10 Tips for Job Seekers from an Employer (CEO)

10 Tips for Job Seekers from an Employer (CEO) I got an email about a blog post asking if Id check it out and perhaps blog about it.  I rarely do that (I get these requests all the time, and most blog posts are superficial or weak just marketing plays). I glanced through the post, though, and thought there was some good stuff UNTIL THE END. OH MY GOSH, the ignorance in this country kills me (I declined the invite to blog about this saying I would write a scathing post, but he said that was okay, they want conversation.  So, converse in the comments :)).  And it really, really hurts everyone.  Here are his 10 points, Im only going to comment on the last one (original post here): Don’t name your resume, “resume.” I agree name it something easy for them to find I think your name and maybe the job title is a good place to start. don’t use all lowercase. Agreed perhaps we are losing a lot of our writing skills because of our kewl ability to text? Don’t write like a robot. Again, poor communication skillz :p Don’t spam hiring managers. Agreed. The hard part of this, though, is when do you follow-up? Don’t expose your licentious personal life. Totally. Hes talking about not putting Too Much Information (TMI) on Facebook. Don’t talk badly about your former employer. Agreed read the post about not letting HR or a hiring manager smell blood. Proofread your resume. Totally AND know whats on it. (have you heard *that* story?) Format your resume nicely. I have seen some really, really bad formats :/ PDF your resume. Okay.  Mac user :p When you get a job, don’t job hop. and here we go Don says: When you get a job, try your very best to stay at it for at least two years, preferably more. We understand that the job market is fluid and you are not likely to stay with us long enough to get the gold watch. However, we do want to get a couple years of productivity from you if we’re going to invest in training and mentoring. Man oh man all the stuff I want to write I meet with thousands and thousands of job seekers each year.  Imagine what Id hear if I said that? Ive met so many professionals who have good work ethic, are highly talented, and are anxious to have a job for at least two years. You think these professionals want to be on the street looking for a job?  You think they are job hopping, just because you see frequent jobs on their resume, and short-term gigs? I recently heard the average tenure of a CFO is 18 months.  NOT BY CHOICE, I bet!  Aside from being the traditional (circa 1980s) job hopper, perhaps here are some reasons why there are frequent transitions on a resume: Bait-and-switch. I regularly hear from someone who takes a job and then finds that it was nothing like what they advertised.  Dont give someone a title and description, hire them, and then have them do something entirely different. Ethics of the management team. Think: Enron.  How many tens of thousands of ethical professionals lost everything because of a few unethical people in power?  It happens daily, even at small, private companies. Very poor cultural fit. Imagine you get a job that was made for you.  You go to work and find out no one has and moral standards (assuming you do or, if you dont, imagine (ugh) everyone does).  The cultural fit will be painful and youll want to leave as much as theyll want you to leave. Change in pay. You get a job for a certain salary and then within four to six months your pay is slashed not because of you, or your work, but for business reasons.  Your options are to move to another department (sales, anyone?) or go look for another job.  Ive heard of people getting a $20k cut and others getting more than $50k cut.  You think they signed up for that? ______________. There are many, many reasons why someone loses a job.  What am I missing? I think it is irresponsible to assume that frequent changes on a resume mean you are getting an unloyal, job-hopping waste-of-money.  Especially in todays economy. The only thing that can fix this thinking, unfortunately, is for people who believe this to go through their own job searches and see what its like out there. 