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job hunting , resumes

• You need a shorter resume

  7 Feb 2011

  Resume expert Kim Isaacs describes how to pare down your resume to a career snapshot in this last of her series of five posts. Did you ever overpack for a trip and wish you could just take half of your suitcase's contents and throw it in the river? Traveling light can help you avoid checking luggage...
• Is your resume lost in cyberspace?

  31 Jan 2011

  Resume expert Kim Isaacs has a few strategies for making sure your resume is seen by human eyes in this fourth of five series. One of my favorite subjects in school was astronomy--I was mesmerized by all things celestial. Little did I know at the time that one of my curiosities-- black holes --would...
• Are hard-copy resumes obsolete?

  24 Jan 2011

  Resume expert Kim Isaacs explains why a resume is worth the paper it's printed on in this third of five series. When I started my resume writing practice in the mid-1990s, I loved paper. I could spend hours at the stationery store comparing gorgeous textures, colors, and weights. I kept my favorite paper...
• Why bother sending a resume?

  17 Jan 2011

  Resume expert Kim Isaacs explains why you really do need a resume in this second of five series. The notion that the resume is "dead"--or at least dying--has been discussed by career professionals for years. The idea is that if networking is one of the best ways to get your foot in the door, why do you...
• Start your job search with a new and improved resume

  10 Jan 2011

  Resume expert Kim Isaacs explains how to refresh an outdated resume in this first of five series. As a longtime PC user, I was thrilled when Microsoft introduced the System Restore tool . This little tool saved me hours of troubleshooting on several occasions, easily banishing unwanted, buggy programs...
• In-demand occupations: jobs for your future

  17 Jun 2009

  Dear readers and job-seekers, Good news: your tax dollars are being put to good use by the US Dept of Labor and US Dept of Education, which collaborated to generate a list of the top-50 occupations that are expected to be needed for quite some time. These are the top ten: 1. Registered nurses (RN) -...
• Where the jobs are

  10 Jun 2009

  Dear readers and job-seekers, there is work to be found in the US of A! This week I've conducted semi-scientific investigative work to see where work can be found and in what industries. Where are the jobs? Looking at maps on Web sites that show job postings per 1000 people, you can see that Washington...
• Women on layoffs, education, and their futures

  27 May 2009

  Dear readers and job-seekers, this is the second-to-last episode of a series about women handling career moves, layoffs, education, and personal choices in the workforce. These are friends of mine and I've come to feel new respect and admiration for their attitudes and clarity: Le Ann (Seattle) - The...
• Women empowered with career change

  15 May 2009

  Dear readers and job seekers, the women in my life amaze me. I polled all my friends for stories about how planned or unplanned career changes turned out to be positive. Women replied with brave, interesting, and compelling stories. Today is part two of a five-part series: Pat (Seattle) - Four of us...
• Office Casual: How to get your resume noticed & Story Time (a double bill)

  31 Mar 2009

  The Internet and job engines have digitized everything and you need to fortify your resume the same way companies use search engines: by using keywords. Office Casual: How to get your resume noticed This video is part of our new Job Seeker site created in conjunction with Monster.com. Find lots of resources...
• Another 240,000 and counting. Worried about your job?

  13 Nov 2008

  The October employment news was not good. Another 240,000 people lost their jobs. The unemployment rate reached a 14-year high of 6.5 percent, with 2.8 million more people unemployed than at this time last year. The double whammy of mortgage woes and unemployment is hitting home. How can we help? Over...
• Are you LinkedIn? Bill Gates is.

  3 Mar 2008

  When we published the Career and jobs resources page a couple of months ago, we included a link to an interview with Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? in which he explains why he believes networking is still the best way to find the job you want. Networking used to mean knocking...
• Beyond the resume - job hunting advice from a Microsoft HR professional

  19 Dec 2007

  Since resumes are among our most popular template downloads on Office Online, and particularly from our Career Center we thought it might be worthwhile to offer you job seekers even more assistance as you start the journey of finding that perfect position. So, it just made sense to go directly to the...