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3 Ways To Make Your Résumé Stand Out From the Crowd

An ocean of paper They come without ceasing. Daily, they arrive to pile up in someone’s “To Do” basket. Ivory-colored pages of expensive, heavy stock share the same basket with copy paper ones. An occasional bright pink page incongruously blasts its color past the old-fashioned versions. Human resource offices have tried to do away with [...]

May 14, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Launch a Successful Career Reinvention

by Julie Walraven

Several times a month we feature a blog post from our our on sister website, Secrets of the Job Hunt. Click here to view. A prospective client asked, “Do you do Career Reinvention resumes?” After he explained what he was thinking, I understood. As a Mechanical Engineer on the West Coast, he had found himself [...]

February 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The One Question Your Resume Must Answer

by shannonsmedstad

Resumes are a dime a dozen, so making yours stand out is of great importance. You may think that filling your resume with a head shot, industry buzz words or graphics will capture a recruiter’s attention, but in reality, it may just get your resume thrown to the bottom of the pile. Creating an attention-grabbing resume [...]

February 11, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Resume & Cover Letter Tips for Articulating Your Awesomeness

by shannonsmedstad

Resume Words to Avoid Today, when I opened my inbox and skimmed new messages, I noticed this headline: 6 Words that Kill Your Resume. The blog post that followed began with “Writing a resume seems easy.” I paused and thought to myself, you know what? For a lot of people, writing a resume doesn’t seem [...]

September 30, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

7 Ways To Nix Hiring Flukes & Catch Resume Lies

by Heather R. Huhman

Today’s job market is tough. The May jobs report indicated only 69,000 jobs were created in May, well below the anticipated 165,000. Now add to that the fact that some two million individuals will accept their bachelor’s degrees as the Class of 2012, expecting to receive cushy full-time jobs with health and vacation benefits. What’s left? [...]

June 22, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Getting IN The Door or Getting Your Name ON The Door?

by Ray_anne

Looking great on paper Not too long ago, I met a couple friends for dinner. These were girls with whom I had gone to junior high and high school; we had a great time reminiscing and talking about the “good old days.” One of these ladies had been working in Iraq for several years [...]

April 5, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Looking For a Job Can Be Hell

by Ray_anne

Frustration and Anger I remember when he called me, frustrated and angry. He had moved to Southern California from Seattle with dreams of making it big. Don’t they all? But what he found was an ever-growing pile of debt lying next an even greater pile of heartbreak. Dashed hopes and rising bills. It looks like [...]

February 29, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Resume is Dead

by Ray_anne

I am waxing nostalgic. What is it about the past that keeps us in it? Or keeps us reverting to it or, sometimes, avoiding it? Do we value it as history and what we can learn from it or is it simply too difficult to let go? From reviewing a résumé to conducting professional reference interviews, [...]

January 20, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

A Job Seeker Rethinks Executive Recruiters

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

There was a reporter for the local paper who covered the local professional football team and the National Football League. He made a great statement once about mediocrity. He said, “Many years ago, there were 12 National Football League teams and 12 good quarterbacks. Now there are 32 teams and 12 good quarterbacks.” Wow. What [...]

December 9, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Resumes Don’t Get You Hired. Interviews Do.

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

A resume will get you through the door, but the interview is what will get you hired. You might be the BEST at the JOB you are interviewing for, but if you don’t master communicating that in an interview, you may not get the job. Interviewing is a skill that can be learned… here is what [...]

November 15, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Dear HR Pros, Be Transparent

by Blake McCammon

I graduated college on May 15, 2010 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business. I knew before I graduated that it would be hard getting a job. My dad was laid off from his job and it took him six months to find another. He then had that job for six months and [...]

July 19, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Rules for the Executive Job Search

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

The job search can be especially tough for executive level candidates. Salary requirements are high and their are a limited number of open positions available which are often go unadvertised. Earlier this year, the Ladders conducted a survey which listed the top 3 biggest mistakes made by highly compensated and qualified job seekers. And to round out [...]

December 22, 2009 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Keyword Tips for Resume & Online Profile

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Keywords should be an extremely important component of both your online social media profiles as well as your resume. These keywords can be a difference maker in getting your resume front and center and in front of a recruiter. I had the pleasure of having Jennifer Scott, the President of Hire Effect on my job [...]

December 6, 2009 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Hold the Mayo–Hamburgers & Resumes

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Are resumes and hamburgers an unlikely metaphor? I think not. A couple weeks ago I met my friend, Martha for lunch at our local Red Robin. Martha is quite particular in her food choices which is why we always meet for lunch there. In the last four years that I have known her, she has [...]

October 24, 2009 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Denial is Not a River in Egypt

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

A couple weeks ago I was having a discussion with a client about resumes and interviewing. Typically, what happens is that someone recommends that I can assist their friend in getting a job, we talk, and they try to sell me, very badly I might add on helping them for free. Do mechanics repair your [...]

October 8, 2009 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Search Secrets with Radical Recruit

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

As many of you know, I have a weekly live webshow on MomTV Sundays at 9:00 PM EST where we talk about the unwritten rules of the job search. This week’s show was amazing and featured Geoff Webb, the Radical Recruiter. Geoff provided viewers some great information on how to reach hiring managers and recruiters using sourcing methods and other [...]

October 4, 2009 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

B4J Comment Contest

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Leave a comment and get entered in a chance to win your choice of either a Resume & Brand Package valued at over $600 or a $75 Gift Card. Leave a comment between now and August 1st. Thanks for your support of the new and improved B4J. So many more exciting announcements & new features [...]

June 29, 2009 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Search Bermuda Triangle

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Job Search Tips and Advice Just like the Bermuda Triangle, it is easy for job seekers to get lost in the sea of applications, customized cover letters, and advice from experts and friends on how to successfully and effectively manage the job search. Throughout the job search, job seekers often lose their sense of [...]