Social Score: What is it and How did We Get Here? There are approximately 239 million U.S. internet users representing 75.6% of the total U.S. population.  By the end of 2012, 2/3 of web users will use social networks according to the 2012 U.S. Digital Media Usage report from eMarketer.  As the social web has empowered people with the ability

What Hiring Managers Are Looking For In A Resume content provided by Becky W. Resume’s can be tricky because of the amount of information that is being compressed into a single page.  This one document encapsulates a job seeker’s entire relevant work experience, their educational experience, and what they seek in a career. Their composition is as important to job seekers who are looking

What is “Required” to Get a Job? The question in this headline calls to attention everything that is wrong with the mentality of many job seekers and arguably, many career coaches.  The only thing “required” for one to obtain a job is that an employer makes an offer which one accepts.  How does one find themselves in the position in

Re-think the Resume Career professionals and students alike need to re-think the resume.  The term resume derives from the English word “resumen” which means summation and from the French, “Resumer,” which means to summarize.  However, resumes should never be written to simply summarize; they should be written to persuade.  Resumes have obviously changed but the change is not only in purpose;

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that the user provides. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.  Some of you probably already know where I’m going with this but for those who are still scratching your head, let me explain. The Importance of Online Search More than ever,

How many resumes have you seen?  If you’re a recruiter, HR professional, hiring manager, or career professional, you’ve likely seen tons.  Next question – how often does someone send you a resume that is named, “resume,” “professionalresume,” or some other very similar, generic name? Why Properly Naming your Resume Matters Job seekers already have so many barriers to break through

The Debate There is a great debate among career professionals about whether or not a resume should have an objective.  The typical advice is to have a headline, profile, or summary and that objectives are bad, old fashioned, redundant, and/or ineffective.  Many people say the objective states the obvious since the objective of any submitted resume is clearly to obtain

In my “Career Advice Cliches (Part 1)” article, I talked about the career advice cliche I disliked the most.  I hear career advice cliches often and I dislike them because the advice is typically vague, tends to over-simplify things, or it is outdated but people have heard it so much, they continue to perpetuate it.  So, part 2 of my

Introduction of a New Metric Social media has created a system in which we can now visually graph our relationships showing how we are connected to people.  Additionally, by observing how we interact with one another on social media, we can also see who in our social graph influences us based on how we respond to their social interactions, how

The Rise of the Infographic Infographics are popular these days.  We see them all the time on everything from the ROI of our mothers (a classic infographic) to the history of computers.  In a previous post, I wrote about the infographic resume and a company known as Vizualize.me that can help job seekers create their very own infographic resume.  However,