This week, a reader asked if he should use white font to get more keywords, or even the entire job description on his resume. On the surface, hiding the job description within your resume seems like a really smart way to beat the system. In reality, there are many dangers that don’t meet the eye [...]

Linkedin unveiled an interesting new capability today – Company Follow. This new feature can provide some valuable new help for job seekers. Let’s look at what’s included in the Company Follow feature and how job seekers can use it to explore the “hidden job market” … Read more … Ben Parr from Mashable described Linkedin [...]

It’s ridiculously easy and inexpensive to create a video resume today and there are some definite advantages. Few candidates today utilize video resumes – in my experience, it’s only a few percent of candidates (perhaps higher in fields like advertising and video production). Video resumes can help a job seeker in so many ways, I [...]

A purple squirrel is rarely found in nature – that’s why recruiters use the term for candidates that have combinations of skill sets that are also rarely found. A purple squirrel is a C#, SQL, and ASP.net developer, who has financial markets experience, and speaks German. His brother (also a purple squirrel) is a Financial [...]

Who’s Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 4/26/10. The retail, business services, telecommunications, health care and hospitality verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards. Read more … Not only is this [...]

Who’s Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 4-23-10. For the past week government, defense, manufacturing, automotive, business services and aerospace employers announced the largest layoffs. Read more …This information is intended for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested [...]

Today’s employers hire Subject Matter Experts to solve problems. Managers and executives might not like this, but the day of the Generalist is over. Now that it’s easy to completely customize and individualize a resume to demonstrate Subject Matter Expertise, why would a hiring manager give a second glance at a general resume that didn’t [...]

This was a question sent to me in response to my daily articles. This week, a reader asked why she’s getting many interviews, yet always coming in 2nd or 3rd? There can be many answers to this broad of a question, perhaps having to do with the interview, follow up, resume, other materials, but it [...]

Many candidates think that employers just look for experience. Most times candidates overlook that most employers may give even more weight to accomplishments. Understanding how an employer views each will shed some light on the importance of both experience and accomplishments in your resume. Hiring managers view experience as possessing the minimum skill level to [...]

Who are you? Your hiring manager also wants to know who you are, not just what you do. Few candidates communicate this effectively. Read more … Most people use a resume and other marketing materials to tell a hiring manager what they are – an accountant, a software developer, a customer service manager, an administrative [...]