7 Key Resume Factors That Can Increase Your Hireability Up to 140%

7 Key Resume Factors That Can Increase Your Hireability Up To 140%

7 Key Resume Factors That Can Increase Your Hireability up to 140% The folks over at TalentWorks recently released the results of a great study they did on hireability. They analyzed more than 4,000 of their users’ resumes and applications to determine key factors that contributed to greater interview response rates—and what they found is…

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How to Draw Attention to Key Information on Your Resume

How to Draw Attention to Key Information on Your Resume

As you write your resume and are searching for resume writing tips, you might be starting to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information out there. Many resume writing tips, though, fall into one broad category: how to write and format your resume to make the relevant, interesting achievements and qualifications from your work history…

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Why Professional References Are Important and How to Ask for Them

Why Professional References Are Important and How to Ask for Them

In today’s job market, professional references are more important than ever before. Prospective employers want to know your past work performance as well as your work habits from those who have seen you in action on a day-to-day basis. Every section of your resume is important, but strong professional references provide the proof and real-world…

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How to Write a Resume the Employer Wants to Read

Over the past few weeks I’ve reviewed hundreds of resumes—and to my dismay, they’ve all looked and sounded the same. I’m not sure who thought it was a good idea to give job seekers the advice that replicating an unoriginal career summary or objective statement on their resume was a sound job searching practice. But…

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3 Easy Steps to Writing an Effective Resume That Gets Results

3 Easy Steps to Writing an Effective Resume That Gets Results

Resume writing is tough. I get it—it’s not easy to write about yourself. A blank Word document is often intimidating, but when it’s waiting to be filled with information about yourself it becomes even harder to get started writing a quality resume. I don’t know many people who excel at writing about themselves—and I’m a…

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