10 Tips to Write an Awful Cover Letter

There are plenty of books, blogs and websites that instruct job seekers how to write the perfect cover letter. Despite the glut of resources available, I still hear stories from hiring managers who share their accounts of horribly written and inappropriate cover letters that they receive daily from...

August 24th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories

I was reminded today when I read a terrific post on the importance of storytelling in corporate branding at Beg To Differ of the crucial importance of storytelling to job seekers who desperately need to set themselves apart during the job search process. The importance of the personal story was perfectly...

July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, The Search, Uncategorized | Read More

How to Design Your Resume for Maximum Impact

April 20th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 10: Resume Design

The single most important document in your job search hasn’t changed in generations – it’s still your resume. But what has changed is the ability for even those unskilled in graphics design to create a resume that stands out visually, incorporates color and separates you from every...

March 30th, 2010 | Featured, Job Search Experiment, Resume, The Search | Read More

Your Resume Just Isn’t Enough

March 8th, 2010 | Interviewing, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

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, Job Search Experiment, 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.. Is...

November 11th, 2009 | Interviewing, Resume, The Search | Read More

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