Do you have second thoughts about your current resume? Are you uncertain if it is a 20th Century fact sheet or a 21st Century marketing document, or if it makes you come across like a polished professional or if it makes you seem pedestrian or a back burner also-ran. Finally, are you at your wits [...]

Personality tests, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment, will test your natural preferences to help you to recognize and understand your personality type. There is no right or wrong personality type for any job. The assessment just gives you an understanding what your natural strengths are and what characteristics come to you most easily.
While [...]

When decision makers read a resume, what are they looking for?
Experience & Skills
The first rule in reviewing a resume is to see whether you possess the skill sets and prerequisite experience that is outlined in the job posting or internal requisition.
When it comes to experience, this is often subjective and can be defined in two [...]

One of the great organizational tools of resume creation is the master resume.  Although it’s considered an optional tool designed to ease the writing process, for those who use it, the benefits are enormous.
If you have created your own master resume, you may have quickly realized that the greatest benefits come when you put more [...]

December is right around the corner, and we all know what that means: snow on the ground, Christmas TV specials, and, for some of us, graduation.
While we tend to associate spring as the official season for graduation, many students choose to finish their schooling in December for a myriad of reasons: less competition, save a [...]

In the world of information technology, there are a lot of titles assigned to various professions.  Sometimes those unique titles may describe virtually the same position.  Does this sometimes occur at the C-level?  It’s possible, since companies have the right to define roles as they wish.
Some think that CIOs and CTOs fall into the category [...]

As you know, I’m an executive resume writer, career coach and blogger and I am not shy about sharing my views on the purpose of a resume, what to include and exclude in it, and especially how important the visual appeal is to generating the impact and mass appeal needed to generate job interviews.
To this [...]

It has long been rumored that C-level executives don’t need cover letters; instead, a resume and executive summary should do the trick.  While these two components are necessary, the cover letter is still an important piece of the job-seeking puzzle.
As you know, the executive resume and cover letter are like milk and cookies—they’re united as [...]