All Entries Tagged With: "Resumes"
Help Wanted: Need Memorable Email for Job Search
What email address is right for my job search? JuliePower589@gmail.com didn’t sound memorable enough for my newly-updated resume or job application. I’ve seen folks use email addresses and handles like fabcookandmotherroftwins@gmail.com and SexyLongLegs@Hotmail.com for job applications or on LinkedIn, but call me old fashioned, but it doesn’t seem professional enough to me … If I [...]
Need Some Quick Resume Feedback? Grade It.
Everyone has gone through it. You’ve written…and rewritten…and yet again rewritten your resume. You’ve read our tips on resume writing. You’ve added action verbs, spell checked and grammar checked, but you need some quick feedback. Here’s where RezScore can help. RezScore is a recently launched service that scores your resume based on brevity, impact and [...]
15 Ways To Find a Job Using Twitter
You can’t afford to skip Twitter if you are a job seeker. These days, the social media network acts as a mega job aggregator, bringing together thousands of recruiters, job sites and job hunters. Twitter can fast-track a job search if you’re a mom returning to work after a gap at home, a SAHM who [...]
6 Ways To Network Yourself Back To Work
Networking may be the best way for a mom looking to return to work to find a job in “today’s faceless, virtual world,” says Maribeth Kuzmeski, author of The Connectors: How the World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life. The trick is taking these encounters to the next level. Many moms [...]
How Did You Describe Any Gap In Your Resume?
How did you describe the gap in your resume when you stayed home to look after children? Did you use a term like “domestic engineer” in your resume when you were job hunting? Or did you leave it blank? Read HR exec Kristen Clark’s advice: she left a gap that she later regretted. She’s even [...]
Polish, Polish, Polish Your Resume
Before screaming, “My resume sucks,” and throwing dollars at a resume service, read this … Guest blogger and HR expert Nancy Anderson of Blackbird Learning Associates, the author of Job Search for Moms, gives working moms and mothers returning to work these tips on how to polish a resume and assess a resume service … [...]
No, God Can Not Be Your Reference And Other Resume No-Nos
Yes, including God as a reference was one of the most memorable mistakes in a resume seen by HR execs, according to CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,500 employers this year. If you do decide to include God, please include an email, Twitter handle or at least a direct line to the heavens. The long [...]
Resume: SAHM Returning To Work After a Gap
When Kristen Clark, an HR professional, returned to work after the birth of her first child, a daughter now four, she didn’t mention the gap in her resume when she’d been at home. In retrospect, she thinks that was a mistake. “I used to have an empty space on my resume, which I would openly explain during [...]
Applying For a Job? Try To Get In Within 24 Hours
MomstoWork’s career coach Aunt Jobby got this question: Dear Aunt Jobby How quickly should I apply for jobs? It often takes me a week or so to redraft my resume, cover letter and get the supporting documents together. Is that too slow? Gimme a break, I am a working mom with too many kids … [...]
Turn a Clunker Resume And Cover Letter Into a Shiny Job Search Vehicle
Should a mom going back to work or changing jobs spend as much time fine-tuning and rewriting a resume to suit the job’s qualifications as writing the cover letter? Yes, says Melanie Chin, a recruiting director with Trilogy Technical Services. “One of the most important elements to job hunting is making sure that your resume and [...]
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