job search advice

Job-Seeker Advice: 6 Tips for Getting Your Résumé Noticed by Recruiters

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Thanks to today’s guest poster Sheryl Coonan for these GREAT resume tips! We all know that in this economy, there’s no time for a flawed first impression. Recruiters generally spend a mere 30 seconds skimming a candidate’s cover letter and résumé before deciding whether or not he or she is worthy of  phone interview. And [...]

December 13, 2010 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Don’t be a Paycheck Player: How 5,000 Dollars cost me 5 Years of my Life

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Guest post by, Srinivas Rao If you’ve ever seen the movie Jerry Maguire there’s a great scene where Cuba Gooding’s character and Jerry are talking about all the players who are getting what Cuba Gooding’s character is not getting. One thing that struck me the first time I saw this scene is when Tom Cruise [...]

May 27, 2010 12 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Stop Searching, Start Working: 2 Things You Should do while Unemployed

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“Make your life one giant networking event.” ~Dan Schawbel I graduated college in May 2009 and it wasn’t until I let go of the idea that I needed to spend all day every day looking for work and well, start working, that I began getting job leads. It’s the NUMBER ONE rule of the job [...]

April 19, 2010 12 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →