This is the 3rd post in my ‘How to Write a Resume’ series, you can read the other steps here: 1) Feel The Employer’s Pain 2) Know Your Value to the Employer It’s maybe the most important of them all. Learning how to strategize your resume is the absolute #1 secret to opening doors and…
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“Where did you get my name?” If you receive a call from nowhere from a head-hunter, you’ll always ask this question. But you won’t get any real answer – from a professional head-hunter at least. They’ll never reveal their sources, or even discuss the job with you on the first phone call. So what’s with…
I’ve written before that your job search is really a marketing campaign, designed to identify, qualify and contact prospects (companies you want to work for), meet decision makers (people who can hire you) and sell them (convince them to hire you). Today I’m going to … write about that topic again. Because there’s an almost…
Does your resume go better with a cover letter? Some people say no, because nobody reads them. I agree to a point. Not all recruiters read resume cover letters. But I think many recruiters don’t because so many they see are a bit “blah blah blah.” That’s when the resume cover letter says nothing new…
In my first post, I talked about the importance of feeling employers’ pain – knowing your audience is a crucial first step to writing a resume that really works. Now we’re going to move on to the second step – knowing exactly how you can address that pain. What’s your value proposition? We’ve all been…