What is a Social Resume?

“Long live the resume!”
The traditional resume will die!”
“Video resumes rule.”
This debate will go on and on and on.  You know where I stand – the traditional resume will not die, but there is room for other “things” to come in and fill some gaps.
Enter the Social Resume.
I just got an email from the Brazen Careerist [...]

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Job Search Checklist

Have you seen the Job Search Checklist from Career Resumes?  It’s really good – just print it out and you’ll have a list of 9 things to do in your job search.  Here they are, but go to the Job Search Checklist page, check out the descriptions, and print out the page:

Sharpen your job search [...]

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Resume Samples

Are you looking for resume samples?  You should be, for a number of reasons:

Resume samples show you different formatting ideas – resume formats that are acceptable.
Resume samples show you how to structure phrases and sentences on your resume.
Resume samples show you what sections go where, or how long sections of a resume should be.
Resume samples [...]

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What is the purpose of a resume?

Sidestepping the question of “are resumes relevant,” I want to talk about something else: what is the purpose of a resume?
In my job search I thought my resume was to help me get branded, and help me in my networking efforts.
It was also to impress people that I gave the resume to.
I think that those [...]

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Executive Resume Samples

Are you looking for samples of executive resumes?  There are currently twenty sample resumes on Career Resumes… here are the ones that are senior level:

Executive Resume Sample One – IT Executive
Executive Resume Sample Seven – Vice President
Executive Resume Sample Nine – Senior Financial Executive
Executive Resume Sample Twelve – Technology Executive
Executive Resume Sample Fifteen – High Tech Executive
Executive Resume Sample Eighteen – [...]

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Personal Branding with your Resume?

This week I spoke to a group of over 100 unemployed professionals.  At the end of the presentation a guy came up to me and stated he was “using his resume as his personal branding tool.”
This struck me as wrong right away.
A resume is a tool, and it’s a critical tool.  Having a great resume [...]

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Nobody Reads Cover Letters. Well, except…

There is a lot of chatter about cover letters… do you send one? Do you not?
One thing I hated in my job search was customizing resumes and cover letters for jobs I applied to.  I got down to a few versions of my resume (for different job titles), but I normally customized the cover letter [...]

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Recruiters and Resumes – Is Submitting a Resume Enough?

I remember a discussion I had with a group of recruiters at a recruiter conference.  Someone brought up the issue of having too many resumes to sift through – not the resumes that come in every day, but the thousands and thousands of resumes that have accumulated.
Even though recruiters have tools to help them sort, [...]

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The Cost of a Resume & My $9 Hamburger

I remember the first time I had a hamburger that wasn’t run-of-the-mill burger. Normally I went to Burger King or Carls Jr., which was fine. I didn’t know what I was missing out on.
Then, one day I was treated to a burger from a place that took a sirloin steak and ground it up.  [...]

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Executive Resumes

Before I went into my job search my dad started his transition.  He was leaving the Federal Government and was looking for an executive role.  Exciting times for him!
When I started my job search he sent me his resume since I couldn’t find my old (outdated!) resume… we figured if he spent hundreds of dollars [...]

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