If you are searching for your first full-time job or if you were recently laid off, you may be suffering from doubts about your qualifications. You may not even know if you want to continue on the career path that your education best fits you for or that you have been following so far. How do you know what direction to take now? Your first step should be to search through employment websites, online job postings, and print job advertisements… Read More
Updating Your Resume
When you update your resume, mistakes may easily happen. For example, in every resume achievements in old jobs are described in the past tense (“Managed 15 accountants”); achievements in current jobs are described in the present tense (“Manage 15 accountants”). You must be careful, when updating your resume, to make sure that all your old jobs are now described as being in the past, not the present. Another common error in updating a resume is to keep the information that is already… Read More
The Hardest Part of Resume Writing
Everyone has their own candidate for the hardest part of resume writing but I often find that clients come to me because of two problems: (a) They cannot figure out what the marketplace wants—their resume is not leading to interviews and they don’t know why. (b) They do not know how to explain their accomplishments—they are reluctant to boast about themselves, their career path is unusual, or their background does not seem to fit the traditional resume. In fact, these… Read More
