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  Your Resume Needs a Short, Relevant Summary, Not an Objective

  Every time I review resumes at Cleared Job Fairs, I see a lot of resumes with professional summaries and objectives and skills lists that take up most of page one. Don’t be this self-focused! A resume needs to show how you can help the potential employer, now. You need a me… more

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  Target Employers for a Successful Job Search

  Whether you feel blocked at work or fear a contract loss, you’ve decided it’s time to start looking for a new job. As part of the process of marketing yourself successfully you know you need to update your resume your elevator pitch. But it’s also critical to develop a li… more

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  Over 40 Career and Job Search Tips

  Many people who are in their 40s and up look forward to working into their 70s or later. Yet the latter years of a career can pose challenges. Start thinking now about how you want to grow and maintain your career in your 40s-50s-60s. Career loss hits for many reasons. Some ar… more

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  Three Keys to Early Career Growth and Success

  Whether you are in the first few years of your career or have changed fields into a new area, developing your long-term success starts now. In the early work years, many people are so involved in figuring out their job and the rest of their life issues that they do not think much… more

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  What You Need to Learn in an Interview

  Good candidates, preparing for an interview, focus mainly on learning about the company and the people they will interview with. Really good candidates also focus on what is important to them and how they will learn about those key issues during the interview. If you get to th… more