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3 Bad Habits That Hurt Job Chances

On The Job

You may begin calling contacts to check on job openings, or help your kid write a resume or cover letter. Take your college graduate to a nice restaurant, the opera or anywhere else where people dress up. You may be frustrated, considering the big bucks you shelled out for your child to get a higher education.

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Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles

Laughing all the Way to Work

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. Whoever had the idea to put the templates on their site should pat themselves on the back. Once you log on click on the tab Productivity and you will see on the right Templates.

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Answering Reader Mail

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I once went to a new restaurant and got such impeccable service it was almost weird. 1) Focus your resume on your skills/talents vs the job title/chronology. Whatever bullet points and items they list that you do well, lift those sentences verbatim from the job description and put them in your resume.

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