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TweetShareHere’s a different philosophical take. From the make lemons from lemonade department… A bad job market might mean you’re not going to get your dream job for a while. But maybe you should take this time as an opportunity to figure out where you want to see yourself when the bad times end. The storm [...]

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TweetShareYou’ve no doubt heard the old saw that your resume only has “X number of seconds” to catch a reader’s eye. Part of the problem is, most people just use the same dull resume templates found in Word… or whatever your word processing program is. A well-designed resume is eye-catching and professional-looking. You’ll know at [...]

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TweetShareI’m not a big fan of motivational posts. I much prefer to give you tangible tips and hacks, so this is probably as close as I’m going to get to this sort of thing.But the proper job search attitude is important, and I’ll tell you why. You can’t land the sort of job you deserve [...]

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TweetShare…Or, how to find a job when no one’s hiring. This was one of the early posts I wrote for this blog. As I say, not to praise my own powers of prediction, but we were seeing in ResumeWriters.com sales numbers that things were getting tough out there as much as a year ago. I [...]

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TweetShareHappy Anniversary to TheJobBored! One year ago today I wrote the first posts for this blog. It’s been a fun year. More than 400 posts and hundreds of thousands of readers! Not bad for a little side project. As you might know, the story of this blog is as follows: about a year ago, the [...]

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TweetShareYes. The end. Sometimes my job search tips seem obvious. Sometimes the tips are so simple, you would think everyone would say, well, duh. But this tip comes from an encounter with a client I had this morning which drove home yet again the idea that no tip is too simple. There’s always someone out [...]

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TweetShareIf you had asked me recently to name the part of the resume that people look at the least, I would certainly have said the education section. (This is assuming we’re talking about the resume of a professional who has been in the workforce for a while. For a recent grad, the education can be [...]

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TweetShareHave spent the last few days at the Career Directors International conference here in (actually) Sunny Seattle. Yes, career professionals have their conferences too. I’ve had a great time and gotten a lot of great insights from the assembled career and HR pros. The next half dozen or so posts will probably come from ideas [...]

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TweetShareAs I promised last week, it’s time to take a step back and assess where we’re at. You may have noticed that things have been crazy and scary in our economy recently. The good news is that hopefully Hank, over there to the right, might finally have landed on a mixture of fixes that will [...]

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TweetShareThis week has been a crazy one. The last two weeks, actually. The clients we’re seeing come to ResumeWriters are displaying a level of angst and desperation I haven’t seen in a long time. I’m planning a series of posts addressing this desperation, but still… what sort of advice can I offer if you’re desperately [...]

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