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Avoid common mistakes – Companies receive dozens if not hundreds of résumés, and most HR reps will find any excuse to throw yours out if it means less work for them. To help your résumé avoid the fate of becoming a makeshift trash-basketball, keep it to one page and be sure to check it for typos, punctuation, etc.
Education – Since recent graduates don’t have much work experience, tout your educational highlights. Include your university, major(s), minor(s), honors, extracurriculars, and GPA. Include high school info only as long as you don’t have much work experience to discuss—generally, no one will know it so it’s not always worth the space.
Work experience – List all prior jobs and internships, including the dates you worked there and your position. As you describe your experience, make sure you stress skills that are relevant to the job you’re applying for.
Interests – Include any additional skills (but be sure you can back them up), interests, and hobbies. Hopefully, there is an interest or unique skill that you and your interview can bond over in the interview.
Format – You’d be surprised how much formatting counts. Do yourself a favor and don’t start a résumé from scratch. Download a template from the Internet or get one from a friend.
The key that opens the door to our first job is our résumé. Think of them as codpieces or breast implants for jobseekers—they’re the first thing an employer notices, they should be slightly embellished while maintaining a semblance of reality, and they should take a fair amount of adjusting to feel comfortable
Beginning a cover letter by saying, “I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm," may seem like self-sabatotage. But what if you’re applying for a position at a site called I Can Haz Cheezburger? Then perhaps you’ve just ingeniously separated yourself from the pack…
If you’re an ’08 grad and your only firm plans for life after graduation are moving back home, don’t beat yourself up about it too much—at least you can blame the “economy” when your parents ask you why you don’t have a job yet.
NEW YORK, NY, April 1, 2008—According to a report released last week by Monster.com, an unprecedented 95% of this year’s graduates are expected to move home after commencement. This marks a 35% increase from a prior survey conducted in 2005.
Theodore Bressman, the editor of the Intern Memo, joins us to share his thoughts on the demise of the company that taught him most, if not all, of the things he knows about business.
Recently I've been spending an inordinate amount of time with this off-colored culinary savant. Yesterday, after whipping up a fresh pitcher of iced Green Tea, he said something that was very interesting
Feeling bad about forgetting to bring your resume to an interview or missing a cue to talk about your summer in Ecuador? Don’t worry, it could have been way worse. Reuters has a piece on the top 10 interview gaffes from a CareerBuilder.com survey of hiring managers
Last year, when my friend Cheddar Ted and I were living next to New York’s Amsterdam projects and coaching middle school sports part-time, we often found ourselves sitting around watching The Tudors on demand and
Last year, an exasperated job-hunter sent his resume to career blog Jibber Jobber asking for help. Instead of responding immediately, the blogger compiled an impressive team of hiring managers and professional resume writers
On Saturday, the Division III Trinity Tigers found themselves on their own 39 yard line with two seconds left, needing a touchdown to defeat Milsaps College. For all intents and purposes, the game was done and dusted. But then
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