Some of the biggest companies in the world were started by college dropouts. Google, Facebook and Microsoft, to name a few. But these very same companies, among hundreds of others, shun college dropouts. TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington, spoke about entrepreneurship at UC Berkley recently, where he claimed that college was for old school entrepreneurs and…

Being someone that just entered the job market about 2 months ago after graduation from a four year school, I placed the emphasis on creating a résumé to give to potential employers. In fact, I even met with some of my universities “career development” professionals that help me craft and hone my résumé, making sure…

Today, we announce the launch of our second ebook, Thursday Bram’s Discover Your New Job Online: Everything You Need to Know to Land a Great Job in the Digital Age.  This all-original book is your map to the increasingly complex resources available to today’s job-hunter. Former employment agency staffer and ex-Lifehack writer Thursday…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…