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		<title>Stop Boring the Hiring Manager with Your Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Holbrook</dc:creator>
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Your resume should communicate your experience, expertise, value, personal brand, accomplishments, and contributions among other things. What it should not be is a run down of your last job description word for word.
If your resume consists mostly of bullet points that only describe your responsibilities and duties then you’re doing yourself a great disservice in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Hidden Problems With Your Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Donlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a question I get in one form or another almost every week: “I’ve sent out 50 resumes and not had any job interviews. What’s wrong with my resume?”]]></description>
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		<title>5 Résumé Basics We Bet You’ve Overlooked!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Holbrook</dc:creator>
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Five basic résumé rules and the mistakes you make that break them. Thousands of job seekers make these mistakes. Are you making them too?
FORGETTING TO INCLUDE A COVER LETTER
Not attaching a cover letter to a résumé is like shooting in the dark. Hiring managers receive hundreds of unsolicited résumés every week. Tell them specifically what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Keys to a Purpose-Driven Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Holbrook</dc:creator>
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Instead of utilizing a generic or jack of all trades (and master of none) resume, we should be using (and with great success) a purpose-driven, focused, and customized resume.  In fact, if you have expertise in more than one area, then you should be broadcasting more than one resume.
After working recently with a client [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What You Have… That They Don’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Galante</dc:creator>
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Ok, so you know you’re not the only one looking for a job. There are millions of people either out of work entirely or looking for something different, and their resumes are in the same pile as yours.
So how do you make sure your resume stands out in the crowd? The key is this: sure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Pages Should My Résumé Be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Holbrook</dc:creator>
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This has to be one of the most common questions we hear as professional résumé writers.   My answer to our clients is that one size does not fit all.   Traditionally, résumés are one, two and three pages (In some industries and countries more than three pages are acceptable, even expected!).  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do I Need an Objective Statement on My Resume?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Holbrook</dc:creator>
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We address this issue all the time as professional resume writers.  When clients send us their resume for a free analysis, more often than not they have an objective statement leading off their resume.  Well, what once was the standard is no longer considered as such.  In fact, using an objective statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Long Should Your Resume Be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sylo</dc:creator>
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You won&#8217;t be able to fully answer this question until you have a sense of what you want to convey in your resume.  That being said, there are no rigid rules on how long a resume should be.  Generally speaking, you should consider the following three factors when deciding how many pages you want your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips to Avoid Making Typos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sylo</dc:creator>
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Don&#8217;t you hate sending a document and realizing after the fact that you made one typo.. or more?!  I have three tricks that I use on a regular basis when I write.  These tricks allow me to produce writings that are more coherent and also allow me to catch typos along the way.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resume Writing Tip: Capitalize, Bold, Underline or Italicize for a Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sylo</dc:creator>
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When writing their resume, too often job seekers are putting the emphasis at the wrong place and, when asked why, don’t really know. One bad habit is to highlight the name of a previous employer.  If your prior employer or employers are unknown companies, drawing attention to their name will not make your candidacy [...]]]></description>
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