6 Simple Rules to Keep Your Resume Effective

6 Simple Rules to Keep Your Resume Effective Have you ever wondered why you didn’t get a call back after submitting your resume for your perfect job?  Sending out more job applications to more companies doesn’t always equate to more call backs and interviews.   The chances are your resume was a fast track into the trashcan because you weren’t following these simple rules for effective resumes. 1)  Keep it short and easy to read: For most individuals a 2 page resume has enough space. Senior professionals may run to a third page but a recruiter is looking for easy to read information. A nice simple typeface, clear use of bullets, paragraphs, punctuation and only bold and italics where necessary. If you have space a few horizontal lines to break up areas of content can be helpful. Don’t waste space including references or even state reference available on request â€" a recruiter will ask for reference at the appropriate time and that could be several lines of unnecessary content. 2)  Experience and successes are the foundation content: All good resumes should have details of work experience listed â€" start with the latest or current job and work backward. State when you worked there, the job title and no more than one line of job description followed by three to five bulleted key achievements. For example: April 2006 â€" May 2012, Area Sales Manager, ACME Products Inc. â€" leading a team of 24 sales representatives across 7 states in the North West. Increased area sales from $240,000 in 2006 to $2.1million in 2012 Improved customer satisfaction levels from 85% in 2006 to 97% in 2012 Developed 8 new recruits to meet all sales targets with 6 months of hire Managed pilot of new household product lines in 2010, providing customer feedback and product knowledge to HQ development team 3)  Make qualifications and education count: Include academic achievement in the form of degrees.  Also a professional credential such as Project Management Professional (PMP) should be included. Other relevant college courses and job specific courses but nothing that has no purpose for this job application.  As a rule of thumb, state academic achievement, followed by professional credentials and then additional relevant certifications and courses. For each state when, where and what it is and any relevant grades or levels of pass.    Additionally, it is best to only add completed education programs to your resume and avoid simply adding the name of the school attended followed by “some college/courses complete.”     Even if it is only a two year degree, as long as you finished what you started it shows you have merit and determination to see things through. Another aspect to consider is continued interest learning. There are a lot of free MOOC college courses online that offer letters of completion. If the course is rel evant to your job it may be beneficial to list that as an accomplishment as well. 4)  Include professional volunteer achievements: If you have given your time for free to a cause or professional organization DO include it. Your time leading volunteers or providing a free consulting service can shine out on your resume as well as showing a bit of humanity and humility for a potential employer to know they are hiring a person not a robot. 5)  Keep it honest: It’s easy to fall into the trap of embellishing resume content. It won’t work. A good recruiter will spot an untruth very easily â€" no matter how well you think it’s concealed. Saying you are an excellent customer service agent is great, but don’t say you were the best in your company for 5 years straight â€" unless there’s evidence to prove it. In the age of the internet so many things are easy to verify. 6)  Keep it flexible: Make sure your resume can be updated easily. Each job you apply for should have its own unique resume â€" it may be 99% the standard content but have a unique objective or personal statement that talks directly to the company or role. Often a personal statement or objective isn’t needed when a good cover letter will meet this need.   This component is critical to getting your resume in the door.   Technology makes it very easy to send your resume out to dozens of companies all with the click of the button, but you still need to address your audience directly and grab their attention. Hiring managers and recruiters spend 10 seconds or less scanning your resume for the relevant information they are searching for. To win their further attention a good resume should easy to read and relevant to the job description.   Much of what is covered here to some may be simple common sense but to career seekers overlooking a few of these key points it can be detrimental to finding your next job.   It may be helpful to have a family member, colleague, or the recruiter you may be working with to read your resume and offer some feedback. Now review your current standard resume and check how much of these techniques you are using and if not make the changes before you apply for your next job â€" successfully of course! Author:  Bob Bozorgi is the COO of Executive Trackers, LLC, a sales, marketing, and executive search firm based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.

