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Another Reason to Get Your Credit Report — Your Job Search
By now you know your credit score, credit report, and fiscal responsibility are vital pieces of keeping lenders in your good graces. But, did you ever consider that a less than ideal credit score could be a deal breaker for a prospective employer?
According to the Wall Street Journal, employers running background checks on potential hires are also anxious to get their hands on their credit reports.
"Pig Wrestling" and Other Things Never to Say on Your Resume
Standout resumes are one thing, but narcissistic or just bizarre personal revelations have no place on your application for employment. Just ask some of these employers giving their accounts of the wackiest resumes they ever received on CareerBuilder. The crazy claims made on these resumes will make you wonder what these applicants were thinking — because even if your greatest personal accomplishment is "getting back together with my boyfriend upon his release from prison," shouldn't you just keep that to yourself?
CareerExcuse.com: Brilliant or Baffling?
It's probably safe to assume that some of us have included a little white lie (or two) on the page in a move to build resumes that impress. That's not to say that we're all liars, but certainly small embellishments make their way onto our resumes and cover letters in an effort to paint our career history in the best light. Still, in light of the economic climate over the past couple of years, more and more applicants are lacking career history altogether, or have lapses of time between positions that must be accounted for on resumes and job applications.
Job Search Tip: Getting Desperate? Don't Let It Show
Once you’ve been job hunting for a while, desperation starts to kick in. You may find yourself thinking that you don’t care what the job is or what it pays — you just need a steady paycheck coming in. But if you’ve reached that point in your search, focus on not letting your desperation show; otherwise, you could be making the process even harder on yourself.
10 Ways to Improve Your Resume Right Now
Your resume might be a single piece of paper, but that document is an extension of you. It's one of the first ways employers evaluate your potential to fill an open position, so even if you're confident in your interview abilities, you won't get an invitation to show them off unless your resume is compelling. Think you've done everything you can to create a solid resume?
10 Tips For Getting (and Nailing) a Job Interview
An increasingly large pool of unemployed workers, many of whom are highly qualified and have killer resumes, means that getting an interview and landing a new job is a longer and more challenging process these days. After sorting through piles of resumes, hiring managers are now holding more rounds of interviews than before. Get through the first round of interviews with these tips.
10 Easy-to-Fix Cover Letter Mistakes
I have yet to meet a job hunter who doesn't dread writing cover letters. They're time-consuming and tedious, and unfortunately, they're unavoidable. It's easy to break cover letter etiquette if you're not careful.
7 Tricky Tactics Employers Use to Evaluate You
You've prepared and practiced all of your interview p's and q's, but hiring managers are no longer settling for taking what you present at face value. They're digging deeper and using any information that surfaces to determine your worthiness as a candidate for the job. Find out if your bases are truly covered when you discover the tricky ways some hiring managers evaluate applicants.
Reassess Your Job Search For the New Year
This month, many of us are making resolutions and setting goals for our careers in 2010. But if you’re still on the hunt for a new job, don’t think you’re off the hook — the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reevaluate and fine-tune your job search. Whatever it is that's hindering your search, I've got tips to get you back on track.
Almost Half of You Interviewed in 2009
It might have been a tough year job-wise, but nearly half of you scored at least one interview this year — 43 percent of you, to be exact. Good news that most of you were on the job hunt, and landed one to five interviews through the whole of the year, either unemployed and actively job-seeking or maybe just looking for a new position to shake things up.
In any case, it was great to hear that most of you were out there winning over recruiters, and while about 36 percent of you reported no interviews at all, it was also a good year to stick to with the job you know.
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