Monthly Archives: May 2010

Résumé 2.0: Seven Ways to Upgrade your Résumé

1.  Personalize as well as customize your résumé. 2.  Don’t just list your job description and tasks in each job. Describe the goals and reasons you were hired and how you achieved them. 3.  Liz Ryan, workplace expert and in demand speaker says to avoid, “corporate speak” such as “results oriented individual”, “excellent communication skills”Continue Reading

Confidence Building for Women Job Seekers: 7 Action Steps

1.  Assess where you are.  After being laid off and not getting hired after multiple interviews you must check in with yourself about how you’re feeling emotionally • Are you feeling like a failure? Are you feeling rejected? • Being accepted is one of our most primal and primary desires in life 2.  Don’t takeContinue Reading