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Category Archives: job skills
Career Advice for Millennials: Inspiration for Your Future
Millennial workers (those born between 1982 and 2004) are facing a more promising job market, with a wide range of career options available to them. Factors like technology, more pay and employment opportunities for women, and social media have Read More
Creating an Attention Grabbing Resume Cover Letter
You’ve done it. You crafted a resume that properly summarizes your skills and experience and tailored it to the job you are applying to. But sending your resume without a cover letter is like forgetting a beverage with your meal. Read More
How to Make Your Resume Shine and Stand Out to Employers
When you apply for a job, your resume is the golden key that determines whether you get to the next steps of the hiring process. No matter how qualified of a candidate you are, or how top notch your interview Read More
What Interviewers Want to Hear from a Job Candidate
If you get called for an interview, its’ obvious the potential employer thinks you have qualifications that will enable you to do the job in question. But seeing it on your resume is one thing, now they want to see Read More
Trends in American Manufacturing Jobs
Just like trends in tech (think about the recent uptick in ride-sharing services and Internet of Things devices), the American manufacturing sector ebbs and flows with culture as a whole. Manufacturing jobs are still as important as ever to the Read More
Your Opportunity Awaits! Tips for Disabled Job Seekers
Job searching can be difficult. Many job seekers face roadblocks along the way, such as lack of skills for a job, trouble getting their resume through applicant tracking systems, lack of references or a hard to explain gap in Read More
5 Job Interview Tips for Introverts to Calm and Energize
Introverts possess many skills that make them excellent employees, especially in roles that don’t require them to be interacting with people all the time. And for an introvert, many aspects of a job search are right up their alley. Read More
Job Automation and Unemployment: Should You Worry?
There has been nonstop talk about the automation of jobs in many industries, from manufacturing to transportation to radiology, and the job loss that may result. In 2013, there was a popular study done around this idea by Carl Benedickt Read More
Robots in the Way? How to Get Past Resume Screening Software
As resume screening software (also known as applicant tracking systems) becomes more and more advanced, optimizing your resume to get past this software can become a challenge. You want your resume to win over the robots, but you don’t want Read More