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Resume Trends In 2017

By Career Development, Resume Tips
Okay, we are a little into 2017 and the industry has been talking. The time to revamp your resume is now, procrastination is a beast!! Life gets in the way and it is understandable but money talks and investing in your career is the best thing you can do to secure your financial wellbeing. It…
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How To Get Back Into The Job Market

By Career Development, Resume Tips
This is a question that is often asked, “How to get back into the job market after 5 years off?” This happens a lot with stay-at-home mothers, college students, and veterans. There are many obstacles that present themselves: gaps in employment, capability, and convincing the employer that you are motivated about working again. The thing…
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Readability & Scanning

By Resume Tips
In today’s job market, job boards like Indeed, Monster and Glassdoor are flooded with resumes. Similarly, employer application managers are flooded as well. This is the driver behind creating a resume that is easy to read and built for HR reps/recruiters to scan. It is a bad feeling to know the hiring authority scans over…
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3 Resume Trends In 2016

By Resume Tips
Resume trends continue to change as time goes forward. Employers are being held responsible for their choices in candidates, the “now” generation is influencing readers to scan over your resume, and social media is telling a story about a candidate’s personality/lifestyle. At one time, your resume didn’t matter. The qualifications and years of experience was…
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How To Organize Your Resume

By Resume Tips
When you are applying for a position, a couple of situations occur: submit an application, hand-in your portfolio, complete an online questionnaire, or submit a link to your work (developers & designers). In each situation, your resume is the first part of the evaluation process potential employers review. Your resume should be as job specific…
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Tips On Selling Your Personal Brand

By Personal Branding, Resume Tips
For many seeking employment, the actual task of searching and applying for jobs can seem like a full time job in itself. The task of navigating application portals, contacting HR reps, networking with past and present contacts, filling out applications and submitting resumes can drain the most enthusiastic job seekers of us all. But in…
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How To Reach The Federal Interview Process

By Resume Tips
Federal Interview Process The key ingredient in making it to the federal interview process is to get pass the Automated Tracking System (ATS) and attract HR representatives or recruiters by keyword optimization. Keyword optimization is utilizing the relative keywords included in the job announcement, job qualifications, and job description that tell the ATS system, “You…
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