You're not fooling anyone with the lies on your resume, and you're only hurting yourself by submitting a deceptive résumé to a prospective employer. Experts know that during a time of high unemployment like we have now, candidates are more likely to misrepresent their credentials, especially education. Applicants may feel they need to lie in order to get an interview, but you're wasting both your time and the employer's if you aren't who your résumé says you are.
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If there's one common thread of knowledge out there regarding résumés, it's that action verbs are necessary to get the interviewer interested. However, not everyone knows how to use these verbs to enhance their résumés, and countless candidates don't use them to the best of their advantage.
Run through your résumé and look for sentences that begin with the phrase "responsible for," like "responsible for maintaining accurate financial records," and consider revising these bullet points.
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The most common type of resume is in chronological form and lists job experience starting with your most recent position. Another type of resume is the functional resume, which lists experience and skills in a nonchronological format. A typical functional resume includes a section highlighting qualifications and elaborating accomplishments; another section with places of employment, job title, and dates employed; and other sections with education and community service participation.
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When you think your résumé is the best it can be and are ready to send it to employers, stop and perform this simple task before proceeding. Give it a once over with one question in mind: Is my résumé redundant? Too often job applicants are prone to relying on the same verbs to convey their duties and accomplishments, but doing so can threaten their chances of landing an interview.
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The ideal job hunting situation is when you're currently employed and looking for a new gig, not only for the obvious financial reasons, but because sudden job loss can render us panicked and decision-impaired. Frantically searching for a new job could sabotage what you've set out to achieve, and you could be back on the market for another position in no time.
Career coach Deborah Brown-Volkman explains why it's important to have a plan when you're job searching and says, "You don't want to walk into someone else's nightmare.
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When TeamSugar member dancingpanda1988asked for tips on ways to sell yourself that aren't used and everyone else who is trying to get into the door, ilanic13 offered some very useful insight that I didn't want any of you to miss.
Something that I've definitely learned in my years in the professional world is that sometimes you don't have to be the most qualified, but the most agreeable, the one that fits in the environment best, or the most willing to learn and throw yourself into it. I think sometimes that is more important than having skills, since it's often the people who are passionate about something that see things through the roughest of times.
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Smaller coffee shops neighboring chain-of-all-chains, Starbucks, told The Seattle Times they no longer fear being pushed out of business by their famous Frappucino-making competitor. While Starbucks was initially a threat to independent shops, they were able to channel the success of the chain and sustain viable businesses, too. Find out what this attitude has to do with you and job searching when you .
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When the statistic was established that half of hiring managers have caught lies on applicants' résumés, it was only a matter of time before these witnesses dished about the worst of the worst.
Some things are just too outrageous not to be shared and most of these lies fall into that category; here are ten tall tales hiring managers came across in their searches for quality candidates.
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If you've ever sat through an organized round-table meeting at work, you're probably all too familiar with the phrase "bottom line." It's thrown around almost as much as "at the end of the day," but bottom line has more meanings than simply trying to summarize a point, and whether you're employed or looking for a job it's important that you understand them.
When you're employed, you need to contribute to what makes your company tick and show that your unique skills and work ethic are not only noteworthy, but valuable.
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