But one aspect of work remains remarkably unchanged: the importance of the traditional, crisp, succinct & impactful resume.
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How to Avoid the Resume Black Hole
At Spot On Talent, people are our purpose. Are you ready to start your search? Submit your resume! If your search is on the horizon. Submit your resume! If you have colleagues searching. Share this email. We want to partner with you to aid in your search.
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Your Resume and Its Current State of Affairs
High COVID-19 unemployment numbers are producing active candidates. Passive candidates are on the verge of venturing into a job change now that the new normal is settling in. In either case, a concise well-planned resume is the foundation your next career will be built upon. Now more than ever, it’s important to take stock of the state of your resume […]
Read moreBuilding a Rad Resume
Your resume needs to make it past numerous gatekeepers, including Internet filters, HR specialists and recruiters. Before it gets to a hiring manager or a director, you have been vetted multiple times. Follow these rules to make it past the masses and to the interview. Link it in Your contact bar should be simple, easy to read and even easier […]
Read moreInsider Tips for Getting Past the Recruiter
I’m a recruiter. I’m the roadblock standing between you and your possible dream job. You’ve seen the job posted online or perhaps you heard about it from a friend and it sounds perfect! Now, how do you get from that blinking cursor on your computer screen application to the interview seat? Through me. I’m not trying to gloat … I’m here to […]
Read moreGet to the Point by Cutting Fluff Words
Efficiency is necessary in today’s busy lives. Like you, I have a lot to do and very little time to do it in, which means I have to be efficient and exact wherever I can. I apply this approach to language and communication too. I don’t have time for drawn-out email exchanges and confusing analogies, and I bet you and […]
Read moreA Writer’s Thanksgiving
Writing is hard work. Whether you write a blog, a cover letter or an email, staring down a blank sheet of paper is like willing yourself to run an 8-miler the day after Thanksgiving. You know you really should do it – it would be good for you, too – but there are so many other things you would rather […]
Read moreEliminate Trick Words in Your Writing
Halloween is tomorrow! Sugar fiends rejoice! In the spirit of the holiday, I present you with this communication treat: Eliminate trick words in your writing that undermine your message. A few examples of trick words are: It. “It” is a pronoun, and a lesser caliber stand-in than he, she or they because it is too often used as a nondescript, vague filler word […]
Read moreTake No Prisoners Approach to Communicating Effectively
One day soon, my kids are going to stop letting me out of the house. They are going to refuse to be seen in public with me. I embarrass them, you see, because I am turning in to my grandmother, one grammar correction at a time. Grammie was an amazing and loving woman, who took language very seriously. Grammar, enunciation, […]
Read moreSummer Reading for a Grammar Geek
As a lover of the English language, I have assembled a small library over the years of books about writing (yes, pretty geeky of me, I know). One of my favorite books is Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language, by Richard Lederer. Lederer is a former English teacher and writer about writing who collects language gaffes […]
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