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- Thank You Letter Miseries - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Thank You Letter Or E-Mail Mistakes?
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] How dangerous is it to send a Thank-You letter or e-mail following an interview? Make these three deadly mistakes and you'll see why you want to throw-up and what to do instead in this less than 457 word article.
- Education in a Resume - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Mistakes Displaying Education in Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] There are 3 deadly mistakes you can make when you list education in your resume. In this less than 470 word article you see three deadly "education" mistakes and what to do instead.
- Job Search Help - Are You About to Make These 3 Deadly Mistakes Using Outplacement?
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] You are offered Outplacement or Inplacement job search help when you are "downsized," "right sized," "victim of re-organization," "re-focused," "de-hired" (my favorite), "laid off." or "terminated." Unprepared, you are about to make at least 3 deadly mistakes. Read this entire article and learn what to do instead:
- Resume Preparation Results - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Mistakes Before You Start Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] You plunge into writing you resume with no written plan! You don't ask where you are right now in your career? You don't ask where your head is about location & commute? You don't ask what is still missing from your resume after all these years? This less than 487 word article fills in these 3 gaping gaps.
- Resume Preparation Pitfalls - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Mistakes Before You Get Started?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Preparing a resume is not a walk in the park. That said, if you want to speed up the process of finding a better paying job (with a future) this article can assist you. Warning: Heavy lifting ahead.
- Fit in at Work - Do You Use These 3 Sure-Fire Tips to Add Value at Work & Fit in Like Never Before?
[Business:Career-Advice] This might not be a good time at work to "keep a low profile," but it is always a good time to "build alternate skills." If you are not doing positive things to be remembered at work you won't be forgotten when staff cuts happen.
- Deadliest Resume Mistake - Are You About to Make the Deadliest of All Resume Mistakes?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] You fear the use of a chronological resume because you have job gaps, career changes, and you were fired more than once. You have resume writer's block. You choose the functional resume, a deadly mistake. Read this entire less than 440 word article and find out what to do instead.
- Job Search Distress - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Search?
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] Job Search Distress vs. Root Canals? "Campfire Stories," "unemployment-itis," and "bait & switch" recruiting firms are 3 deadly search mistakes that make root canals seem good in comparison. This less than 400 word article nails what you should be doing instead.
- Job Search Miseries - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Search?
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] You make these 3 mistakes when you buy what mass media says about jobs, when you put limits on what kind of jobs you will take, and when you believe you have to know "somebody" to get a job. Here's what you should be doing instead.
- Resume Miseries - Are You Making These Three Mistakes With Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Just when you think you have your resume ready to go you find three deadly mistakes that you might have missed. It's not your fault. Help is less than less than 420 words away. Here are three mistakes and what you should do instead.
- Cover Letter Misery - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Cover Letter?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Many people who finish a resume and think the "hard work" is over suddenly realize they have to write a letter to accompany their resume only to blow it. Let's look at 3 of the deadliest cover letter mistakes people make and what to do instead.
- Cover Letter Phobia - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Cover Letters?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Not knowing an employer's requirements are a wish list. Thinking it's okay to write a two-page cover letter. Sending hard copies folded in a letter-size envelope. These are 3 deadly cover letter mistakes contained in this less than 330 word article.
- Cover Letter Miseries - Are You Making These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Cover Letters?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] You think a cover letter is all about you. You start every paragraph and most sentences with the word "I." You think your words are smarter than the words used by the target employer. These are three deadly cover letter mistakes contained in this less than 350 word article and what to do instead.
- Resume Distress - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Resumes are not "be all - end all." Listing references or saying, "References Upon Request" says you're a newbie (amateur). Selling you is not sinful. If you don't who will sums up this 337 word article and what you should do instead.
- Resume Phobias - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Your resume is not a job application; Using MS Word resume templates er, ah, ahem, "blow;" and thinking a resume should be all about you preview this article's 3 deadliest resume mistakes coupled with, "What you should do instead." Read these 3 deadliest resume mistakes and see what you should do instead.
- Resume Anxieties - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Daily I see the results when the suddenly unemployed rush to send out a resume. It's not their fault. It's not your fault. Results? Worry, panic, and conflicting advice. Let's take a look at 3 of the deadliest resume writing mistakes people make and what to do instead!
