Career Advice & Insights

Marcus Crayton is looking for a job as a marketing director though his functional experience is disparate. With help from certified resume writer Mary Schumacher he was able to turn a wordy resume into a concise marketing document. When crafting a resume, you can use the bow-and-arrow approach specifically to target a job, or you … Read More

Revamping a sales-focused resume for a career change This month’s “Does Your Resume Stink?” contest winner is a sales professional who wants to steer her career away from sales jobs and towards marketing and brand management jobs. Yet her original resume still emphasized her sales skills over her marketing prowess. It needed a near-complete overhaul … Read More

Anne Neczypor soothed personality disputes and eased tensions in her last role as editor of Broadcast Standards & Practices. But how do you detail these accomplishments without writing a “fluffy” resume? In the writers’ room, creative teams used to answer phone calls from the corporate office formally, rigidly, even coldly. It didn’t take long before … Read More

Former HR VP Kathleen Roesing had trouble standing out. With the help of a certified professional resume writer, she added detail to her hr generalist resume. Everyone can use a little help with their resume, including, ironically, former recruiters. Take Kathleen Roesing of Bucks County, Pa. Roesing is a human resources generalist with 20+ years … Read More

Forget what you’ve been told about chronological resumes. It’s easy to find advice on how to format resumes–just Google “proper resume format.” Just because it’s easy to find doesn’t make such advice correct or up to date, however. One example that crops up in many resume advice sites and gets passed along by well-meaning friends, … Read More

Don’t slay your reader with too many bullet points. Solid, unbroken chunks of text are daunting to read in any format. So the best advice for those writing their own resume has always been to lighten the task by describing their work experience in sharp bulleted sentences instead of paragraphs. But be careful not to … Read More

Thad Fox took his time completing a self-assessment before handing over his resume for a rewrite. The result spells out his ROI in capital letters. Andrew Pearl, a certified resume writer, tells job seekers it will take about 45 minutes to complete the worksheet he sends them to prepare for the resume rewrites he does … Read More

Jessica Coates is a pioneer in the new world of digital-display advertising. But her old resume wasn’t selling her career properly. Sometimes all you need is an update to get your career going in a new direction. That’s what happened to sales executive Jessica Coates. Coates, who grew up in Westchester County north of Manhattan, … Read More

Joann Starke details how she overcame HR prejudices and explained how sometimes your personal life needs more attention than your work life Being unemployed for more than two years didn’t change Joann Starke’s assessment of her ability to do her job. But it left a big question mark for a lot of potential employers. “Being … Read More