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A Cover Letter is NOT Optional!

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Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection A Cover Letter is NOT Optional! A cover letter IS important. Your cover letter serves as your introduction. Probably not.

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Beware of Career Marketing Firms

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He was asking me to evaluate a proposal he had received from a career marketing firm. He wanted my opinion because I’m a career coach–and because I myself had once been victimized by a similar firm.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

The gentleman on the call introduced himself as a consultant with a well-known local staffing agency who had reviewed the resume I had uploaded to the organization's website. You did the things, but how did they help the organization? Hiring brains will die past that point, regardless of how awesome your experience is.

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Critical Steps in Your Career Transition

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Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Critical Steps in Your Career Transition On June 29, 2010, In Resume Writing by Debra Wheatman , By CareersDoneWrite.com 0 One of the toughest challenges job seekers face is figuring (..)

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

3) Work with temping and recruiting agencies – all of them When you are looking for a job, contact every temp and recruiting agency in town. Send your cover letter and resume to a specific person, their general email address, or fill out their online form/application. I volunteer A LOT with other organizations seasonally.

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Despite this, I get the feeling that convincing employers of my suitability for an executive assistant job is not going to be an easy task - in a competitive job market, employers don't want to hear about skills as much as they want to hear about experience in the field. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA? Thanks very much!”

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What Should Recruiters Look For In CVs When Hiring For Remote Jobs?

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With more and more organizations and startups planning to go remote post-pandemic and those which were already remote from the very beginning should understand what it means to hire candidates who are looking for work-from-home based jobs. Here's everything you need to know about skills that should stand out in such resumes.