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By Bram-Naus on unsplash.com Make your Resume Stand Out by Covering These Seven Areas Are you struggling to capture compelling information for your resume? Does recruiter or hiring manager inquiries and interviews for your target position seem to evade you? When you review your resume does it make you feel as if your experience is not properly represented? If you can answer "yes" to any of the above questions, the issue could be within your resume. The good news is that with a little time investment, you can improve and achieve your desired results. While many struggle with writing their own resume, the process can be simple while optimizing its effectiveness. The key is understanding the value you bring and simply giving the companies what they are looking for by outlining their key criteria within your resume. Many people are unaware that there is a strategy to writing a targeted resume to attract hiring managers and get the interview. Mo...

If your  résumé  is longer than two pages, keep reading.  A common question many tenured professionals ask is how to best fit 20 years of experience into one to two pages on their résumé.   It’s understandable to want to reflect all of the hard work accomplished spanning 20 long years. The problem is not in sharing the things accomplished through hard work, it is how to communicate the key accomplishments so that it effectively maintains relevance within today’s business environment. While it may appear overwhelming, with a little organization, a novel length  résumé can easily be reduced to one or two pages.  The following are a few tips to help condense the tenured résumé: Writing for the reader will help you stay focused on only including relevant information. 1)     Write for the reader :  Think about what the recruiter and hiring manager want to know. Use the position job description from multiple companies a...

Emojis supplied by EmojiOne Congratulations! June is the half-way mark to completing your New Year’s Resolutions! Yay?  According to statisticbrain.com , roughly 45% of those who make New Year’s resolutions make it to six months. However, 42.4% of those who make New Year’s resolutions never succeed at all. Unfortunately, I have fallen into both of those statistics more than once in my lifetime.  Sigh. Like many with good intentions and high enthusiasm in January, we rush out and begin working on our resolutions with grit and determination. Slowly, life happens and we give ourselves permission to “skip a day” here and there. As enthusiasm turns into boredom and wanes into tedious monotony, the resolution eventually falls to the wayside; ultimately discarded like yesterday’s trash. Guilt and disappointment immediately set in. Failure again . However, the guilt quickly subsides as excuses alleviate the sting of failure for yet another year.    Does ...