10 Tips for Job Seekers from an Employer (CEO) I got an email about a blog post asking if Id check it out and perhaps blog about it.  I rarely do that (I get these requests all the time, and most blog posts are superficial or weak just marketing plays). I glanced through the post, though, and thought there was some good stuff UNTIL THE END. OH MY GOSH, the ignorance in this country kills me (I declined the invite to blog about this saying I would write a scathing post, but he said that was okay, they want conversation.  So, converse in the comments :)).  And it really, really hurts everyone.  Here are his 10 points, Im only going to comment on the last one (original post here): Don’t name your resume, “resume.” I agree name it something easy for them to find I think your name and maybe the job title is a good place to start. don’t use all lowercase. Agreed perhaps we are losing a lot of our writing skills because of our kewl ability to text? Don’t write like a robot. Again, poor communication skillz :p Don’t spam hiring managers. Agreed. The hard part of this, though, is when do you follow-up? Don’t expose your licentious personal life. Totally. Hes talking about not putting Too Much Information (TMI) on Facebook. Don’t talk badly about your former employer. Agreed read the post about not letting HR or a hiring manager smell blood. Proofread your resume. Totally AND know whats on it. (have you heard *that* story?) Format your resume nicely. I have seen some really, really bad formats :/ PDF your resume. Okay.  Mac user :p When you get a job, don’t job hop. and here we go Don says: When you get a job, try your very best to stay at it for at least two years, preferably more. We understand that the job market is fluid and you are not likely to stay with us long enough to get the gold watch. However, we do want to get a couple years of productivity from you if we’re going to invest in training and mentoring. Man oh man all the stuff I want to write I meet with thousands and thousands of job seekers each year.  Imagine what Id hear if I said that? Ive met so many professionals who have good work ethic, are highly talented, and are anxious to have a job for at least two years. You think these professionals want to be on the street looking for a job?  You think they are job hopping, just because you see frequent jobs on their resume, and short-term gigs? I recently heard the average tenure of a CFO is 18 months.  NOT BY CHOICE, I bet!  Aside from being the traditional (circa 1980s) job hopper, perhaps here are some reasons why there are frequent transitions on a resume: Bait-and-switch. I regularly hear from someone who takes a job and then finds that it was nothing like what they advertised.  Dont give someone a title and description, hire them, and then have them do something entirely different. Ethics of the management team. Think: Enron.  How many tens of thousands of ethical professionals lost everything because of a few unethical people in power?  It happens daily, even at small, private companies. Very poor cultural fit. Imagine you get a job that was made for you.  You go to work and find out no one has and moral standards (assuming you do or, if you dont, imagine (ugh) everyone does).  The cultural fit will be painful and youll want to leave as much as theyll want you to leave. Change in pay. You get a job for a certain salary and then within four to six months your pay is slashed not because of you, or your work, but for business reasons.  Your options are to move to another department (sales, anyone?) or go look for another job.  Ive heard of people getting a $20k cut and others getting more than $50k cut.  You think they signed up for that? ______________. There are many, many reasons why someone loses a job.  What am I missing? I think it is irresponsible to assume that frequent changes on a resume mean you are getting an unloyal, job-hopping waste-of-money.  Especially in todays economy. The only thing that can fix this thinking, unfortunately, is for people who believe this to go through their own job searches and see what its like out there. 