Many great job candidates have poor resumes that are merely a laundry list of job tasks that do little to distinguish them from their competition. The average recruiter or hiring manager spends less than 15 seconds reviewing a resume. Most people's resumes fail to "wow" the reader and quickly end up in the "no" pile.
Writing a resume can feel like an overwhelming task. It can seem like a Herculean effort to consolidate so much important information about a career into a one or two page document. But it doesn't have to be that way In 'Happy About My Resume', Barbara Safani offers 50 tips...
Many great job candidates have poor resumes that are merely a laundry list of job tasks that do little to distinguish them from their competition. The...
Do you want to know in a nutshell what it takes to market yourself in a competitive job market and get more of what you want? '#JOBSEARCHtweet' gives you 140 digestible sound bites for doing just that. In just 100 pages you will gain compelling insights on how to build a strong resume and cover letter, engage employers with a value-added thank you letter, work with recruiters, leverage your network both online and offline to source key decision makers, interview authentically, confidently, and with ease, and negotiate a robust compensation package.
In this timely and essential book,...
Do you want to know in a nutshell what it takes to market yourself in a competitive job market and get more of what you want? '#JOBSEARCHtweet' gives ...
In our modern, often volatile economy, we can no longer expect permanent or long term employment with any one employer. Today's worker has, on average, multiple jobs and even multiple careers. Layoffs, terminations, and pink slips are so universal that they are now euphemistically called downsizing or rightsizing. But whatever the label, the process is no easier to deal with--not for the employee whose services are being terminated nor for the organization and executives who initiate the termination.
Fortunately, there is a silver lining to all this turbulence, and that is that the...
In our modern, often volatile economy, we can no longer expect permanent or long term employment with any one employer. Today's worker has, on average...
A job search is never easy and a struggling economy only makes it harder. Everybody knows she or he needs to be smarter, faster and better in finding a job, but how? After all, a job search is synonymous with plenty of hard work and also plenty of rejection. Now, career transition expert Barbara Safani comes to every job seeker's rescue by addressing this pressing issue in a way that makes complete sense in today's economy.
In 'Happy About My Job Search', Barbara offers a candid perspective of what a job search is, and isn't. She offers plenty of practical hints for...
A job search is never easy and a struggling economy only makes it harder. Everybody knows she or he needs to be smarter, faster and better in finding ...
