Top 5 - Resume Mistakes

Your resume is the most important document you will ever create, its the first step to getting employment. However it can also be the document that if not properly written can destroy your chances of getting a job interview. We have compiled a list of the top 5 mistakes that are commonly found on resumes.

Improve Your Resume Format and Design

Usually simple and clean format does the trick. If your resume doesn’t feel squished or cluttered, you’ve already done a great job. Make sure things are lined up and that overall, your resumes design is aesthetically pleasing.

How To Write A Resume

A resume or ‘Curriculum Vitae’ or ‘CV’ - is a summary of your achievements, education and work experience. The main focus of your resume needs to be demonstrating how your skills and abilities will match up with the requirements of a job. Your resume is your personal marketing document and sells you to the potential employer.

What Training Courses Will Help Me Get A Job?

Your looking at doing a course to better your chances of getting work. Smart move, but what training courses are really going to help you. You don’t want to waste money and be left with worthless training and no job. 

Dodge Layoffs - Keep Your Job.

How to keep your job! To survive the layoffs that are happening on a daily basis you are going to need to be savvy and cunning. This is no time to get sloppy, you don’t want to be the first person employer looks to layoff.

Job References - Are yours effective?

Job seekers often put little or no consideration into their chosen job references, instead preferring to focus on their resume or cover letter. It’s a simple oversight to make—after all, few employers will carry out an extensive reference check. Nevertheless, most will make contact with at least a few past employers, so it’s valuable spending some time ensuring that your references will work for you.

How To Use A Resume To Job Search?

A well written resume is an important element to any job seeker; yet, another important element is how the resume is used. To use your resume effectively you will need to think about the job search strategies you wish to use, and the relevance of your resume to the position. Focusing on these important aspects is key to ensuring your resume enhances your chance of getting that position.

Why is a Resume Important?

Your resume is only step in job hunting in which you have total control. It’s your personal marketing document. Based upon the strength of information in your resume, you will either be selected for an interview or passed over and deleted.

The Job You’re Just Not Qualified For

You’re searching for a job and you stumble upon a posting that is intriguing and just up your alley. It’s what you’ve always wanted to do, or at least one of the stepping stones along the way to your dream job. But there’s one problem: You’re not qualified.

Use Your Stimulus Package For Your Job Search

Sweet, you’ve just looked in you bank account and your happy to find that the government has come true with the stimulus money.  Time to go spending right, not exactly. I know it’s sounds boring,  but you could use some of the money to help you get a job. You don’t have spend it all, let’s see what we can get for a $100 of your stimulus package.

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