At least once a week, I get asked ‘should I sign up for the Ladders?” I keep meaning to answer it and haven’t yet. But then I saw that in today’s post, Laurie, aka The Cynical Girl, vents about the Ladders business model, reminding me that I still haven’t addressed the subject. She has this […]
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I’ve written before about why it’s so important to be on LinkedIn, but just setting up a profile isn’t enough. Once you’re there, you need to get noticed (otherwise what’s the point?). Primarily when looking for a job, you should be using LinkedIn to stay in touch with, and expand your network. but there are
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Penelope Trunk is one of my favorite bloggers. Not just one of my favorite careers bloggers, but one of my favorite everything bloggers, up there with the very best writers. If you’ve never read her blog, it can be a shock at first. It’s a shock because Penelope is honest. Brutally honest, all the time.
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Recruiters are a justifiably jaded bunch. (Having been one, I know this for a fact!) They spend large amounts of their time reading resumes and they have seen every trick in the book. This makes them extremely hard to impress. Trust me, if you think you’ve come up with a creative way to hide your
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I’ve given a lot of practical resume tips over the years, but I think it’s often hard to apply general tips and strategies to your own very specific situation. So to help you visualize how these tips can be applied to an individual’s work history, I’m going to start a regular series in which I’ll
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Only 20% of available jobs are posted on job boards at any one time according to the Wall Street Journal. In an article headed ‘Scoring Unlisted Jobs,’ The Journal explains that the other 80% are never advertised. Job boards are irresistible because they seemingly put everything within easy reach. Unfortunately, the majority of job hunters
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Does your resume tell your whole story? After reading it, will people know the details of everything you’ve achieved? If so, it’s probably not working. I love to paint and I’m extremely detailed and anal when I do it. If I’m going to paint a piece of fruit, it’s going to have every single detail
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Last month, my husband and I took a quick trip over the the UK to visit friends and family and take in some beautiful scenery in the English Lake District. This is a particular stunning part of the United Kingdom and attracts millions of tourists from around the world every year. One day we took
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The most common complaint I hear from job seekers is this: “I’m sending tons of resumes out and no one is calling me back.” I know how frustrating this can be from personal experience. I’ve been there myself back before I had my own business. You see the perfect vacancy – you just know you
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Checking my email one day this week, I found one that started in a way destined to make my heart sink: “I know we finalized this resume a while ago, but I showed it to a friend and he had some comments …” My heart doesn’t sink because of the extra work – I don’t
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