Q: I have heard so many different suggestions of what to include on my resume. What do you suggest?
Three Topics To Highlight On Your Resume
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Three Things to Reinvent Professional You
Q: I have been in the workplace for the past 30 years, and I have many leadership skills. I was laid off during a downsizing after 15 years with that organization, and it has been more than three years since I my last paycheck. It is also difficult finding a job equivalent to my last one. How can I get back on track? How do I present myself so others will want to hire me?
What Can I Do To Get My Resume Noticed?
One attribute I find to be a great indicator of success is the candidate who doesn’t solely focus on those skills and attributes that can be objectively measured. It’s the candidate that communicates energy, excitement about the mission and a sense of commitment to the cause who catches this recruiter’s attention.
Continual Job Rejection: What Is an Older Candidate To Do?
I am older than 50, and I am having a difficult time accepting repeat rejections during my job search. It is frustrating and difficult to find meaningful work. What is an older employee to do in this economy?
The Resume, the Biography and the Executive Profile: Breaking Down the Job Seeker’s Documents
Question: I hear what you need to get a senior-level job these days is an “Executive Profile,” not a resume. A friend described the profile as a detailed document describing the information usually contained on a resume and more. Can you elaborate?
Navigating Unexpected Job Offer Terms
Q: After applying for a new, professional job for quite some time, I finally have an offer from a well-known, regional insurance company. However, the offer is making me angry. I will be hired on a contract basis for the first year and am expected to generate at list three times my salary in sales starting in the second year. My prospective employer keeps telling me “the sky is the limit,.” But, to me, it feels like I am getting all of the risk and the company is taking no risk at all. Should I accept this offer?
Combating Ageism
I have been crushed by the lack of response to my resume. My more than 33-year career has been as a corporate executive, an entrepreneur and an adjunct professor, so I am very taken back at the seeming lack of interest. After circulating the current version of my resume to a range of people, whose opinions I value, I have come to the conclusion that “ageism” is at play. Do you think this is a possibility? What do you think?
Networking Through Your Reference List
A strong strategy to use to this end is to leverage your references. Look at your reference list from an angle you might not otherwise which is to revisit it as a primary source of contacts, connections and new ideas. The advantage of this over making new connections is that your references already know and think highly of you; A positive relationship is already in place.