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Resume Tips for Those Lacking Job Experience

Are you looking to acquire your first job in many years - or your first job ever - and have heard that without experience you have no chance of finding employment? Well rest assured that this couldn’t be more wrong.

Employers understand that good employees are not solely created from skills gained on previous jobs; they are also created from skills acquired through life experience. The trick, however, is to highlight these skills while expressing your overall potential in your resume.

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Tips To Make Your Skills Shine In Your Resume - Learn how to strategically list your most important skills and achievements throughout your resume for greater impact.

If you create a resume that simply covers every job you have held in reverse chronological order for the sake of listing your “duties,” you are missing out on a prime opportunity to make a powerful impression.

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Grinning Through the Pain of Your Job Search

Sometimes no matter how much you try you can’t - and don’t want to - make your current job work for you. Maybe it’s too many demands coming from too many places; maybe it’s the lack of systems that is driving you crazy. Whatever it is, you’re at your breaking point and you know it’s time to look elsewhere for career fulfillment.

If you’re like most job seekers, a new job isn’t going to fall into your lap the second you want it to. It’s going to take a little time to find the right positions and companies in which to apply. And you know what that means, right? You have to make the most out of the situation. Read the rest of this entry »

After getting behind over the holidays, I’m back to adding new blog articles and stumbled on a nice little list of items that you shouldn’t put on your resume.

Some of these are obvious, but really it’s a great write up that includes some common items that people really have put on their resume that really have no use in that document for reasons such as privacy (social security numbers) or your religious beliefs which can create an unwanted prejudice (by all means religion is fine on a resume if that’s a part of your job function such as a religious leader or pastor applying for a job in a church).

This article includes 25 items that you shouldn’t include on your resume. Read below for more…

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Insights from the Inside – An Employer’s View of the Interview

Everyone has, at one point or another, been faced with the prospect of sitting down and speaking with one or more individuals who will decide whether or not you have the skills and abilities to become their newest employee.

The thought alone is enough to make the strongest among us tremble and break into a cold sweat. “It’s not fair,” you theorize. “One mistake or misplaced adjective during the interview and I’m back on the street, back at the end of the line, searching for the one intangible which will bring me job security and a financial well being. What did I do wrong?”

In an effort to give you that one intangible, we sat down with three professionals who make those hiring decisions on a daily basis. In return for their anonymity, they have agreed to give us their insights on how to master the interview.

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