Your Tagline, Cliche, Meaningless
Check out this tweet from Steve Levy, a professional recruiter who shoots from the hip: What does it mean to be a transformational leader? What does it mean to be …
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What Do I Name My Resume? IT MATTERS!
I saw this tweet from my technical recruiter friend Robert Merrill: Robert always has fun information… I clicked on his “proof” link, which goes to a great post on how …
Front Teeth Hit Pavement: Lessons from the Emergency Room
I’m in Phoenix speaking and in strategic meetings this week – see my speaking schedule here. Saturday afternoon my wife woke me from a nap and told me our 4 …
10 Tips for Job Seekers from an Employer (CEO)
I got an email about a blog post asking if I’d check it out and perhaps blog about it. I rarely do that (I get these requests all the time, …
Resume Objective Statements: Objecting to Objective Statements on Résumés
Today we have a treat – my JibberJobber Partner (career coach and resume writer) Julie Walraven answers some questions I have about the objective statement on a resume. You may …
Why Resumes are Relevant (and will be for a long time)
So much debate about whether resumes are dying… is LinkedIn (or farily-newcomer VisualCV) going to replace the boring old resume? No. I’m not much of a visionary, and I don’t …
The Ladders Scam
Update: I closed the comments on this post on 8/17/09. The point has been made. Well isn’t that a nice title. I’m really drawing a line in the sand on …
The DIY Resume Book I Recommend Most Often
If you are like me you would have thought you didn’t have enough money to write your own resume. I should have engaged a professional resume writer, but I couldn’t …