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Seven Secrets of the Killer Resume

Seven Secrets of the Killer Resume

By: Martin Yate, CPC

Your resume is the most financially important document you will ever own. When it works, you work; and when it doesn’t, you don’t. Unfortunately, technology has revolutionized corporate recruitment, and you may not know what it takes to build a killer resume for today’s job search. Here are six secrets that form the foundation of every killer resume.

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Four Resume Myths

Four Resume Myths

By: CareerCast.com

A great cover letter opens the door to your candidacy, but a poorly written resume can shut it just as quickly. Part of the problem for many people is that they rarely look at their resume, or ask people that are under-qualified for resume tips. It ends up with you getting a cookie cutter resume with a lot of jargon that will put a hiring manager to sleep. In this economy, that's not going to cut it.

So what are the resume do's and don'ts? Here are a couple things you DON'T want to do if you'd like to get an interview for the job you want.

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How To Supercharge Your Resume

How To Supercharge Your Resume

By: Martin Yate, CPC

Show me a stalled job search and I’ll show you a flawed resume. First of all, to be successful your resume must focus on a specific target job. That general resume, like one size fits all clothing, usually fits no one. Secondly, a job-targeted resume needs to begin with an analysis of what your customers are buying, to result in a resume that truly targets those customers.

When you take the time to do this target job deconstruction, and then build a resume focused on your customers’ needs, it will be pulled from the resume databases with greater regularity, getting you into conversation with more recruiters more often. This is how you do it:

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Seven Possible Reasons You Have Not Been Hired Yet

By: Paul A. Greenberg

If you spent a good portion of this year job searching, but are still underemployed or unemployed, there may be ways you can improve your odds of landing a great job. Here are seven tips that may boost your chances of landing your dream job:

Apply only for jobs for which you are qualified. This may seem obvious, but many job searchers randomly send out resumes for openings that seem desirable, but for which they are not prepared. Don't waste your time or the potential employer's time by doing this. Focus your search on job openings that you can easily and confidently fill. This involves some serious soul searching to determine for what type of work you are best suited. If there are jobs that appeal to you for which you are not yet qualified, take the steps to get there ," education, training, licensing or whatever it takes to properly market yourself for the desired position...

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Test Your Cover Letter Acumen

Test Your Cover Letter Acumen

By: Taunee Besson, CMF, CareerCast.com Senior Columnist

Cover letters continue to be a mystery to many job seekers. Questions such as what type of information to include, how long should the cover letter be and how to grab a recruiter’s attention plague job seekers as they look to make their application stand out.

Below are several commonly asked questions about cover letters and ways to make yours stand out from the pack. Test your cover letter smarts and see if you pass the cover letter quiz.

Questions - True or False:

1. Employers are primarily looking for specific job knowledge in your cover letter. If you concentrate more on your transferable skills than your technical ones, you will automatically be relegated to the bottom of the pile.

2. People are the best source of information to tailor your cover letter for a potential employer or job.

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Your Resume - It's Really an Ad!

A woman handing over her resume.

By: Karon Thackston

You hear it all the time, "Your resume is a marketing tool." So why is it that no one ever asks a professional copywriter for advice when writing the most important ad of all time... the one that could land you an interview? 

I'll tell you from experience, as a copywriter I've landed many an interview based on the successful resumes I've written. Now I'd like to show you the tricks of the advertising trade that make all the difference when promoting yourself. When writing copy, the first and most important rule is to know your target audience. 

In order to meet a buyer's need for a product or service you must understand what they consider to be important. Before beginning to write, copywriters always create a list of the problems the product/service solves...

 

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