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This weekend I ran across the best job search tip I’ve heard in months. It’s so completely simple, I’m a bit embarrassed to say I had never thought of it before.

You know the old saw about how your resume has to make a good first impression in a matter of seconds or the employer might overlook you. That’s the worry that motivates all of us to tweak our resumes endlessly, hoping to make the right, professional first impression.

But if you’re lucky enough to pique the employer’s interest, what’s the first interaction you’re likely to have with them? That’s right: when they call you back to set up an interview.

Shouldn’t you take some time to make sure your voicemail makes the same, professional first impression? Sure you should.

I’ve spoken before about how you want a professional email address on your resume, not something like sexxymamma51@aol.com that might be embarrassing. In the same way, you don’t want your voicemail to simply be “WAAAZZZUP!?”

I’ll tell you the whole story over at my other blog, ResumeWriting.com. And I’ll give you some tips on how you can make your voicemail compliment your resume. Click through below:

Don’t Neglect Your Voicemail. It’s A Supplementary Resume!

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For years people have been asking me to write a guide to resume writing. For years, I’ve turned them down for reasons I’ll get into at the end of this post.

But today I’m announcing that I’m about to publish a “Kindle Single” about resume writing and the upside for you is that for the next two weeks, the entire text of the book is live on the internet for you to read for free. Why? Because I want you to help me edit the final draft.

From now until Nov. 15th, every chapter is posted in blog form over at ResumeWriting.com. This means comments are open on every chapter. I encourage you to check out the book, read through it, and if you have any questions… any questions at all… post them in the comments. This will allow me to include things I’ve left out of the book. I want it to be as comprehensive as possible, so I figure if I crowdsource the editing process, I’ll be able to answer every question reasonably imaginable about the resume writing process.

The upshot for you is that you can read the book free for two weeks (once it’s published it will be 99 cents). It also means that for a limited time, you’ll have a forum to get any questions you might have about resume writing answered by me. I’m going to try to answer every comment. Please make sure the questions are resume writing related.

Why am I finally publishing a book about resume writing?

When I started TheJobBored.com back in 2007, I did it because I thought that most career advice books sucked. If you’ve ever bought one, you probably know what I mean. They’re full of vague, feel-good, inspirational advice. You have to sift through the pages to find the nuggets of good, tangible tips.

It’s not the fault of the authors, I guess. You can’t put out a physical book with only a few pages in it. Books require you to have hundreds of pages, so the authors end up having to come up with a bunch of filler to make the manuscript substantial enough to merit printing (and to justify the $19.95 cover price).

That’s why I loved the blog format. I could serve out real, tangible tips and job search hacks.  Want to know how to handle a tough interview question like: “What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?” Bam! I could give you my best advice in an easily digestible couple hundred words.

When I stumbled upon Kindle Singles, I realized that format would be the perfect vehicle to finally do my resume writing book the way I wanted to do it: simple, no nonsense, no BS, to the point. I wouldn’t have to worry about arbitrary page counts. I could make it be exactly as long as it needed to be to give you the basics on how to write a resume.

My goal with this book is simple: I want to take a reader line-by-line through the process of writing a resume. Hopefully, someone should be able to leave their Kindle open on the desk, open up a Word file, and then click through the guide as I tell them: “First you do this. Now you do this. Now you do this.”

Within an hour or two, the reader should have a basic resume completed, and I’ll have led them step by step through the entire process.

If you want more elaborate dissertations about what resumes are, and how they came to be, and tons of footnotes and filler – fine! There are other resume books out there.

But hopefully this one will simply tell a job seeker what her or she needs to do to write a basic resume.

So, click over to ResumeWriting.com and help me put the finishing touches on it. Thanks!

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An economy in the ditch is tough on all job seekers, but particularly so on new college graduates. New grads likely went into their 2-4 year programs on the wings of an expanding economy. Most are now falling fast as the economy has retrenched and jobs hard to come by for those with little to no practical experience in their chosen fields. But there are jobs out there, albeit few. And they will go to somebody. To make sure you’re one of those somebodies, begin by making your new graduate resume the best it can be.