How To Get A Job After Being Fired 3 Steps To Success - Algrim.co

How To Get A Job After Being Fired 3 Steps To Success - Algrim.co Being fired is difficult, really difficult. And the first thing you think about the moment is happens is, what am I going to do? Ideally, you want to get a job right after getting fired, but how do you do that? First things first, remain calm. Try not to let emotions take control right now. You are going to feel rejected, weak and powerless. That is a natural feeling after being terminated. Try not to let that impact your ability to think positively about your future. Let's go ahead and get right into how you can get a job right after getting fired. Understand You Were Terminated And Not Let Go The first thing you need to do in your journey to getting back on track is knowing whether or not you were terminated or let go. If you are feeling as though you were “fired” then that means you were terminated. Being terminated means that you do have the option to be able to file for unemployment in order to help you bridge the gap between your old job and new job. You have the ability to file for COBRA (The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) in order to bridge the gap on any health insurance policies that you may have had from your prior job. Related: Laid Off vs. Fired: What’s The Difference? Get References And Letters Of Recommendation From Previous Jobs Before you start your next job search, a critical part of ensuring that you’ll get a new job is to combat the recent negative feedback you received. Being terminated is in essence, negative feedback. By asking previous employers for letters of recommendation, even if it’s been a few years, you can use that to your advantage when explaining to your new employer that this one job “just didn’t work out.” You can ask previous employers for letters of recommendation as long as they are still employed at the company that you worked for. The Emotional Part About Being Terminated Being terminated is incredibly emotional. It makes you feel weak, powerless and scared. This is a natural feeling. You woke up every day and went to your job. Then suddenly, one day, you no longer needed to go. This can be drastic and that feeling of uncertainty can be a powerful one on your ego. Here’s the best thing to remember, being terminated doesn’t mean you aren’t valuable. Try to remember to: Keep your head up, stay positive. Keep your mind focused on the next opportunity. Keep yourself from falling into despair or worry. Keep yourself focused on making progress and learning from the mistakes that were made. Can Future Employers Check If You Got Fired? Yes. Future employers can absolutely ask you for references and they can contact your previous employer if you give them the opportunity to do so. And if they contact HR departments, they will mention that the employee was terminated. They may not go into an incredibly large amount of detail regarding the matter. But the fact that you were terminated will be a negative indicator to your future employer. Related: Answering “May We Contact This Employer?” In An Interview Can You Lie About Being Fired? Lying about being terminated is not advised. This is because the potential employer that you are interviewing with could easily ask to contact the prior employer and they could learn about your termination. The best thing you can do is be honest and take accountability for your actions. That shows leadership and taking responsibility for actions that may have led to your termination. Positioning the termination to your future employer is going to be a challenge but is one that we’ll cover in this guide. Can Former Employers Disclose The Reason For The Termination? Former employers are not suppose to disclose the reason for the termination unless it is one that is public, anyway. That means if you were terminated for being late to work too frequently, this is not something that a prior employer is going to share. But if there was an issue that was in the public eye, then they might indirectly communicate the reason for the termination. Generally speaking, prior employers are not trying to hinder your future job potential, even if they terminated you. Because of that, they don’t often share the reason for the termination. Examples Of Communicating Why You Were Fired Like mentioned, it’s really important that you take ownership over the fact that you were fired. The best thing you can do is position to your employer the reason why. Here’s an example of how you might communicate that to an employer: “I was terminated from my last position. I definitely made some mistakes that I learned from, I’m happy to go over those with you if you feel compelled to find out. Ultimately, there were signs that the chemistry simply wasn’t working out early on and I didn’t listen to those signals. Regardless, I take full responsibility for my performance and feel confident the next employe who hires me will see the change I’ve made.” 3 Steps To Finding A New Job After Being Fired, Fast Here are three steps to take to quickly get back on track and find a new position. Reach out to previous colleagues This is the best thing you can do. Reach out to previous colleagues and tell them honestly, the job didn’t work out. And that you are looking for new opportunities. Start tapping into your personal network as soon as you can. Quickly revamp your resume If you were at your job for less than 6-months, then it’s recommended that you remove that job from your previous work experience. Revamp your resume so that you can show the work experience that matters most. If you have letters of recommendation, be sure that you are listing job experiences that align with those assets. Take a moment to calibrate yourself Being fired isn’t easy. It has an impact on your ego. Be sure that you take a moment to decide what the next best path is for you before you make too many actions. Future employers or even friends can usually see when you are frantically making decisions. Be sure that you aren’t acting on behalf of emotions and that you have a clear and calibrated plan for yourself after the termination.

