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Taking the Pulse of the Market is the Recruiting Start Point

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We all know that the economy has been turbulent over the last few years. It has touched many people personally. Listening to the market and watching the data is a major element in planning recruitment. March of 2013 was a benchmark in time when government cutbacks impacted the reporting of mass layoffs by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Eliminating the Mass Layoff Statistics program that provides information that identifies, describes, and tracks the effects… Read More »Taking the Pulse of the Market is the Recruiting Start Point

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Resume DNA

Two things came together to make this week happen. First and foremost were the requests from people that ask what they are doing wrong in their job search. I also felt a need to return to a “theme week” and cover one topic more completely by taking a five-day look from different angles. Many job seekers seem to think that the chore of putting stuff in writing to make up a resume is a onetime… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Resume DNA

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 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