by Diana Foster | 12 Dec, 2018 | Job Search, Personal Branding, Resume
The “look” of your résumé bears alot of weight When a well-designed and attractive-looking résumé crosses my desk, I notice it right away and tend to read it from start to finish. Alternatively, when I’m faced with the typical boring and generic résumé...
by Diana Foster | 14 Nov, 2018 | Career Change, Interviewing, Job Search, Resume
Nowadays, employers tend to ask more behavioural and situational questions (rather than the standard traditional ones) which force the candidate to think quickly to come up with satisfactory answers. Both behavioural and situational questions are strategically...
by Diana Foster | 7 Nov, 2018 | Career Change, Job Search, Resume
One of the best ways to turn your résumé from a generic, laundry list of tasks into an effective interview magnet is to apply the quantification approach. This means quantifying your contributions as much as you can throughout the document. By including quantifiers,...
by Diana Foster | 10 Oct, 2018 | Career Change, Job Search, Resume
What’s your résumé really costing your job search? Losing out on a job opportunity because your résumé wasn’t strong enough to get you the interview is like flushing a paycheck down the drain. If the job paid $40K, then you potentially lost $40K. Now, if...
by Diana Foster | 3 Oct, 2018 | Career Change, Job Search, Resume
Forget the task-oriented résumé I’ve talked a lot about why it’s so important to create an accomplishment-based résumé rather than just listing a bunch of duties and responsibilities which say nothing about how your efforts benefited key stakeholders in a meaningful...
by Diana Foster | 27 Sep, 2018 | Career Change, Job Search, Resume
It’s all about the top 1/3 Recruiters, Hiring Managers, and HR professionals have very short attention spans and don’t spend a lot of time reading the résumé. This is why it’s more important than ever to have a résumé that grabs their attention in only a few...
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