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Keep Your Résumé Updated for Your Next Career Move
It’s All About the Résumé By Joanne Gehas, Ph.D., Executive Recruiter (Pharmaceutical) at FPC of Raleigh People who are content in their current role and have no immediate plans to leave their employer ask why they should spend time and effort now on updating their résumé. Most people update their résumé only when under some…
Read MoreThe Follow-Up Letter / Thank You Letter
Your Closing Argument You’ve just had a very productive interview with a great company and received positive feedback. It’s clear that you are a good fit for their needs, and you believe that you are among the final contenders for the position. What do you do now? Do you just sit by your email for…
Read MoreYour Job Search is a Bare Knuckle Fight Ch 3: This is a sales job whether you like it or not
Everything until now has been designed to get you ready to accept the prescription that follows. The hardest pill for most job searchers to swallow is that the bare knuckle job search is a sales job! You are the product. Unless you are a salesperson, those looking for other roles will likely find the idea…
Read MoreYour Job Search is a Bare Knuckle Fight, Ch 2: Outplacement is out of place in a bare knuckle job search
The information you get in outplacement is way too soft: Write a cover letter. Email it with your resume or send out a fax blast. Wait a certain number of days. Email again. Don’t call. Don’t bother people. Sorry. This doesn’t work. If you’ve received outplacement services as part of your severance package, here are some points…
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