resumes

The professional social networking web site ResumeSponge launched Wednesday, offering to help job seekers organize their resume and expand their job hunting networks. The site is entering a marketplace that is growing increasingly crowded with the likes of Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other...

Call it a testimony to the times. A Salt Lake City trucking company's quest to fill a $13-an hour administrative assistant position at its Indiana driving school generated nearly 500 resume hits from all over the country, according to a New York Times story. The job entailed data entry, copy...

I was at the local -- the town will remain nameless to prevent mysterious overdue fines from appearing on my account -- library recently trying to print something and I was shocked at the cost: 20 cents per page.I was mildly annoyed, but paid the fee. But in a larger sense, I believe that the...

It's harder than ever to find a job ... but it still can be done. For Walletpop Radio, I interviewed workplace expert Liz Ryan for some terrific advice about the best strategies for finding a new job -- and saving the one you have now. Listen to the BlogTalk Radio podcast to hear Liz explain:...

From wearing a sign around the neck reading "Entry level job seeker" to paying $1,000 to rent a billboard with "Hire Me!" plastered on it, job seekers are trying less conventional ways to get their name and resume out in the marketplace.On Wednesday I wrote about how to pump up your resume with...

For the 13.7 million unemployed people in the United States, their resumes stand only a five-second glance by employers.Considering all of the work that goes into putting a resume together, those estimated five seconds hardly seems fair, nor nearly long enough for an employer to get an idea of your...

Free is good. Free when you're looking for a job, especially if you're unemployed, is even better.So next Tuesday, come one, come all, to FedEx Office, which used to be known as FedEx Kinko's, and before that, Kinko's, where people can print 25 free copies of their resumes on high-quality paper.The...

The Charlotte Observer posts an intriguing question in one of their stories that ran earlier this week: Is your resume too good?In other words, as reporter Kirsten Vallie observes, "faced with the cruelest job market in years, some unemployed professionals are lowering their standards for the jobs...

It's getting increasingly competitive in the job market these days. With current unemployment figures ranging anywhere from 5% to 7.5%, depending on who you believe, the search for a decent, well paying job has become an undertaking which can quickly lead to disappointment. Job hunting is a...