5 Things To Get Right on the New Graduate Resume

1) Choose Targeted Over General Resume. The days are gone when the new grad can write a ‘one-size-fits-all’ resume with a general objective statement, a bunch of overused resume cliches and a chorus line of part-time jobs, each given equal weight whether relevant or not. A job search in this environment demands a targeted approach. Every resume you submit to a job opening needs to be targeted to that position; your objective (if you have one) should mention that position by name, and every ingredient in your profile section needs to drive home the point that you are the right person for that job. Even the details under your education and experience sections should be adjusted to reflect maximum compatibility with the targeted job.

And yes, that process should be repeated for each job you apply. More work? You bet. Welcome to a recessionary economy.

2) Include an Objective Statement and a Profile Section. Yes, I know. Resume objective statements have taken a beating over the past few years, and many career counselors advise against including one on the resume. As a bit of a contrarian, I believe they should remain an option, and especially on a new graduate resume. Why? It gives the resume an immediate focus, and – if phrased correctly – the opportunity to directly address the specific qualifications of the job in question (e.g. Entry-level position in Retail Merchandising requiring a valued team player with a strong fashion sense and a relevant academic background.)

Your profile (or summary) is located either in place of, or directly beneath the objective. Your profile is a brief section (two or three lines, maybe three bulleted achievements beneath those lines) giving you the opportunity to highlight the skills and training that best qualify you for the position at hand. Note that this section might change slightly with each new targeted resume, as you subtly adjust your skill set to match each job’s qualifications.

3) Highlight Your Education. For most new graduates, their education is their calling card. Situate the education section directly beneath the profile. That is, unless you’ve held at least one full-time job for a year or more, and that job is particularly relevant to your objective. In that case, place the experience section above education in the lineup, as you will want to emphasize and elaborate on that job.

4) When To Use GPA. Mention your overall grade point average if it’s 3.5 or higher. Indeed, emphasize that fact on your resume. On the other hand, if your GPA is not so good, especially anything less than 3.0, leave it off the resume entirely. Mention your major GPA if it’s 3.5 or more, or higher than your overall.

5) Courses and Activities. List individual college courses, campus activities and such in indirect proportion to the strength of your experience section. In other words, if your experience is lacking big time, elaborate on specific courses completed, campus activities, club memberships, offices held, etc. Conversely, downplay most or all, and leave some off entirely, if you’ve held one or more jobs that add heft to your objective. And if you’re totally dependent on a list of course work to fill up space on what would otherwise be a desert moonscape of a resume, try to show how the knowledge acquired from these courses transition to your stated objective, and the needs of the employer.

New Grad – Some Things In Your Favor

As a new graduate, you have some things going for you. You have a good academic foundation in your selected profession, you’ve demonstrated the fact that you’re trainable, and odds are you’re more technologically savvy than members of the previous generation. And you’ve got a fresh perspective and a can-do attitude (in other words, you haven’t yet been crushed under the jackboot of cynicism and apathy).

Make sure your resume looks equally good, and get yourself out there.

This is a guest post by David Alan Carter who says:

Should new graduates consider using a professional resume service? “In this tough job market – yes,” says former recruiter David Alan Carter. “But make sure the writers are certified and they offer an interview guarantee.” Carter has put together Resume Service Reviews of the Web’s most popular writers at the website TopResumeServices.com, reviewing quality of workmanship, spelling out their pricing, and giving each a star ranking.

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In today’s job market, one needs to fully embrace electronics and the power of the internet. But job seekers are quickly confronted with a number of formatting options for delivering their electronic resume to their intended target. Get the format wrong, and your resume won’t get read.

The 6 Popular Formats For The Electronic Resume

- The Formatted Resume. The traditional resume you see in printed form. Written using a word processing program (most commonly Microsoft Word), the formatted resume is also suitable for email transmission as a file attachment. Two potential problems with the latter. 1) It’s dependent upon the email recipient to have the same word processing software application on his or her computer in order to open the attachment and view its contents. 2) It’s vulnerable to viruses. For that reason, such attachments are often not acceptable by companies.

