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Re: The 6 Lessons of Interviewing 101: A Beginner’s Guide

Sarah @mycolleges — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:52:22 -0000

Your potential employers care about what you can do for them, not about how smart you are. Being able to prove you can help them with examples of what you've helped clients with in the past will go a long way.

Re: 9 Things That Make Your Resume Look Too Old

Marthaghargett — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:22:14 -0000

I found your resume tips very helpful. I am a graduate student; who has completed twenty successful years in customer service; and wish to change my career to Information Systems. Therefore; a resume is an essential tool; for my entrance into this newly formulated of specialization.

Martha

Re: 9 Things That Make Your Resume Look Too Old

Sarah @mycolleges — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:06:55 -0000

This is a must read! It's true -- why include street addresses or fax numbers these days? They just aren't necessary anymore. Sharing. -Sarah

Re: 9 Things That Make Your Resume Look Too Old

Arden Personnel — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:30:33 -0000

As an agency recruiter and former HR manager, I disagree with the comment on the number of pages for a resume. Most employers I deal with frown upon any resumes longer than 2 to 2 1/2 pages. HR recruiters who screen hundreds of resumes, or more, a week and line managers as well, don't have the time to sift through minutiae contained in a 4 page resume.

Re: 9 Things That Make Your Resume Look Too Old

T. Texas Todd — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:18:25 -0000

"7. IGNORING KEY WORDS
Resume's....." Really? Weren't you people awake when your second grade teacher taught plural and possessive? I agree with the previous comment: don't play the critical parent role when you can't even spell, it makes you look like a fool.

Then again, maybe this means that I'm not cool enough to realize that no one cares if you can spell write a good sentence, as those are outmoded skills not in high demand.

Re: 9 Things That Make Your Resume Look Too Old

Ryshel — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:48:24 -0000

Great information, thanks!

Re: 9 Things That Make Your Resume Look Too Old

iluvjordan23 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:00:53 -0000

You should have definitely had this article proof-read for grammar. Kind of silly that someone gives suggestions to a professional about their resume and use "you're" instead of YOUR (and other embarrassing mistakes). But the information is very helpful, thank you.

Re: Three Must-Have Cover Letters

letter templates — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:55:56 -0000

This is definitely important. A cover letter should have these three to be noticed by the intended reader.

Re: Good Employees Avoid Bad Habits – A List of Common Workplace Faux Pas (Part 1)

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Re: The 6 Lessons of Interviewing 101: A Beginner’s Guide

Mtnmgt — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:04:26 -0000

Also don't let on that you are a white, middle aged, educated male. You will be instantly "overqualified".

Re: Eight Ways Your Contact Details May Be Turning Off Employers

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:41:23 -0000

Patt, I couldn't agree more. It always amazes me when I see articles that assume job-seekers still use paper resumes. There is so much contradictory information out there I don't know who to trust anymore.

Re: Eight Ways Your Contact Details May Be Turning Off Employers

Patt Wilson, career coach — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:18:46 -0000

I couldn't disagree more with most of these suggestions. It assumes a job search done in the last century not this on. No recruiter or hiring entity prints a resume and stacks them in piles on their desk. They are all digital.
Further, a home address is asking for identity theft online. Using the city and zip code is sufficient. Assuming the search is conducted only in the USA is silly. Nowadays a job search is global and in other countries they expect to see your birth date, marital status, number of children and citizenship as a matter of course.
Using a birth name that is only used on your birth certificate while everyone knows you by your nickname is silly as they will do the Google search on your nickname not your birth name.
Finally putting your name at where you think is a page break assumes "pages" on the internet when there aren't any. Someone could be looking at your resume on an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy 7"screen with Android. Who knows where your page break will show up?
I suggest you do a digital resume that's made for 21 century technology, systems and platforms.

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Re: 6 Tips for Landing a New Job!

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Re: Doostang News October 18: How to Avoid an “Unhappy” Hour – Tips for the Office Happy Hour

Baltimore Nightlife — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:42:55 -0000

I always thought that the point of "Happy Hour" is to set yourself loose, talk about everything and drink till you drop. That is why I have friends from the office and friends outside the office, I don't mix them.

