Posts Tagged ‘resume writing’

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 [...]

The value of the free resume critique

Posted on January 18th, 2010 by by carl

We’ve already talked about resume writing and the truth is that many people aren’t that good at it. For some people, writing just isn’t their bag. For others, it might be a language thing where your English skills aren’t great and/or you’re a bad speller who tends to make lots of grammatical errors, use run-on [...]

Don’t let a recruiter embellish

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by by carl

Yesterday we talked about why you might consider using a professional resume writer. Most recruiters are not professional resume writers so that right there is a good reason to not allow most recruiters to rewrite your resume. From time to time, there will be occasions where a recruiter finds out that you have experience that [...]