“A strong resume is still the gateway to an interview.” -Alexandra Samuel, Vice President of Social Media at Vision Critical (Harvard Business Review) While it is vital to create a stellar online presence on sites such as LinkedIn, your resume is indicative of your career goals and accomplishments. Perform an audit of your current resume.
Imagine for a moment that you are a model, and you’re hoping to be hired for a great fashion show. You send an envelope to the agency hiring for the show, inside of which is your photo, so that they can see whether you have the look they are searching for. But instead of a
Finding a job in a struggling economy is difficult since the job market is saturated with so many qualified applicants. Employers want an employee who is well-educated and comes with the knowledge necessary to do the job well. Unfortunately, education costs continue to rise, making it more and more difficult to obtain a level of
The Job Seeker Workshop is a monthly event held at Wall Street Services Headquarters in New York City. The event was created by our recruiters as they saw a need in the industry to help educate Finance Professionals in their job search. A seasoned Wall Street Services recruiter, Suzanne Havranek believes, “there is so many
With over 25 years of recruiting in the Finance industry, we have seen a LOT of resumes. Some have been really great and some have been not so great. In an effort to help job seekers find Financial Jobs, improve and optimize your resume, we have created a Resume Checklist for you to use. The
photo via I’ve found that young job hunters who have limited professional experience tend to worry about the attractiveness of their resume and its effect on their prospects. But most of the time, there’s no need for concern. No candidate perfect (especially this early in their careers), and hiring managers know that. Furthermore, job postings are
It is rare these days to find a company willing to sift through a printed pile of resumes. More often than not, they gather the resumes of all their applicants and place them into a single searchable database. By searching for key terms that describe the skills they want and by 86-ing resumes without them,
There has been quite a response to my last blog post, “Advice to Hiring Managers: A great candidate is more than their resume,” with most respondents sharing their own experience with hiring managers being slow to hire for open positions due to a perceived glut of highly qualified candidates. I thought I would give
There are a lot of blogs filled with horrible advice for job seekers out there – this article on resume writing by Kerry Hannon is not one of them. So, rather than recreate the wheel I thought I would summarize and comment on this very helpful article. You can read the full article here, at
