Over the past five years, I have taught résumé-writing classes to literally thousands of people, and every single time I get into a classroom, I ask the attendees where they are looking for employment. Believe it or not, but out of all of those people, I’ve only met two (yes, really-2) that have ever found… Read more »
An Employer’s Perspective on Job Search Plans
This week, Tamara Roberts, People’s Department Director of Martin Hospitality, is our guest blogger. As the person managing human resources for a multi-unit hospitality operation that includes the prestigious Stephanie Inn, rated as an AAA Four-Diamond hotel property on the spectacular Oregon Coast, Tamara provides a unique perspective of applicants: Last week, Dawn blogged about… Read more »
Creating a Job Search Plan and Strategy
For some people, the loss of employment becomes completely debilitating as well as demoralizing. Consider the fact that most people spend the greater portion of their time during the day functioning in the workplace, it is easy to start associating our personal self-identity with our work and career. When the paradigm shifts, however, and suddenly… Read more »
Keywords: The Key to Getting Your Résumé Noticed
As the job market tightens and there are an ever-increasing number of applicants for each job opening, standing out from the crowd is becoming a matter of survival of the fittest. Or in the case of résumés, survival of the ‘key-wordiest’. Human resource and hiring managers have employed a variety of tools to help ‘weed… Read more »