- The Plain Text Resume. Also known as an ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) resume, this is a simple text format that allows your resume to be read by practically any computer in the world. It’s devoid of graphics and embellishments: no fancy bullets, no bold, no italics. The ASCII resume can be transmitted as an email file attachment, pasted onto the body of an email, or pasted piece-by-piece onto e-forms on job boards, corporate websites and the like. It’s not pretty to look at, but gets the job done.

- The Scannable Resume. Basically a plain text or ASCII resume that is printed out. This is applicable when a company requests a hard-copy resume with the intent to scan the document into their keyword-searchable database. Transmitted by mail or fax. Sidebar: hard-copy scannable resumes are rapidly losing favor in the marketplace as databases are increasingly able to accept resumes directly from email, negating the need for someone to sit around physically scanning paper.

- The Rich Text Format Resume. Also known as an RTF (Rich Text Format) resume, this is a file format easily created from most word processing applications (Word, WordPerfect, etc.) by simply saving the resume as Rich Text (it will have a file extension of.rtf). Use the two-step “File, Save As” procedure in Word. As a general rule, simple graphics and embellishments (bold, italics, etc) will remain intact through the conversion, although more complex enhancements – graphs and tables – may not fair so well. An RTF resume sent as an email attachment is accessible across platforms and regardless of word processing software. And an RTF file attachment is less prone to viruses than Word.

- Portable Document Format Resume. A PDF resume is a file format that retains all the design elements – interesting fonts, bolds and italics, bulleted lists and the like – normally ascribed to application software. But it is delivered independent of application software. Which means, recipients of your emails don’t need to have your particular version of Word (or WordPerfect, et al.) on their computer systems to be able to open your attachment. It’s accessible on both PCs and Macs, and it’s considered virtually virus proof. On the down side, if a PDF resume is intended for a keyword-scannable database, the document itself must be physically scanned first (unlike an ASCII file, a PDF can’t be send directly from the email to the database).

- Web Resume. The Web-based or HTML resume is basically a published page on a website. It is advantageous because you can direct Web traffic to the site, and the resume can be as feature-rich as your imagination (and common sense) allows. You do need to have a host and the architecture to publish a Web resume.

Choosing The Right Electronic Resume File Format

The particular format with which you transmit your electronic resume will be dictated by the method of transmission (email, for example, vs posting to a job board or corporate website) as well as the intended target (human eyes vs computer software which will be scanning for keywords).

Get the file format right, and get your electronic resume read. Beyond that, it’s up to the talent that went into crafting that resume.

This is a guest post. About the author:

David Alan Carter is a former recruiter. Writing for the website http://TopResumeServices.com/, Carter has confronted the Web’s most popular resume writers in his Resume Writing Services Reviews, reviewing quality of workmanship, spelling out their pricing, and giving each a star ranking.

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This is a question we’ve been getting a lot lately at our professional resume service. I suppose it’s a sign of the times. It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without social networking. Facebook is so much a part of our everyday lives that it’s almost natural that job seekers – young professionals especially – feel like it’s a natural thing to put a link to their Facebook page on their resume.

But is this a good idea? Is it something you should actually consider doing?

I hate to hedge here, but my answer is: probably not.

My logic goes like this: for the vast majority of us, Facebook is a personal thing. It reflects our personal lives. So Facebook doesn’t reflect our professional lives, nor should it. You’ve all heard the horror stories about people getting fired because of something that was posted on their Facebook page. Even if you don’t face something that drastic, I still think you should keep a bit of a distance between your Facebook life and your professional life. Your Facebook page probably doesn’t belong on your resume. The hiring manager doesn’t care about your vacation photos, even if everyone is fully clothed in them.

