Employers are keenly interested in your professional accomplishments – success stories from your experience – but you may find it difficult to identify and recall them. Here’s how to build your professional accomplishments list.

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In last week’s post I pointed out five ways your resume can fall into that mysterious black hole in the HR department. Here are five more ways your resume can crash. Don’t let it happen!

Maybe you never heard back because…

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Recently I asked some colleagues in a LinkedIn group what bad advice they had heard for job seekers. It was a very popular topic! There’s a lot of questionable guidance out there. A resume should never be longer than one page. (Bad advice.) Maybe this was once true, but times have changed. Recent surveys of [continue reading…]

In a recent post I covered a key reason for the cover letter: to show you’ve done your homework and can relate your skills to the specific company and job. Here are five more good reasons: You can say things in a letter that might not be appropriate in your resume. For example, you can [continue reading…]

Often I hear from job seekers who need to get a job ASAP, have a wide range of skills, and thus are willing to work in various areas. “I could do either customer service, bookkeeping or event coordination,” they might say. “I want a resume that doesn’t narrow my options.” Unfortunately, an unfocused resume will [continue reading…]