All Blog Posts Tagged 'resumes' (8)

Are you applying to many jobs with your resume and feeling an eerie silence? Is it almost like you are throwing your resume into a black hole? Well, that may be exactly what you are doing if your resume reflects these often seen, but not spoken, resume mistakes.

Recruiters have to open…

“Mirror mirror on the wall….who has the fairest Resume of them…

A concept I teach to my career consults is how to "clean up" a career that has:

• Experienced too many job hops (either self-inflicted or those due to job eliminations or even downsizing's).
• 6 months of current unemployment.
• Repeated job gaps throughout the resume.

I…

I often do get this question and I decided to make it a short Blog.  This question came in today from one of our Members:

Hi,

I hope you are well.  I am reviewing a posting for (company name omitted) on Med…

I recently saw a Linkedin Discussion on whether MedReps.com was worth using as a Job Seeker.  You can find this long running topic as a discussion on the dicey Cafe Pharma too if you would like the four lettered word version!  Both discussion forums are littered with upset reps who did not get any responses after applying…

As a former Medical Sales Hiring Manager and Medical Sales Recruiter I have seen thousands and thousands of resumes for our industry (more years than I care to admit); I know when I see a professional, well written resume suited to our industry. On the flip side, I also know immediately when a resume has been written by a so called professional resume writer who is unqualified in our industry. I am excluding…

I often hear, “I wrote a great resume, but I get few responses to it”, or worse, “I paid a huge chunk of money for someone else to write my resume and I still am not getting any action”. When I ask to have the “non-responsive” resume sent to me for review and I find there are no inherent career problems with it (excessive job hopping every year or applying to jobs that are not related to work experience), often the problem rests with the resume formatting and…

A Resume today needs to be built in a “web data base” friendly way so it can be found by recruiters or Human Resources when sorting through those massive resume data bases! I continually sort through resume coaching books and Google around trying to find a good reference for our Job Seekers to go to as they build their resumes.

Well, I never found one, so I decided to make it my topic on this posting. If someone out there has a good source for what I am about to say,…