Archive for the ‘Resumes and Cover Letters’ Category

Why should anyone read your resume?

Posted on March 18th, 2010 by by carl

On my other career website, my most popular page and topic related to the career objective. On this page, people can submit their career objective and get it critiqued by me and can read over the hundreds (and counting) of career objectives already submitted by other visitors.
Amazingly I can count on one hand the number [...]

A very good first impression

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by by carl

I recently saw a copy of a professionally-written resume that was shown to me by the person who had paid to have it written for him. I’m not sure how much it cost but he did tell me “it cost me a lot to get it done” so I’ll take his word for it.
In a [...]