Smart Resume Writing Ideas Welcome to the Competitive World Did you know that of any given 200 résumés, only 10 are error-free? Would you believe that only five of these are clearly written with a focused message? And it is these five résumés that get called for interviews – which is the top 2.5%. Interestingly, …
Resume Writing Tips That Set You Apart A colleague of mine once said to me: “Anyone can write a good resume. What’s the big deal?” I answered: “The big deal is that not everyone–including native speakers–can write a great resume.” In a previous blog post, A CV or Resume Writing Checklist, I shared 10 resume …
Do you Want to Get a Tech Job? To get a tech job at a major company, such as Google, Apple or Microsoft, you need technical knowledge and skills, a certain amount of experience, talent and a lot of luck. There is one more thing you absolutely need to get a tech job – an …
You Need to Take A Hiring Perspective By Liam Hickey, Guest Contributor Last time in Resume Bullets: Factual Bragging, we talked about writing effective resume bullets. Now, we’re going to expand on the part about how to think like a manager. The way we think affects everything we do … and the results we get. …
Are Resume Bullets Really Important? By Liam Hickey, Guest Contributor Resumes. That’s what you want to read about, because it helps to get a good job, but your resume is missing something. You want to find that missing piece that will transform your resume into one that gets the interviews you want. So today, I …
A Rejected CV Can Be Very Stressful This post on overcoming a rejected CV is the seventh of a series of blog posts on how to get hired, aimed at non-native speakers of English looking for a job. So far I’ve shared a lot of information with you in this series. Some of the things …