- Resume Misery - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Resume Mistakes?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] This article pounces on 3 of the deadliest resume goofs including leaving gaping holes, thinking the time spent with your resume is minutes instead of SECONDS, and jarring the reader with sudden type face changes. You will blow it, if you make these mistakes. See what to do instead.
- Resume Mania - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Resume Mistakes?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Many people who need a resume fast don't realize writing it can be a trap and end up blowing it. Consider 3 of the deadly resume mistakes and pitfalls and what you should do about them. This article says what a resume is and is not; it's legality; and dangers of underselling yourself.
- Failing Job Search - Signs & Symptoms & 7 Top Tips to Solve the Problem Fast
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] Just when you should be getting expert assistance, advice from mentors, and inputs from people who care about you, you feel alone. The advice seems conflicting. You have no written plan. You want to be left alone. These are clear signs and symptoms your job search is failing. This article gives you what to do now!
- Resume Miseries - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] I see many people whom suddenly need a resume plunge into the middle and muddle through to the beginning and end blowing it. It's not their fault. They don't make a living writing resumes. Let's look at 3 of the deadly resume writing mistakes people make, and then what they should do instead.
- Career Fair Misery - Which of These 3 Deadly Mistakes Are You Making at Career & Job Fairs?
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] I am not saying you should not go to Job and Career Fairs. I am saying you should be well prepares so that you don't come away with your heart in your throat. Which of these 3 Job and Career Fair Mistakes are You Making?
- Job Fair Fears - 7 Top Tips to Crush Job & Career Fair Fears
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] If you plan to attend, participate in, and fear a job or career fair and you don't attend you will miss low-risk job search practice and networking opportunities. With this in mind, here are top 7 ways to crush your fear of Job or Career Fairs and meet helpful people including willing strangers.
- Resume Misery - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Mistakes With Your Resume?
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Many people who need a resume and need it now opt for short cuts and blow the whole thing. Let's look at 3 of the deadliest resume mistakes and misunderstandings and move into what you should do instead.
- Which of These 3 Deadliest Mistakes Are You Making When You Talk to Search Firms? What to Do Instead
[Business:Career-Advice] You might not know what some search firms (headhunters) do to make money when times are tough. You believe they really have an employer who has a job for you that matches you. The person calling you seems to know more about you than you expected. When a search firm calls you to invite you in for an in-person interview which of this article's 3 deadliest mistakes are you making?
- Practical Job Search Tips - Top 7 Reasons to Outsmart Competing Applicants
[Business:Careers-Employment] If you are doing a Job Search and you are not using a combination of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Article Writing, Blogging, and one old fashioned medium, you are not capitalizing on your competition's weaknesses. With these thoughts in mind, this article offers the Top 7 Reasons to Outsmart Competing Applicants.
- Do it Yourself Resume Critique - 17 Questions You Need to Ask About Your Resume Tactics
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Don't believe what you read here; tackle what is being said in this article and re-evaluate your resume tactics. It's true, when you hear something that makes sense to you, you will take action, not before. You owe it to you and your job search to be sure your resume is the best it can be. Improved resume content means you will interview better. There is a link between the two.
- When You Don't Want to Pay Someone to Find You a Job - What to Do & 7 What Not to Dos
[Business:Career-Advice] What to do when you don't want to pay someone to help you find a job? When you read these words on the world wide web you are closer than you know to building your own solutions (toolkit) free of cost or at very low expense. This article claims to have answers. Challenge that promise now and learn how to "work" the Internet in your favor.
- Job Search Advice - Are You Making Any of These 3 Deadly Job Search Mistakes?
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] Because searching for a job is not what we do every day, we blow whatever advantages we might have by making deadly mistakes. This article looks at 3 of the deadliest job search mistakes we make and then what to do instead.
- Hiring Resume Writers - Top 10 Questions You Should Ask Before You Say Yes
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] If you don't want a "packaged" job search assistance and you just want a new resume, this article gives you 10 questions to ask before you hire a resume writer. For example, "If you miss the deadline for delivery of my resume, will you cut the price for me?"
