Your resume can open and close doors. It’s main purpose is to market yourself to your prospective employers, and hopefully it will land you an interview or two. Resumes can come in different formats. The most common ones are chronological format and functional format. There are a variety of situations in which each certain formats can work differently. Here is…
In the past, many people stayed in one career, whether it was their dream job or not, throughout their working lives. However, this is not the case anymore. Nowadays, with more widely accessible education and career opportunities, it is not uncommon for people to change jobs and even careers every few years. Many of these career changers are…
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The 7 Reasons Employers Will Hire You
To secure that dream job, you have to think like the person making the final decision. What is going through the manager’s head when they select candidates? What attributes are they looking for in their ideal employee? Here are 7 of the most common reasons people get hired. Use it wisely now and do let me…
Today, employers are looking for a variety of talents, skills, and personality traits in future candidates. This means that people who haven’t attended university, have just as much of a chance of getting employed due to the potential skills and experience that they have gained in the time that others have spent studying for a…
When I was assistant regional manager at The Gillette Company in the early ’80s, I tried explaining to the president why I was not going to relocate across the country again when the step up position was available in my region. I had already moved from St. Louis to San Francisco to Boston to Chicago for the company…