Re: Good Employees Avoid Bad Habits – A List of Common Workplace Faux Pas (Part 1)

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Re: 2 Professional Resume Formats – Are You Using the Right One?

Rdefazio — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:36:48 -0000

The format of a resume is indeed a problem, but the problem I see is very different from that discussed. What I have seen is that recruiting software that attempts to parse resumes which can include photographs, images, a variety of date formats, different ways of presenting job titles and employers, and generous portions of descriptive text often fails to parse it correctly. It makes the task of resume submission onerous, tiresome, and needlessly repetitive. This is especially true considering that the resume itself is never read until midway through the recruiting process. Up to that time, a computer-generated digest of the resume contents is forced through the initial search filter. This means that what the recruiter sees as the filtered list is actually a list that the computer has come up with, not a human. Reading the resume as the first order of business is simply not done.

Since this is the case, I think it would benefit everyone if resumes were required to be submitted using XML. A free resume preparation tool could be created that would produce XML-based resumes that could be read accurately by every resume engine, and the application programmer's interface ("API") or software development kit ("SDK") could be produced by a consortium of recruiting firms and software companies to ensure that it takes into account the needs of recruiters. Job seekers would use the tool to prepare a resume that could be submitted and processed correctly, enabling seekers to move through the application process rapidly.

Further benefits to be derived from standardizing the presentation of factual information on resumes would be the automatic exclusion of candidates whose qualifications do not match the job or who live outside the geographic area that is acceptable to the employer. Job seekers would be able to identify more rapidly those positions that actually match their skills and experience.

The corollary to standardizing the resume is to standardize the definition of job listings. Job titles within a company can be anything that a company would wish them to be, but when employers intend to compete for talent, there should be a way of comparing apples to apples. What does "Product Specalist I" really mean? Does it mean a product manager or just someone who answers the telephone? The role of the recruiter should include the requirement of interpreting company jargon into standard vocabulary for purposes of recruitment. He already does that when he does live interviews, and there is no reason that he cannot do it in print.

An this finally gets me to the heart of the matter. So often, employers bypass recruiters and simply list their open positions on a website, or worse, the form a relationship with a recruiter who takes company text and pastes it into a couple of boxes on a web form. What results is definitions that are fuzzy, descriptions of work requirements that are often in geek speak, or worst of all, company acronyms that are understood by no one other than those who work at the company already. The reason for the last method is pretty transparent: go through the motions of doing a public search and then hire the person in the company that they intended to hire from the start. Clumsy wording, inaccurate descriptions, search words that are meaningful only to the recruiter but not at all on the top of the job seeker's list of important words, etc. make today's method of job placement a contributor to unemployment, not a solution.

Some recruiting companies focus on office space that looks like it was lifted from the the Senate Office Building in Washington. Others focus on mean, lean websites that give the impression of a highly efficient operation, and others are just bucket shops where the recruiters are burned out after six months and only make about $30,000 per year. It would be refreshing if the industry would get its act together and start acting truly professionally, establish standards for data both from employers and job seekers, and stop being unwitting obfuscators that help the unemployment numbers rise as a result of their current disorganization.

Re: The Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Conference Calls Professional and Effective

blake hopkins — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:56:17 -0000

step 3 is profit

Re: The Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Conference Calls Professional and Effective

TUlani — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:20:09 -0000

I didn't get #3 either. Whatsup?

Re: The Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Conference Calls Professional and Effective

Dontcallmepeter — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:51:36 -0000

Number 3 was particularly fascinating....

Re: The Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Conference Calls Professional and Effective

Karen Ludwick — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:00:14 -0000

What happened to #3?

Re: The Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Conference Calls Professional and Effective

Babouchacra — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:47:13 -0000

where is advice number 3 ?

Re: The Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Conference Calls Professional and Effective

Eugenia Beh — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:35:37 -0000

Also, bring food. :)

Re: 5 Ways to Control Time Management in the Workplace

Lucious James — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:55:34 -0000

perfect!

Re: 5 Ways to Cut Your Commuting Costs

SYED BASHARAT HOSSAIN — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:26:20 -0000

we may take this advantage to cut commuting costs