Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn were originally meant to serve as places where people could meet, become friends and share their interests and aspirations, but in more recent years they have become places to find out where the jobs are and how to obtain them—and LinkedIn is particularly useful for that purpose. Social media, in short, has become a new way for job…

The number one purpose of a resume is to enumerate the skills of a job candidate for the person who might wish to hire him or her. If it does not serve that end, it fails completely as a resume. And one of the most valuable skills that a candidate can offer an employer is language…