Posted by Dragan Donkov on May 28, 2009
It’s very hard to write your own resume because a resume is a macro view of your life, but you live your life at the micro level, obsessing about daily details that have no bearing on your resume. For that reason, a lot of people hire someone to help them. After all, spending money on a resume writer is one of the few expenditures that will have good return right away. But if you’re writing your resume on your own, the first thing you’ll have to do is make some mental shifts. You need to rethink the goals of a resume, and rethink the rules of a resume in order to approach the project like the best of the resume professionals. That means not making the most common resume mistakes, and not breaking a few key rules.
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Posted by Dragan Donkov on May 4, 2009
Following the industry for the past couple of years I never seen so much pressure and creativeness from recruiters and candidates.
Starting from the printed adverts in the newspapers, moving to the online jobboards like Monster and ending now with the social networks like Facebook, Linkedin, Plaxo and Twitter the business made a big step in the process how to find their “golden nuggets”.
It is not a surprise and a lot of professional predicted last year that a big move is on the way and the recruitment channels are changing. And not only that, but the candidates are changing and particularly their approach and self- marketing. They promote themselves and give enough information so one can find them at practically no cost.
The social networks are giving them advantage in terms of speed and access to information.You can address the right person in the comfort of sharing the same group, network or interests.
The recruiters are using the social networks to reach the passive/sleeping candidates that are not looking for new opportunities but are ready to listen.
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