Forget the black hole — that’s a terrible way to get a job. People say “But I called the HR department, and they told me that I have to put my resume into the company’s ‘careers’ website in order for it to be considered.”
Liz Ryan
Denver, CO
Guest Blogger Liz Ryan is a member of the Glassdoor Clearview Collection and a former Fortune 500 HR executive; she is the Workplace Expert for Business Week Online and the Networking Expert for Yahoo! Hot Jobs. Liz’s advice columns reach 50 million readers per month. Ryan leads the 25,000-member Ask Liz Ryan online community, where she shares business, career and life advice with members every day. She authored the book: "Happy About Online Networking: the virtual-ly simple way to build professional relationships" and is a sought-after keynote speaker. She has addressed a wide range of audiences including the United Nations, CEOs, HR leaders, and entrepreneurs.
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Who’s Got Your Resume — A Decision-Maker Or An Amoeba?
I am no fan of the black hole, the resume-sucking repository of dangerous anti-matter and hundreds of resumes that were sent in reply to job ads and never heard from again.
Try A Human Voice In Your Resume
A job search is full of obstacles, from unresponsive HR departments to those annoying blind ads that don’t even tell you who the employer is. On top of the roadblocks that a job search imposes on us, here is one more that we create for ourselves: a dry-as-dust, boilerplate resume that sounds exactly like everyone ... - Read full post
Ten Reasons To Run From A Job Opportunity
One of the worst things that can happen to a talented job seeker is to get caught in the Vortex — that swirling, chaotic place where the hiring-process movement gets to be so fast and furious that it’s hard to keep up with it.
Why Talented People Don’t Get Hired
Employers call me and wail, “So many job candidates, and no one to fill my job.” They say that the recent economic woes haven’t made it much easier for them to hire talent. “We get flooded with applications,” they tell me, “and most of them are dreck.”
Resume Writing? Think Cathedral, Not Bricks
My friend Julie was job-seeking, and she had a big asset: she’d just completed her Masters in teen counseling. Julie was looking for a job working with at-risk teenagers. She’d already spent years, even prior to her collegiate education, working with teens at summer camps and in after-school programs.
The Job-Seeker’s Secret Weapon: It’s Pointed
I was having lunch with my friend Jane, a plainspoken sort. She asked, “Have you always been a career advisor?” “Heck no,” I said. “I was a corporate HR VP for ten million years.”
How to Replace Deadly Resume Phrases
Dear Liz,
Can you make some suggestions on how to replace the Ten Deadliest Resume Phrases?
Ten Deadliest Resume Phrases
My daughter is an avid junior anthropologist. She observes her own peer group like a hawk. On the first day of middle school, she drew me a social map of the lunch room, showing the locations of all the middle-school cliques, from jocks to nerds and popular girls and everyone in between. She likes to observe ... - Read full post
Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Broach the Salary Topic
In real estate sales, the conventional wisdom is that the person who mentions money first, loses – or at least is at a disadvantage during the negotiation. The same notion has been bouncing around the job-search advice-o-sphere for years, but here it doesn’t fit so well. It’s easy to see that if a job-seeker doesn’t ... - Read full post
