Posts Tagged ‘resume’

Change Your Resume for a Great 2009 – Part I

2009 will be a time of change. Included in those changes for many will be a job change. In tight economic times, job search skills become even more important. You need to stand out from the crowd.There are two ways to stand out. You will stand out if you do things that make you look ridiculous, and you will stand out by doing things that make you look remarkable. … Continue reading

January 16 2009 | By Danny | Tagged: application, employment, interviews, job, job search, resume, work | 14 comments»

10 Improvements You Can Make to Your Resume Right Now

I spent several years behind a desk at an employment agency. The first thing we would ask any client was how recently they had updated their resume. The question's objective wasn't really about making sure that every applicant had their most recent job down on paper — instead, we wanted a chance to assess just how bad each resume was. Some people had well-crafted documents ready to send out immediately… Continue reading

December 23 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: job application, resume | 22 comments»

Your Blog Is Your Resume

When you meet someone, like a client or peer, do you immediately Google them? I don't exactly do that, but when I was responding to internet ads for sharehousing I found myself submitting people's emails into Myspace's people search.It's amazing what you can find out about a person through these things, and you should be weary of that, because employers do the same thing.Your blog is serious business. It… Continue reading

July 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, resume | 30 comments»

Resume: You’ve Got 30 Seconds

An insightful look at employers and their resume reading process comes from RandsInRepose. You've got 30 seconds, as an applicant, to impress. This may not be the case with many employers, but I'm sure it's almost spot on for most. Your Name. It's simple. Do I know you? Whether I do or not, I'm going to immediately Google you to see if I should. Oh, you a have a weblog. Excellent.Skills… Continue reading

February 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: resume | 1 comment»

Makeover your LinkedIn profile

Previously we posted about 12 ways to use LinkedIn. Guy Kawasaki has again offered up his LinkedIn expertise. This time Guy gives a tutorial on how to drastically improve your LinkedIn profile. Leveraging the Director of Corporate Communications and the Senior UI Designer at LinkedIn, Guy's tutorial has some tremendous expertise to backup… Continue reading

January 16 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: contact, design, networking, resume, software | 1 comment»

Twelve Ways to Use LinkedIn

LinkedIn is one of my favorite Web 2.0 apps. It gives me a great way to keep business contacts. With the latest feature, LinkedIn Answers, it creates another dimension to receive great insights and advices from professionals. In short, it is a grown up version of Myspace.Guy Kawasaki suggests 10 more ways (his readers contributed two more) to use LinkedIn. They give me more excuses to spend more… Continue reading

January 5 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: contact, networking, resume, software | 7 comments»

Improve your resume layout

Chanpory Rith at LifeClever gives 4 steps to improve your resume into more elegant. The result speaks for itself:

The facelift will not take you 10 minutes to complete, and as you see, the improvement are huge. He recommends:

Pick a better typeface
Remove extra indentations
Make it easy to skim
Apply typographic detailing

The best moves in my opinion are using gray color for text of dates and locations, and also adding horizontal rules… Continue reading

October 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: improvement, resume | 8 comments»

The 7 deadly sins of resumé design

We've covered articles about how to improve your resume's content. How about the design aspect of it? It is equally important to give a professional feeling. Another problem is that the design gets too fancy. LifeClever describes 7 deadly sins of resume design:

Fancy “resumé” paper
Times New Roman
Teeny tiny font size
Grey text
Excessive decoration
Weird paper size
Horizontal format

What do I care about resume design? - Don't do fancy stuff; Font size… Continue reading

September 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: design, resume | 4 comments»

An Online Resume Service

Emurse is a web tool where you can create, send and share your resume on the web. If you want to create a new professional resume for your job hunting, you can use Emurse's create option to edit your resume online. If you already have a resume, you can upload to it, use this service to keep track of your job hunting status, or even give you an option… Continue reading

July 11 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: online, resume, software | 4 comments»

10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Resume

Okay, now you need to find a new job. As a techie you may thought you have so many things to mention to the recruiters. What are the best ways to include into your resume? eWeek has researched and gives some advices on how to write practical and outstanding resume to get an interview. The article lists ten quick tips:

ATS: The most important letters you need to know
Skills section keywords
Don't

July 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: resume, writing | 8 comments»

How to Write a Killer Resume (for Software Engineers)

Niniane Wang, a Google software engineer, has given some tips to write a great resume and impress your interviewer. Resume is important, especially at the screening process, to make your resume shine among the pile of resumes. In the case of software engineers, this is extremely important to highlight your achievement correctly. In the article, there are some tips:

Don't be vague on technical details of your past work.
Don't go into

February 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: job, resume | no comments»

Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview

Have you tried everything and you still cannot get an interview. The site, How to Write a Resume has some tricks for getting an interview:

Use a different color paper for your resume
Use a different size paper for your resume
Inside contact
Certified Letter
Send your resume with a gift
Deliver the resume in person
The post-it note trick

Some of them are quite good suggestions - like different size paper, and using certified letter etc… Continue reading

October 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, job, resume | 7 comments»

25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé

CareerBuilder has suggested that there are 25 words that you shouldn't put in your resume. He referenced book The Elements of Résumé Style and show several examples from it:... Instead of... "Experience working in fast-paced environment" Try... "Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night"Instead of... "Excellent written communication skills" Try... "Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users" ...When I reading job candidates' resume, I don't really mind of reading those terms - but… Continue reading

October 8 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: job, resume, writing | 6 comments»