Category: Resumes

What Does Your Resume Convey in 6 Seconds?

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Today our guest blogger is Matt Youngquist. Matt is the President of Career Horizons, serving Northwest individuals and organizations dealing with the unique challenges of job hunting and employment transition.  Matt is a recognized expert in the field of career coaching, job hunting, and professional employment counseling.  You can follow him on Twitter @mattyoungquist.

Resume angst.  It’s a very real thing and the majority of job hunters I meet seem to suffer from it.  There just aren’t many people you’ll meet who will stand behind their resume 100% and say “I think my resume is terrific, sums up my qualifications beautifully, and is a piece I’m highly confident in sending out to potential employers.” Read More

Resume Make-over: Returning to the Workforce

Complete Index, Improving, ResumesCarrie Krueger, Vice President, Jobfully1 Comment

Karen had an amazing resume with a lot of significant professional experience. The problem is, all of her experience is from over 15 years ago.  Like many women, Karen had a robust and successful career before taking time off to raise kids.  With her children in her teens, she is ready to return to the professional workforce.

An initial look at her resume revealed these issues: Read More

Keywords: What They Are and How to Use Them

Best Practices, Complete Index, Marketing Yourself, Online presence, ResumesCarrie Krueger, Vice President, Jobfully1 Comment

One of the biggest tricks to being “found” by recruiters is to make your resume and online profile keyword-rich. If you’re a bit baffled by the term, you’re not alone. Keywords can be a source of confusion to the point where they are sometimes just ignored by job seekers. Ignoring them may mean your resume never makes its way to an actual hiring manager.

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Why Years of Experience Don’t Matter

Complete Index, Improving, Mature Workers, ResumesCarrie Krueger, Vice President, Jobfully11 Comments

Yes, you read the headline correctly. Years of experience do not get people hired. Why? Because experience does not equal success or future value. For example, I can claim 30+ years experience as a runner. Does that make me a candidate for the next Olympics? Could I be a track coach? Am I even a good runner?  No. Just because I have been doing something for a long time does not mean I am good at it.

Which is more impressive: Read More