• Working with Recruiters


• Job Search Better and Smarter Than Your Competition


• Harnessing the Power of the Internet in Your Job Search


• Background Checks on Job Applicants


• Disclosing Salary Information to Potential Employers


• When a Job Search Takes Too Long

When a Job Search Takes Too Long

If you have been conducting a job search for many months with little or no success, it is time to evaluate what may be going wrong.

Behind the majority of fruitless job searches resides a poorly crafted resume. So it is time to take a good look at yours. Read it as if you were an employer. Does it impress the heck out of you? Does it make you want to reach for the phone and call yourself? If not, you need to do better. A good-enough document will not be good enough when it has to compete with many others. In addition to having a great written document, brutally analyze what you are doing with it. Are you sending that resume and cover letter to the right people? Unless you are looking for a job in human resources, bypass HR departments as much as possible because they simply serve as gatekeepers-screening resumes and culling the pile. Research, though time consuming, can yield the names of managers or directors in the department you belong in. Get your resume on that desk.

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