Resume
No College Degree, Not a Resume Problem for IT Exec
Lisa had 15 years of experience in IT. She had a laundry list of projects and budgets under her name at work and successes under her belt. But she had no bachelor’s degree, and it was an embarrassment and concern when she went looking for a job, she told TheLadders reporter Lisa Vaas.
Lisa, who asked [...]
Resume Translation
C.J. Berman wasn’t a salesman; he was a fundraiser.
For 14 years Berman had raised money for non-[profit organizations establishing funds research AIDS, cure skin cancer and other worthwhile causes. But in an industry that gives away it’s own profits and runs on low overhead, job security is hard to come by. Berman was laid off [...]
Drop the Shop Talk and Jargon from your Resume
Every industry has its own language. Law enforcement talks about “perps” and “10-37’s;” doctors refer to “baseline testing” and say “Stat;” and technology executives speak in a code all their own.
Fluency in your job’s native tongue might be important to a manager during an interview, but too much shop talk can get you into trouble [...]
Brand Marketing Lessons for the Job Search
Career-Line HD Video – William Scheckel is a brand name.
The marketing manager from Montclair, N.J. has a Web and social media strategy the likes of a corporate branding effort. He’s thought of nearly every detail, right down to the background color and images on his Web site to the summary on his resume and his [...]
More than an MBA Resume
“Rajan” worked for more than 30 years in IT, but he decided he could do more (and make more) on the business side of the house, so he went back to school and received an M.B.A.
I many ways, Rajan’s story (he asked that his real name not be used) is a common one. It is [...]
Resume Summary: Beat the Career Stack
How do you compile 35 years working in an industry into a single document? The common practice is to simply stack your jobs one atop the other – dating back to you first job search, each successive resume likely just puts a new job in the top spot and pushes the others down. The result [...]
Resume Accomplishments: It’s All Relative
Do your accomplishments as a team manager stack up to the accomplishments of a Fortune-500 CEO? Sure they do. It’s all relative, said Gary Capone, a recruiter and author of the Palladian Career Resources blog.
He wrote yesterday about identifying impressive accomplishments and cited two resumes he read that day – one from a senior manufacturing [...]
Fax Your Resume For Free
The once prolific fax machine is rarely seen these days. Just a few years ago the office appliance nested openly in nearly every corner of the office environment. It symbolized life at work. Now it is all but extinct.
It seems there are only two ecosystems left for for the fax machines habitat – the government [...]
Resume Samples: One Explains You, One Sells You
Marc Cenedella, the founder and CEO of TheLadders has seen a few resumes in his life. He has a pretty good handle on what works and what doesn’t work in a resume.
Last week, in his weekly newsletter, he introduced us to “Tim,” a sales and marketing executive from Atlanta, who told Marc at a recent [...]
Lost in the Job Search Without a Rudder
Does the job search feel like you’re lost at sea without a rudder?
If the letters and e-mails we receive from readers are any indication, the analogy fits.
To spill a little company Kool-Aid, TheLadders operates a Community Service team that goes well beyond a typical call center. The bulk of the phone calls, e-mail and chat [...]
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