Thinking Ahead when Choosing Your University

Thinking Ahead when Choosing Your University Since the dawn of the new era of tuition fees, I have found myself increasingly wheeled out by my university to speak at open days. Employability has been a buzzword in higher education for the last few years, so it is perhaps not surprising that in attempts to persuade prospective students to apply for their courses, admissions tutors and marketing officers have been bringing in placement staff like myself to be on hand to provide detailed answers to questions about sandwich placements. It is a pretty easy sales pitch to be honest. Even if the young people attending open days are not totally clued up about searching for value for their £9k/yr, their parents or older siblings who are there with them invariably are. Questions about placements, graduate outcomes and career support soon feel like the Spanish Inquisition, but unlike a used car salesman trying to flog a clapped-out motor, I know that I am selling quality goods. For students who are currently applying to university, or thinking about doing so, here are some facts that I hope will sway you towards a course that includes a sandwich year option. Work Experience is Key It goes without saying that I am an advocate of placements and internships. I understand the value of work experience, how it helps to develop students into young professionals and aids them in securing graduate level employment upon leaving university. However, as I pay my bills through promoting placements, I have on occasions been accused of over-selling the case for my own personal gain. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, but faced with this line of questioning I refer to this little paragraph from the  High Fliers Graduate Market report  published in January 2012. More than half of recruiters warn that graduates who have had no previous work  experience at all are unlikely to be successful during the selection process and  have little or no chance of receiving a job offer for their organisations’ graduate  programmes. Little or no chance of securing a place on a graduate programme with no previous work experience. Pretty convincing stuff if you ask me. Open up the Door to Graduate Opportunities While the previous quote from High Fliers provides good reason for undertaking work experience, how about some evidence to show that a placement will help to secure a place on a graduate programme? Well, step forward Ernst Young, one of the Big Four from the professional services industry. A staggering  84%  of their 2011 summer intern intake went on to accept graduate jobs with the firm. It goes without saying that if a company like this is recruiting students that have already worked for it on a large scale, inevitably it means that there will be fewer graduate opportunities available for students who have not already got their foot in the door. Repeat this across industry and the value of work experience becomes clear. Unleash Your Earning Potential A common explanation I hear from students on my courses for not wanting to take a placement year is because it will cost them money. Now there is some truth in this. If you are on a sandwich course at university, there is usually a placement year tuition fee to be paid, and so at open days prospective students may want to ask questions about how much this is, or if there are bursaries available to cover the cost. However, what also needs to be considered is the financial benefit that a sandwich placement brings. Im not just talking long term earning potential. Im talking about the placement year itself. Most 12 month placements will be paid. I wont pretend that this is always the case because certain industries will not pay and regrettably minimum wage legislation does not apply to sandwich placements. However, in the fields of Business, Finance, IT, Engineering and Science, placements usually are paid. Take a typical placement salary of £15k, knock off some deductions for tax and n ational insurance, travel, accommodation and even then with taking the placement year tuition fee into account, youll be in the black. More to the point, your earning does not stop there. In publishing the details from the 2011 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey,  Brunel University  calculated that their graduates who had undertaken a placement year, on average earned nearly £5k more than those who had not. Even if you begrudge of paying a tuition fee to your university for doing a placement, the argument that a placement costs you money can easily be challenged with five thousand good reasons. Enough with the Placement Talk! What Else Should I Look for? Fair enough, Ive made my case about placements and will move on. Other things to ask about at open days from a career perspective are the availability of part-time jobs, employability awards, access to career guidance, skills workshops, employer presentations and graduate destinations. These probably arent at the forefront of your mind when making a UCAS application, but are worth thinking about and asking questions when the opportunity presents itself. Your dream course may offer you everything you want from an academic perspective, but