Don’t Fill Your Resume With Sea Junk
If you don’t take a strategic approach to writing your resume, it can end up being a hodge podge collection of career bits that don’t provide a compelling picture of why you are the perfect solution to your target company’s challenges.
What Is Resume Strategy Anyway?
Chances are that if you aren’t thinking like a marketer when you write your resume, you aren’t using resume strategy.
The Passion Myth
If you google “find your passion” you will get 39,000,000 hits. Go to the self-help section of any bookstore and you will see 50 or more volumes on finding your passion, following your passion, living your passion. Every other twitter bio or LinkedIn bio has a reference to “passionate about.” Passion, as they say, is [...]
Whitewater Lessons that Jobseekers Can Learn From
A spring whitewater trip was an immersive experience. Our guide assured us the river was totally within our capabilities. He was wrong. I thought about this trip recently when a contact on LinkedIn described his job search as a white-knuckle up-the-creek-without-a-paddle experience. I realized that some of the lessons I learned on the Magnetewan are applicable to a job search.
Jobseeker Coach’s Corner – Recruiter Houseparty
(Originally aired September 21st, 2010) Geoff Webb (aka @RadicalRecruit) interviews Karen Siwak about what jobseekers can expect when they work with a professional resume writer and career coach. Listen to internet radio with Recruiter HouseParty on Blog Talk Radio
What is Resume Strategy Anyway? An Interview with Karen Siwak
“Because there are so many tools available on line, what works in resume design now is different from what worked five years ago”
Compassionate HR – An Interview With Karen Siwak
“The most common mistake that jobseekers make is not telling the ‘so what’, why the accomplishments matter. A straight CAR statement without context is not telling a great story.”
Another Extreme Candidate Makeover – The Ex Recruiter Show
“From a best use of your resume real estate, the above-the-fold section should have a much better developed profile than you’ve got…”
Jobseekers, Don’t Put All Your Eggs in the Social Networking Basket
As with many of my blogs, I will begin with a true confession. I’m a Twitter junkie. I enjoy exchanging banter and ideas with industry colleagues around the world. I use Twitter instead of RSS feeds to find interesting articles, blogs and people. I have lists of hundreds of recruiters and career services professionals that [...]
Bad Professional Habits that Can Harm Your Career, and What To Do About Them
We can get stuck in a pattern of bad habits that become our career comfort zone, but are detrimental to our long term professional health. Here are ten signs of career bad habits, and what to do about them.
Meet Karen Siwak
An award-winning Certified Résumé Strategist, Karen has crafted top calibre career transition packages for thousands of clients. Her specialty is helping people identify and articulate their unique brands and value propositions, and she is passionate about empowering clients with the tools, strategies and confidence to take control of their career search. Read more...
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