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Happy Mother's Day

Salary.com is running a special article right now that details the pay that stay-at-home mothers would earn if they were compensated for all the work they do during the day. According to the study, a stay-at-home mom would earn $$134,121 dollars a year based on a 51.6 hour work-week. A working mom - a mother who works outside ...

Get Ready to Compete

We work with many, many clients whose jobs involve a great deal of planning either for marketing, strategic business planning, or financial planning. Project managers, product managers, senior executives - there is rarely a job in existence that does not involve some kind of planning. When faced with a job search, however, ...

Friends and Family

You're all set. You've written your resume and you've had all your friends, your spouse, your colleagues, and maybe even your mother looks at it. They all say the same thing It sounds good to me. Now you are confident and start sending it out but nothing happens. Three weeks later, still nothing has happened. You think, ...

Email and the Job Search

The Internet was originally created by scientists to share data concerning defense issues but not long after scientists' early initiation to the net, it was discovered that the new network was used more for communication than for data sharing. Scientists were chatting via email on subjects near and dear to their heart, ...

Counting the Costs

I was reading an article in Executive Travel magazine about cost of living in major US cities. It was interesting because the article discussed annual housing costs rather than an ephemeral overall cost of living percentage or average housing cost. In our work with clients, we always ask if they have a geographical location ...

Are You Ready for the Phone to Ring?

Did you realize that the first interview you receive will probably be via telephone? Companies are streamlining their hiring procedures and most do not conduct in-person interviews until well into the selection process. That means that your first impression with a prospective employer or recruiter will be audible, not visual. ...

Why NOT to Use the Functional Format Resume

The functional format resume has few benefits and many detriments. Someone who chooses the functional format resume generally does so when a career change is in the works or there is something in his background that could be a problem. Often, the functional format resume is used when a prison term or some other large span ...

Resumes Have Changed

Place a modern resume next to a resume written in the seventies and you will notice a significant difference in not only appearance but content. Resumes, like language, have changed over time. Employment patterns and jobs have changed, too. Very little is the same today as it was in 1975 in resumes and in society in general. In ...

Organization Boosts Success

I am a pretty organized person. Some of my friends and family might even say that I'm anal about organization. I have to be to manage everything and I've created some pretty cool processes and systems that help me keep all the plates spinning. Organization in a resume is also a key issue and one that gets ignored a great ...

Nose on the Mirror

I have a client who is a sales and marketing professional plus a graphic artist. Her job has consisted of developing marketing campaigns for various companies and non-profits. These campaigns include everything from strategy to creating billboards. I found it interesting when she said that she had never considered having ...

The Immigration Debate

I'm torn on the immigration debate that is waging in the press these days. It's definitely a hot issue with passionate views on both sides. As someone who works in the careers industry, I find it interesting to watch the debates. I can see both sides of the issue. As an American born in this country, I feel very privileged. ...

The Hobby Horse

If you have ever taken a writing course or if you remember your high school senior English class, you will know in all writing you should always consider your audience. If you are writing a business letter, the content, tone, and level of writing will be different than if you are writing a friendly email to your best friend. ...

Extra! Extra! Read All About It - Part II

Continued from our previous blog post¦ After the summary, or headline, of a resume is read, the reader turns to the job titles. Job titles in a resume serve as the secondary headlines of the resume because they give the reader an idea of what the rest of the content of the resume will be about. If a hiring manager is ...

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Think about the last time you read a print newspaper. What did you do? More than likely, you scanned the headlines of the front page first to see if there was anything there that really caught your eye. Since these stories are on the front page, you assume they are the most important and newsworthy. You may see something ...

Can You Be More Specific?

I've written about summaries before on the blog but I'm going to revisit the subject because summaries are without a doubt, the most difficult part of a resume to write. Additionally, summaries are consistently the worst-written sections that I see in self-written resumes. Because of this, I feel it is worth another look ...

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