Keep it safe and consistent when it comes to which font you use on your resume, advised professional resume writer Steve Burdan in the article “Top Nine Executive Resume Mistakes” for TheLadders Career Advice. Too many resumes are riddled with multiple font styles after people cut and paste from past resume files, their LinkedIn profile, [...]
Sick of your job? Feel trapped? Fantasize about walking in to your bosses office and declaring emphatically “I quit!”? Don’t let negative thoughts and emotional trappings derail a career, wrote Pat Olsen of Harvard Business Review in his post “How to Survive in an Unhappy Workplace. Find ways to make the job work for you while [...]
Financial services jobs in New York NY are on the upswing according to a recent report by the New York States Department f Labor. Wall Street lost more than 30,000 the start of the recession in December 2007, but firms are now looking for experienced executives with active client lists and a book of business, recruiters [...]
The best way to get a new job is to stop looking for one in the traditional way – sending out resumes, waiting for interviews and hassling recruiters. Become a resource – a treasure trove of information – not a nuisance on the job search, said executive career coach Darrell W. Gurney in the article [...]
If you want to be included in a recruiter’s call back pile keep your resume’s chronological information static, but tweak the language in the top section, advised professional resume writer Steve Burdan in the article “Customize Your Resume for That Plum Job.” Burdan believes strongly in the importance of customizing the top third section of a [...]
“[L]earn everything you can about the industry and your target employer(s),” said Vikki Brackett, a career coach told CIO.com’s Meridith Levinson, in the article “Job Search Secrets: Targeting Done Right.” You need to know the industry’s and the company’s pain points and business goals so that you can communicate exactly how you’re going to solve [...]
Philadelphia employers need to fill more than 6,000 job openings in the next six months, according to a poll reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The bulk of the openings are healthcare jobs in Philadelphia and there are a number of finance jobs in Philadelphia with companies like Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, and TD Banknorth, [...]
Southern states added more jobs in January than the rest of the country, according to the Job Creation Index published by research company Gallup. The Gallup research doesn’t attribute job creation to any particular industry. However, two examples of jobs that are hiring through the TheLadders would be technology jobs in Dallas, TX and finance jobs [...]