Now, I know you can do all sorts of things to customize your public Facebook profile. If you’re a wizard who can outsmart Mark Zuckerberg’s constant tweaking of the privacy controls, in theory you could have a public Facebook profile that is all propriety and professionalism. But even if you do do this, I still say your Facebook profile is not professional enough to go on your resume. Facebook is just not assumed to be in, or appropriate for, the professional realm. So you run the risk of coming off like a naive kid if you put your Facebook link in at the top of your resume along with your email address and cell phone number.

But what about Twitter? Well, Twitter is a slightly different story. Twitter is used for personal stuff, but more often, it’s used for personal, professional branding. Building and cultivating an audience.

I’ve even recently made the case that Twitter handles are the new business cards.

So if you’re one of those life 2.0 people who has a Twitter account and you use it specifically as your professional face to create a brand, then yes, I think you should put @yourtwittername on your resume.

One final word on all of this. It should be obvious, but there’s a great service that from day one was designed to be the place you went to do professional social networking: LinkedIn. Your linked in profile can be like your professional Facebook profile. If you haven’t set up a LinkedIn profile, do it now, and add THAT link to your resume!

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We had a client last week, who asked us also to work on her LinkedIn Profile. We’re getting requests like that more and more, and it’s a product line we’re probably going to start offering soon.

But then we asked her if she had worked on her Facebook profile at all, and she said she hadn’t. In fact, she had put her Facebook profile on public lockdown because she was so fearful of any employer snooping in her personal life.

This reaction made me a bit sad. Sure, we’ve all been inundated with all the scary news storys about people getting fired or professionally embarrassed by things they’ve posted on their Facebook pages. And of course, you should be very careful about what those in your professional life can see from your Facebook life. But Facebook can still be a powerful branding tool. So you shouldn’t run from it: you should make your Facebook into something that can help your job search.

The main reason I say this, is that your employer is going to look anyway. In this day and age do you think anyone gets hired (or lands a date or becomes a tenant) without at least a cursory Google/Facebook search? The employer is going to be looking anyway, so why not give them something good to look at? It’s sort of like, if they’re going to swing by your house, why not pick up a bit first, just for appearances.

Obviously, your first concern is to wade into those Facebook privacy setting and make sure you have your ducks in a row. For all the controversy, Facebook has done a pretty good job of creating a comprehensive system of levers and layers that will help you control what anyone, even perfect strangers, can see of your profile.

So, get in there and muck about with the privacy settings. But set some things up for the random, say, hiring manager to see. And make it google searchable. The most obvious thing to start with is your info page. You know, that’s the page where you can list your schools, hobbies, musical interests, etc. Make sure all this info is up to date. Start adding previous employers and organizations. Join previous employer and organization pages if you can.

Why are you doing this? If for no other reason than it helps corroborate the work history you’re going to present on your resume.

Next, try to make public the list of your professional friends and contacts. This can be a separate ”friends list” from your main one, if you know how to do that. This mimics what you can achieve on LinkedIn. You never know if the hiring manager will look and see, “Gee, she knows Bob. I love Bob. Anyone who’s worked under Bob should be a great employee.”

Then, don’t forget about Facebook Pages. Facebook is trying very hard to become a tool that helps businesses and people brand themselves. Businesses like ours have their own Facebook pages to help build trust and community. You can do the same thing for your own personal brand. Go ahead and create a public page for yourself. You can basically literally turn it into an online resume, but a resume that is publicly searchable and backed up by the reputation burnishing of your social network.

I’ve spoken before about how you can use Facebook to help leverage your social network to find a new job.

But the above exercises are separate from that. They are about using Facebook to be your professional public face, not just your social calling card.

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This is one of the oldest questions in job-search. It’s also one of the most common questions professional resume writers get.

You’ve been out of the workforce for a period of time. How do you explain this gap in work history on your resume? After all, you can explain away anything once you get to the interview. But your resume has a big gap in dates on it, and you can’t do a footnote explaining why this has happened, can you?

The way I see it, you have two options and basically two options only:

Option A: Be Honest.

