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Tom Bolt

How To Know If Your Resume Needs Help and Where To Get It

Cut to the chase… your resume always needs help, so you already know how to know if you need help. Do you have a resume? Then you need help. This is particularly true if you wrote it yourself having no background in resume writing, had a half-assed self-proclaimed professional do it for you, or got some bad advice on how to embellish it to get an interview. An ADP survey reported that 46 % of… Read More »How To Know If Your Resume Needs Help and Where To Get It

How To Use Your Resume and When To Do It

Nobody ever reads the instruction manual, but resumes don’t come with details anyway. Instructions on how to use a resume would almost seem to be unnecessary, but there are some very wrong things that people do with them. Underexposure is one culprit. The best resume in the world will not be of any help if it never gets seen. The biggest offense is usually overexposure. This happens when the job search turns into a game… Read More »How To Use Your Resume and When To Do It

How To Write Your Resume And Why You Do It That Way

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First of all, there is no standard format for a resume. If you paid for a book of 1001 resume samples you may find one that you can clone to produce a halfway decent looking document, but remember that you and a few thousand other people own that book. If plagiarizing someone else’s resume is the best that you can do, then you may expect to be lumped with the other copycats in the discard… Read More »How To Write Your Resume And Why You Do It That Way

Why the Resume is Not Dead and Why You Still Need One

There is an abundance of free advice for job seekers online and a significant amount of it is pure crap. Crowdsourcing for best answers requires a high degree of fine tuning the crap filters to get rid of the outliers of reality. In order to be bold and daring many futuristic thinking individuals have created a new fiction about the resume. This is not all bad because science fiction often becomes fact and appreciating the… Read More »Why the Resume is Not Dead and Why You Still Need One

Off the Grid: Not Necessarily HR – We Do Talk Behind Your Back

Do you know why recruiters usually don’t stare out of their office window in the morning? Of course the answer most people will give is that if they did that in the morning they would have nothing to do after lunch! I learned quite by accident that ordinary people who are not in recruiting don’t have a clue about what we really do. It is interesting how casual conversation among people complaining about their jobs… Read More »Off the Grid: Not Necessarily HR – We Do Talk Behind Your Back