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As we have blogged in the past, due to our current economic backdrop, the flow of talent interested in available opportunities is overwhelming to companies. You must do all you can to insure your information is reviewed by the right people in a timely manner. And one of the first and most important steps is ... - Read full post
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.”
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.
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
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.
I am consulting with global companies designing talent sourcing, assessment and delivery flow efficiencies to fill specific executive corporate positions around the world. And because of our current economic backdrop and the shared – aggregated dispersal of a position posted, tweeted or discussed the flow of talent qualified and unqualified is overwhelming.
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.”
I don’t know how many times in my career I have looked at a resume and thought to myself, “there is no story here”. A resume is a collection of work experiences that defines what you have done and what you potentially can do, but most importantly is a chance to let someone else know ... - Read full post
Dear Liz,
Can you make some suggestions on how to replace the 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
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