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5 signs that your job applications are doomed to fail


1) Have you been unemployed for more than 8 weeks?
2) Have you been sending out job application after job application and not been called back at all?
3) If you have you been contacted by different recruiters repeatedly, do they fail to follow up for an 2nd or 3rd interview in person?
4) Do you think your work experience is lousy and feel that employers would never want to bother with you as a future employee?
5) Are you randomly applying to a wide variety of jobs with the same resume?

10 words you should never use on your resume


Here are 10 of the most overused, uber-cliché words you could ever use on a resume, cover letter or job application. Here’s why:

1) Ambitious: “If it were so, it was a grievous fault; and grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.” Ambition may be a wonderful thing for your career, but no one wants to hire someone who’s going to try to replace them or leave as soon as he gets a bit of training at the company’s expense.

“Shouldn’t the job go to the most qualified applicant?”

Of course it should, but like my mom used to say “What should be and what is are often 2 different things.”

The sad fact is that getting a job is a different matter than doing it. With the job market being so bad and every potential employer being buried in applications, just getting an interview can be a lot harder than the job it’s for.

8 Awesome Resumes

It’s a very difficult task to create a creative and engaging resume. You want to show your individuality and your inventiveness but that can sometimes cross the line into the territory of egotism or even weirdness. Here are 8 resumes that tread that line beautifully.

1. The facebook profile is one of the most recognizable templates on the web. This savvy media producer used that to her advantage and created a simply outstanding resume.

Why Video Resumes Backfire on You

This video entitled "Impossible is Nothing" by Aleksey Vayner (a.ka. Aleksey Garber) is hands down the worst video resume / self-promotional material of all time. In fact, this Yale graduate's taste in video recording style and content is so bad, it has earned a place on Wikipedia's hall of shame.

What would you expect from ball room dancing, pep talks and bench pressing all in 5 minutes?