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The articles in this section cover topics ranging from common resume blunders to understanding hiring managers' criteria.

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Stick with Professional Resume Writers

What is the most important component to being seriously considered for a job? During the initial application stage, mostly everything will come down to the quality of your resume. No, a resume is not going to automatically land you the job. No one is suggesting that it will. However, you will need to have a solid resume in place in order to present a clear indication of your skills, education, and experience. The resume is the first thing that the person reviewing the applicants will see. That means it needs to be highly impressive. That is why you need to hire professional resume writers as opposed to trying to do it on your own.


First Name_Last Name_Resume.Doc: Optimizing a Digital Resume

Optimizing a resume is necessary from a practical point of view, and flowery words or your literary flair cannot substitute the use of power words or keywords when effectiveness of the document is considered. Your resume is a functional document: Neither an autobiography, nor a literary piece going for awards. Optimization of a resume is required for increasing its functionality, and a resume is successful only if it can get you an interview - how great it looks or reads is irrelevant if it fails in its purpose. This article provides tips for optimizing a digital resume.


Being Overqualified Can Kill Your Job Prospects: Toning Down Your Resume

Rejection from jobs for being overqualified is a far more serious situation than usual joblessness. The reason is that overqualified candidates are usually senior people or at their mid-careers. Continued rejection can quickly ruin their careers, as gaps in stellar resumes are harder to explain, and growing age starts to work against them. In spite of all the laws and regulations, age-bias exists in workplaces and there are few employers ready to accommodate a senior executive in a line job.


Ten Point Checklist to Review Your Resume

There's no need to tell you what a resume is all about, you already know that. If you are looking for ways on how to create or write your own resume, there are several articles that deal with that topic. In this resume tips article, we deal specifically on going over a finished resume and trying to improve it as much as possible. The ten tips given here are not groundbreaking discoveries, but provide a checklist for you to review your resume.


Creating a Resume for a Part-time Job

Part-time jobs no more carry the tag of ''something is better than nothing'' but are serious positions that need committed employees. Part-times jobs are not any more for passing time but have become essential for building experience, getting exposure, and provide support while you focus your energies off the job to pursue your actual dreams.


Optimizing Your Resume Objective

A resume objective usually forms the opening paragraph of your resume, and is thus extremely important in making a first impression. Whether from the angle of an actual reader of the resume or for electronic search functions, the first paragraph of any document has great relevance and must be focused and accurate.


Why Hire a Professional Resume Writing Service

Well, first of all, not everybody is a professional resume writer, and like other fields of work, resume preparation too, benefits from professional attention and care. A professional resume writer who creates targeted resumes on a regular basis is more aware and updated about market trends and knows how to effectively use that knowledge in the creation of resumes.


Ways to Gain Job Interview Help and Make a Great First Impression

Did you know that it is your resume makes a first impression about you? If your resume is polished and professional, it creates an image of you as a highly polished professional. On the other hand, if your resume is a mess and just thrown together, you relay an image to the employer that you did not care enough to make sure your resume was the best it could be.


Having a Resume Edge or a CV Edge can Land You Interviews

If you are in need of a resume or a CV, you need to seriously consider having it professionally created since this gives you an advantage over your competition. Additionally, when you have a resume edge over other candidates, you are placed in a different league entirely.


Understanding the Consultant Interview and what the Consulting Interviewer is Looking for

If you are a consultant and looking to gain a consultant interview, you must do more than simply apply to as many positions as you can possibly find. If your resume is not professional and well-written, you are likely missing the most important aspect to gaining an interview.


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