there is value in checking  out what the university offers in terms of support services. Once you get to university a range of opportunities  should become available to  the strategic fresher  but even at the early stages of applying, it doesnt hurt to find out exactly what your chosen university can do to help you achieve your aspirations. Look Beyond the Lip Gloss If I can offer one final bit of advice when it comes to applying to university, it would be to look beyond the information you can find in a prospectus, or from a universitys official website. Marketing material will always present  a university in the best possible light, rather than warts and all. There is no false advertising involved, but dont take everything you read literally. In particular, dont be swayed by broad statements regarding the companies where students work their placement year. For example, if you read something along the lines of our students undertake placements with employers such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC, dont presume that all students will do so. That sentence would be factual if one student has worked at each company at some point in time; it is not a guarantee that if you get a place on that course you will magically secure a placement with a big name company. Good luck to you with your university applications. Maybe Ill see you at an open day in the future. Image Credit: The Complete University Guide 0

Personal Branding Interview Michael Fertik and David Thompson - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Personal Branding Interview Michael Fertik and David Thompson - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today, I spoke to Michael Fertik and David Thompson, who are the authors of Wild West 2.0. Michael is the CEO of ReputationDefender, and David Thompson is the Chief Privacy Officer for the company.   Note that ReputationDefender has been a previous sponsor of Personal Branding Magazine. In this interview, both Michael and David talk about why online reputation is important to the masses, tips to own your Google search results, and more. The vast majority of Internet users are ordinary folks, not high-profile VIPs. So, why should everyone be concerned about their online image? If theres one thing that researching Wild West 2.0 taught us, its that everybody gets Googlednot just celebrities and VIPs. Almost everybody we talked to admitted using Google to search for their friends and co-workers, or knew that they had been Googled themselves. One personal story that didnt make it in the book was of a female friend going on a first date only to find out that her date already knew her hobbies, interests, and family history. Pew Internet confirms our research; their recent study found that a majority of Americans admit searching for online information about their acquaintances. Its scary how much information is out there and how many people are looking for it. We live in a world where the fear of Big Brother has been replaced by the reality of hundreds of millions of little brothers constantly using the Internet to spy on each other. Students use the Internet to search for personal information about their teachers; teachers look for information about parents; parents search Google for teachers; managers look for information about their employees; nosy neighbors dig for information about nearly everyone; and political partisans of all stripes dredge through search results for dirt about about their opponents. It is almost certain that somebody you care about has searched for your name on Google; the only question is what they found. To take just one example, a study by Microsoft found that 79% of job recruiters use Internet searches and social media to find background information about job candidates, and at least 70% had rejected candidates based on what they found online. Similarly, a study of the top 500 universities found that a majority of admissions offices admit to using the Internet to find more information about applicants. Even if theres no negative information about you online, your online image is a chance to add more positive information to your resume. How has the technology of the Internet radically changed the rules of reputation? How have online community norms aggravated the problem? The Internet has taken a wrecking ball to the rules of reputation: Reputation used to be a two-way street: if somebody wanted to gossip about you, they had to risk their own reputation by spreading it. Now, they can write an anonymous comment on thousands of sites. Often, the author of a false or malicious comment or blog can ride off into the night with no trace left behind. Reputation used to be local: for most people, reputation was shaped by the people in the surrounding community, and did not spread far beyond it. Now, the Internet allows anonymous comments to spread at the speed of light to the edges of the world: now, it doesnt matter if youre in Tombstone (Arizona) or Tomsk (Russia)you can write comments that will be seen worldwide. Reputation used to be temporary: memories of reputation would fade. Now, everything that goes online is instantly indexed, cached, and often permanently archived. Sites like Archive.org automatically