Archive for the ‘Resumes’ Category

A job search is tough. Few candidates are prepared for what happens in a job search. Few have had any formal training. Some will get help with their resume. Some will reach out to friends and family for guidance, but there is a whole lot more to a job search than the tactics and mechanics of the resume, networking and interviewing.

Every person that has put together a resume knows the basics, no spelling errors, limit to two pages, chronological format, use keywords and so on, but there are other basic issues that candidates do and don’t do that have a big impact on getting their resume noticed. By getting noticed I mean read and ultimately you get a phone call or email.

Well, seems likes even Nicholas Claus aka Santa reads our blog every so often. Not sure what made him think we were a recruiting company or hiring for any position that he decided to send a resume. The layout of the resume itself looks pretty simple for a jolly guy like him, but his accomplishments [...]

I was meeting with a candidate today, we will call him Andy, who recently landed. He had been on the market for about 5 months. He did all the right things, went to the networking meetings, drank more coffee than he should have, reworked his resume over and over, all for nothing. He would get interviews but never make the cut. He had sent out lots of resumes with moderate success.

We all know that social media and job search are now closely related. In today’s fast paced world, it is crucial to have a presence on different social media platforms in order to succeed and have a influential group of network.