- Top Traditional & New Distribution Channels For You & Your Resume - 7 Channels You Need to Know
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Sitting at your kitchen or dining room table staring at print want-ads might mean this article is not for you. It's no longer a jungle "out there;" it's too many jungles "out there." First, read this article's seven "Channels of Distribution of You," meaning your background and experience. Clear the fear. Spark your search.
- Top Interview Questions - How to Say What You Want to Say When You Are Not Quite Sure How to Say It
[Business:Career-Advice] You will feel less pain at your first interview in a long, long time. Don't cram. First, get a full night's rest. Safely go for a long walk or do your favorite core exercises. These top seven are often the most asked non-Behavior-Based interview questions. This article gives you pain-free answers.
- What They Won't Tell You in Job-Search 101 - 7 Performance Metrics Help You Get Better Jobs Fast
[Business:Careers-Employment] You send out resumes for 60 days, get two interviews, and no job offers. Because you have a solid educational background and excellent work history you wonder why, "Your search is not working?" Right? Right! This article explains how using performance metrics will hold you accountable and ensure you find a better paying job faster in any economy.
- What Not to Do in Your Job Search - 40 Tips to Salvage Your Job Search
[Business:Career-Advice] Your job search is not a spectator sport. Because it is the last thing you really want to do; what is missing? You guessed it. Passion. No passion; no energy; no drive; no whimsy; no interview; no offers! This article is not for you if you are waiting for lightning to strike. This article is for you if you want to score a good paying job that is so good you actually look forward to Monday mornings.
- What is the Job Market Really Like? Quick Quiz - True Or False - Answers Provided
[Business:Careers-Employment] How much do you really know about the Job Market? This article asks "True or False?" "Want ads on line and in the newspaper typically fill 74.9% of job openings?" T or F? "Search firms (nicknamed 'headhunters') are paid by employers and not by people looking for a job?" These two questions plus 12 others take less than 4 minutes to answer "T" or "F." Answers supplied.
- What Not to Put in Your Resume - 7 New Tips - Instantly Salvage Your Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Revised or new resume? This article recommends you forget resume "laws" you learned from your teacher or professor. That was then. This is now. You have more to say and less chance of getting someone to spend more than 11 seconds with your resume.
- What Not to Do the Day You Are Laid Off - 4 Killer Things You Should Do Instead
[Business:Careers-Employment] On the day you lose your job do not send out a gazillion e-mails and text messages to friends and former co-workers saying, "Damn it, I lost my job after busting my butt for that company for the past umpteen years."
- More Than a Resume - 9 Tips on How to Add a Biography to Your Job Search Toolkit
[Business:Careers-Employment] Biographical sketches are exciting because: a) They are unexpected, b) Most of your readers don't own one, c) You might not have seen one written about someone you know, d) More time is spent reading a biographical sketch than reading a resume - way more, and e) Because of a, b, c, and d, a biographical sketch will help you be remembered faster and longer. Get started on yours with the help of this article.
- How to Network Selfishly - Never Wait Over 15 Minutes For Your Doctor - 7 Tips
[Business:Networking] No one looks forward to waiting in a doctor's office waiting room or in one of those cold little examining rooms. If you wait more than 15 minutes, you are whacked out. Right? You ask yourself, "I have an appointment; what could be taking so long?" This article shows you how to combat long waiting room waits by using networking skills that will help you win hard-to-get reservations, event tickets, and job interviews.
- What Not to Include in Your Resume - 7 Additional Killer Tips to Instantly Save Your Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] It's not your fault. Teachers and college professors tell resume myths to their students. "Keep resumes to one page or you die before sun up." "Keep all dates to the left." "Start with your education first and dates you graduated."
- What Not to Include in Your Resume - 7 More Killer Tips to Instantly Save Your Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] You may not know it, but from birth you have been imprinted with resume "rules and regulations". Resume "dos and don'ts" are passed on from one generation to the next. Almost everyone has adopted them and yet we don't know the source. This article offers more "no-nos" and 7 more ways to salvage your resume now.
- What Not to Include in Your Resume - 7 Killer Tips to Instantly Save Your Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] One page resume or you will die in the morning. Dates of employment to the left hand margin only or demons will appear. End your resume with these words, "References On Request." Huh? This article explodes these myths and others and gives you seven tips for a world-class resume even if it is two pages long. Save or salvage your resume.