create a complete copy of every website in existence, limited only by the pace of change online. If there was any question left about the permanence of online reputation, it was settled by recent announcement that the Library of Congress would permanently archive every public tweet made on Twitter.com since 2006. The problem is made worse by search engines like Google. Without search engines, most false and negative online information would just disappear into a tumbleweed desert. But search engines are designed to find any reference to your name and bring it to the top of a search. In the past, gossip would end with a classroom note tossed into the trash; now, Google finds the electronic equivalent of classroom notes from years ago and displays them to the world. The more juicy and salacious the note, the more likely it is to rise to the top of Googles results. The worst part is that Googles top search results often focus on just one part of your lifewhatever sites gets the most clicks and links rises to the top of a search for your name. Even if the information is true, it is often focused on just one event or one aspect of your personality. A searcher looking for information about you will often believe that this is who you are. The problem is compounded by the fact that web searchers have such a short attention span: a recently Cornell study found that 79% of Google users click on the first three results, out of thousands of relevant links returned. The impact is that just three links picked by Google can make or break your reputation. In reality, you are a far more balanced and nuanced person than just a handful of search results. To add insult to injury, the technology of the Internet lacks any sense of morality or justice: search engines are nothing but computer code running on thousands of machines. Online gossip about you might be true or false, but to a search engine its just raw data to be fed into a ravenous algorithm. This faceless, soulless machine picks websites to display based on how many clicks and links they getnot based on whether they are true or false, fair or unfair. Its time for you to stand up and take control. Let’s focus on intentional reputation damage. Why do people attack each other online? How can understanding common motivations for an online attack help potential victims? People attack each other online for all the same reasons that people attack each other offlinebut online attacks are an order of magnitude more dangerous because of the power of anonymity and permanence. Online, somebody on the far side of the globe can attack you just because they have different political or social beliefs. And, thanks to the power of Google to find isolated bits of content about you, their attack can quickly rise to the top of a search for your name and stay there forever. Online attacks are also worse because of the social distance that the Internet creates. Its hard for most people to make an unprovoked insult to their victims face. But online, it is very easy for somebody to type harsh or mean words without realizing that they are affecting a real person. Often, resolving online attacks relies on psychology and empathy. Sometimes it is possible to figure out why you are being attacked, and come to an offline resolution. If you understand some of the most common causes for online attacksuch as envy, jealousy, and revengeyou can often understand how to treat the underlying cause that triggered somebody to attack you. Similarly, you must understand the psychology of the crowd to be effective. Just like in the Old West, a digital vigilante squad on the new digital frontier can rush to judgment and start to implement its own form of justice. If you find yourself falsely accused by this kind of e-mob, you need to understand how to calmly and rationally present evidence that you are not the guilty party. Otherwise, you risk permanent serious damage to your reputation. What are the ways to help victims of online reputation damage correct false information and restore their good name? The best we can recommend to anyone is to build powerful defenses before it is too late. A Google wall of positive content and sites you control will keep future false information and attacks out of the top results in Google, and also stop the self-reinforcing cycle of negativity. All too often, once negative or salacious information gets into the top results, it starts to attract more attention and links just because of the human tendency to focus on gossip and drama. From there, the content gets copied and promoted more and more until it takes over the top results for your name. One first step toward building is to build a network of positive content. It can help even to do very simple things like registering your name on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and other sites that tend to rank highly in search engines. Use these sites to create basic profiles and link these sites to each other. If available, you should also register .com addresses related to your nameFirstnameLastname.com, Firstname-Lastname.com, and others. Sites that contain your name in the domain name often rank highly in Google searches. You can often use free or inexpensive