. Strategies that I think will be helpful in 2021 include:
1. Featuring your Pandemic-related career pivot,
2. Dealing honestly and creatively with a COVID-19 related employment gap, and
3. Taking advantage of virtual opportunities to grow and maintain your industry and professional contacts.
Resumes and LinkedIn
6 Ways to Make Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile Clear to Hiring Managers: Get Job Interviews Faster in 2021.
A few steps you can take during the holiday break include:
1. Filling your resume and profile with facts and figures,
2. Providing context for your accomplishments,
3. Creating a narrative hiring teams will read or skim quickly,
4. Making it “easy for the customer to buy,”
5. Concentrating on text instead of graphics, and
6. Using text sizes that help recruiters read your resume.
4 Reasons to be Thankful When You Apply for jobs After Thanksgiving: Your Job Search May be More Hopeful than Expected.
Here are just four reasons for us to be optimistic about the near future:
1. There are new types of jobs in the US economy,
2. Motivated job seekers get jobs,
3. Education is becoming more widely available online, and
4. Control of the Pandemic could usher in a new era.
4 LinkedIn Features that May Help You Succeed!
The LinkedIn features I’ll comment on this week include:
1. The Open for Work hashtag,
2. Adding a banner to your LinkedIn profile,
3. LinkedIn’s Resume Builder, and
4. The LinkedIn Career Explorer beta test.
5 Ways to Make Sure Your Resume Provides Accurate Information.
Here are 5 of the items I remind job-seekers to verify when we work together, along with some comments and suggestions regarding each one.
1. Educational credentials
2. Dates of employment
3. Names of employers
4. Job titles
5. Accomplishment numbers