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TweetShareFor years people have asked me if there’s a “best” time to respond to a job ad? Should you watch the job boards like a hawk, obsessively refreshing so that you can get your resume in first? Or is there some other window of time when, statistically speaking, your resume is more likely to be [...]

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TweetShareQuite simply, the answer is: absolutely yes! I write one of these posts almost every year around this time. I don’t know why it is, but people just assume that the holidays aren’t a good time for job searching. I guess it’s human nature: you’re putting things off until the new year, so you assume [...]

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TweetShareIn many ways, I think that Google Voice is the best job search tool to become available in the last several years. How can you use Google Voice to help find a job? I have 5 great ways over at my ResumeWriting.com blog! Google Voice Is The Best New Job Search Tool In Years! (ResumeWriting.com)

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TweetShareThis 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 [...]

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TweetShareIn job interviews everywhere you’ll almost inevitably run into the same handful of questions time and time again. One of the most popular is why you left your previous position. Answering this question can be tricky: you have to be able to give a logical explanation of why you left without coming off as bitter [...]

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TweetShareDespite a wealth of great job-hunting advice, many prospective job seekers are still clinging to outdated job-hunting and resume writing guidelines that hinder their search for a job. If you’ve been sending your same old resume from 10 years ago with a “Dear Sir or Madam”, then you’ve probably learned that these methods have become [...]

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TweetShareMarketing yourself and networking is one aspect of ghost writing you can’t afford to overlook. LinkedIn needs to be a part of your marketing and networking strategy. I set up my LinkedIn profile several years ago. I’ve only revisited it twice (today being one of those days). A great article on BNET yesterday sent me [...]

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TweetShareIf you get caught conducting a job search while still working, many employers will conclude you lack loyalty and are no longer interested in the job and may terminate you on the spot. On the other hand your job search may be unsuccessful, you’ve tested the waters and there is nothing better out there so [...]

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TweetShareWe 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 [...]

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TweetShareWhen you’re anxiously awaiting your next job opportunity, sometimes it’s easy to walk the fine line between being a determined job seeker and desperate one. Of course, it’s not uncommon to feel desperate when you’re ready to get a job, but being desperate is something that should be practiced in the privacy of your home [...]

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