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Does Your Résumé Drive Responses?

November 6, 2009

Have Effective is Your Résumé? Does it drive responses to you?   Do you get invites to interviews?   A “NO” response to these two questions might mean your résumé is working against you. Assess your résumé against our questions below to determine what kind of first impression it projects.   Here is one hundred points to begin.  See how much of the 100 points you can retain. Get [...]

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Is Your Focus Only on ‘Swinging’ for the Fence?

September 26, 2009

By Larry Goldsmith, CWDP, P.E.T. A client expressed concern that they felt their search had lost its momentum.   They were hesitant where or how to further their job search.  I suggested they forget for a moment about looking forward and go back to their foundation; review some basics. You know it is not always about trying to hit a home [...]

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Top 20 Things To Know About Résumés & Interviews + My Number 1 Rule

September 20, 2009

By Larry Goldsmith, CWDP, P.E.T. 1)The purpose of a résumé is to secure an interview. 2)Use a profile summary to highlight your strengths at the very beginning of the résumé. 3)Brevity is a desirable trait in a résumé. One to two page résumés are preferable. 4)Sell yourself. Create a good first impression by highlighting skills [...]

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Is Your Résumé a Career Obituary?

September 4, 2009

By Larry Goldsmith, CWDP, P.E.T. I call most résumés I critique career obituaries because they speak to the past and do not make the jump to the future.  In other words, the résumés do not focus on what the employer is seeking.  The majority of résumés are a chronological list of work history with the [...]

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How Many Résumés Do You Need?

May 15, 2009

Excerpt from building the Looking-Glass Résumé, a résumé solutions book coming June Because no two jobs are really the same, you need more than one résumé. You may “get by” with one résumé if you are applying for the same occupational title each time. But even in this example, you should tweak your résumé to match your [...]

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