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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012Employment references have been one of the more volatile areas of business communication in recent years, and the situation is often frustrating for everyone involved. With the threat of lawsuits over negative references, many employers now offer nothing more than confirmation of dates of employment. On the other side of the equation, recruiters are frustrated [...]
UPenn Student Skips 4 Classes to Create This Awesome Instagram Resume
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012Alice Lee, a 20-year-old UPenn student from Cupertino, California, really wants to work for Instagram. Instagram is an iPhone app that lets you post pictures and follow people's picture streams in real time. It has been downloaded more than 15 million times. She created a website, Dear Instagram – with Love, Alice, to host her [...]
Stand Out: Five Wonderful Infographic Resumes for Inspiration
Monday, May 14th, 2012If you’re looking to stand out in the job application process (and it goes without saying that we all need to make sure we do) then short of turning up in a clown outfit and juggling fire for attention, the absolute best way to get noticed is with your resume. Thanks to the recession, many [...]
The 500 Year Evolution of the Resume (Note 2000 & Beyond)
Friday, May 4th, 2012Note the last row on the infographic that mentions a social media resume. Not a single text in the business communication market illustrates a social media resume–except in a Bovee & Thill textbook. Only Bovee & Thill gives your students a cutting-edge education on how to be successful in today's job market. Via infographiclist.com
7 Cool Resumes We Found on Pinterest
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012People make connections and share their work on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter — and with the recent explosion of Pinterest, there's a new player in the game. The visual nature of Pinterest, which allows users to create virtual boards onto which they can pin images, is perfect for showing prospective employers what you've done so [...]
Infographic Resume Samples – Sell Yourself with Illustrations
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Via blogs.office.com
Top 7 Resume Grammatical Errors – and How to Avoid Them
Thursday, April 19th, 2012Your resume is your best foot forward within a company. It’s a hiring manager’s first exposure to who you are as an employee – and if it is laden with grammatical errors – your lack of attention to detail will translate to your prospective employer as carelessness and lack of professionalism. With the piles of [...]
10 Easy Steps to Design Your Own Personal Infographic
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012Five benefits of a personal infographic: 1. A creative way to describe yourself 2. Upload it to Facebook and compare with other creative, innovative friends 3. Use it as a desktop background, or as the base of your Twitter background image 4. It’s fun, only taking a few clicks and a few minutes 5. It [...]
45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012Are you one of those job seekers who have been sending far too many resumes and been hit with far too [much] disappointment? The problem may not lie with your qualification or skills set. Employer filters tons of resumes on daily basis, only the outstanding ones get noticed. . . Via www.hongkiat.com
Don’t Use These 10 Terms in Your Resume or Cover Letter
Monday, March 26th, 2012LinkedIn just released the most overused words in its 135 million user profiles. They are: 1. Creative 2. Organizational 3. Effective 4. Extensive experience 5. Track record . . . Via www.businessinsider.com
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