A good résumé can make all the difference in your job search. It either gets you in the door for an interview, or it fails to capture the screener’s attention and falls through the cracks. I know firsthand that experience alone won’t carry you through the job search process. You have to place your qualifications […]
QR Codes: Like Poop on Your Résumé
A particular pet peeve of mine: the all-the-sudden popular and ugly-as-sin QR code. I hate them, because like many fads, most people rushing to use them don’t understand how to make sure they add value to the experience. In general, I feel that most people might as well take a poop on their résumé as put one of these on it, because adding a QR code without adding something of value to the “interview ecosystem” is well…just a load of crap.
Sean Cook featured in "101 Ways to Enhance Your Career" Book
A while back, I sent in an article to David and Michelle Riklan, the operators of SelfGrowth.Com for possible inclusion in their cooperative book project, titled “101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career”. This is a compilation of 101 articles with practical, solid advice on how you can take action and improve your career.
Entire Creating a Resume Webinar Now Available
I’ve been posting chunks of the “Creating a Killer Resume” webinar and resume coaching session for the past couple of weeks, but have found a good way to share it with you in its entirety through Amazon S3.
Creating a Killer Resume: Webinar Replay, Part 3
This is part 3 of my recent “Creating a Killer Résumé” webinar, where I did a sample coaching session for a second-step job seeker in Student Affairs. If you find it informative, please share, like and re-tweet the link, and “like” it on YouTube.
More segments are coming next week.
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