Excellence in Business Communication, 11th Edition
Chapter 15. Building Careers and Writing Resumes
"Startups face tremendous pressure while competing with their bigger counterparts.
"The most important thing you should keep in mind is if anyone would want to share or recommend the specific post to their family and friends.
"There's a lot of resume advice out there—and some of it conflicting.
"The changing nature of résumés, use of applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn and other social media sites, Skype video conferencing, big data applications and more are all impacting the way employers and hope-to-be-employees find, communicate and interact with each other," writes Arnie Fertig in his introduction of a post at USNews.
"Everyday, each and every one of us interacts with the Cloud in some way.
"If you use your resume to apply for published jobs, then it is likely you will be competing with a few hundred other resumes and you can improve your odds of surviving this grueling process by (1) including what most reviewers want to see and (2) eliminating what most of them don't want to see.
"In a decade of recruiting for countless sales and marketing jobs spanning numerous industries and locations, there is a reliable stable of tricks I’ve seen job seekers use to put themselves ahead of the crowd in any interviewing situation," states Ken Sundheim (photo, left) in a piece featured at PersonalBrandingBlog.
"When it comes to building your personal brand online, you have to constantly examine whether or not you are being presented in the right light.
'You’ve succeeded in getting a social media strategy in place, you’re sharing amazing, relevant content – and then WHAM! Someone posts a negative comment, and you feel like all of the wind has been let out of your sails.
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Randy Krum features an infographic on the topic.
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Work4Labs has created an infographic named "Mobile Recruiting by the (Surprising) Numbers.
"Talking about yourself is hard.
Check out the Pinterest page on employment.
"Let’s take a look at the top social media brands as if it was a game of SNAKES and LADDERS.
"See what the U.
Alison Griswold (photo, left) presents an article based on LinkedIn's list of the ten most overused words on resumes.
"The following is a list of LinkedIn tools for business to help increase your LinkedIn effectiveness.
"SMS remains the most useful engagement tool on mobile, followed by QR codes, two-way SMS and push notifications according to this new infographic.
"We’ve all seen it.
"In addition to your resume, everyone should have a professional bio," writes Marie Raperto (photo, left).
We write a lot about resumes — what to do, and what not to do.
