When Your resume is looked at, does it do this?
Or Does it Do This? [
Pretend you're a manager, you have 50 resumes to go through and you're short on time. You will spend on average 7 seconds on the resume so what will grab their attention?
So you've learned one thing already... SIZE MATTERS, but [...]
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I'm doing research on the best video resume products, and I came across this article. This is taken from www.Mashable.com. The author is Dan Schawbel .
March 18th, 2009 | by Dan Schawbel wrote the Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Creating the perfect resume is not [...]
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It’s like your fingerprint. No two people will ever have the same personal brand.
Personal branding is the new trend—and I’m sure, if you’ve been in the job search market and done even minimal research about resume writing, then you’ve heard these terms: personal branding, value proposition, and career summary. So what is personal branding … [...]
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Question: “Swami, what will make my resume stand out?”
Swami: “What do you put in your resume?”
Q: “The standard things. I put my name, address, phone, email, objective and my work history and skills”
S: “How do you expect to stand out from the other resume?”
Q” “My background will stand out. The person reading it will see [...]
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Resume Checklist
Resume checklist courtesy of George Mason University.
Layout & Appearance
Yes
No
Career Counselor Comments
Is my name at the top of the page and in bold?
Are my address, phone number and email easy to read?
Is my resume an appropriate length? (1 page preferred)
Is formatting (e.g. bold, font, bullet sizes, heading styles)
consistent throughout the resume? Are the headings [...]
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