10 Tips for Job Seekers from an Employer (CEO) I got an email about a blog post asking if Id check it out and perhaps blog about it.  I rarely do that (I get these requests all the time, and most blog posts are superficial or weak just marketing plays). I glanced through the post, though, and thought there was some good stuff UNTIL THE END. OH MY GOSH, the ignorance in this country kills me (I declined the invite to blog about this saying I would write a scathing post, but he said that was okay, they want conversation.  So, converse in the comments :)).  And it really, really hurts everyone.  Here are his 10 points, Im only going to comment on the last one (original post here): Don’t name your resume, “resume.” I agree name it something easy for them to find I think your name and maybe the job title is a good place to start. don’t use all lowercase. Agreed perhaps we are losing a lot of our writing skills because of our kewl ability to text? Don’t write like a robot. Again, poor communication skillz :p Don’t spam hiring managers. Agreed. The hard part of this, though, is when do you follow-up? Don’t expose your licentious personal life. Totally. Hes talking about not putting Too Much Information (TMI) on Facebook. Don’t talk badly about your former employer. Agreed read the post about not letting HR or a hiring manager smell blood. Proofread your resume. Totally AND know whats on it. (have you heard *that* story?) Format your resume nicely. I have seen some really, really bad formats :/ PDF your resume. Okay.  Mac user :p When you get a job, don’t job hop. and here we go Don says: When you get a job, try your very best to stay at it for at least two years, preferably more. We understand that the job market is fluid and you are not likely to stay with us long enough to get the gold watch. However, we do want to get a couple years of productivity from you if we’re going to invest in training and mentoring. Man oh man all the stuff I want to write I meet with thousands and thousands of job seekers each year.  Imagine what Id hear if I said that? Ive met so many professionals who have good work ethic, are highly talented, and are anxious to have a job for at least two years. You think these professionals want to be on the street looking for a job?  You think they are job hopping, just because you see frequent jobs on their resume, and short-term gigs? I recently heard the average tenure of a CFO is 18 months.  NOT BY CHOICE, I bet!  Aside from being the traditional (circa 1980s) job hopper, perhaps here are some reasons why there are frequent transitions on a resume: Bait-and-switch. I regularly hear from someone who takes a job and then finds that it was nothing like what they advertised.  Dont give someone a title and description, hire them, and then have them do something entirely different. Ethics of the management team. Think: Enron.  How many tens of thousands of ethical professionals lost everything because of a few unethical people in power?  It happens daily, even at small, private companies. Very poor cultural fit. Imagine you get a job that was made for you.  You go to work and find out no one has and moral standards (assuming you do or, if you dont, imagine (ugh) everyone does).  The cultural fit will be painful and youll want to leave as much as theyll want you to leave. Change in pay. You get a job for a certain salary and then within four to six months your pay is slashed not because of you, or your work, but for business reasons.  Your options are to move to another department (sales, anyone?) or go look for another job.  Ive heard of people getting a $20k cut and others getting more than $50k cut.  You think they signed up for that? ______________. There are many, many reasons why someone loses a job.  What am I missing? I think it is irresponsible to assume that frequent changes on a resume mean you are getting an unloyal, job-hopping waste-of-money.  Especially in todays economy. The only thing that can fix this thinking, unfortunately, is for people who believe this to go through their own job searches and see what its like out there.