services to set up simple blogs or profiles on these sites, and also link them to your other content. If possible, you should also increase your visibility in third-party sites. Often, local newspapers and blogs rank highly in search engines, and writers are almost always looking for stories. If you can get news coverage (or even just a quote) in one of these outlets, it will often rank highly in searches for your name. If friends or co-workers link to your sites from their blogs, that will also help to push your content to the top of a search for your name. If there is false information about you online, some responsible website owners will be happy to work with you to correct it or remove it. Try sending a very calm, polite email that explains the facts without accusing anyone of misconduct or attacking the webmaster. If the webmaster refuses to change anything, then you need to make sure that web searchers find the truth first. You can engage many of the same tactics as listed above, or follow the steps outlined in Wild West 2.0s chapter on recovering from online attacks. Can you give us management techniques for small business owners and professionals? Small businesses and professionals like doctors and lawyers are at particular risk; a majority of consumers now use Internet searches to look for reviews and ratings before hiring, and they often find anonymous reviews left by a dissatisfied customer rather than a representative sample of reviews. But many professionals and small business owners have done nothing to protect themselves. One study of doctors found that more than 90% of primary care physicians have never done anything to address their online images. One of the biggest problems that professionals face is that just one dissatisfied client can ruin their online reputation, even if 99.9% of their clients are fully satisfied. Most professional clients dont leave reviews for good work; for example, one study found that no primary care physician had more than eight reviews in a nationwide professional review site. That means that negative feedback will be disproportionately featured. The most powerful solution is to encourage satisfied customers to review you on sites relevant to your profession; often, a simple reminder is all it takes to encourage your best customers to review you well in addition to sending referrals. Be cautious not to go too far; do not give any reward to customers who review you unless you have familiarized yourself with the FTC guidelines concerning compensated endorsements. Small businesses face similar challenges. There are tens of websites that allow anonymous consumers to vent complaints about businesses. Some consumer complaints on these sites are genuine and constructive. But others are false or exaggerated. And others still are lies left by competitors, bitter former employees, and others who have no connection at all to your services. Thanks to a law known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the sites that post these defamatory comments are usually held immune in court. Some webmasters will help correct outright lies, but some complaint sites have been accused of extorting businesses by offering to remove false information only for a fee. Often, the only thing you can do is try to set the record straight by establishing your own online presence that is more prominent than the lies. Small businesses can often engage with consumers in ways that will help their business and their online image. Setting up a social media presence (through sites like Facebook and Twitter) is often a great first step toward controlling your small business image online. Starting a blog about relevant community or business issues can also raise your profile while helping to limit the harm caused by false information online. For many small businesses, effective defense will require calling in our company, ReputationDefender; your time is better spent building your business than trying to match the image control technology built up over years of RD by professional engineers. But every small business can get started free with simple online tools like a Facebook page and blog. Michael Fertik is the founder and CEO of ReputationDefender, the worlds first comprehensive online reputation management and privacy company with customers in over 50 countries. He is the co-author of Wild Wild West 2.0. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Michael serves on the advisory board of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition. He has appeared on Dr. Phil, the Today Show, Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show, 20/20, and Fox, and has been featured in publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Investors Business Daily, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Redwood City, California. David Thompson is general counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of ReputationDefender. He is the co-author of Wild Wild West 2.0.   He is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School. His expertise ranges from founding his first Internet business in 1997 to advising seed-stage startups to a clerkship at the Supreme Court of the United States. He lives in Los Angeles.

