Tag: Resumes and Portfolios
The 8 Cover Letters You Need to Read Now
Cover letters: They strike fear in the hearts of millions, and just uttering the phrase is enough to make a grown man cry. Who...
Four Reasons Why Recruiters Don’t Call You
Looking for a job is a full-time job. It’s time-consuming and often frustrating. You can spend hours, days, or even weeks searching for a...
The Awesome Tool That Keeps You on Track With Your Job...
In college, you had the job search made. As long as you had a decent career center, you had someone at your disposal to...
6 Things Your Cover Letter Should Never Say (But Probably Does)
Very few job opportunities do not require a cover letter. Cover letters are a must-have in the application process because they give you an...
10 Things That Spell Disaster For Your Resume
There is a lot of advice out there on how to showcase your best professional self on paper. But turns out, what you leave...
3 Alternatives To The Cover Letter
In 2009, a study of 2,000 recruiters found that an astonishing 90 percent of them never read cover letters when reviewing applications. Five years later, with the continuing emergence of technology in our everyday lives, the traditional cover letter…
Breaking Down The 6 Seconds Of Your Resume
The Ladders released some research in the past couple of weeks that focused on how a recruiter reads your resume. It was really good...
Infographic Resumes Aren’t There Yet
An effective resume grabs the reviewer’s attention by painting a clear picture of the value you offer. And it has to do that with words, because so many companies use keyword matching technology to pick out resumes of interest on the first pass. That…
10 Words Recruiters Hate Seeing on Your Resume (and 10 They...
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: With so little space and so much awesome information about your career to share, it’s...
Why Resume Templates Are Job Search Killers
There’s this wonderful illustration about nature I want to share in relation to the effectiveness of resume templates. Zebras have these great stripes that...
