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Your Resume Should Look Like a Marketing Brochure – Five Tips to Improve Yours

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Bill.

Why should your resume look like a marketing brochure?
Recruiting, like many other things in life, is a selling process. In this case, the hiring organisation is the buyer and You are the Seller and the product at the same time
So, let’s see how to optimize your most powerful marketing tool called Resume
TIP 1: Capture your [...]

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Do you have a resume or a marketing document?

Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Bill.

Does your resume list all of your experiences, all your skills, and even some accomplishments? Does it outline all of the things you have done in the past that you think are important and can fit on two pages? Does it clearly indicate all your past duties, tasks and responsibilities for your positions?
All good stuff, [...]

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Learn How to Write a Cover Letter – 7 Essential Elements For Success

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Bill.

Simply put, a resume simply isn’t enough to get you in the door without an amazing cover letter. Some people may think that it is unimportant but the opposite is true.
The cover is what will grab and keep the attention of a busy Human Resources manager and will lead them to take a serious look [...]

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Example Cover Letter For Resume – Tactics to Make the Recruiter Pick Up the Phone

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Bill.

You can pull a cover letter off the web. It will be expedient. But be truthful. It won’t get you the job. A cover letter that really gets attention has something extra. It doesn’t have to be big or deep. As a matter of fact, sometimes you don’t want it to be. But it does [...]

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Put Some fever in Your Cover Letters

Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

Forget the drab; one size fits all cover letters that you may have used in the past. And please ignore the letter samples in publications and on web sites that go on and on with paragraph after paragraph, essentially providing a condensed version of your resume. These types of cover letters are not effective because [...]

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Tips For Including References in Your Job Search

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

Searching for a job in today’s world is a very competitive task to undertake. While most of us like to think that obtaining a good job is more about our skills and qualifications than whom we know, this is not always the case. Therefore, the references that you add to your resume may be very [...]

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Better Than a Free Resume Cover Letter – How to Make Sample Resume Cover Letters Get Noticed

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

The job market, like everything in this economy, has changed dramatically. And so have basic job search tools, including cover letters. Today’s market is ultra-competitive. Your cover makes you stand out. Or your recede into the background like a sheet of wall paper.
If you simply copy a free resume cover letter off the net, you’re [...]

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Cover Letter No-No’s

Posted on 26. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Writing a cover letter can sometimes be a bit confusing. You simply don’t know what information to add, what to exclude and how exactly to tell your story. For many, this leads to some cover letter mistakes.
If you’re guilty of writing cover letters that just didn’t accomplish what they were supposed to – getting you [...]

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Dressing Resume Cover Letters Samples to Kill – Two Great Tricks For Example Resume Cover Letters

Posted on 25. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Are resume cover letters samples good enough? You tell me. As she looks through the colossal mound of example resume cover letters she gets every day, a recruiter uses the data and her impressions to sort – Who goes to the top, who to the bottom? The one with a master’s degree or a bachelor’s? [...]

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Write a Resume For Results – The Cover Letter is Critical!

Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

I have been in the field of human resources for 20 years and can honestly say that the cover leader is the most important submittal I receive, and the one I read first and most carefully. If you want to write a resume for results, a dynamite cover letter is critical!
Why? Well, with today’s market [...]

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A Cover Letter Examples Warning – What You Don’t Know May Harm You

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Many people when faced with job hunting often find they need a cover letter just to qualify for a certain position. Unfortunately, out of frustration, many people disregard this requirement thinking if they send only a resume they will be fine.
Well guess what? You just proved to the employer that you don’t follow directions, and [...]

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Cover Letters – The Icing on the Cake

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

I get a lot of questions from clients about whether or not they should include a cover letter when sending in their resume. My response is “Would you consider making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the jelly?” The point being that the two go hand-in-hand, and unless a job position announcement specifically states [...]

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View all Video Interviews Here…

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Watch, listen and learn from leading coaches, experts, authors and thought leaders on careers. These short interviews are the perfect starting point in your career efforts.

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