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.
Resumes and LinkedIn
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
5 Job Search Marketing Steps to Start as Soon as Your Job Ends, if not Sooner.
News of major layoffs coming at Disney and in the airline industry led me to think about things new job-seekers can do immediately to give themselves an edge. The “low… Read More
Guide to the Post-pandemic Job Market
