4 Ways To Give Hiring Managers What They Want In Resumes

Jessica Holbrook Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast

One of the biggest mysteries of resume writing is trying to decode the minds of hiring managers.  How in the world can we possibly know what they want when each person is different?  The truth is, each hiring manager may look for something slightly different, but on the whole, they hope to find blanket basics in all resumes.  Take a look at four ways that can help you to get that much closer to giving most hiring mangers what they want in your resume: Continue Reading

Interview Questions to Help You Hire Winners

According to John Featherstone, author of Start Hiring Winners, a lot of hiring managers commit the same fatal mistake during interviews – they just don’t know when to stop talking. If you’re relying on your “gut feelings” about a candidate and allowing them to sit back and listen to your rambling line of questioning, you’re simply not learning anything about the candidate’s skills and potential value to your company.

“Seldom does one learn anything while talking,” Featherstone says. “The purpose of the interview is to gather job-related facts. This requires that the candidate talk about 80 percent of the time.”

Featherstone believes the key to finding the best people to hire lies in intensive questioning that covers various areas of assessment. Here are a few of his top questions and areas to consider: Continue Reading

4 Ways to Spot a Recruiting Scam

For the unemployed, job scams are like a kick in the shins when you’re already down. Unfortunately, with thousands of resumes posted on job boards, chances are that scammers will get a hold of your information from time to time. It’s bound to happen — but don’t let it get you down.

At one time or another, every unemployed job seeker will suffer from that terribly disappointing feeling of their heart dropping when they realize that the opportunity of lifetime is too good to be true. Continue Reading

4 Ways to Make Resume Writing a Fulfilling Process

When writing resumes during the job seeking process, does it sometimes feel like you’ve become a robot of sorts?  Like you’re simply writing the same resume over and over again without any real meaning behind it?

It’s very possible that you could develop a disconnect of sorts between the writing process and the actual meaning behind it if you write and send resumes all day long.  So how can you make the resume process as meaningful as it may have been when you first began your job search?  Consider the following tips … Continue Reading

Give Yourself an AMAZING Cover Letter for the Holidays

Do you look forward to the holidays––and dread them at the same time? November and December often blur together as we move from Thanksgiving to the December Holidays. And the next thing you know it’s time to celebrate the next twelve months on New Year’s Eve!

If this sounds familiar, you, like many people, may be caught in a holi-daze. Cooking, shopping, entertaining, cleaning, and organizing take over. If you’re in the market for a new job you may be tempted to put off writing that cover letter till all the celebrations are over. Continue Reading

Job Search Advice: How Twitter Hashtags Can Help You Find a Position

Everyone probably remembers the first time they heard about Twitter and about how young people were throwing around their one-liners about sitting on the porch, walking to the mailbox, walking back to the porch, sitting down …well, you get the picture.  But since that time, Twitter has evolved into an amazing resource for companies seeking customers—and even job seekers looking for work.

One reason that seekers have had success landing jobs through Twitter is because of the use of hashtags, which function as mini search tools.  They help others find you and your comments based on your use of the number sign (#) followed by specific words (e.g., #lookingforwork).  Let’s take a closer look at how they could help you find a position. Continue Reading

Hiring Great People is Especially Important During a Recession

It’s always important to hire the best possible people for the jobs being offered. The hiring process is expensive and time consuming. Because funds are low during a recession, companies are less able to absorb the expense of having to replace poorly chosen employees.
Author/speaker, Bob Beck, explained the importance of hiring great people this way: “In a down economy, there is less room for error. Many organizations have tight budgets and every person they bring in has to make a measurable and consistent contribution,” he said.
“In a ‘down economy,’”said Dwain Celistan, managing director of Gundersen Partners, LLC, “employers will typically have fewer resources – human and capital. Each employee will have broader responsibility. Since each employee is more important under the current environment,” Celistan concluded, “there is less room for error.”

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