Hiring managers receive many resumes for each job posting. Candidates who want to get a jump on the competition find creative ways to make their resume stand out. A creative resume can help you get noticed and increase your chances of getting an interview.



But sometimes candidates go too far with their creativity.





Making your resume stand out from the crowd can be a difficult task.



The main purpose of a resume is to help you get an…

Recruitment and selection process is nothing but the organization's ability to source employees to improve the quality of its human capital and stand in the competition. This process is carried by the human resource management of that particular organization, where they target to people to get the best quality employees for their organization. There are many advantages of recruitment process.

Most of the employers or recruiters around the world find themselves in many roles while…

In today world we expect that we need to have everything in abundance, when we hope for this, it is natural that we have to have an elaborate thinking and have to accept things in a positive way, for making this possible we have to have to cultivate abundant mentality within ourselves. A mentality that is confined and limited will take you nowhere but only to a place of frustration, ego and…

Are you new to the field of business? Wondering what would it take to run your organization? Setting up a new branch in a different city? It might be a bit difficult in finding a potential employee, especially for those companies which are new to business. Unless or until any kind of special facilities are provided there won’t be much turn out. If the company…

There are actually many ways to get the right job, it will not even take hardly a month or so to get placed in an appropriate job, but the job which you take up needs to be rewarding and it should also be able to make you get recognized for your talent. If you really want to get a job in a simple and quick way, here are some 5 ways to help you get a job:

1. The Recent trend or the…

Found this interesting infographic late last night and wanted to share it with everyone.

Credit to masters-in-human-resources.org
http://www.masters-in-human-resources.org/recruiting/

If one of your favorite songs is the old folksong "The Times, They Are A-Changin'," then you'll want to be sure to check that the resumes you send out are up to date. For, yes, the times really have changed since that tune was popular, especially with all the new technology trends popping up in the past few years.



Here are a few signs that a CV needs a serious facelift and how to update it.





The Times, They Are A-Changin'



Lots of…

Here we go… another horrible example of the type of cold call/emails some recruiters are sending.

I’ve never heard of the recruiter that sent this - who according to their LI profile, has been an agency recruiter since 2008 and has a whopping 36 connections. I don’t recall having any prior interactions with their agency and don’t know how they have my email address. What I do know is this a one of the lamest messages I’ve seen in quite a while.

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The email…

Recently I received a resume from a young lady that had just graduated with a master’s degree in Oceanography looking for a position.  She sent this to me in hopes that she would be chosen to work for the company I had a contract with.  She like so many hopefuls she applied on line and waited to hear if she was chosen or not.  She was.  She had the schooling and…

This morning Annie wrote to me pleading for simple and clear resumes/CV's. Annie is a UK-based recruiter. Annie, and thousands like her, spend a good deal of their day matching people to jobs, and to do that Annie reads resumes...... lot's of resumes....... thousands of resumes .....too many bloody resumes!…

The answer is…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about resume alive, Google interviews, good recruiting, recruitment content and mobile recruiting.

Before we get to the articles.  The Candidate Experience Awards are accepting applications for this year’s awards and…

Dear Resume Writer

I have a new product to add to your list of resume styles and formats

I have developed an interactive online resume.

Please find attached an example http://cmecv.com.au/?public=doc_1367796299488

This resume looks and prints normally but links you to many websites, video and documents related to the applicant.

This will only make more important the skills of a professional writer…

Dear Lee

I was very interested in your blog and comments about video applications.  The big issue for employers is that they do not want to waste time with video when they are looking at 100s of applicants.

I have developed a product that gives and employer an ordinary Resume but if they want they can click on a skill, qualification or anything within the resume to see, hear and have demonstrated that component of the person's CV.

Happy for you to critique…

Candidates often complain that they never hear back when they send their resume.  I have to admit I generally reply to everyone out of respect and understanding that during these difficult times, everyone deserves to be heard (or at least their resume responded to).  The reason I say generally is that I have continued to place ads where I not only ask for specific requirements, I also have been clear that people should NOT APPLY if they do not meet those requirements.  Since I read…

Way back in 2008, I created a training guide called Resume Forensics. In a nutshell, it was a how-to for finding resumes and passive candidates on Google, Yahoo, Bing and a few other resources. In all modesty, it was an underground hit. I…

Lesson #1: 

You may or may not be able to train a monkey to recruit

Lesson #2: 

Anyone with a keyboard may be capable of writing their version of career advice and getting it published on a mainstream recruiting website

Lesson #3: 

Both #1 & #2 may become trending topics for various reasons 

Lesson #4: 

If you do #2 and it is proven that you are…

Do a simple search in Google for “Resume Templates” and you will soon find that there are literally thousands of templates that you can copy and use. There are even many companies that sell these exact resume templates online.  As a resume writing specialist,…