The past few weeks I’ve been awash in keywords as I’ve been working on the second edition of a best-selling book on that very topic: The Best Keywords for Resumes, Letters, and Interviews When Wendy Enelow (my frequent writing partner) wrote the first edition of the book, keywords were an emerging concept. More than a …
It’s every executive’s dream … to never have to look for a job but to be sought, recruited, and pursued for just the right kinds of opportunities. That dream is more likely to come true if you make your expertise very visible so that you can be found when recruiters are searching. If that’s NOT …
One of the compensations of flight delays … Last week I enjoyed a conversation with an executive who was traveling home after two days of intense interviewing. In his search for a new sales manager for the Boston territory, he had followed the usual hiring route: Reviewing resumes to find candidates who had the fundamentals …
Let’s look at the numbers: The average corporate job posting garnered 250 resumes last year, according to ERE.net. From resumes received online, employers choose, on average, 3 people to interview, as reported by Gerry Crispin of CareerXRoads at the 2014 Career Thought Leaders Conference. What that means for job seekers who rely on online applications: …