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10 Tips for Writing a Performing Resume

Your resume is a very important factor in getting hired for any position. However, certain common resume mistakes can also sabotage your chances. Here are ten tips to greatly improve your resume.

1. Include Your Contact Information at the Very Top

This should be the first thing a person sees. Information that should be listed includes your name, home and work phone numbers, street address, and e-mail.

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How to Get a Job Interview

How to get a job interviewThese days it is becoming harder and harder to distinguish yourself from the other job hunters that you are competing with.  Companies are looking for a specific candidate to fit their mold, and you may not know what that candidate looks like.  Even though you cannot read minds or see the future, there are certain steps you can take to give you a competitive advantage, or at least pass a computer screening.

Choosing the Right Words

Whether you are writing your resume or your cover letter, you will need to carefully choose your words in order to pass most companies’ computer screenings.  These words are referred to as keywords, and they are specific to the job that you are applying to.  You can usually find these keywords within the job description.  Inclusion of these words is important, but it is also important to make sure that you are writing your resume for human eyes as well.  So don’t stuff your resume full of these words just to pass the computer screening.

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Resume Blunders

13 Resume Blunders That Can Cost You The Interview

1.A BLAND OR GENERIC OBJECTIVE: If your objective could be applied to a marketing resume as easily as a resume for an accounting position, then your objective says nothing and will get you nowhere. An objective is NOT some required paragraph at the top of the page that is an exercise in 5 lines of job speak. It's an actual and real description of your skills as they're related to who you are and what you want. It should vary with the type of job for which you are applying.

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Juggling College and Work

A Full Time Career and Full Time Education is not easy.

College and full time career.

Colleges today are designed to conform to people that are holding down a job while also managing a family.Half of the college student population is made up of non traditional age students. Non traditional students are much more likely to be holding down a full time job than other students and many are already even established in a job. Very often the employer requests that these people return to school and many times they will also pay for the classes.

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Advance your Career with Online Learning

Online learning to advance your career.

Online Learning Enables Individuals

Have you found that you are stuck at your job with no room for advancement because you have maxed out the position that you are in but don’t have the education to advance? You are not alone. Why not consider returning to college and get that degree that you may have been putting off? 

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Completing a Graduate Degree

Do you prefer a traditional or an online graduate classroom?

Technologies have changed all ways of daily life. Many students decide to complete a graduate education and they are presented with various options. Students today can choose from campus-based, distance, and online classes. It is up to the student to decide which option is best for them depending on their lifestyle and obligations. 

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