4 Qualities Executive Recruiters Look for in Senior and C-suite Technology Executives (CIO, CTO, CISO, SVP, VP, etc.) - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

4 Qualities Executive Recruiters Look for in Senior and C-suite Technology Executives (CIO, CTO, CISO, SVP, VP, etc.) 4 Qualities Senior / C-suite Technology Executives Must Have

Search Engine Optimization Can Boost Your Job Search - CareerAlley

Search Engine Optimization Can Boost Your Job Search - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a powerful and important tool that blogs and e-businesses utilize to drive traffic to their websites for purposes of enhancing exposure and expanding monetization opportunities. To keep things fairly simple, SEO requires keyword research, one of the most valuable, high-yield activities in the search marketing field. Googles AdWords Keywords tool is an excellent starting point for SEO keyword research. This tool suggests keywords and provides estimated local and global search volumes. The key to effective keyword selection is to select words and phrases that are in high demand but face low competition. These keywords should be incorporated very subtly to website content without disrupting natural flow to increase online visibility. Did you know that SEO can significantly boost your job search and help you garner the attention of prospective employers? As the economy struggled to add jobs last May and the unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is important or you to creatively enhance your job search by focusing on SEO. Lets examine how this potent marketing tool can help you. Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile LinkedIn, a professional social networking website, is an excellent tool for job-seekers to use to connect with other professionals and capture the attention of employers. Your profile essentially serves as a resume template that other professionals can view. You should make connections with past employers and co-workers to expand the visibility of your profile. You should also use SEO techniques to increase the visibility of your LinkedIn profile. When you create a LinkedIn profile, you will be given a generic URL with a string of numbers. It is in your best interest to create a vanity URL that can change this string of numbers to your own name. This is far more search engine friendly. You may have written and created a very strong profile that highlights your skills, talents and accomplishments. You can go a step further by using Google AdWords to subtly incorporate highly targeted keywords that are relevant to your niche. This will help prospective employers actually lan d on your profile. Leverage Search Optimization Techniques in Twitter Job recruiters and prospective employers use Google to search for job candidates and Google just happens to love Twitter. So, it is in your best interest to create a Twitter profile and begin following other professionals who belong to the same field as you. If you have a relevant blog pertaining to this niche, you should include the link on your Twitter profile. Twitter gives you the opportunity to create a 160-word bio and you should not waste this opportunity. Create a keyword-rich bio that includes such possible keywords: Business major, intern, entry-level, full-time employment and Fortune 500 Company. You can demonstrate your knowledge of your topic and your researching and writing skills by tweeting daily on a topic. If you find a positive news item pertaining to your target employer, tweet it. Dont forget to post keyword-rich tweets based on your SEO keyword research. Create Your Own Optimized Blog That Attracts Professionals Are you a talented graphic designer looking for full-time employment? Are you a seasoned journalist with a strong portfolio showcasing your abilities and body of work? You can really impress prospective employers by creating your own blog. In todays world, it is incredibly easy for anyone to create a sleek, stylish and professional blog through WordPress. It is very important for you to consistently update your blog with and fresh and original content that is relevant to the field you are seeking full-time employment in. Of course, you should use SEO techniques to increase your blogs visibility. You can really network with other professionals by creating a blog. You can also impress tech savvy employers during interviews by displaying your blog. SEO is such a powerful tool you can use to capture the attention of prospective employers and professionals who belong to the same field as you. You should use SEO techniques to enhance your job search. Allison Hamilton owns a popular education blog and is an online instructor for The College City. Allison understands the importance of SEO as a marketing and promotional tool. In these challenging economic times, Allison recommends job-seekers use SEO techniques to bolster their job search. This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Visit me on Facebook

What to Put in Your Resume Objective?

What to Put in Your Resume Objective?Writing a resume is very easy, but many people do not get what to put in the objective section. That is an important and primary step in writing a resume, and a complete description of your achievements should be included in this section. You should include your strengths, qualifications, job experience, and skills that you possess. You can also include personal and professional goals as well as leadership skills.It is essential that you have a well-structured written objective, because otherwise, the applicant will not have the best possible chance of getting your desired job position. You should organize your objective so that it will make a good impression on the employer.Therefore, when you are preparing your resume, you should write down the desirable objectives. You can also place the relevant details regarding your skills, education, work experience, education, and other relevant aspects related to the job that you are applying for.You shou ld try to write the objective using all the available space provided to you and in such a way that it will make you stand out from the rest of the applicants. You can also add your personal and professional goals.Write the resume objective in such a way that it will convey your need for a job, and also about the position you are applying for. You can also include personal statements if you are applying for a management position.You should remember that your objective must always reflect the kind of position that you are applying for. If you are applying for a managerial position, then you must highlight your skills and experiences related to management. However, if you are applying for an administrative or clerical position, then you should highlight your skills related to these fields.Write down all the specific objectives and include them in your resume. Make sure that you include them in all the sections of your resume as well.Writing a resume objective does not have to be diffic ult. All you need to do is to make sure that you put in the relevant details and discuss your capabilities and skills. This will definitely help you land that job you are looking for.