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Daily doses of career advice and information from the minds of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers.
Sh*t Job Seekers Say (by Cachinko)
Fortune's Best Companies with no layoffs - ever!
These employers survived a struggling economy while staying loyal to their workers. Meet 14 of this year’s Best Companies that, as of January, have never had a layoff.
Alan Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design
“If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
There’s a difference between having a job and having a career. A job is a stepping stone to get to your dreams. A career is when you’re living your dreams. It’s NEVER too late to pursue your dreams.
(Source: kehleymacnub)
Five Do's and Don'ts of Résumé Writing
Most of us have been working on our résumés since high school to prepare ourselves for college. Now that we’ve graduated from college, our résumés should be shinier shouldn’t it? Before you hit “Send” on your online application, here are five do’s and don’ts of résumé writing.
DON’T
- Leave out volunteer work. Experience is experience! As long as it pertains to the position, talk about it. If it doesn’t, take it off of your résumé and add it to your LinkedIn profile. See my LinkedIn profile for example.
- Leave out extracurricular activities from college. If you can, weave the positions you held in your clubs into your skills and proficiencies. Show that you had an active life aside from being buried in books.
- Put your home address. You will provide this when you are “official” with the company. The hiring manager doesn’t need to know where you live. Instead, use the extra space to showcase your experience.
- Put your junior college under “Education.” Get back some valuable space by listing your recent college where your bachelor’s degree was obtained. No need to put that you received a two year degree then a four year. If you have a degree, it’s all that matters to the hiring manager.
- List a few significant awards you have received and throw the rest into your LinkedIn profile.
The Four-Year Career: Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where “career planning” is an oxymoron.
“Shorter job tenure is associated with a new era of insecurity, volatility, and risk. It’s part of the same employment picture as the increase in part-time, freelance, and contract work; mass layoffs and buyouts; and “creative destruction” within industries. All these changes put more pressure on the individual—to provide our own health care, bridge gaps in income with savings, manage our own retirement planning, and invest in our own education to keep skills marketable and up to date.”
