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Resume Tip: It’s All About The RESULTS You Can Deliver!

Posted by teenarose in featured, guest article, jimmy sweeney resumes, new post, resume on January 27, 2010

Guest article by Jimmy Sweeney, Author of the new, Amazing Resume Creator
Are you problem solver? Someone who can save the company money? Someone who can make the company money? A person who can organize and categorize without effort? If so, step up and sell those skills. What do you do well that will bring the [...]

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Should I Include Volunteer Work in My Resume? (Back-to-Basics Series)

Posted by teenarose in back to basics, featured, guest article, jimmy sweeney resumes, new post, resume on January 21, 2010

Guest article by Jimmy Sweeney, Author of the new, Amazing Resume Creator
Many job seekers ask if they should include volunteer work as part of their job resumes when seeking new employment. It’s a question worth looking at. Some employers are only interested in seeing the nuts-and-bolts details that show the “what and where” of your [...]

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Resume Writing: Accomplishments Are Key (Back-to-Basics Series)

Posted by teenarose in back to basics, featured, guest article, new post, resume, resume tip on January 18, 2010

Guest article by Lisa Chapman
Are you in the middle of writing your resume and wondering what information to include and what information to exclude?
You must begin to think like the person who will be hiring you.
What will she want to see on your resume?
What information will be important to her?
The only [...]

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Resume Writing: Chronological, Functional, and Hybrid Resume Formats (Back-to-Basics Series)

Posted by teenarose in back to basics, guest article, resume on January 6, 2010

Guest article by Lisa Chapman
Once you decide it’s time to prepare your resume you then need to decide which format you should use to create the resume. You didn’t know there was more than one resume writing format?! With this article, I will do my best to educate you on the top three formats used.
CHRONOLOGICAL [...]

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Cut Resume “Fat” (Back-to-Basics Series)

Posted by teenarose in resume on January 5, 2010

Cutting the “fat” when it comes to writing and developing your resume is more necessity than design style. A jobseeker can’t afford to have a resume littered with excess, as every square inch is needed for more important details.
Here’s food for thought.
If your email is “abc123@email.com,” does it make sense to list “email:abc123@email.com”? Listing [...]

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Don’t Lie About Your Credentials

Posted by teenarose in guest article, resume on January 4, 2010

Once upon a time I worked for a start-up company in Austin, Texas. I no longer work there but the company made news recently by being acquired by a very large well-known financial services firm. With the company making big news everyone associated with the start-up is doing whatever they can to get media coverage [...]

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Tips for Naming Your Resume (Back-to-Basics Series)

Posted by teenarose in back to basics, featured, new post, resume on December 30, 2009

Written by Teena Rose of ResumeToReferral.com
Part of the back-to-the-basics advice for jobseekers provided by Resume to Referral

Naming your resume properly is one of the most important things you can do to ensure the right people see your resume. Whether you are e-mailing it to prospective employers or posting it on employment websites, such as Monster.com [...]

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Bad to Have a 3-Page Resume?

Posted by teenarose in featured, new post, page length, resume on December 21, 2009

“I have been looking at a lot of Resume building sites and have noticed that everyone says that I should have my resume down to 2 pages, but is it bad to have a 3 page resume instead? I am graduating from Geomatics Engineering and have some great experiences that would be great for the [...]

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Your Resume – An Employer’s First Impression of You

Posted by teenarose in featured, guest article, new post, resume on December 1, 2009

Guest Article by Jason Kay
Before a prospective employer ever gets to shake your hand they will already have formed somewhat of an opinion about you. How? By looking at you is your resume.
A resume has to tell this prospective employer why they should call you and grant you the opportunity to meet with them for [...]

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Resume Apps: Avoid Using Objective?

Posted by teenarose in featured, new post, resume on September 8, 2009

“Death to Resume Objectives … Really?”
Adrienne Becker brought up an interesting point within her post, How to Write a Career Objective for Your Resume, which was “others believe it [an objective] may limit you when applying for jobs.” Her comment reminded me of a Twitter post I saw some time back where a “career professional” [...]

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