Everybody, though not everyone is aiming to have it, is also looking forward to make their best cover letter passed to their prospected employers. Most applicants understand how significant a cover letter is, that’s why those people who aims to be excellent will always aim to make the best cover letter and write resume with [...]
Be more concise. Yep, that’s it. For many years I’ve taught professional writing seminars in addition to my career speeches and workshops. In these programs, “Be more concise” is the advice I find myself dispensing more than any other. Even in our world of 140-charater tweets, 160-character texts and txt msg spk, most people make [...]
A college graduate, finally!! You’re done writing your thesis so now you are ready to write resume and look for jobs, hurray!! Free from mind-boggling homework, terror teachers, nerve-wracking exams, tons of requirements, getting up early, sleeping late and all that jazz!! You have levelled-up, congratulations!! And… welcome to the mainstream of the unemployed sector. [...]
“64% of HR managers think it is appropriate to look at online profiles of candidates and 41% have rejected people as a result.” – Microsoft, News report When it comes to writing and passing a professional resume to employers, always bear in mind that they will not only see your information based on what you [...]
Here are the keys to successful networking for your job-search. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this important strategic tool of job-hunting. Do realize why networking is so important. Only 5 to 25 percent of jobs are advertised, so you can find out about all the unadvertised openings only through talking [...]
Resume writing goes far beyond the concept of being employed. You see, you don’t just seek to have a job just because you want a job; that would be too shallow, right? For someone who aims to be excellent, how to CV and to make other application documents is somehow affected by how you brand [...]
The pool of applicants is seemingly overflowing with boasting resumes. However, how do you differ to these applicants? At all aspect you can be different by creating an impressive resume that might bring you on the doorstep of your dreamt company. You can select from the series of resume templates that best fit to your [...]
Along with the fast changing society the manner of applying for a job is quite moving to a more daring and creative one. The basic thing is to prepare a resume as a frontier that will shine over other applicants. Sometimes the simple and plain sheets are boring to see with all those boasting qualifications. [...]
Emily Dubner is a 2006 college graduate and founder of Baking for Good, an online bakery that gives 15 percent of every purchase to charity. I love this concept and use Baking for Good for most of my business’s holiday and thank you gifts. (Read about one instance of the excellent responses I’ve received to [...]
As Internet becomes the nucleus of the world new trend, the effect generates individual interest in person who seeks for an auxiliary presentable resume template. There are so much more that Internet can provide to people’s lives in all aspects. Utilizing social media connecting with search engines has given growth to an inspiring observable fact [...]
Because of the modern technology, copious things have changed that transformed the world into innovative incredible one. As people operate everyday, online convenience build more efficient in all the actions they do. So now, it is time for everyone to welcome and embrace the future resume via online! The online cv resume gives job seekers [...]
A manager role in a company he or she handles plays a very important responsibility for the progress of all. To supervise, manage, and watches the overall presentation of employees in the department is indeed to be accomplished. If you apply for this position, a manager resume you have to submit for your application should [...]
Resume is one document that needs to be written excellently and with precision. Some applicants may try to make it with lesser enthusiasm and so they result to a sub-standard kind of document. But if you really are aiming for your prospected career, you have to make it excellently. In other words, you should take [...]
Over the past several years, I’ve literally received thousands of email, Twitter, Facebook and InMail requests to connect with other LinkedIn users. Of all those requests, I’ve only seen TWO people who employed a clever little trick that I’ve been using for years… the one-click invitation link. Up to this point, I have never shared [...]
I don’t really consider myself an HR person. I like to think I’m a practical technologist. However, I do occasionally attend HR related training. Yesterday was one such occasion and inevitably, I had a shock. The discussion moved from hiring techniques, to LinkedIn photos. Many of the folks in the room would agree with us [...]
If you read the weekly highlights post that I run every week, you’ll notice that I often highlight Mint.com’s infographics. I’m kind of a data nut and using visual art to simplify the intake of ...Visual.ly Launch: Infographic Lovers Rejoice! is copyrighted by 20somethingfinance.com without consent to republish.
In one of the first jobs of my career, I had a very hands-on, micromanaging boss. She frequently double- and triple-checked that I had completed even the smallest tasks. Not surprisingly, it kind of drove me crazy. Looking back, though, I consider that job to be one of my best learning experiences in professionalism, attention [...]
The term “net worth” gets thrown around a lot as an essential financial value that you should pay attention to.
Indeed, it is a metric that you should have a vague knowledge of. But probably not ...What is Net Worth? is copyrighted by 20somethingfinance.com without consent to republish.
It’s Independence Day (week) and our country is facing a challenging time. Our national debt is over $14 trillion and our annual budget deficit is around $1.3 trillion. Nobody can dispute that spending is much ...Money Highlights: Independence or Debt Edition is copyrighted by 20somethingfinance.com without consent to republish.
Jodi Glickman is an amazingly good communicator. She is so good, in fact, that she has built an entire business, Great on the Job, around teaching young professionals how to communicate. She also has a new book on the topic, Great on the Job: What to Say, How to Say It. The Secrets of Getting [...]
Over the years I’ve written multiple posts about the importance of cleaning up your online image and, specifically, your Facebook profile. When I first wrote about this topic in 2007, I found a study by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy think tank, reporting that 35 percent of hiring managers used Google to do online background [...]
8 Steps to Effective Informational Interviews One of the most frequent pieces of advice I give to young professionals is to seek out successful people and ask to conduct an informational interview with them. Essentially, an informational interview, i.i., is a networking meeting where the interviewee (the successful professional) agrees to share some career advice [...]
As another cohort of young professionals enters the workforce this graduation season, I’ve been pleased to see some more positive articles about Generation Y appearing in the media. Sure, the members of this generation are still young and have a lot to learn, but, these articles assert, maybe they’re not as “entitled” and “coddled” as [...]