Resumes for Financial Experts (& Your Competition)

I was doing a search for executive resumes, and CFO resumes. I came across a search term “CFO resume examples,” instead of “CFO resume samples,” which surprised me.  Here are some related search terms, suggested by Google: ceo resume examples coo resume examples cio resume examples cto resume examples cpa resume examples controller resume examples [...]

Resume help on LinkedIn (LinkedIn Resume Group)

There’s a brand new resume Group on LinkedIn to chitter and chatter about resumes! It is called “Resume Help and Advice for Professionals and Executives.” Click here to join the http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3662550.

Professional Resume Samples

If you are looking for resume samples, check out these sample resumes: Resume Sample One – IT Executive resume Resume Sample Two – Call Center Director resume Resume Sample Three – New Graduate resume Resume Sample Four – Legal / General Counsel resume Resume Sample Five – Operations Manager resume Resume Sample Six – Automotive [...]

Resume Help

Where should you get resume help from? I asked for resume help and resume reviews from my trusted circle of friends and colleagues. I got input from a government executive, an HR exec at a multi-billion dollar company, a military professional and various professionals in my field. I also got input from many job seekers [...]

Are You An Executive Resume Writer?

Over the last few years as I’ve been in the career and job search space I’ve had an interesting realization. Back when I first started my job search, and every buck seemed to be worth ten bucks to me, I wouldn’t pay for anything unless I absolutely had to.  I had very limited funds and [...]

Conquering Job Search Depression

I’m an advocate of getting through depression in the job search.  I guess you could say I’m a Type A guy, and being out of control really stinks.  I wasn’t used to having no control, which is where I was in my job search. My most-commented post on the JibberJobber blog was titled Depression Clouds [...]

A Professional Resume Writer Is Not A Typist

I could have said “is not simply a typist” but I didn’t even want to put simply because the role of a resume writer is not to pluck away at a keyboard… it is to create and craft a marketing tool for your job search. If you start a business would you hire your plumber [...]

“Will you review my resume?”

I have been in Maryland/Virginia all week and a few times, at my presentations, I’ve been handed a resume and asked to review it. I’m not a review specialist and I always encourage people to ask a professional resume writer to review it – many do it for free (Career Resumes does free resume critiques). [...]

The Living Resume?

I’m at the National Resume Writer Association in Fort Worth, Texas to network with my peers and fellow resume afficcionados.  It’s fun to get out and meet others who have their minds in career management all the time, and especially to see friends who I’ve known over the last few years. Last night at the [...]

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 [...]