I have reviewed thousands of resumes as a hiring executive (and another couple of hundred as a professional resume writer and career consultant) and worse than the occasional type-o or overly-flowerly language or some of the other resume sins I could mention (and there are many), it really all comes down to one thing: Please don’t bore me [...]
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Just a brief bit of resume advice. If you take away nothing else in terms of guidance in this area, take this: Don’t be boring- or undersell yourself- in your resume. This is your place to really express who you are in your career. Yes, you can (should) use colorful words (if you are a colorful [...]
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Being a professional resume writer, I’m all for people hiring professional resume writers to do this chore for them. Hire one, compliment the finished product, and then pay them promptly. 1 – 2 – 3 – DONE! But sometimes you need to try to do it yourself first. I get that. So here is my [...]
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The free resume is going to a single mom with three kids who lives on the east coast. She was nominated by someone on 29 gifts and she is also a participant. If she is okay with it, I’ll give you more details of her story later and let you know where this fabulous new resume leads [...]
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As part of my 29 Gifts participation, I want to write or rewrite/upgrade/revamp/turbocharge a resume for someone for free. This is a service worth up to $260 depending upon the professional level of the person and whether I’m writing it from scratch or rewriting an existing version. Problem is, how do I find the person to [...]
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This is the difference between ending up in the YES (contact them now for an interview) or MAYBE (read later) pile. We don’t worry about the NO pile. If you followed Rule #1 and Rule #2, you should be able to stay out of the NO pile for any job for which you are reasonably qualified. The MAYBE pile [...]
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I'm Jenny Yerrick Martin, a veteran hiring executive, career consultant and strategist, expert resume, bio, and web content writer, and the creator of entertainment career site, YourIndustryInsider.com.
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