How To Job Search Like A Pro, With No Work Experience - Career Geek

How To Job Search Like A Pro, With No Work Experience - Career Geek Sponsored Post by Jobs In Manchester About to start on your job search or are you already looking for a job, but getting nowhere? Work experience is key and if you are lacking that, people have told you thats the end of your job search? Well, it doesnt have to be. I will tell you how to job search like a pro with no work experience. Firstly, work experience is important. If you have a chance to do work experience i.e., if you are at university or planning to take a year out, do so. If you have graduated or are a young job seeker, then lets move on from the fact that you do not have work experience. So, how do you job search without work experience? Here are 5 steps to help you prepare well and polish up your personal brand to offer a high value to employers. 1. Re-write Your Resume. You Are Still A Professional Not having work experience does not mean you are less of a professional. Its not like you will turn up for an interview in shorts if you do not have work experience, right? Then why treat your resume like that? I often hear jobseekers complain their resume is not good as they dont have experience. Experience is one part of the resume, but you are looking for a job and a lot of the information on your resume could help the recruiter make a decision. Get your resume out, or start writing one with our free  resume template. Put your academic achievements on top. If you have been part of a society or group, then show that and write a line or two about what you added to it or gained from that experience. Treat your resume as seriously as possible in your job search. If you write your resume well and make sure you do not make these basic mistakes, you will have started off well. 2. Create a LinkedIn Profile Job Search Like A Pro If youre still thinking that LinkedIn is only for those that already have jobs, think again. LinkedIn is a professional network with recruiters constantly looking for job seekers on it. In the end, it is a searchable database and not being on it means youre seriously missing out. By being on LinkedIn you are showing an online resume and character for yourself. You can get started on LinkedIn with these 7 steps. It is really very easy and you instantly put yourself into a marketplace for professionals. And no, the entry isnt only for those that have work experience. LinkedIn even caters to students in high school, so its not about work experience its about looking professional and thinking about your career. 3. Understand Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) Huh, what is this? This is what your chances of getting a job really depend on in a lot of the cases. Some employers get up to 100 applications for each vacancy. Now, if there are 10 vacancies, we are talking about 1000 applications. When you apply online the system (a.k.a. recruiting robots) sifts through all applications and ranks them against each other (before it reaches the human recruiter). If you use the right keywords and description, the system will care less about your experience and rank you well. Its not that easy, but you can find more detailed information on applicant tracking systems on Career Geek Blog. But not knowing that such systems exist makes your job search difficult. You couldve worked for Goldman Sachs it doesnt matter if you dont use the right words. At the same time if you know the job description well and apply the keywords in the job description attentively, knowing about such systems could help you fare well. 4. 70-30 Rule On Job Sites-Social Media You will read and hear a lot about how to job search on social media. That is all correct and true, but lets be realistic. Unless your Twitter bio reads Director of Communication or Founder of, it is highly unlikely that you will be scooped up by a company. So spend 70% of your job search time on job sites and 30% on social media. Social media job hunting is good for those that have a job and are just looking for something more. If you dont have a job yet and getting into the job search with no work experience, your first stop should be traditional job sites. And in almost 99% of the cases you pay nothing to be on a job site upload your CV and start applying  for jobs, simple as that. 5.  If You Like Doing Something, Do It More No, I am not being philosophical. If there is something you like doing, then do it more in your job search (of course, as long as its legal and sensible). I hear job seekers stop a lot of things in their personal life purely because they are worried about their job search and prospects. If you like cooking, knitting, writing, travelling, creating apps, doing Excel tricks, etc., keep doing it. If possible,  document it on a blog. This way you are building a portfolio and showing that given a chance you can manage well and keep things organised. Doing things you love keeps you engaged in doing something and takes your mind away from job search stress. I wont say its not there, but you need not have to lose your life over it. Thats it really. These 5 steps show how to job search like a pro without work experience. And as I learnt from a recent LinkedIn article, Content Matters (on a resume) But Character Matters More. Be nice and be confident. Good luck! This post is sponsored by    Jobs in  Manchester  and created by Career Geek. photo credit: miguelavg via photopin cc 48

