Time and again, when clients show me their old resumes, I see skills that are completely outdated or irrelevant. Not only does listing these skills take you out of the running, but it really ages you as well. To avoid this career faux-pas, here are the skills in demand by employers in 2019. I won’t…
Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at Wharton, explains “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong” and the crux of his argument is that grades are not a predictor of career success. He cites research that shows “the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of…
You need to update your resume for 2019 to reflect the most recent job search trends. Everything is subject to trends, and resumes are no different, but that doesn’t stop job candidates from submitting resumes that are astonishingly old school. Recruiting has gone digital; social media plays an increasingly important part in sourcing candidates, which…
Let’s discuss why job candidates write cover letters, which is oddly enough, a hotly contested issue within the hiring process, although for the life of me, I don’t see why. The vast majority of people in recruiting don’t read cover letters. I periodically survey recruiters and HR professionals in my network to get their feedback,…
You probably already opened a profile, but if uploading it is all you do, you won’t get noticed on LinkedIn. Why do you need to get noticed? To establish your professional brand, build your digital reputation, and develop top-of-mind presence when opportunities arise for a job referral! The first rule is not to be shy…
The following is a version (lightly edited to incorporate keywords) of an article by Susan Rooks that details how to make sure your LinkedIn profile photo makes the right impression. The original article can be found here. “I’m not the first, and I’m sure I won’t be the last here on LI (or any other…
Nearly half the time when clients send me their resumes, the resume is a hybrid of resume and job application. But there are important differences between your resume and job application, and an impactful resume doesn’t conflate the two. The main difference between resumes and job applications has to do with their separate functions. Resumes…
(appeared in HuffPost by Casey Bond) When was the last time you reviewed your resume? According to a recent poll by career site Monster, 39 percent of respondents said they updated their resume the last time they applied for a job; 8 percent said they couldn’t even remember the last time they looked at it. But…