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Two years ago while applying for jobs, I spent hours worrying about my resume. Is the wording okay? Do I love the design? Thinking about how to improve my resume kept me up at night because I knew that document was my chance to get noticed for an open position. Recently, as I began my [...]

I was reading an article the other evening over at Huffington Post, Welcome to the Club: What only Moms know (Why was I reading this I hear some of my dude HR guy pros asking themselves? Let’s face it I’m 40ish and woman are still mostly a mystery to me, so I try and find [...]

As an employee, you know how hard you work each day. Only you know the dedication and professionalism you bring to a job. In fact, you may even be thinking about asking your boss for a raise. If you are, then you should know that sometimes are better than others for asking for a raise. [...]

If your boss was asked to describe your work ethic with one word, what do you think he or she would say? If the answer was “decent,” “adequate,” or simply “good,” – you may have a bigger problem at hand. Being simply there and doing what you’re told at work is no longer sufficient for [...]

Years ago there was a very popular Isuzu commercial that poked great fun at our perception of car salesmen. It started with a very slick looking actor who announces, “The Isuzu Impulse- it’s faster than a speeding bullet!” Below him on the screen letters appear spelling out the phrase, “He’s lying!” A few seconds later [...]

Ed. Note: The last time we heard from journalist, social media strategist, and MJD friend Alexis Grant, she was telling people how to turn their traveling dreams into reality without hurting their careers. Here’s another post of hers, this one about getting lucky, or rather, making your own luck while you’re searching for a job. [...]

Despite LinkedIn, Facebook and other new job hunting forums, at some point in the application process you’ll be asked for a resume or CV (Curriculum Vitae: a summary of your academic and professional history). A good resume can still help you get that all-important interview for an open position. There are many excellent Internet articles [...]

Twitter is like a window into the soul of America. It shows us faster and more accurately what is on our collective minds than any other medium currently in use. So it was only a matter of time, in a bad economy and a worse job market, that Twitter would be flooded with both job [...]

(MoneyWatch) The world is full of people trying to tweet, like and link their way to prosperity. Years from now, we’ll all look back at how much time everyone wasted trying to get ahead with social media and think, that was a real “fools rush in” moment. In case you don’t get the reference, it [...]

Okay. We get it. Employers, you need Applicant Tracking Systems because you are overwhelmed by the resumes that are coming in. That’s partially because this economy is so bad that desperate jobseekers are submitting their resumes everywhere, without consideration for whether they are qualified for the job at hand. ATSes serve a lot of fantastic [...]