Is Your Company Growth-Ready or a Self-Complacent Giant

Is Your Company Growth-Ready or a Self-Complacent Giant Managing company growth can be a cumbersome task for companies as it involves more than one aspect. Businesses have a century old tendency of becoming big, fat and dumb during their boom time. This self-contentment can lead to huge risks for a business as it needs a constant push and struggle to keep the organization growing. Increasing competition, escalating costs and growing focus towards establishing employee friendly workplace culture has led organizations to focus on the human component of managing growth. Needless to say it is the human capital of the organization that drives the strategic innovation, productivity, efficiency and successful achievement of goals and objectives. Never get contented with performance: As businesses have this tendency of self-complacency when things go great, they actually forget to pay attention to employee retention issues. Many organizations face troubles like inefficient operations management and plummeted margins due to loss of key corporate personnel. Thus, it is highly advised to make employee retention a strategic priority and to keep that going, it is necessary to make them feel that they are being noticed and are valued. Business owners must not content themselves with the blooming business and look out for finding more opportunities for their workforce. Are you doing enough to be the best career point for your employees? If not, then do it now!! But….. how to do it??? Here are a few fundamental tips: Track the go-getters: Keep track of every employee’s performance and make a list of the high impact performers whom you cannot afford to lose. These are your key assets and you must focus on keeping these performers occupied with right opportunities. Re-check  compensations: Ensure that your workforce is not underpaid and you offer the best compensations as per your industry standards. This doesn’t mean you need to pay highest salaries, but they must be satisfactory so as to retain your top performing workforce. Keep talking: Proper communication can surpass any barrier! All you need for a contended workforce is effective communication with the employees. It is not always possible for your HR teams and other senior professionals to have open communication with every employee, but at the minimum what companies can ensure is that that line managers and supervisors are reviewing their sub-ordinate’s performance and maintaining effective communication as a regular practice. Delight them with challenges: Top performing employees always look forward to help companies deal with difficult challenges and become valued contributors. Offer them the work that is more meaningful and challenging. They will love to do it. This will enhance the employee-employer relationship as well! Respect private space: Work/life balance has become one of the major benefits that employees demand for. As a great employer, try to respect the personal space of your employees and offer them proper opportunities to have a life out of the office. You can do that by offering them flexible work time, work from home options, sponsoring dinners and employee outings or simply just by upgrading the office cafeteria. Train your dragons: Top management executives of any organization are the main warriors and you must train them to focus on finding more growth opportunities for organization as well as for the human capital. They must know that they can never get complacent with the ongoing status and keep hunting for more. At the same time they must put in serious efforts to improve every individual’s capabilities through continuous feedback and proactive response to upcoming challenges. What they can do to achieve this is establish the PRIDE process: Positive work environment: Positive work environment can bring the efficiency of your workforce halfway. Try establishing as much positivity at the workplace as you can. Design every facility, policy, support services, etc. all according to the needs of your workforce. Review performance: Constant evaluation is the key for growth and success. Make it a regular practice to measure and evaluate every individual’s efforts towards improving performance. Keep track of employee attitudes, morale and motivation to proactively detect and identify core problem areas and establish improvement plans. Identify talent: Everyone likes to get appreciated. A simple pat on the back or just a few good words about an employee can make him feel elated and overwhelmed. This can simply make employees more motivated, engaged and dedicated towards their job roles and responsibilities. Develop  potential: Give every employee the right opportunity and space to show his/her caliber. Give them a platform to grow and enhance their capabilities and efficiency. Train them to become more competent and confident through offering them autonomy, change to share ideas, opinions and take responsibility of their decisions. Engage everyone: When a team puts efforts for the achievement of a common goal, then it is bound to outperform and excel in whatever it does. Bring that zeal and responsibility among the workforce and make every individual feel a part of your journey towards organizational goals and objectives. Keep that eagle eye: Since the article talks about preparing your human capital for achieving organizational growth, one thing that the HR department or recruiters can take care of is to keep that eagle eye during making recruitments. If you don’t have the right combination of skill set in your workforce, how can you expect them to perform extraordinarily? Make strategic hirings keeping all critical agendas in mind. To conclude, organizations in order to build them for momentous growth and success, must not get complacent with their monetary glory and keep struggling to get better every day. For this you must take care of their human capital management with a special focus on retention strategies. Plan your approach to make employees contented with you as an employer, strategically make hiring decisions and keep senior management on the toes. This is all what you need to be a stringent winner never losing the space for others to enter. Author: Prateek Sharma is the product owner of TeamWise , a HRMS Payroll Software aimed to enable companies to streamline and automate all their routine employee-related tasks.

