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From Layoff To Liftoff: 5 Steps To Rebuild Your Career

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Prioritize saving your contacts, and forward any emails that would help your resume and, if applicable, your portfolio. This includes: New details to cite in your resume or cover letter. Update your resume. Careful reading of every detail mentioned on a resume is key. Carefully, and honestly.

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The September Surge Is Here: How Job Seekers Can Prepare to Land the Role

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You’ve optimized your resume. Have your resume ready to go. How to prepare for the September Surge to land that job You think your resume is ready? Pay attention to the top Just as you skim and scan news stories, briefs and other documents, so do employers. You’ve jazzed up your LinkedIn profile. Give it one more look.

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Resume Proofreading Tips

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Oftentimes, you review the document so many times it starts to blur and you can miss something glaring. The following is some guidelines to make sure you are delivering a error free document: - Use a dictionary / thesaurus when you write. All punctuation should be consistent throughout the document. CONSISTENCY IS KING.

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To Be or Not to Be: How to find yourself a Genuine Resume Writer

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Giving my business a very different focus these last two years, I have been exploring the professional side of Resume Writing and professionalising of other people’s brands, putting my years of experience and qualifications in both writing and recruitment training, to good use.

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Job Seekers: Make Sure You Understand an ATS Before Applying for Any Job

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To further complicate matters, your resume might state that you are a "team player," but you get eliminated because you didn't say "teamwork," which is what the software is seeking. It's been estimated that 75 percent of resumes are never seen by an actual human and are simply stewing in a company database somewhere.

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Writing a Resume that Matters

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Writing a Resume that Matters On May 12, 2010, In Resume Writing by Debra Wheatman , By CareersDoneWrite.com 2 Writing your own résumé can be a real challenge.

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Keywords in Résumé Lead to Interviews

Job Advice Blog

Then the employee reviews, say, 20 and submits 5 to be interviewed. Cut and paste all of the descriptions one after another into a new Word document. Review the document, resetting in boldface what you consider the keywords throughout. Copy your résumé into a new Word document, and repeat steps 3, 4, and 5 on that copy.