How to Avoid Résumé, Recruiting, and Job Search Scams

If you’ve been looking for a job for a while, a seemingly out of the blue email from a recruiter offering you an interview for a 6-figure job or a résumé review service offering to optimize your résumé for free can appear to be the boon you need to advance your career.

But here’s the thing: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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Should I Put My Vaccination Status on My Résumé?

“Fully vaccinated for COVID-19.”

Should you include that information on your résumé?

According to job search site Indeed.com, job postings on the site requiring vaccination against COVID-19 increased 34 percent by the end of the first week of August 2021 compared to one month prior. Job postings requiring vaccination were up 90 percent over the same time period.

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How to Avoid Being One of the 27 Million “Hidden Workers” Filtered Out of Job Applications By ATS

A recent Insider article revealed that a whopping 27 million job seekers have their applications sent into the void by ATS (applicant tracking systems) before their résumés are ever seen by a hiring manager or recruiter.

If you’ve ever experienced having your application rejected within hours or even minutes, you can probably relate to the frustration those millions of job seekers are feeling.

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How to Address Short Stints in Your Résumé

In today’s job market, it’s common for people to have short stints on their résumés, especially after COVID-19 hit. With layoffs, downsizing, and other major changes brought on by the pandemic, workers at all stages of their careers have found themselves spending less time in their positions than they intended.

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How to Successfully Quit Your Job and Land a New One During the Great Resignation

Did the COVID-19 pandemic make you rethink your current job and your career as a whole?

You’re not alone.

Over 95% of workers are considering resigning from their jobs and 92% are willing to pivot to a different industry to find the right position for them.

This phenomenon is so widespread that it even has a name: the Great Resignation.

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5 Ways to Enhance an Entry Level Resume

Transitioning from school to the workforce can be a bit overwhelming. With most jobs getting hundreds of applicants, it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd – especially when you’ve spent the majority of your life in school.

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How to Get Your Resume Past ATS and in the Hiring Manager’s Hands

The internet has totally transformed the way we look for jobs. Gone are the days of walking into a business with your résumé and asking to speak to a manager.

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How To Craft A Mission Statement

Think carefully about what you want from your own mission statement. Is it for the right people to take notice? For hiring managers, to inspire them to read your applicant first? Or, to portray a confident applicant ready for the challenge ahead? Probably all of the above.

Looking Ahead with our Careers on our Minds

In such an uncertain time, we all naturally begin to look for constructive solutions and answers. With a lot of time spent indoors with our careers on our minds, The Writique is hoping to offer an opportunity to invest in your future and be able to think ahead to a brighter time.

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Does Your Résumé Contain Too Much Information?

After all, including all of your past work experience will increase your odds of showing how qualified you are for a certain position, right? Unfortunately, this is not the case—but is a common mistake many job seekers make. In reality, an overabundance of irrelevant, wordy, or extraneous details can actually hurt your chances of securing an interview. In fact, too much information can cause a résumé to look cluttered, and most recruiters or hiring managers won’t read beyond the professional summary if the page appears too “busy”.