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Professional resumes how tough are they to compete against? Very tough, says this former recruiter. Level the playing field by learning the Top 10 features of professional resumes.
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Professionally-prepared resumes are competing against you. That’s right, if you’re in the job market and you’ve written your own resume, professional resumes are directly competing with you for [...]

Background in management? Then you know first impressions count. And your management resume objective is your first impression to prospective employers. Here’s help.
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If you’ve got a background in management and you’re looking for a job in this tough economy, you already know you’ve got a fight on your hands. Thundering herds of people are scrambling [...]

Your e-resume. It’s the traditional resume you’ve come to know (and love?), only formatted for e-delivery. Here are the 3 formats you need for your e-resume.
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A fistful of pretty resumes won’t get you far in today’s job search. While you’re out schlepping from one company to the next, trying to talk your way past security [...]

Getting fired or let go from your job is never an easy pill to swallow. However, with the economy the way it is and businesses cutting back instead of expanding, being let go has unfortunately become a way of life. So what the heck do you do when you?ve been let go?
First things first; take [...]

What ever happened to simple resumes? A resume used to be a resume ? a simple introduction to get a job interview. This is simply not the case anymore in 2010.
Simple as that.
It appears that in the new millennium what might have been called the ?traditional , chronological?, that is the fact filled resume that [...]

In this tough economy with so many unemployed people searching for jobs on the popular employment websites, your chances of getting to a good lead before others apply are minute.
You can get an edge over other candidates by doing a Google job search. Why search dozens of popular job sites when Google has already done [...]

Since he won the race to the White House, Barack Obama has been exploiting his maximum effort to protect the rights and improve the standard of living of every worker in America. Obama sees that every worker should be offered reasonable pays, convenient health care services and a dignifying retirement pension. Moreover, Obama has been [...]

The standard protocol for working on a resume is to work on it when you?re ready to find your next job. Hey, it makes sense. Why would you work on your resume when you?re not looking to move on from your current employer?
However, even if you?re not quite looking to move on, you never know [...]

As more employers go to electronic cover letter and resume scanning, the importance of keywords has grown by leaps and bounds. Now, employers don?t just scan for spelling errors, they can actually run the resumes and cover letters through software that picks up on which ones have the keywords and in the right combination that [...]

Many job seekers are tempted to include as much information as possible on their resumes. More information always means a better shot at the job, right? Wrong. Depending on the information you include, you may find that hiring managers are actually turned off by your resume. So before going out on a ledge and taking [...]