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 [...]

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 [...]

FYI, can you define this acronym ASAP? Tx.

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by by carl

On another website I run, I give visitors the opportunity to submit their own career objective to my site and have me (and other visitors to the site) critique it to help them improve it. The topic “Career Objective” is by far the most popular topic on this website by the way… I’m not sure [...]