Excellence in Business Communication, 13th Edition
Chapter 15. Building Careers and Writing Resumes
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We write a lot about resumes — what to do, and what not to do.
"Almost everyone is terrible at multitasking.
"Serial entrepreneur James Caan (photo, left) says in a recent LinkedIn post that he has seen thousands of resumes during the course of his career.
"Culled from Architizer's second annual A+ Awards, which are chosen by 300 experts and a popular vote, these are a handful of the most amazing office spaces in the world," writes Drake Baer in a piece at BusinessInsider.
"Plenty of professionals have employment gaps on their resumes.
"One in five job-seekers (19.
"In her new book "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette," Barbara Pachter (photo, left) writes about the specific skills professionals need to understand when presenting themselves in a business setting," writes Vivian Giang.
"Hiring managers scan resumes pretty quickly (some studies put it at just a matter of seconds).
Christian Ryan Jyoti (photo, left) covers the topic for FastCompany.
Suzanne Lucas (photo, left) presents the results of a new survey by CareerBuilder.
"In a world rich with social platforms to express oneself, good listeners are a rare species," writes Shreya Roy in a piece for EconomicTimes.
Hagan Blount introduces the topic and presents the infographic at TheMuse.
"It's estimated that 2% of the world's population suffers from face blindness, or prosopagnosia, a neurological condition preventing people from recognizing faces.
"A compilation of 25 basic styles of blogging from award winning blogger and author of Personality Not Included, Rohit Bhargava (photo, left).
Here is a Dave Paradi SlideShare presentation "based on ideas in his Present It So They Get It.
"Here’s the thing: Editing is more than just giving something a once-over to eliminate egregious typos and grammar mistakes.
"There's a lot of resume advice out there—and some of it conflicting.
"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.
Work4Labs has created an infographic named "Mobile Recruiting by the (Surprising) Numbers.
"Talking about yourself is hard.
Check out the Pinterest page on employment.
Alison Griswold (photo, left) presents an article based on LinkedIn's list of the ten most overused words on resumes.
"Pronunciation is the ugly sister of language teaching, coming way behind vocabulary and grammar.