Were you out of work for health reasons? Family reasons? Were you out of work because you took time off to raise your kids? If so, the best thing you can do is be straight up honest about this. Put something in your career history that says something like this:

2007-2011 Took Time Off To Raise Children

Honesty is the best policy because we can all understand this sort of thing. In fact, it’s happened to the majority of us. Who do you know who has worked 40-years solid in their career. You have to trust the hiring manager can understand if you took some time off to recover from a major surgery or nurse an ailing parent.

What if you took time off to be a homemaker? Listen. It’s not 1972. Employers in this day and age are familiar with, and comfortable with the idea of parents of either gender taking some time off to raise the kids and then attempting to re-enter the workforce.

Some people will give you suggestions to “cute up” your resume by doing things like putting: “Domestic Executive” or something like that on your resume to explain your time as a Mr. Mom or Mrs. Dad. They want you to change things like, “Took kids to soccer practice,” into: “Itinerary and scheduling liaison.”

Don’t do it. You raised your kids. We know what it entailed. Getting too cute can sometimes come off as just that: too cute. Unprofessional.

Option B: There Is No Gap.

But what if you got laid off?

In other words, what if you have a gap in your work-history through no choice of your own? How do you explain the months (years?) for which you have no employer and job title listed?

As I’ve written before, hopefully when you get laid off, you immediately get proactive.

The job search is your job. Always be plugging away at it. But don’t sit there twiddling your thumbs when you’re not sending out resumes.

If you’ve gotten laid off, immediately begin DOING THINGS.

Think about it. If you were a professional athlete, and you got cut from the first team, would you sit around and be fallow? Or would you immediately double down in the gym, get in better shape, learn new skills or double down on old ones, all so you could show the coach that you were ready to be called up again at a moment’s notice?

Exactly. You want to show employers that you might be on the DL, but you’re still committed to this game, and you’re ready for the call up whenever it happens.

So, as soon as you get laid off or find yourself without a job:

1. Volunteer (hopefully in ways related to your career)
2. Teach (hopefully in subjects related to your career)
3. Intern
4. Mentor
5. Go back to school and learn new skills
6. Attend conferences related to your career.

All of these things can be inserted into your resume as pseudo job titles to help explain the gap, or even close it completely. At the very least, they would tell an employer you never took yourself out of the game, even though you were sidelined for a time.

Hopefully everyone reading this who is unemployed has already done this. If not? Get out there. It’s not too late.

And if you still can’t creatively explain a gap in your resume, well… I can’t think of a better reason to hire a professional resume service.

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Are you currently employed but are thinking about applying for a position that just opened up in your company? Well, it’s great that you are already employed while looking for work. Even better, you’re applying with a company that you already know and understand because you’re a part of the organizational structure.

But wait a sec; don’t get too comfortable. Just as there are some benefits to applying within, there could be a few downsides as well. One big one is that many employees become too comfortable with the application process because they may already know the hiring manager or just feel their status will make them a shoe in.

This isn’t always true, however, which is why it’s important to take writing your resume as seriously as possible. Here are some tips to consider that could help you make the most of your resume when applying with a current employer.

Use Human Resources to Get Inside Info on the Position

It’s likely that the job you’re interested in applying for has either been posted on a bulletin board in your building, or has been listed on your employer’s intranet site. This should offer great information to help you determine just what your company is looking for in this position.

But because you’re already an employee, it doesn’t hurt to take a stroll down to the human resources office to learn more about the position. You may even be able to find out who the hiring manager is so that you can speak directly with that person about the job. This extra information could help you add specifics to your resume that will allow you to more closely align your skills and accomplishments with the needs of the job.

Take Your Resume Seriously

When creating your resume, you want to take it as seriously as you would any resume that you send out to a company. You want to make sure to add all of the important elements (career highlights, job history, educational background, major accomplishments and awards and standout skills). In other words, don’t treat your resume like it’s an unimportant document just because you already have the inside track.

In addition, you could ask for help from your co-workers when writing out what you do in your current position. You’d be surprised by what your co-workers might remember that you don’t – or even how positively they view you as an employee. Getting their input could help to enrich your resume and give it the depth you need to show you’re the right person for the new job.

