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Cosmetic Surgery a Career Investment?

A study published last year called Why Beauty Matters found that beauty or physical attractiveness in job candidates has an influencing effect on hiring managers and on the pay scale. The study found that there were three ways that physical attractiveness raised the employers' estimate of a job candidate's ability to do ...

The American Dream

Results of a poll conducted by the New York Enterprise Report were released recently. The poll was conducted in January and February of this year and asked respondents - small business owners - to indicate how many hours they worked. Results showed the majority of small business owners work at least 50 hours a week. Thirty-three ...

What You Should NOT Include on Your Resume

Having been in the resume writing business for over twelve years, I am still surprised by some of the things I see on resumes that are submitted to us. You would think that I had seen it all by now. Some old ideas are hard to die, though, so I might as well outline some types of information that you shouldn't put on your ...

What Your Resume Says About You

I see hundreds of resumes a week that have been submitted for review to our firm. I don't always get to meet these people although I do get to know many of them when they contract with us to have their resumes professionally written. In fact, I get to know some clients very well because they return to us year after year ...

The Tornado and the Job Fair

Several years ago about this time of year, I was attending a job fair in a major metro area where I was providing resume reviews and classes on resume development. It was spring and the weather was typically spring-ish - scattered thunderstorms. The job fair was being held in a sporting arena, a large concrete structure ...

Seeking a Management Position

As part of the resume development process, we pay particular attention to the clients' goals and job search target because we write very strategic resumes designed to hit their mark. If we don't know what the mark is, it's difficult to construct a resume that works for the client. Most of the time, the client has a good ...

Resume Diets

Is your resume on a diet? It probably is. Most resumes I see that are submitted for review are either on a diet or should be on a diet. When I say on a diet I mean that the resume is thin - thin in information that is useful to the reader. Most job seekers believe if they just put down the basics on the resume, that is ...

Positive Comments

I always ask clients if they have been using their old resume and how it's working for them in the job search. This gives me a better picture of their efforts to date and usually leads them to telling me more in detail about their career targets. One of the most common comments I receive is I've gotten a lot of positive ...

People Have No Objectives These Days

Do you know where you are going in your career? Do you know where you have been? It is important to have an objective in mind when preparing your resume but that goal should not appear on the resume in the form of a category named Objective. When making a career change, you must have a goal or a target in mind in terms ...

Is the Customer Always Right?

The traditional thinking is that yes, the customer is always right. Give him what he wants, even if it's not what he needs, what is best for him, or what he can afford. Feed the monster whatever it wants because if you don't, the monster can eat you. As a career professional, it is my job to make sure our clients are well-prepared ...

Designing for a Difference

One of the most common shortcomings we see in resumes submitted to us for review is the lack of good design and organization. Everything in resume writing is about strategy, including the design and appearance of the document. Strategy is organizing the information so that it flows from most important to least important. ...

Communicating the Soft Skills

I had a client this week who was concerned that the new resume we were going to develop for him to communicate to the reader his unique personality. He said, The key to my sales abilities is my personality. I interview very well. I've never been on an interview where I didn't win the offer. My problem has been trying to ...

The Bullets are Flying

Today, I saw a first in my twelve-plus years of resume writing - a resume that had numbered bullets. The summary section had eight bulleted items in two columns, and each bullet had its own number. I don't think I've ever seen a more bullet-riddled resume, either. The job seeker had quite gotten carried away with the bullet ...

Building Brand

I have a good friend who was recently heavily courted for a new job as a City Manager. Note I said courted and not recruited. My friend is an outstanding engineer who has worked with a leading civil engineering firm for ten years. In that time, he has worked extensively with the mayor of the town and the heads of the departments ...

Big Brother is Definitely Watching

I am amazed at the number of resumes we receive for review that either have the job seeker's work email listed on the resume itself, or have been sent to us from the job seeker's work email account. I always cringe because I know the job seeker has unknowingly set him- or herself up for potential disaster with the current ...

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