- What Not to Do to End an Interview - 6 Killer Things You Should Do to Get Called Back
[Business:Careers-Employment] If you want the job and you think the interview went well, this article talks about what not to do when you end the first interview and 6 killer things you should do to get a call back. It takes guts to make sure the interview ends in your favor.
- Resume Photos, Videos and Portrait - What to Do, What Not to Do
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Question - "I know someone who is looking for a job in pharmaceutical sales. Considering the position for which she is applying and the nature of that business; would it be a good idea to mail or e-mail a picture or photo or video or portrait with her information or printed on her resume?"
- Interview Thank-You Letter - 10 Dos & Don'ts Because It's Not Your Grandfather's Thank-You Letter!
[Business:Career-Advice] Following an interview you will want to send a thank-you letter to those who interviewed you. Why? Because you have been told it's a good idea. Other candidates won't bother. How hard can it be?
- Resume Without Results Equals Day With No Sunshine - 5 Steps to Write Statements of Results
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Tell me it's heavy lifting to write statements of accomplishment and I will agree with you. No longer. This article supports, "You don't want to fight writing statements of accomplishment because world-class statements of results put in your resume are the difference between winning and losing!"
- Interview Plan - 7 Pro Vs Amateur Comparisons to Test Your Interview Success
[Business:Careers-Employment] What would your peers say? What would your family say? This article gives you the opportunity to test you privately. How do you think you are seen as an interviewee; the person being interviewed? What makes you a pro? What makes you an amateur? It could be fun or not fun. You will know soon if you read this less than 350-word article...
- Relationship and Work - 5 More Tips on How to Amp Yourself Up at Work
[Business:Careers-Employment] E-mail your supervisor about what a great job a co-worker did. Most of us in the workplace do not feel loved (appreciated). Be the source of genuine and specific appreciation every chance you get. I call it "slinging positive mud."
- Stress & Anxiety Meeting Strangers - 7 Tips to Succeed With Strangers
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] You have a right to feel anxiety and stress meeting strangers for the first time. It's not easy, especially if you think you are shy, suffer from shyness or if you come from a background or culture that says, "Don't speak until spoken to!" or growing up you were told, "Never speak to strangers!" This article will assist you in learning new ways to get acquainted faster with people you don't know as you network your way into new, higher paying jobs. It's true 70 to 80 percent of the better paying jobs are found through personal contact and networking.
- Jobs - Turned Down? 11-Point Drill to Be Sure You Are Remembered!
[Business:Careers-Employment] Have you ever been turned down for a job you really wanted? Did you say, "I'll show that boss a thing or two. I'll never talk to that company again?" It's a myth to think that is the right thing to do? Think again.
- Boss Turn Offs - 7 Ways to Tick Off New Employers
[Business:Careers-Employment] Walk in your prospective boss' shoes by reading this under 400-word article and you will find out what turns off employers faster than a Malcolm Gladwell "blink." Tackle maverick thinking about resumes, job search, and interview preparation and behavior. Get free help, add statements of results instead of job descriptions, and learn from others who have been there and done this.
- Market Your Resume - 7 Tips How to Get More Search Results in Any Economy
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] You have my permission to create a marketing document disguised as a resume that's more than one page. You have been told "keep your resume to one page." NOT.
- Resume Plan - 13 Questions You Should Answer Before You Revise Your Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] In recent years client resumes seem much better than those I saw in the early and mid 90s. Some, however, are the result of filling out a resume template provided by Microsoft. Respectfully they are awful. To rise about that default, try some questions like the following before you create or revise your document.
- More Than a Resume - Alternative Biography and No Resume Cover Letter
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] What do you do when you are having no luck making contact with top decision-makers at targeted employers when traditional networking fails? You try a flanking maneuver often used in guerrilla warfare. In football, it's an "end around." Now comes the no-resume cover letter.
- Relationships and Work - 5 Tips How to Amp You Up at Work
[Business:Careers-Employment] Your name should be the first to come to mind when a manager insists "it get done and on time." It is important to be the "go-to" person at work. It helps brand you positively. Tips how to amp you up at work are the subjects of this first of two articles on relationships and work.
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