Have Current Company Leaders Add Testimonials

In addition to the standard sections of your resume, another component to consider adding is the testimonial section. These short quotes give hiring managers insight into how others view you as an employer. By getting testimonials from influential leaders in your company, the hiring manager will likely be impressed with who you know and how they value you as worker.

Writing a resume for a current employer should be easy to do if you strategize, take the process seriously and gather input from co-workers and leaders in the company who value your work. So show how important you feel this position is to you by working your hardest to create a resume everyone will admire.

This is a guest post. About the author, Heather Eagar:

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An economy in the ditch is tough on all job seekers, but particularly so on new college graduates. New grads likely went into their 2-4 year programs on the wings of an expanding economy. Most are now falling fast as the economy has retrenched and jobs hard to come by for those with little to no practical experience in their chosen fields. But there are jobs out there, albeit few. And they will go to somebody. To make sure you’re one of those somebodies, begin by making your new graduate resume the best it can be.

5 Things To Get Right on the New Graduate Resume

1) Choose Targeted Over General Resume. The days are gone when the new grad can write a ‘one-size-fits-all’ resume with a general objective statement, a bunch of overused resume cliches and a chorus line of part-time jobs, each given equal weight whether relevant or not. A job search in this environment demands a targeted approach. Every resume you submit to a job opening needs to be targeted to that position; your objective (if you have one) should mention that position by name, and every ingredient in your profile section needs to drive home the point that you are the right person for that job. Even the details under your education and experience sections should be adjusted to reflect maximum compatibility with the targeted job.

And yes, that process should be repeated for each job you apply. More work? You bet. Welcome to a recessionary economy.

2) Include an Objective Statement and a Profile Section. Yes, I know. Resume objective statements have taken a beating over the past few years, and many career counselors advise against including one on the resume. As a bit of a contrarian, I believe they should remain an option, and especially on a new graduate resume. Why? It gives the resume an immediate focus, and – if phrased correctly – the opportunity to directly address the specific qualifications of the job in question (e.g. Entry-level position in Retail Merchandising requiring a valued team player with a strong fashion sense and a relevant academic background.)

Your profile (or summary) is located either in place of, or directly beneath the objective. Your profile is a brief section (two or three lines, maybe three bulleted achievements beneath those lines) giving you the opportunity to highlight the skills and training that best qualify you for the position at hand. Note that this section might change slightly with each new targeted resume, as you subtly adjust your skill set to match each job’s qualifications.

3) Highlight Your Education. For most new graduates, their education is their calling card. Situate the education section directly beneath the profile. That is, unless you’ve held at least one full-time job for a year or more, and that job is particularly relevant to your objective. In that case, place the experience section above education in the lineup, as you will want to emphasize and elaborate on that job.

4) When To Use GPA. Mention your overall grade point average if it’s 3.5 or higher. Indeed, emphasize that fact on your resume. On the other hand, if your GPA is not so good, especially anything less than 3.0, leave it off the resume entirely. Mention your major GPA if it’s 3.5 or more, or higher than your overall.

5) Courses and Activities. List individual college courses, campus activities and such in indirect proportion to the strength of your experience section. In other words, if your experience is lacking big time, elaborate on specific courses completed, campus activities, club memberships, offices held, etc. Conversely, downplay most or all, and leave some off entirely, if you’ve held one or more jobs that add heft to your objective. And if you’re totally dependent on a list of course work to fill up space on what would otherwise be a desert moonscape of a resume, try to show how the knowledge acquired from these courses transition to your stated objective, and the needs of the employer.

New Grad – Some Things In Your Favor

As a new graduate, you have some things going for you. You have a good academic foundation in your selected profession, you’ve demonstrated the fact that you’re trainable, and odds are you’re more technologically savvy than members of the previous generation. And you’ve got a fresh perspective and a can-do attitude (in other words, you haven’t yet been crushed under the jackboot of cynicism and apathy).

Make sure your resume looks equally good, and get yourself out there.

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