Career Advice & Insights

To do justice to Tom Emil’s construction career, resume writer Dan Dorotik had to commit a few resume crimes. Rules are meant to be broken. Dan Dorotik, a certified professional resume writer who works with Ladders, has broken a few in his day, including the rule that said a resume should not exceed three pages. … Read More

After starting his own manufacturing business, OpsLadder member Scott Hammac needed a resume that could transfer to the corporate world. Scott Hammac left his job as the general manager at a manufacturing company in 2006 to start his own business. He founded Hammac Manufacturing in Oswego, Ill., a small sheet-metal fabricator that built parts for … Read More

The software that HR departments use to process your resume does not jive with all file types. In fact, it even spits some out. Make sure you’re not eliminated before you even begin. Let’s say your resume is up to date, rewritten and packed with keywords geared to get your application rated highly by automated … Read More

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This Ladders member is used to working literally under the gun in some of the world’s hottest combat zones. But how could he aim the bullet points in his resume so corporate employers would take notice? One Ladders member has hotwired jeeps in the middle of a hot war zone, stared down rebel chieftains who … Read More

After receiving her master’s degree, Roe Polczynski needed help graduating her mid-level resume to an executive-level spotlight. It’s simple math: Smaller towns breed fewer jobs, especially at the director level and above. What’s more, people who have those jobs don’t tend to leave them, according to Rosemary Polczynski, who lives in a small town in … Read More

Sending your clips, file attachments and portfolios unsolicited with your resume can do more harm than good. An employer asks a potential technology director to compile a presentation of his technology vision. He chooses to layout the presentation in PowerPoint, and he lands the job as a data-center manager. Would he still have been successful … Read More

Lifetime employees are a thing of the past, but multiple short-tenured jobs aren’t exactly what this health-care executive wanted to lead with. Read More

When the senior director got laid off after 11 years with his employer, the details of his experience were fuzzy –until a certified resume writer helped him discern fluff from fact. It took only 11 years for the eager professional who came in at the ground level to work his way up and become a … Read More