Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Careers - Resumes

The system an employer uses when filling jobs has changed significantly in the past few years, and it is still evolving. Rather than simply looking at an applicant's past jobs, companies are instead looking at candidate's experiences in certain key areas-including...

Attention, recent grads: Here is the one tool you need to land your first real job

You've finally got your diploma in hand, and now you're ready to take that big leap into the workforce. But how do you launch your career when the only experience youhave is a string of unpaid internships and summer jobs? The first step is to write an unbeatable resume--and this guide will show you how.

Inside, you'll find 101 sample resumes, produced by Certified Professional Resume Writers for entry-level positions in more than 80 areas of specialization, plus: Advice on how to style and format your...

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...

Face it--words matter when it comes to getting noticed, getting the interview, and getting the job. In this invaluable guide to crafting the pitch that opens doors, staffing experts Schuman and Nadler give you hundreds of tools to make that happen. You will no longer struggle to find the phrases that best highlight your achievements; instead, you'll garner attention with such smart options as:

• I created a program that accomplished the following . . .
• My work generated $5 million in revenue . . .
• I built a team of employees who created . . .
• The...

When choosing a career in industry, many of today's graduates with degrees in science and technology don't know exactly what they are looking for, the options they have available, how to position themselves to achieve their goals, or even how to define their own meanings of success. By addressing each of these issues, Planning a Scientific Career in Industry covers material not found in school textbooks or career guides to show what makes an industry tick, then demonstrates how this knowledge can be used to gain...

The ultimate guide for college students and grads seeking interviews in a tough economy. It explains how to:

(1) transform even modest educational achievements and non-paying life experiences -- from hobbies and travel to family circumstances and extracurricular activities -- into persuasive statements about abilities,

(2) generate job...