3 Google Boolean Search Strings for Candidate Sourcing

3 Google Boolean Search Strings for Candidate Sourcing There are all sorts of tools that will build search strings for you (like RecruitIn or the Boolean Bar)  to help you find candidates online. In my opinion, it is really better to be able to write your own boolean search strings and not totally rely on these tools. If you can write your own strings to use with Google or Bing then they will be looking for exactly what you want to find and you will know how to edit them if they don’t give the results you expect. Sometimes it is useful to get inspiration from other people’s search strings everyone has different ideas and different ways of constructing a search. So here are three search strings that hopefully will inspire you to write some of your own and find a few names. 1. Search London marketeers on LinkedIn site:linkedIn.com/pub “marketing manager” London This string is looking for the linkedin profiles of marketing professionals in London. The results for this search include a lot of profiles that just mention London â€" ensure that you se arch uk.linkedin.com to just see UK profiles. You may also see some directory pages coming up in your results, you can get rid of these on Google using -inurl:dir Your string will then be site:uk.linkedin.com/pub “marketing manager” London â€"inurl:dir Use different job titles and industry keywords to look for the types of candidates you are interested in. Add more skill or qualification keywords to narrow your results. You might want to add more location names too â€" London for example could be expanded to (London OR Barnet OR Croydon OR Ealing OR Bromley OR Enfield OR Wandsworth OR Southwark OR Lambeth OR Redbridge OR Lewisham OR Hillingdon OR Brent OR Westminster OR Newham OR “Tower Hamlets”). Those are the largest London boroughs by population as listed on Wikipedia. Bing is very good at finding LinkedIn profiles without polluting the results with too many directory pages and the like. This means that you see better results with less need to be too exact with your Boolean skills. If you’re using long lists of place names like the one above, you might be better to use Google. Google will take 32 search terms but Bing limits search queries to 150 characters in length. 2. Search London marketing event attendees list (conference OR expo OR workshop OR seminar) (London OR UK) Marketing This string is looking for lists of people from marketing events in London. This could be lists of attendees or speakers etc. The brackets in these strings are not  strictly necessary Google totally ignores them and the strings follow Bings natural order of operations anyway. I like to use them though, if only  to keep my own thoughts organised. This string returns lots of interesting information about marketing sites, networks and events but not much in the way of rich people data. You could include people keywords like (attendee OR delegate OR member). You’ll then notice that some of the actual delegate lists in your results are pdf files. Delegate lists are often in pdf or SpreadSheet formats â€" so adding something like (filetype:pdf OR filetype:xls) to your string will probably bring back lots of rich results. Even if events aren’t marketing focused, the people on the list might have “marketing” in their job titles. To make the results relevant to you, start by changing the industry and location keywords as appropriate. You could try using a job title of interest along with a broad industry keyword. 3. Search for CVs Uploaded to Scribd site:scribd.com (CV OR Vitae) (UK OR united kingdom) This search string is looking at pages from the document hosting website Scribd. I think of Scribd as a YouTube for documents instead of videos. People upload all sort of documents like reports, magazines, presentations and even CVs. I found a lot of template and example CVs on Scribd so it helps to add -template -sample -example to your string to eliminate these. Add industry keywords or job titles to the string to see if there are any CVs of interest to you on Scribd. Google seems to get to the CVs of real people much easier than Bing does. I found that the results I got from Bing were dominated by documents from just one Scribd user. There are lots of document sites like Scribd, you could also try site searching issuu, docstoc and SlideShare. If all this Boolean is gibberish to you, why not take a look at my Search Engine Guide for Recruiters.

How to Write a Cosmetology Resume

How to Write a Cosmetology ResumeWhen you are writing a cosmetology resumes, you need to have a look at all the skills that you have as a cosmetologist. It is not necessary to list all the accomplishments you have had, but you should include every aspect of your job that you have done in the past.It would be a good idea to have one section that includes all the important details about your work experience. Most people do not like to write on a resume, because they are intimidated by it. However, if you want to use this as a way to showcase your best qualities, it is a very good idea to take the time to write out your credentials.Also, you should make sure that you have listed your favorite hobbies and work experiences on a separate sheet of paper. One of the keys to being successful at this job is to know who you are and what you enjoy doing. Be honest about your hobbies, because they can be a deciding factor in whether or not you get hired.Next, you will want to focus on the particu lar section of the resume that pertains to your skills. If you have many different types of techniques, for example, it is a good idea to indicate which types of techniques you can do. For example, if you are trained in high heels, it would be a good idea to state which types of techniques you can do, whether they include and techniques that work with heels, and other types of boots, etc.It is also a good idea to list your strengths. This is helpful because it will highlight your best qualities and show that you have many skills that are unique to you, that others may not be able to do.Lastly, you need to highlight any past employment that you may have. For example, if youwere a successful salon owner, you may want to include a little bit about how long you have been running your own business, and what you did before you owned a salon.Writing a cosmetology resumes can seem intimidating, but remember that this is an opportunity to promote yourself. So, make sure that you are doing wh at is necessary to get your name out there.A great place to get ideas for skills is to look through jobs and resume templates on the internet. You will be surprised at how many ideas you can come up with to use when you start to write a cosmetology resume.

