When candidates apply to jobs and send their resumes to companies, they follow a traditional process during the pre-employment process. Before they reach the job interview stage, companies require a specific set of skills and core competencies for each job and they hire candidates that closely match …
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Resume Roundtable – The Top Resume Questions This Week
On a regular basis, my team and I have a roundtable discussion on what some of the most common resume questions have been over the last week. When you work with a diverse client base every day, you notice trends in the questions that get asked over and over again. I figure if my clients have …
The Importance of Sending Thank You Letters After Job Interviews
When we were younger, our parents taught us the important building blocks of our lives like sending thank you notes to show our appreciation and gratitude anytime someone gave us a gift or did something nice for us. Whether it was a birthday gift, a celebratory gift to commemorate a milestone in our …
Career Change Resumes
In today's job market, it is not uncommon that as a job seeker you might be considering an alternate career path or a career change altogether. There are many reasons that job seekers want to pursue a different career path. Most times, you are looking for new opportunities that challenge you and …
Strategic Answers to Tough Interview Questions
After you apply to a job with your resume, the next logical step is your job interview. Some people love interviewing with companies and some would prefer a trip to the dentist's office rather than a job interview. In our previous blog post, we talked about some of the top job interview questions …
The Top Interview Questions & What They Really Mean
Job interviews--the dreaded love/hate relationship. Some people love interviewing with companies and cannot wait to step foot in the building to sell themselves. Other people have an impending sense of doom at the thought of going on a job interview. We have all been there and we all have our own …
Resume Tailoring – Does It Really Help?
In today's job market, your job search strategy and resume strategy go hand in hand. Your resume needs to incorporate all of the strategic elements like personal branding and keyword optimization if you want to maximize the success you have in landing a new job. You have to maintain a competitive …
Salary Negotiation – Is Cash Always King?
After a previous client had such success with her resume that I wrote for her, she came back to me with a new dilemma that she was quite concerned about: I just received an offer from a company, but I was hoping for a higher salary. What should I do? Of all the dilemmas she could be facing right …
Resumes and Applying to Jobs Online
Q: I am applying to jobs online using a formatted Word document of my resume. I am having some trouble with my resume data and its readability. When I copy and paste the resume into job websites, the resume doesn’t completely calibrate the bullets and the information looks off. Just wondering, have …
Resumes and Professional Biographies
Q: Resume Innovators did an excellent job of capturing my personal brand in the resume you created for me. I have been reading a lot about professional biographies recently. If you have a great resume, do you need a bio too? ~ Victor L., Chicago, IL A: In a nutshell Victor--yes! You …