Learning how to effectively show off your experience and transferable skills through your résumé and cover letter can help you land jobs as an entry-level professional or career transitioner.
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Finding a new job after a layoff always comes with worries about how employers will look at a gap in employment. Unfortunately, some hiring managers discriminate against unemployed people while looking to fill a position.
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Finding a job that fulfills and excites you is hard enough. But when name bias, age bias, and microaggressions are thrown into the mix, it’s even harder.
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Tailoring your résumé for applicant tracking systems will be your key to getting noticed. Match the language used in the job description.
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Make sure your LinkedIn profile is optimized to be found, and representative of your skills. LinkedIn is the first impression future employers have of your professional experience.
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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.
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The recruitment and hiring processes is increasingly relying on the internet to interview and hire new employees.
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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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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”.
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While men will apply to a job if they have only 60% of the qualifications listed, women won’t apply unless they have all of them. But despite applying less frequently than men, women are more likely to get hired.
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Without using keywords, especially for positions advertised online, your resume will likely never receive a first glance from recruiters.
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