Say Cheese! Cover Letters Present a Candid Snapshot of You to Potential Employers

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Teena Rose

Whether in your personal life or in business, you only get one chance to make a first impression…we’ve all heard that before, right? So, why do so many job seekers screw up something so important? Read more

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Cover Letter is Not Synonymous with Share Everything!

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez

This week we’re exploring strategies and best practices for writing cover letters. So take out your cover letter, dust it off, and let’s go. Read more

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Career Centers Need to Fight Back

By CAREEREALISM Founder, J.T. O’Donnell

It doesn’t take much looking around online to see colleges and their career centers are taking some heat right now. Recently, marketing guru and thought-leader, Seth Godin, wrote this intense blog post about the ‘coming melt-down of higher education.’

Not to mention, there are some sobering job search statistics students (and their tuition-paying parents) are only now coming to realize. Read more

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Why I Won’t Be Reading Your Cover Letter

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez

We recently had an open position we were trying to fill and I was amazed—or should I say appalled—at the blanket responses we received from job seekers. Potential candidates sent us cover letters describing experience they possessed that was completely irrelevant to our opening; it was the same as someone having a degree in veterinary medicine but seeking employment as an IT director. Read more

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Why Resumes Are Like Food Labels

By CAREEREALISM Founder, J.T. O’Donnell

I recently joined forces with Monster.com’s social networking division to write a weekly Q&A column called, “Ask the Career Expert,” for their on-line community, Excelle (a professional resource for career-minded young women).

My first question was asked by a job seeker who felt she needed ‘spice up’ her resume. Read here if you want to learn why I told her to make her resume more like a food label….

Or, you can watch the short video advice clip I produced below. Either way, you learn the secret to a resume that doesn’t just get read, it gets put in the shopping cart!

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3 Keys to Customizing Your Resume

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez

In recent blogs, I’ve written a lot about the importance of investing time into every job application you submit, even if this means applying for fewer total jobs. While it’s most efficient to get your resume fine-tuned to a point where it needs little modification for each new job application, you generally will need to make a few changes each time in order to customize your document. Read more

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7 Ways to Use Visual Elements to Move Your Resume from Bland to Beautiful!

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Laura Labovich

Resumes that incorporate graphics and color are not simply for creative professionals anymore. A purely textual resume is often not enough to stand out in a crowd of candidates, so if your resume is finding its way to the black hole again and again, it may be time to spice it up. Read more

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5 Mistakes Job Seekers Make on their Resume

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez

I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to think of a new way to say the same things I’ve already said a million times. I think I’m beginning to feel border line preachy with my resume and cover letter advice. But I also feel a duty to share with job seekers the blunders and mistakes they make that prohibit them from getting the interview and ultimately the offer. Read more

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Tips to Avoid This Huge Branding Mistake

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Ilona Vanderwoude

Often when I speak with a new client about personal branding or when I get a question from someone on this topic, there are two things that keep resurfacing. This is what I hear a lot:

“How do I develop my personal brand without sounding self-important and pompous?”

And..

“How can my brand be authentic if I’m tweaking it for different job opportunities?”

Left to their own devices, I often see people’s confusion result in the following: Read more

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How 100,000 Careerealists Can Help a Children’s Charity

By CAREEREALISM.com Founder, J.T. O’Donnell

For the last 2 years, I’ve been volunteering for a children’s charity.  As the mother of two young children, I feel a strong connection to what they do.

Recently, I was headed out to a fundraising event when, quite innocently, my 6 year-old asked me,

“Mom, why don’t the sick kids just wish to get better?” Read more

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