A Golden Rule Company
Topic:
Job Search
Contrary to popular job searching advice, the LinkedIn headline section is not the place to announce your availability for employment. Informing visitors to your profile that you’re seeking new opportunities or are unemployed and looking (yes, I’ve seen this many times) doesn’t attract the career leads you might think it would. It’s the same theory…
Over the past few weeks I’ve reviewed hundreds of resumes—and to my dismay, they’ve all looked and sounded the same. I’m not sure who thought it was a good idea to give job seekers the advice that replicating an unoriginal career summary or objective statement on their resume was a sound job searching practice. But…
Resume writing is tough. I get it—it’s not easy to write about yourself. A blank Word document is often intimidating, but when it’s waiting to be filled with information about yourself it becomes even harder to get started writing a quality resume. I don’t know many people who excel at writing about themselves—and I’m a…
I get asked two questions every day by job seekers interested in our resume writing service. So I thought I would take a minute to answer them on our blog. #1. What Is Our Success Rate? To be quite specific it’s 99.996%. We’ve helped 500 clients (as of October 2013) with their resumes. Out…
We are all “professionals” in the working world. No need to brag on your resume about being just like every other human. Individuality is the substance of successful resumes in today’s job market. Unfortunately, I see titles like this on resumes every day: Administrative Professional Customer Service Professional Accounting Professional Human Resources Professional Information Technology…
I’m on a mission this week to attack ineffective words and phrases job seekers love to incorporate into their resumes. Watch out resumes … apparently I’m on the war path. =) Success and results—two words job seekers seem particularly partial to including in their resumes. My hypothesis is that candidates want to be perceived as…