Of all the questions we get asked, this has to be one of the most common. For some reason, resume length is one of those things lots of people have a firm opinion on, but – to be honest – few have any real basis for that opinion. For example, there are many people who […]
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I’m taking an art class at the moment and one of the lessons being drummed into us is that what you leave out of a painting or drawing is just as important as what you include. Take the Van Gogh landscape to the left. There will have been all kinds of details that Van Gogh
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We offer a job search strategy planning service (one hour with a real-life HR Director, during which time clients develop their own customized plan for finding a great new job). It’s amazing how may times the sessions begin with the client saying ‘I know how to look for a job, I just have a few
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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 last in a 10-part series entitled ‘The Smart Job Search.’ You can find links to the series so far by clicking here. If you don’t currently use Twitter, you might see it as more of a distraction than anything. Isn’t it just a bunch of people babbling about what they had for
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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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