Posts Tagged ‘Resume’

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

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 Social Media Blacklist

The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday that described how many major search firms actually keep a blacklist of candidates that they would never consider for any job opening. Typically, these firms add candidates to their blacklist who have exaggerated their qualifications, pitted recruiting...

February 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | 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