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By Julie Austin Anyone can submit a resume online from the comfort of their home computer, but the Internet highway has become much more crowded with resumes these days. Hiring personnel at HR departments are overwhelmed with the sheer volume they get. Put yourself in the shoes of hiring personnel and you’ll quickly see how [...]

By Julie Austin By now you probably know that it’s easier to get a job when you already have a job. The unemployment rate may be hovering around 9 % but the underemployment rate is much higher. Some put the unemployment and underemployment rate at about 18%.This means that drastic measures are being taken to [...]

By Anish Majumdar, CPRW If you’re a jobseekerresearching what makes a resume great online, chances are you’ve already come across the maxim, “integrate keywords”. But what are keywords exactly, and what does integrating them within the context of a resume mean? In my capacity as a Certified Professional Resume Writer, I have consistently found only [...]

  By Kevin Morris It isn’t easy staying focused and motivated in a job search. You send countless resumes that no one responds to, recruiters don’t call you back, companies that claim to be hiring aren’t interviewing, and your professional networks simply aren’t generating leads. What’s the average job seeker to do? For starters, you [...]

  By Kevin Morris I was struck by comments I heard on National Public Radio’s (NPR’s) Morning Edition today. Bill Frezza, venture capitalist and Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute summed up what I’ve been telling my clients for years: “People run businesses because they want to satisfy their customers, they want to grow, and [...]

Typical job postings on Monster or Career Builder will net hundreds and sometimes thousands of online applicants. Of course, not all will come close to being qualified. However, with your submission mixed in with the throngs, how can you prove to the screening software that HR utilizes, that you are worthy of a look? First, [...]

If you’ve ever toiled to write your resume, battling writer’s block for each and every word you put on the page, but still unsatisfied when you get to the end, sure that your resume won’t make the cut, you aren’t alone. For many job seekers, writing a resume is an anxiety-inducing task. Yet, for almost [...]

Conduct an internet search right now and you will find hundreds of thousands of internet pages, many of them referencing books and articles telling you so-called resume writing rules. Many of these books and articles, even those written by professional resume writers, are contradictory. There is actually a legitimate reason for this inconsistency. The most [...]

The simple, hard truth is that the unemployed are discriminated against. The longer the unemployment, the more difficult it is to receive a job offer or even an interview. Hiring managers, when pressed, will admit to passing over applicants with gaps on their resumes. The stigma of lengthy unemployment is less damaging during a recession, [...]

Have you struggled in today’s competitive job market to get attention and generate calls for interviews? Could the trouble be your resume? After all, your resume is usually your first opportunity to make a good impression, and first impressions are crucial. If your resume is not producing results you are satisfied with, you might want [...]