by Joey | Apr 12, 2015 | 50+, Resumes
Let’s get right to it. Here are some helpful techniques to offload the years from your resume: The summary (profile) section of your resume gets immediate notice because it’s the first hodgepodge of words to be encountered by your target reader. Be sure...
by Joey | Mar 19, 2015 | Resumes, Tough Love
Resume Deli Challenge: There are five commonly misspelled words in this blog post that spell check won’t catch…can you? Comedian Bill Burr jokes: You ever spell a word so badly that even spell check can’t come up with any suggestions? (Spell check) I’ve got all the...
by Joey | Dec 4, 2014 | Job Market, Resumes, Work History
Having a resume that discloses your job-hopping ways is not the death knell it once was. Whereas bouncing from one job to the next was once seen as a lack of focus, or an inability to keep a job, today’s job market views job-hoppers as driven, resourceful,...
by Joey | Nov 10, 2014 | Career, Cover Letters, LinkedIn, Resumes
I was a ninja turtle for Halloween. I mean, I dressed up as a turtle. (You knew what I meant.) My son insisted I be the Donatello to his Raphael. But the fact is, I would have dressed up anyway. For me, Halloween is that last bit of the year that’s still entirely of...
by Joey | Aug 18, 2014 | Formatting, Resumes, Uncategorized
Despite the “aahs” and “oohs” you might get from friends or family (or yourself), actual employers are not impressed with “splash” resumes—those that use over-the-top graphics and/or layouts so as to distinguish your application from the hundreds of others...
by Joey | Jul 17, 2014 | Resumes
If you’re a regular reader of this blog or you have been a client of ours, you know how keenly we feel that there’s no such thing as a generic resume—or a one-size-fits-all kind of document. Our experience reveals that such an item has an almost zero chance of...