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Addressing the cover letters – avoid these three major mistakes

Many professionals spend hours writing and re-writing their cover letter. With each resume submission, we tend to revise our cover letter to make sure that it is personalized for the position we are applying for. While we spend so much time on the content of the cover letter, we seem to disregard a very important and prominent area of the letter – the address line. Most mistakes in the cover letter are made in the address line.


Five common cover letter mistakes

With every resume submission, you should have a cover letter that accompanies it and presents you as a positive and qualified candidate for the job. A cover letter should highlight areas of your resume which promote your professional experience, and should address any questions an employer may have about hiring you for the job. There are five common cover letter mistakes outlined below that you must avoid in order to get through the first round of resume review and move one step closer to getting the job that you want.


An ASCII Resume
By Gina Watson

One of the most commonly used resume formats is the text resume, or in other words the ASCII resume. ASCII basically stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and can also be referred to as a plain-text resume or an electronic or Internet resume. It does not have any particular formatting which helps such a document to be used across all platforms.


Avoid These Resume Mistakes!

It is a mistake to think of your resume as a history of your past, as a personal statement or as some sort of self expression. Sure, most of the content of any resume is focused on your job history. But write from the intention to create interest, to persuade the employer to call you. If you write with that goal, your final product will be very different than if you write to inform or catalog your job history. Most people write a resume because everyone knows that you have...


Quantifying your resume

The most difficult and time consuming section of any resume is the listing of your work experience, no matter the level you have reached in your professional career. The key is to consider your career objective and prioritize your work in accordance to your goals.


Tweaking Your Resume - Part 2
By Gina Watson

Tweaking your resume to downplay gaps in employment:
People take time off from their jobs many times for various reasons including traveling, studying, recovering from an illness, or simply taking care of loved ones. Sometimes people are laid off or quit their jobs.


Professional Resume Writer

A resume being the primary and one of the most important factors in a job search, it becomes extremely important to craft one which is highly effective in order to help you get to the interview. Whether you are job hunting in existing fields or planning to switch careers, you will need your resume to present your skills and experience in the best possible light. This document is a way for you to introduce yourself to a prospective employer, and this makes it is a challenging process for many. In such a case, hiring a professional resume writer becomes necessary and the best solution.


Creating Your Resume

When applying for a job, a resume is absolutely essential to have. It tells your potential employer about your credentials and provided concrete reasons as to why they should hire you.


Choosing The Right Career

How to choose a career for yourself? It is important to go for a career that is your calling. There are numbers of options to choose from. You can make a career in medicine, law, architecture, finance, designing, media and many more fields. Your career will also decide what you do for the better part of your day/night and more importantly the course of your life. Therefore, it is advisable to choose a career that suits you and your expectations from life. Choose a job tha...


How to Turn an Interview into an Offer?

Many won't hire the most qualified persons. They select only those they want to work with.


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