All Blog Posts Tagged 'resume' (9)

The answer to this resume question, plain and simple, is: to get you an interview.  Hiring managers may go back to your resume after having interviewed you to double check your qualifications, but for the most part, the goal of a resume is to get enough attention and interest to be invited for an interview.

So how do you do that?  As a career counselor, here are the five things that help your resume achieve its goal:…

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Whichever kind of job you’re targeting, there are a few universal things you can do to strengthen your resume and stand out above the rest.  While it’s understandably difficult to edit your own resume, try to look at it objectively and consider the following things.  With a few tweaks, you can turn your resume from boring to “I really hope she accepts my job offer!”  As a Boston career counselor, I…

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It’s easy for me as a career counselor to tell clients that their resume should be more about accomplishments and less about writing job descriptions listing their job tasks.  Of course, I understand that it’s not nearly as easy for people to take that advice and implement it on their own resumes.  Easier said than done, right?  To start, here are the 5 crucial elements in the anatomy of a strong resume…

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Finding a job search buddy is one of my favorite recommendations to help job seekers stay motivated and make progress during their job search.  A job search buddy could be a friend, spouse, career counselor or perhaps a fellow job seeker you met at a networking event!

This wonderful person can be helpful to you in a range of different ways.  Here are 5 great things you and…

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When you’re new to the job search, or perhaps even more if you’ve been in the job search a long time, it’s easy to take shortcuts as you submit your online job applications.  While this is perfectly understandable and I sympathize, your job search efforts will be the most fruitful if you remember to do the following five things every time.

 

1. Scrutinize the Job Posting. The goal here is threefold.  First, you want to make sure that this is a job you feel…

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A well written resume summary can draw a hiring manager in, increasing the chances he/she will spend time reading the rest of your resume.  A badly written resume summary can mire a reader down with useless information, distracting him/her from all the good stuff you have to offer.

There’s a lot of confusion as to what a resume summary is and what makes it powerful.  As a career counselor in Boston, I advise clients to include the…

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Using relevant keywords on your resume is increasingly important as so much of the job application process happens electronically.  This applies equally to your linkedin.com profile.  Recruiters and hiring managers may search for or narrow down their candidate search based on certain keywords and, whether or not you’re the perfect person for the role, if you don’t have the relevant keywords on your resume or profile they won’t find…

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Do you feel stuck in your job search and think you’ve already tried everything?  Here are 5 job search activities you might not have tried yet.  Just adopting one or two of these can help get you out of the job search slump, get you noticed, get you interviews and ultimately help you get job offers.  Let’s get started!

1. While searching around the job board simplyhired.com, you can sign into your linkedin and facebook accounts and as you…

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It always amazes me how some of the smartest people who have lots of impressive experience often have mediocre sounding resumes.  The two reasons for this, from my perspective as a career counselor in Boston, is first that there are so many conventions on how to write a resume many have lost sight of what it's supposed to be.  And second, the person writing his own resume is often too close to the situation.  He/she knows how significant the… Continue