4 Steps to Assessing Your Next Dream Job

4 Steps to Assessing Your Next Dream Job It seems that companies are still laying off employees. We arent out of the woods yet and perhaps we never will be. The reality of todays work is that it could end tomorrow, no matter how valuable you are or how secure you think your job is. New York state, as well as other states, are having a difficult time balancing their budgets which is trickling down to schools and municipal services. In my town weve lost a bunch of full time firefighters and our school district is laying off hundreds. These are the kinds of employees who have become used to feeling secure. Who would have thought they would be in the ranks of unemployed? We NEED teachers and firefighters. It just goes to show, no ones job is safe any longer. The faster you realize this, the easier it will be to start taking steps today to proactively managing your career. So what do you do if you think you will be next on the chopping block or you want to start being proactive? Determine what excites you If youve been in a job awhile, you may have forgotten why you started doing it in the first place. What is is you love doing within your role? What is it that motivates you to go to work? What types of people do you enjoy working with? What kinds of problems do you like to solve? What has been one of your most memorable accomplishments? These are not easy questions. They are absolutely the most important ones to answer first. What would your dream job look like (literally)? Before you start searching the job boards, identify your dream job. Would you go to an office? What would the office look like? What kinds of people would work there? How would your day be structured/how would you spend your time? What kinds of things would you be doing? Who would you report to? How would you like to be compensated? What kind of recognition would you want to feel good about the work you do? Answer these questions without filtering out answers that seem crazy or unrealistic. Just dump the answers on the page for now. Inventory your skills Create a list of skills you love to use and think youre good at. While you are at it, create a list of skills that you dont like. Then create a list of skills you want to develop or get better at using. If you want a good listing of occupational skills, visit this link from ONet. Talk it out Now you are ready to run this information by people you know and trust. Ask them for their advice on where these things might fit. This will allow you to create yet another list of ideas to pursue. There is no magic wand. There are tons of assessments out there, some free, some are not. Even these assessments will not be able to say You should be a Nano Technologist. This isnt an exact science. Finding a fulfilling job is as unique as you are and there is always more than one correct answer. The good thing is, no one says you have to do this job for the rest of your life. If you dont like it, guess what, you can leave! Sometimes it isnt the destination, but the journey, that enlightens!

How Common Writing Errors Can Affect Your Resume [Infographic]

How Common Writing Errors Can Affect Your Resume [Infographic] Writing the resume is one of the leading issues that a majority of fresh job seekers face. Writing resume can be a tricky task. Adding too many details to your resume can potentially hurt you, on the other hand, too few details can make your resume look unimpressive. Then there are the catastrophic grammatical or writing errors that can instantly catch the eyes of a headhunter. Employers get hundreds of resume for a single position, hence they are constantly looking for reasons to reject applicants and call a selected few for further sessions of the interview process. One of the most obvious ways for employers to filter applicants is to look for typos or grammatical errors in their resume. In written communication, one of the most common mistakes is the incorrect usage of words that sound similar but have completely different meanings. These type of words also have different spellings, such as the words affect and effect, bare or bear, and more. Such mistakes can totally change the meaning of a sentence and make you look ignorant. This infographic from  WalkerStone  elaborates on 8 common writing errors that make you look unprofessional and tips on how to avoid such mistakes. This quick read would hopefully help you in your resume writing to come across as an impressive applicant.