Does Your Executive Resume Scream Visionary? | EmploymentDigest.net

It seems that when it comes to being an executive, some ideas should be already understood. For instance, people should understand that you’ve worked very hard to get to where you are in life. Also, people should understand that you intend to continue your journey in the same direction as you have for many years.

You would also think that people would understand that you are a visionary; however, when writing your resume, this may not always be understood, which is why you may have to spell it out. If you’re not sure how to get this done, here are some tips to help your executive resume scream that you’re a visionary.

Job Seeker Turn Off's | LinkedIn

With all the talk surrounding interview techniques , resumes, and things
connected with the job seeker I thought I would turn the tables.

Job seeker turn offs:

1) Job ads that are just unrealistic:

By unrealistic I mean there's a kid's list to Santa of tools, technologies, and experience very few, if any, could fulfill.

Moreover it suggests a company that is just unrealistic in their expectations of a new hire. I highly suspect such ads are placed for the purposes of forcing laxer *skilled guest worker* immigration laws or to hire on friends and family hedging aginst the company appearing nepotistic or engaging in cronyism.

2) Rudeness:

Customer service can make or break a company and the last thing a given venture needs is a black eye or bad press. In this day and age of automated electronic mail responses
and phones capable of doing everything except washing and stacking dishes there's simply NO EXCUSE.

Furthermore all the public relations work and accolades of what a great company won't offset
a job seeker realizing not only is the company rude but a liar as well.

3) Fake interviews:

I once had an interview where the person interviewing me didn't even
know my name, sifted through a stack of resumes to find mine, and
proceeded to tell me about his golf game, how much money he (supposedly) made last
quarter and what a great guy he is.

I do my homework, I come prepared, and I would expect the interviewer to follow in like fashion. In this case The interview was a complete and total waste of my time and a turn off.

4) Hide and seek:

If you can't list your contact information in a company name, website, or
location I will assume you're probably an online scammer or have something to hide I don't
need or want to as much as know about much less work for.

4)Specific to staffing, placement, and recruitment firms:

Until you have accurately and honestly described the job and all it entails DO NOT expect me to quote you salary or hourly rate for it !

Do you also expect a kitchen or bath remodeling contractor to
quote you a job based only on the fact it's a kitchen or bath without the specifics ?

Such gives the impression you're trying to maximize your margins at my expense and it is a turn off !

Please don't resume fish !

I have seen sufficient emails claiming 1) my resume was seen online, 2) they have an urgent need, and 3) could I send my most recent copy of my resume ASAP.

If your need is so urgent why didn't you call ? My phone number is listed on my resume you supposedly saw online and I DO NOT distribute my resume like Halloween candy.

Work WITH me:

When I say I am looking for a position in San Francsico it DOES NOT MEAN I am willing
to relocate to Boston MA. When I say extended commutes and relocation are NOT POSSIBLE it DOES NOT MEAN I am looking to drive, daily, back and forth, between San Francisco and San Jose, Sacramento, or points further.

Press the issue and I have no problems asking you if you have reading difficulties or
can I reccomend a good eye doctor.

Do your homework ! Asking me if I have knowledge or experience with something NOT listed on my resume tells me you're just cold calling, going through the motions, or are insincere. If it's not listed then it's NOT LISTED FOR A REASON !

Honesty: If it's a contract job SAY SO ! Don't try misrepresenting it as a contract to hire. If it's
a short term contract then SAY SO ! There is nothing worse than being called late in the evening being told the company doesn't need you anymore before the duration of the contract expires.

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Resume Help & Career Advice by Career Expert Jessica Holbrook Hernandez : CAREEREALISM

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez

Imagine for a moment you’ve just heard the dreaded words, “We’re going to have to let you go.” A lot of people have heard this phrase over the last several years, and most have probably reacted with some degree of panic: How am I going to pay my bills? Where am I going to go? What am I going to do?

