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I’ve seen plenty of bloggers say that “Google is the new resume.” They say “if you aren’t on Google (or LinkedIn), you don’t exist.”
The thinking is valid… to a degree.
Here is what they are trying to say, and my take:
Google is the new resume: Why use the boring old two page document that no one [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, Networking, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 25th, 2012
Last week I blogged about getting a resume critique from the wrong people.
I can’t stress this enough. When you are looking for some outside help to see how strong your resume is, I encourage you to get a professional resume writer to help you.
In that post I talked about how I thought I had qualified [...]
tags: Resumes author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 17th, 2012
Happy Friday the 13th!!
I am appalled at the ads I’m seeing for professional resumes to be written for under $100.
Listen, there is a reason Nike, or some other major company, won’t pay you or me $100 to write their next advertisement. You get what you pay for, and they know it.
I think you get what you pay [...]
tags: Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 13th, 2012
In my job search I pieced together a resume and then shot it out to friends and family hoping they would let me know if it was any good.
I was looking for someone to catch a grammar mistake, or a spelling error.
I was hoping someone would think it was awesome and walk it down to [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
January 11th, 2012
As I’ve spoken over the last few years to professionals in transition, I’ve convinced myself that the job search is 99% communication.
And we do it wrong (or poorly)…. almost all the time.
Can you communicate just a little bit better? Communication in your job search is key.
It’s why job seekers spend hours working on their “elevator [...]
tags: Interviews, Networking, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 22nd, 2011
Here’s an exercise that you need to do RIGHT NOW.
Imagine you are a recruiter trying to fill a job (a job that is a perfect match for you, the job seeker).
Go to Google and do a search for the right candidate (which is you, of course).
Are you coming up on the searches?
You can’t use your [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Fun With a Purpose, Recruiters, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
September 19th, 2011
Here’s a post I didn’t think I’d read… from Recruiting Blogs, Jeffrey Moore writes Should you apply for a job online?
His conclusion is summed up in this line:
“Short answer? Yes. Long answer? Hell yes.”
Very interesting.
Most job search coaches tell their clients to not spend time, or to really limit their time, to online job boards, [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Job Search Tools, Networking, Recruiters, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
September 7th, 2011
Another insightful Recruiting Blogs post from a recruiter, Julie Pentis, titled: Job Seekers: Stop Working So Hard!
You’ve heard the job search is a numbers game, right? It used to be, for sure.
Julie writes:
I had someone apply for 15 of our job openings the other day. Fifteen! And all the job openings called for completely different [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Cover Letters, Interviews, Networking, Recruiters, Required Reading, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
July 29th, 2011
Most embarrassing interview moment in my job search:
Interviewer: on your resume it says you do this ____ and this_____. What exactly does that mean?
Me: Um…. um… it says that? Where does it say that?
I had no idea what it meant. I had borrowed a resume from my dad, who had his resume professionally written.
I edited [...]
tags: Recruiters, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
July 25th, 2011
I recently got an email from Alison Doyle, Job Search Expert at About.com, with a link to her article Taking Your Job Search on Vacation.
It’s worth your time to read… this applies weather you are going on a boat, train or plane, OR if you are staying home but don’t plan on being tethered to [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Job Search Tools, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
June 6th, 2011
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