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• 1 tip to save your resume from the electronic "circular file"

  21 Feb 2011

  You've spent hours, maybe days, customizing your resume for the job opening you know is made for you. Don't let one small mistake ruin your chances for snagging an interview. According to an article by Louise Fletcher , co-founder and president of Blue Sky Resumes , a vast majority of potential employers...
• Your job search needs a little love

  14 Feb 2011

  Can't remember when you last spent quality time with your resume? Avoiding an honest review of your relationship with your job search? Kim Isaacs, a resume professional and the Monster.com resume expert, provides a few tips and some ideas to help you refresh your relationship with your resume and your...
• 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...
• 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  Resume expert Kim Isaacs explains how to refresh an outdated resume in this first of five series.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...
• Women's labor: finding the right career path

  3 Jun 2009

  Dear readers and job-seekers, today's post is the final chapter in series on women making career choices, rising from the ashes of lay-offs, and finding positive outcomes from situations that seemed less-than-optimal. I've found these stories inspirational and impressive. Wendy (Portland, OR) - I left...
• 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...
• 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...
• Job hunting in the 21st Century

  4 Dec 2007

  My how things have changed since I stumbled into the job market a while back. I'm gathering ideas for a page about how to approach finding a new job or changing jobs in today's world of giant job boards, email thank-you notes and unacknowledged application submissions. I have plenty of ideas about what...