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Your Resume: Succinct and Boring or Detailed and Powerful?

Laboring under the delusion that one’s resume must, at all costs, be contained to a single page, too many applicants make the mistake of boiling their accomplishments down to succinct, trite phases.  Professional resume services understand that this is counterproductive. While it’s still perfectly acceptable to present yourself as “an avid team player,” “bottom-line oriented,” […]

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Must I Customize My Resume for Each and Every Job?

Given the plethora of often conflicting advice emerging from self-professed career specialists, one would assume that the answer to this pressing question is “Yes.”  Thankfully, in accessing this site, you benefit from our thirty years of experience in crafting career-advancement documents, including our expertise in monitoring and implementing the resume writing trends that make sense.  […]

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Key in Those Keywords

If we liken the job search to a game of Monopoly, and compare job applicants to the playing pieces moving around the board in search of prosperity, know this.  Without keywords as well as their proper placement in their resumes, job seekers will not advance past Go.  They will remain in holding patterns while their […]

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Resumes for Writers

Just as doctors normally make the worst patients, writers – and even some resume writers – are often ineffective in conveying their own skills and accomplishments on documents intended to create career opportunities.  And while core competencies may be apparent, the achievements of writers can appear elusive, at least, on a resume. Unless one is […]

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Spruce It Up!

These days there’s dudes gettin facials; Manicured, waxed, and Botox’d With deep spray-on tans And creamy lotion-y hands, You can’t grip a tackle box. With all of these men lining up to get neutered, It’s hip now to be feminized. (Brad Paisley, “I’m Still a Guy”) The gods may be vain, but men are vainer.  […]

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Focus!

Consider the import and content of a resume.  The essence of an applicant’s work history, education, professional training, and other relevant data must be contained within one or two pages.  If this seems a daunting task for the applicant or a NJ resume writer, consider the onus placed upon the hiring manager.  He or she […]

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