

The risk is high for job seekers who try to slip fake master’s degrees, phony salaries and exaggerated titles into their resume and job interview. Thinking of padding your resume to increase your chance of landing a job in this weak economy? Think again. History is littered with names such as these: George O’Leary, former … Read More

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