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Category Archives: Resumes

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  Bury These Resume Strategies

  This Halloween season let’s put these resume strategies in the resume graveyard. Remember that your resume is an ad to get you an interview and ultimately a job, so stay focused on the items that sell you the best. Highlight your achievements and demonstrate how you meet an emp… more

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  Don’t Talk About Weight Loss on Your Resume

  We see a lot of resumes. That means we see some really interesting stuff on resumes. The most recent one that caught our eye was a paragraph on how the job seeker had lost weight, along with specifics on his current body fat percentage. Maybe this job seeker thinks it’s rele… more

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  Veterans Don’t Dilute Your Resume, Distill It

  Flowery, fluffy, fantastic words and phrases. It may be writing to the awards board to make sure a subordinate’s "diligent effort to single handedly ensure the command passed the inspection with unprecedented results" gets them an award. Or writing to the promotion board about … more

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  Before You Hit Apply for This Job

  In federal contracting, there is a term called “Req Recruiting.” A recruiter receives a requisition to place a potential person in a position in a particular program. Said recruiter, if indeed a sourcing sorcerer, employs many magical methods to find and vet the perfect perso… more

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  5 Data Points for the Top of Your Resume

  Job seekers and recruiters can both be frustrated with the job search process. At times we blame technology, but often it's the data we provide the technology that can be a big part of the problem. The old adage of “garbage in, garbage out” applies to job search just as it d… more