How to Optimize Your Online Resume in the Age of COVID-19
How can you craft a resume that beats the AI-powered Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and impresses the people who might hire you?
Why It’s Time to Ditch the Objective Statement On Your Resume
If your resume starts out with a statement such as “Objective: Senior Level Marketing Director with 15 years of experience seeking to . . .” you have just dated yourself. If you are still using a line like that to open up your executive resume, you may as well realize that your chances of getting selected for an interview are probably long gone as well. The reader knows what your objective is – it is to get hired. Lose the “Objective” and replace it with a dynamic career summary that pulls the reader in and shows that you have the experience, skills, and credentials to get the job.
Resume Strategies for a Laid-Off, More Mature Worker
You do not want an old-looking resume to give away your age; to show that you’re not quite caught up with the times, as it could hurt your candidacy.
How to Include Your Travels on Your Resume
With more and more people choosing to work remotely and an increase in companies venturing out new or foreign markets, we see a rise in demand for certain skills, including cross-cultural communication, multilingualism and quick adaptability to various different kinds of work environments.
How To Effectively Network Your Way Into a New Job
One of the biggest mistakes I see jobseekers make is keeping their search confined to job boards. Some of the issues with job boards do lie with employers and their standard practices. ATS is becoming the norm, which is making hiring and recruiting a low-touch profession and it is wreaking havoc on the candidate experience. It takes longer for candidates to receive a response – if they even receive one at all. Many clients have told me that prior to having their resume optimized it would end up in the black hole- what is commonly referred to as the deep dark hole in which a resume falls once it is determined that it wasn’t a fit for the role.