If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When designing your resume, it is important to showcase your accomplishments and use strong verbs. Using “power verbs” to showcase your accomplishments will help place you above other job-seekers. For example, if you are seeking to move into a […]

When designing your resume, are you showcasing your skills to their full advantage? Using a skills-based resume can definitely put you ahead of the game, if you focus on these three types of skills: job-related, transferable, and adaptive.
First, focus on skills you’ve learned on the job. These will be skills you learned in one position […]

On any regular resumes, you will likely be able to find an “objective” statement at the top few lines of the first paragraph. The purpose of this “objective” statement is to provide the employer information regarding your career goals and professional interests. Interestingly, easy as it seems, this is one statement that many job […]

Nowadays, you will find that more and more employers are requesting for electronic (or email) resumes to be sent to them instead of physical resumes. The reasons for that are:

It help saves the environment.
It saves time, as it is easier to scan through electronic resumes on the pc.
It makes it ever easier to trash […]

Curious about the skills that are highly sought after by employers in the US? Below is a list of the top 8 skills that employers desire in the employees that they hire. This information came from a survey of employers conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor and the American Association of Counseling and Development. […]