Funny Resume Mistakes

I recently saw Barbara Safani’s AOL article titled Resume Mistakes That Keep Hiring Managers Amused But Cost You The Interview.
Barbara pulls some mistake examples from various sites and include things from typos to “subtle” humor.
Go read the list of things.  I wanted to share this with you for two reasons:
First, you MUST proof your resume, [...]

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The Death of the Resume

Much has been written about the resume dying.  I’ve responded to some of the thoughts on this blog.
This week I had the honor of presenting a keynote at a conference of career services professionals.  After the event I got into a conversation with some of the career professionals and we got on this subject.  One [...]

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Email Subject Lines & Effective Communication

Tom Clifford wrote an invaluable post titled Why Precise Email Subject Lines Are Like Diamonds.  I’ve been doing a lot of corporate communication lately so I thought I’d read the first part to see what he had to say … I devoured the entire post.  I especially like the end, where he gives examples of [...]

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Vice-President Resume

How are vice-president resumes different than normal resumes?  How fancy do they need to be?  What should be included and what should be left off?
I know that I didn’t want to leave much off of my resume… I had worked too hard in my career to not list certain things… but I wasn’t understanding the [...]

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What does a second-tier resume get me?

I was reading Thom Singer’s post titled Second Tier Efforts Bring Second Tier Results… his message is along the lines of “you get what you put into it.” If you do a half-baked job, you get half-baked results.
This is not true with your resume.  A second-tier, or half-baked resume will get you NO RESULTS.
My resume [...]

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Executive Resume Review

You’ve heard the purpose of your resume is to get you an interview, right?  How’s it working out for you?
My resume kept me out of interviews.  I had a bunch of my friends review it – executives, HR professionals, hiring managers… and they all thought it was great.
But it kept me out of interviews and [...]

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Is Google your Resume? (It’s not your executive resume!)

I’ve heard a phrase that’s become popular amongst people who haven’t been in a job search (but have been tied to internet or social marketing).
The argument is that hiring managers, recruiters and decision-makers can go to Google very easily and search for titles or people and start to get a list of potential candidates.
They say [...]

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The College Graduate Job Search

About two years ago all the online chatter about GenY was that they are… how do I put this… better than all the other generations.  They multi-task better, they understand technology better, they are better team players, more flexible, etc. etc. etc.
It was really interesting to hear both sides of the fence… those saying GenY [...]

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Executive Resumes

Executive resumes are not the same as entry-level resumes, recent college graduate resumes, or even a mid-level professional resume.  Executive resumes go in front of a different audience (who reads the resume), and they are usually more complex.  The amount of information you have to put into an executive resume is significantly more involved because [...]

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Job Search Tax Deductions

From the IRS page, on what expenses you can deduct in a job search for 2009 (emphasis added):
Job Search Expenses
You can deduct certain expenses you have in looking for a new job in your present occupation, even if you do not get a new job. You cannot deduct these expenses if:

You are looking for a [...]

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