When applying for internships or jobs, students may become stuck at a particular phase within the hiring process. What can you do when this happens? First, it’s important to understand the key phases within the hiring process:
Applications ⏩Interviews ⏩ Job …
For a successful time-effective job search, you need to have both an excellent resume and an excellent cover letter.
While most employers do not require you to send a cover letter, sending one after all might only speak to your …
The number one mistake candidates make when answering this question is translating the question to something akin to, “Tell me everything you’ve done in your professional career in chronological order.” If you approach the question this way, most of the …
When you’re first creating a document—even an important one like your resume or cover letter—you might give it a placeholder file name while you’re working on it. So if you’re job searching, you probably have at least one document named …
The resume is a key document employers rely on to gauge the cultural awareness, values, and skills of candidates. Emphasizing what you have gained from your experiences on your resume is a great way to show companies that you support …
You’ve spent hours writing your resume, searching job sites, and applying to different roles—only to receive rejection after rejection. And that’s if you even hear back about your application at all. After a while, this all gets pretty exhausting, and …
As a career coach, I’ve worked alongside recruiters and heard their complaints as they review resumes. I remember one squinting at the screen as she tried to read a resume with tiny font, and another telling me she doesn’t even …
We all know resumes are important. They’re your first impression. The highlight reel of your qualifications. The tool that you can use to land an interview (and ultimately a job).
Your past experience takes up the bulk of your resume …
Grammar and consistency are key when it comes to your resume. Uniform and error-free writing not only makes your resume easier for a recruiter or hiring manager to understand, but it also shows that you are conscientious, pay attention to …
We spoke with Tara Carlidge, Recruiting Manager at Citi and former Personnel Officer in the U.S. Army, to ask her about the biggest mistake that veterans make in their resumes that could hurt them from getting the corporate/civilian job they’re …
