Archive for the ‘Resume’ Category
Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1
This week starts a new real-life real-time experiment detailing the job search efforts of Tim Krenn, a Cleveland sales executive who like millions of Americans recently found himself out of work and in need of a new job.
Tim approached me a couple of weeks ago asking for advice on how to refine his...
March 1st, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More
Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume Genius
No one is above having to write an appealing and intriguing resume to attract attention from a prospective employer. Not even Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci.
A copy of a letter da Vinci wrote (full text below. original at right: click to enlarge) to the Duke of Milan seeking a position as an armorer...
February 18th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search | Read More
The Worst Cover Letter Ever?
One of the staff members of Ragan Communications, a Chicago-based communications firm, posted a letter the firm received from an eager college student seeking her first job. The letter was uniformly awful, and the comments interspersed by the Ragan commentator were sadly hilarious.
SUBJECT LINE: Question..
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November 11th, 2009 | Interviewing, Resume, The Search | Read More


