Career Advice & Insights

If you’re not a professional writer, writing about yourself is hard, but brainstorming techniques can get the ball rolling and the creative juices flowing. The woman was blinking back tears. She was one of a group of realtors learning how to write their resumes and bios. She’d just started as a realtor, she told the … Read More

Joshua Axelrod landed a job interview from his professional network but needed a speedy resume rewrite to cinch the IT Job. As a software developer, Joshua Axelrod is rarely one to do things backward. Sure he might have to focus on backward compatibility or reverse-engineer some technology, but he typically likes to keep things straightforward. … Read More

With resumes, there’s no such thing as one size fits all; know where, how and why to tweak, advises resume pro Steve Burdan. Read More

Use the verbs that will inspire recruiters and hiring managers to pick up the phone to schedule an interview. Think of your work history as a string of verbs. Any history, after all, encompasses a series of actions with corresponding results. Resumes can describe those actions in two different ways: They can limp anemically across … Read More

Catch recruiters’ eyes with superhero action verbs that describe your career accomplishments. Readers roughly my age will probably remember this installment in the “Schoolhouse Rock” series of musical animations about grammar rules. In the “Verb” sequence, a superhero uses action words to describe amazing feats. By the same token, resume writers can harness the power … Read More

Certified professional resume writers Andrew Pearl and Tina Harlan use examples to explain how to improve your resume using the right action verbs. Active verbs can inspire recruiters and hiring managers to follow through with scheduling an interview. Andrew Pearl and Tina Harlan, certified professional resume writers who work with Ladders, provided these before-and-after examples … Read More

Action verbs to improve your resume performance by certified professional resume writers Steve Burdan and Mary Schumacher. There’s no secret list of verbs that will impress every hiring manager every time. Used in moderation, variety is the spice of a successful resume. However, a few workhorse action words can help get you started thinking about … Read More

A legal-services job seeker receives a new resume from Ladders Does My Resume Stink? contest. Would you like resume advice from the experts? TheLadders.com Resume Service is here to help. Contact our experts directly, or if you’re feeling lucky, send us your resume for entry in our Does My Resume Stink contest. Each month one … Read More

Your resume should present you as the answer to the employer’s problems. Period. Follow these guidelines on how to uncover their pain points, and how to address them. Say you’ve learned about a business by reaching out to colleagues, friends and business associates. You’ve taken the time to research the industry, how it’s changed with … Read More