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Stop Sending Generic Resumes! How to Tailor Your Resume to Land the Interview
Picture a recruiter clicking or flipping through resumes hastily when one suddenly pops out and stops them in their tracks. They think, “Wow, this person looks like the perfect fit! Let’s set up an interview.” How do you make sure your cleared resume has the same ef… more
Resumes: Read Yours Out Loud for Proofreading Perfection
In an age of fast paced communications and grammatical error ridden text messages, we sadly come across typos all the time in our day-to-day lives. While a message sent to a friend containing a typo has few repercussions, one place these errors can make or break you is on your re… more
Resumes Then vs Resumes Now
In the battle to fill jobs, I am on the hiring line and I see a lot of senseless casualties. All too often qualified candidates are passed over, rejected, or simply never seen. It pains me to see the same errors kill candidates’ chances over and over. Across the decades I’… more
The Internet Applicant Rule: Why Where You Post a Cleared Job Changes Who Counts as an Applicant
The only definition of a job applicant OFCCP ever wrote into 41 CFR chapter 60 sits in the one part it has proposed to delete. Internet Applicant has been codified at 41 CFR 60-1.3 since 6 February 2006, and its sole authority, Executive Order 11246, was revoked on 21 January 202… more
Surviving an OFCCP Audit: The Recruitment Records You Must Be Able to Produce
On July 16, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget approved OFCCP's request to discontinue information collection 1250-0003, which held "the Supply and Service Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing (collectively referred to as the 'scheduling letter')." That letter was the en… more