Professional Resume Writing – Your Marketing Tool Remember to always consider your audience and the purpose when composing your resume. Your resume is your personal advertisement and your most critical marketing tool! Develop a resume that structures the reader’s thinking around your objective, qualifications, strengths and projections of future performance. Make your resume generate positive thinking rather […]
Professional Resume Writing 101-6
Professional Resume Writing – Catch the Attention There are many techniques available to entice a potential employer to read your resume and to enliven the reading process. The reader of your resume has neither the time or the inclination to read your sentences twice to obtain a clear understanding. To ensure this doesn’t happen, keep your sentences under 20 words. A […]
Professional Resume Writing 101-5
Your Resume – Opportunity or Elimination A potential employer is investing only a few seconds when reviewing your resume hoping to find a match between your work history, knowledge and skills, education, training and achievements and their requirements. If found, you will receive the opportunity of a job interview. They are also looking for any reason to eliminate you […]
Professional Resume Writing 101-4
Professional Resume Writing – Soft Skills Does your written resume exude your soft skills, highlighting those personality traits that are in constant demand by employers? You may have included details about some significant decisions that you made in the best interest of your employer. You may have listed details of accepting responsibilities and included quantifiable accomplishments. These details, although critical and impressive fall short of reflecting your […]
Professional Resume Writing 101-3
Professional Resume Writing – Do’s and Don’ts How does your resume look? Does it resonate with clarity and confidence? Do the words speak louder than the design? Here are some of the Do’s and Don’ts of preparing a professional looking and electronically friendly resume: Do, use a good quality white paper. Don’t use dark, colourful or patterned paper. Do, […]
Professional Resume Writing 101-2
Professional Resume Writing – Basic Elements There are some basic elements that are necessary in all resumes. Begin with your identification, followed by a striking introductory paragraph, work experience and education. Your identification consists of your name and contact information. Display your full name, even if you are commonly known by your nick name. Barbie, Barb or Babs will not […]
Professional Resume Writing 101
Professional Resume Writing Styles Before writing your resume, there are three basic styles you will need to consider: Combination, Functional and Chronological. The Combination Resume is the most common of the three styles and is literally a combination of the Functional and the Chronological resume, listing the positions in reverse chronological order as well as a succinct description of your […]
Pay Attention to Detail!
If you don’t pay attention to detail when sending out critical documents such as your cover letter and your resume, what message do you think that sends to an employer? If your lack of attention to detail results in spelling or grammatical mistakes in your cover letter or resume do you think an employer will want to hire you […]
LinkedIn Address
If you have a professional career or are looking for one, chances are you have a LinkedIn profile. When you created your profile you also generated a URL address that consisted of numbers and dashes, www.linkedin.com/in/m-buckland-749/729/75. You have the opportunity to maintain this address to consist solely of your name instead of the numbers and dashes that were automatically […]
Online Job Boards
The question is, which online job boards actually have viable job listings? If you are in a job search, you are online. You are building your online profile, establishing your brand and searching online job boards. Time management is crucial in any endeavour but when it is related to a job search and you are not receiving any income it becomes even more […]
Good Reasons to Hire a Professional
Hear are 20 good reasons to hire a professional to write your resume: 1. You don’t know all the answers because you are not an expert in career management. 2. You are interested in a marketing position but don’t believe in branding. 3. You question the draft of your resume because there are no weaknesses listed. […]
Will Your Resume Get You In The Door?
Your resume will get you in the door or it will not! Some believe their expertise on their resume will guarantee them the opportunity to walk through the door for a job interview. And there are those who believe their well written cover letter will get their foot in the door. Others feel that writing a resume to match the job description is the […]
Are Professional Resume Writers Worth The Expense?
Are Professional Resume Writers Worth The Expense? This was the question posted on Linkedin last week and I felt compelled to answer it despite my bias, as I was somewhat taken aback by some serious misconceptions. This is an economy where hundreds of resumes are being submitted for one position. All vying for an opportunity to get noticed and […]
Resume Writing “Taglines”
Do you have a tagline in your resume? There are many ways you can make yourself stand out above the competition when writing your resume and one of these is to include a tagline. What is a tagline? ” Where’s the beef”, “You deserve a break today”, “Good to the last drop”, “Live to ride. Ride to live”; all brands […]
Resume Writing Typos
“How many typos in a resume does it take for you to decide not to consider a job candidate for a position with your company?” This was the question asked in a survey developed by Accountemps and conducted by an independent research firm based on telephone interviews with 100 senior executives from Canada and 150 senior […]
Professional Resume Writing Tips
You will find professional resume writing tips on many sites and most provide very valuable information for writing your resume. Basic tips like formatting issues, typos, soft skills, hard skills, recommended number of pages and so much more. The majority of these tips receive a general consensus but there is one piece of advice that still seems to generate some controversy, not […]
Resume Writing 2009
The days of a paper resume are gone! If you were considering stuffing your resume in an envelope and affixing postage, think again. HR professionals and recruiters alike expect a properly formatted, professionally written resume with an accompanying cover letter to be submitted online. Your online proficiency doesn’t stop there. You must also have a […]
Do you have a Linkedin Profile?
Do you have a completed LinkedinProfile? If you are questioning the significance of a presence on Linkedin, please take the time to review the 2009 Social Recruitment Survey Results from Jobvite. You may not be in career transition today but there’s no guarantee that you won’t be next month, next year or the year after that. Here are […]
Resume Mistakes
There has been much information shared about common resume mistakes including formatting issues, too many pages, typos, missing contact information, lack of outstanding, noteworthy accomplishments and the list goes on. Although all of these are serious issues as they may very well eliminate you as a potential candidate, this is not exactly what I wanted to share with you today. In contrast to […]
Twitter Resume
Have you invested in a professional resume? Have you created a VisualCV? And a Linkedin profile? Is your resume posted on Monster? Workopolis? And if that doesn’t have your head spinning, did you know that you can now have a Twitter Resume? At twtjobs you can create your Twitter Resume with the same basic principals used in Twitter. Start with a headline, […]