So you’ve taken our free resume writing course and now you have a perfect document ready to share with the world. You want to make the best use of it, so shouldn’t you put it out on LinkedIn for everyone to see? No. Well not exactly anyway. You can use parts of it but cutting […]
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Today’s post is a guest post by Troy Lilly, who penned this after taking my free resume writing course and experiencing the transformative power of a strong resume. It’s my hope that his experience will inspire you all to do the same …. Louise Fletcher I had to write about your free resume course online.
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This is one of the most common questions I’m asked by my clients. I write resumes designed to appeal to a specific target audience, and this means I often omit facts and information that I know won’t impress that target audience. And that can sometimes be hard to swallow. After all, if you see a
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One of the biggest fears people have about creating or updating their LinkedIn profile is that their employer will see the changes. After all, you don’t want your boss to know you’re looking for another job until you’ve found one. The good news is that it’s perfectly possible to create a strong LinkedIn profile –
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I’m reading the Steve Jobs biography at the moment and one of the most striking themes of the book is Jobs’ obsession with simplicity. Throughout his career, he was obsessed with making computers as simple and easy-to-use as possible. He hated technology for technology’s sake and he hated complexity, and back in the early days
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This is the ninth in a 10-part series designed to transform your job search. If you missed earlier posts, you can find them all here. I’ve talked a lot in this series about ways to avoid job boards and find the hidden jobs no-one else knows about. We’ve talked about building recruiter relationships, networking, creating
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This is the seventh in a 10-part series entitled ‘The Smart Job Search.’ You can find links to the series so far by clicking here. In the second post in this series, I told you that it was crucial to set your GPS at the start of your search by defining a clear path and
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This is the sixth in a 10-part series entitled ‘The Smart Job Search.’ You can find the series so far by clicking here. In my last Smart Search post, I talked about the importance of working with recruiters and explained that they are the gatekeepers for tons of unadvertised positions. That’s why it’s vital to
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