A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends asked this question: ‘What assumptions are holding you back?’ The question stopped me in my tracks because just a week earlier, I had decided to drop several long-held assumptions and “go public” with my artwork. I have always drawn and painted, and over the last year […]
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Recently, Facebook added a new feature – the ability to add professional skills to your profile. This is a big deal if you’re looking for work – or even if you’re just building a strong online presence as a career development tool. After all, a recent survey showed that 52% of job seekers have used
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Even though LinkedIn is the number one online tool for professional recruiters, it often lets them down. Many recruiters fail to find the candidates they need – not because of problems with the site itself, but because simple profile mistakes render the candidates invisible. If this is happening to you, you\’re missing out on great
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Have you ever gone to an interview wearing a torn t-shirt and old jeans? Or a pair of shorts and some sneakers? Of course not. We all dress up for interviews because we want to make a good impression. And yet millions of people ignore the importance of resume design, sending out resumes that are
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How to write resume bullets that get you noticed and get you hired Let’s be honest. Recruiters are a jaded bunch. They’ve read thousands of resumes and seen the same stale phrases over and over again. To say they’re hard to impress is an understatement. But impressing them is not impossible. In fact it’s easy
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If you’re like most people, you’ve never thought of a resume as a strategic document. Instead, you’ve viewed it as a straightforward record of your career history. This is why our resume writing clients see such an amazing difference when they use their new resume. Or why the readers of my resume writing ebook are
There are lots of reasons most of us struggle to write an effective resume, but one of the primary problems is focusing too much on ourselves. We dwell on specific aspects of our background (how do I address the fact that I didn’t get a degree? What about that one time I was fired? How
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Looking for a job can be a soul-destroying experience. I know – I’ve been there myself. You see the perfect job. You’re a great fit. You get excited and immediately send off your resume. You can picture yourself in that job – you just know you’d crush it. But then you wait and wait and
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Writing a resume is tough. After all, getting it wrong could spell the end of your dreams. But in trying to avoid making a bad impression, most people make a very dangerous mistake. I call it the conformity trap and it can kill your chances of getting the job you deserve. The truth is that
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If I told you there was a guaranteed way to impress over half the recruiters in America, would you take it? A recent survey by Workfolio found that 56% of recruiters are more impressed by a personal website than by any other job seeker promotional tool (including resumes). They also found that only 7% of
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