Obviously, this frame of mind is not a great launching point for your next job. Writing an effective resume and cover letter requires analytical thinking and confidence in your abilities. So let me tell you a little secret: the best time to write your resume is when you’re perfectly happy at your job!

What NOT to Do in an Interview » Blog | Great Resumes Fast

Last week I had lunch with a colleague who had recently hired someone for a part-time position for her office.  My colleague was interested to observe the wide variety of people who applied for a low-paying, part-time position.  She was even more intrigued by one candidate’s behavior during the interview.

Apparently this candidate had called on her way to the interview to say she was en route.  Based on her supposed whereabouts, the candidate should have arrived 10-15 minutes early.  Somehow, she actually arrived 40 minutes late—without offering any explanation as to why.  As if her tardiness weren’t bad enough, this candidate then proceeded to scroll through and reply to e-mails on her Blackberry during the interview!

The No. 1 Quality for Career Success - Careers Articles

There's nothing like a healthy dose of honesty to keep you in check and remind you about what is important. A recent blog post by Curt Rosengren for U.S. News & Word Report does just that in regards to the key to career success. It's "as easy as putting in a little hard work," Rosengren says.

How Google Cost Me $4 Million

When Ryan Abood looked at the books for his parents' New Hampshire flower shop, one number popped out. Without a bit of advertising, sales of gift baskets had grown 400 percent. For a year and a half, he worked a hundred hours a week to make his spinoff, GourmetGiftBaskets.com, into the third-largest player in his niche. Then, one day, he woke up to find that Google, the source of 80 percent of the company's revenue, had banished his site from its search results. His company ended up the better for it.

On November 11, 2008, I woke up at 6 o'clock and did a Google search on my phone, like I do every morning. We're usually one or two for just about every industry keyword. But we were nowhere to be found. I opened up my laptop. We weren't in the first thousand results. This was right before the holiday season, when we typically make 40 to 60 percent of our annual revenue. It was really, really devastating.

We weren't sure what had happened. Occasionally, Google will drop a site from the index -- just algorithmically forget about you for a few days. People said, "You either have some type of temporary exclusion, or you have a penalty."

I called the two companies we hired to improve our ranking. In the past, I'd done all our search-engine optimization myself. But as we grew, we started paying companies to reach out to relevant sites and ask them for links. Instead, one of the companies admitted it was paying for links. Google looks at that like buying an election.

Google has a form called the re-inclusion request. We call it the Google confessional. We said, "These are the links that were paid; these are the links that weren't paid. We've obviously violated your trust, and we're taking steps to remedy it."

That holiday season, we pay-per-clicked out the wang. We spent a lot of money. They penalize you organically, but they still let you buy ads. We leaned on our affiliate channel. Meanwhile, we were slashing inventory, letting people go, getting neat and trim. It ended up costing us $2 million in sales that winter and another couple million in 2009.

Before the penalty, we had zero social media presence. We sort of looked at it like, "It must be nice to have the time to do that." Now, as part of our whole strategy of never buying a link again, we blog about anything. We're up to 3,200 Facebook fans. We Twitter every day.

This March, we also hired a manager of comparison shopping, a social media manager, an affiliate marketing manager; and we have someone in-house to watch our link portfolio. If somebody might misinterpret a link as paid, we take it down. We're not messing around.

We didn't see the kind of ratings we had before the penalty until Google's Caffeine update, this June. That was our final pardon. Now we're back at the top.

Without the Google penalty, we wouldn't be anywhere near as far along as we are. You have two choices: You can roll over and die, or you can grow beyond it.

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Successful Career Networking: Being Good With Names | Tim's Strategy

Sometimes things come full circle. Silly things.

I started my career with Carnation Company. In a marketing management training program. Carnation owned a lot of brands in pet care, baking and other categories. But the brand was best known for Instant Breakfast, Coffee-Mate Creamer and Condensed Milk. And the old tag-line for Carnation milk was “Made from Contented Cows”.