As a college student, you need to start working on your resume to improve your competitiveness in the job market. Your work experience is still limited, you need to create a document that emphasizes your unique skills and educational background.

Even without work experience or a glittery academic background, you can still make your resume stand out. If you can showcase the traits below on your resume, you are bound to make a serious impression.

Keeping your resume up to date takes relatively little effort if done at least annually.  Letting your resume get stale creates a lot of work (and stress) when you need to start a new job search.

A resume is the first opportunity that you get to show companies what a perfect fit you would be for their open position. It’s your chance to sell yourself, show off your skills and experience, and make a good impression.

You know your job experience and skills better than anyone else, so why would you pay to have someone else write your resume? You need to have a strong achievement and skills-focused resume that will lead to an interview.

So what makes the perfect resume? There is no reason that a great resume template can’t work perfectly as a base for you though if you want to show off your design skills, you might want to make some modifications!

every hiring manager is different and may have different preferences in terms of resume formats and their review process.

If you brand it will they come? While it may sound like one big field of dreams, a carefully crafted and customized personal brand will not only convey your value and define your vision it will also offer a unique perspective to prospective hiring managers.

One of the things that I’ve always been proud of is my resume. I thought I had the best format, amazing content, all of the […]

The perfect resume will help you get the job of your dreams. The job search process relies primarily on the Internet and “speed to market”.  The longer you delay submitting your resume, the more likely it is that tens if not hundreds have applied before you. 

When most people complain about not having heard back from a hiring manager they sent their resume to, there’s usually one possibility; the hiring manager isn’t interested in hiring them (and may not want to ruin their mood by telling them).

For those of you who use Android-based smartphones, there are tons of excellent job search apps for Android Smartphones, but there are also a bunch of excellent resume-related apps being created as well. Here are some of the best apps for making your resume accessible no matter where you are and allowing you to work on creating the ultimate resume even when you are nowhere near your computer.

The job market at this time is quite competitive, so to find a job, and to actually get hired, you need to stand out from the rest of the crowd.

Put yourself in the recruiter’s chair for a minute and take a look at how they approach the candidate search process and what you can do to get noticed.

A CV is the first opportunity that you get to show companies what a perfect fit you would be for their open position. It’s your chance to sell yourself, show off your skills and experience, and make a good impression.

A printed resume is something every job seeker should have on hand, and it is one way to demonstrate your professionalism. Don’t assume that the interviewer will have a copy of your resume (although they should), bring several printed resumes with you (even if you only plan to see one person).

Writing a great resume is not an easy task and although the overall unemployment rate is down,  competition for the best jobs at the best companies continues to increase.  Hiring managers now have a large pool of talented candidates to choose from.

If you are unemployed right now, it might be scary. You may find it hard to imagine being able to get a job in the coming months, and you may feel desperate. There are jobs available, even if it means a career change. Here are some tips to help you.

your resume is the first thing a prospective employer will see and in order to sell yourself it should be presented in as concise a manner as possible.

If you haven’t done your homework and you don’t know anything about the company where you are interviewing, then you shouldn’t be on the interview. You should do extensive research on the company and the interviewer(s) before the interview.