How to Explain Gaps in Employment
As if job hunting wasn’t hard enough already, sometimes unexpected life changes can complicate the process even further. Introduction to Employment & Resume Gaps This article is about how to explain a resume gap in a job interview. This is a...
How to Write an Interview Thank You Email
There are many components of a successful job interview, including thorough preparation, confident body language, professional presentation, and clear articulation of your skills and experience. Once you’ve mastered all of these details and walk...
Career Change Tips: The Dos and Don’ts of Navigating Your Next Step
In our coaching business at Skillful Communications, we work with people in all sorts of industries (and age groups) who are pursuing career changes, and there are plenty of reasons they’re doing so. With rapid developments occurring in technology...
6 Tricks to Make Over Your Resume… Fast
Is your career as exciting and fulfilling as it could be? If not, our resident resume expert has some great tips on how to refresh your resume to help you attract a more thrilling job this year. Whether you’re actively job hunting or just casually...
Recruiters Reveal: Top 10 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Job
You may be familiar with some of these issues – others may surprise you because very few interviewers are willing to share honest feedback with candidates. In Part 2, Melisa talks about mistakes that sabotaged so many of my interview coaching...
How Long Should a Resume Be?
Why The Answer to "How Long Should a Resume Be?" Hasn't Changed The experts say that your resume should be one page long exactly. Is that good advice or outdated? The truth is that one-page resumes are generally preferred by hiring professionals...
How to Use Twitter to Find a Job
Compared with social media job search heavyweights like LinkedIn, Twitter often flies under the radar as a tool for job search success. Don’t let that underdog status fool you, though. Our own Elizabeth Magill walks us through Twitter's surprising...
25 Great College Graduation Gift Ideas
Looking for some great college graduation gift ideas? If only you could buy the kid a job! The next best thing is a useful gift that will truly help them in their job search. If you have a recent or soon-to-be college grad on your gift list this...
The Top 50 Best Job Search Sites You Need to Know About
You already know that Big Interview has you covered when it comes to learning how to ace your job interviews. But what if you're having trouble actually finding great opportunities and landing those interviews? We asked Elizabeth Magill to evaluate...
The Job-Seeker’s Guide to Company Research
How can you get an edge over the millions of other job seekers out there? Research. Research can help you uncover hidden job opportunities and greatly improve your odds of acing the interview and landing the job. The key is to understand how to...
4 Critical Steps for Using LinkedIn to Land a Job
LinkedIn, with its more than 259 million users, is the most popular social network for professionals today. According to LinkedIn, more than two new users join the network every second. That means it is so much more than a simple social or...
How to Write a Damn Good LinkedIn Profile
This is the first in our new series on harnessing the power of LinkedIn for your job search. In this first post, Elizabeth Magill covers everything you need to know to turn your LinkedIn profile into an effective tool for landing interviews and...
Resume Makeover — College Grad Resume Examples and Advice
In a new series of posts, we will be sharing resume samples and best practices to help you land more interviews. First up, our resume expert and professional resume writer Kimberly Sarmiento analyzes a new grad resume and makes a few key changes to...
Intern “Legos” Herself to Land a Job
We rarely come across any truly creative approaches to the job search process. Most times, the gimmicks come across as way too desperate. However, today we found a winner. Today on Reddit, we noticed a post from an extremely creative person...
Cover Letter Examples That Will Get You Noticed
A strong resume cover letter can mean the difference between landing a job interview and getting passed over. Read and live by this comprehensive cover letter guide from our resume expert and professional resume writer Kimberly Sarmiento and check...
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