The resume is the first impression. The first thing that a recruiter/hiring manager is going to see from you. If you don’t have a resume that accurately portrays how you are qualified for the job that you are applying for, you aren’t going to get far. I am not talking about fancy fonts, fancy up do for your resume. I am talking about the basics. You can have the best looking resume in the universe, including the ones from Aliens that we have never seen. But if you can’t conne

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you know there are many companies in the hiring spaces making claims on both sides of the equations. Most of these claims on their part are false. Let’s take a closer look at them. Candidates On the candidate side Monster, Indeed, ZipRecruiter claim to find you jobs as fast as the speed of light. I laughed when they put the ad with a Network Engineer finding a job. Yes, it is a candidate market. What that means is that there are more j

I hear this all the time. “I am not getting any calls.” I ask them for their resumes and see that they don’t have their phone numbers listed. Phone number on the resume you are applying with is very important. How do you expect to get calls if you don’t have your numbers listed? I hear that candidates get a lot of spam calls from MLM businesses, and fake jobs. I empathize, it happened to me when I was searching for a job. But there is a simple solution to that. Don’t pick up

Resume isn’t your audition. It’s the entry that you fill out so you can get the audition, which is your interview. But if you fill out your application entry wrong, how can you expect to make it to the audition? Here are a few mistakes you are making Picture on your resume: CV’s which are usually a lot more detailed have pictures. Unless you are a design or marketing person, don’t put your picture on your resume. This might surprise you, but you are opening yourself up to dis