5 Tips to Help You With Job Applications - Hallie Crawford

5 Tips to Help You With Job Applications Career coaching clients often ask me why they have sent out so many resumes but rarely, and sometimes never, hear back from the employer. There are so many possible reasons that it’s hard to pinpoint one. One of my career coaching clients recently asked me this very question the other day.For over a year before working with me he’s applied for jobs and never heard back.   When I looked at his resume and cover letter I realized why. His cover letter was dense and way too long. A full page of text, that’s very dense and not easy to read isnt going to be read by many employers. He needed to cut it back; we set to work doing just that. Here are the top 5 reasons you might not be hearing back about your job application: 1. Your resume isnt tailored to the position. An employer can tell if it isnt. If you don’t take the time to revise your resume for each job you’re applying for, you won’t look qualified and it will go into the recycle bin. 2. Your resume doesnt have relevant keywords for the position, and companies that use computers to review resumes to determine which ones to review by hand tosses it out. 3. You didnt follow their application instructions to the letter. That is an automatic disqualification. Always follow their instructions. If they say don’t contact them to follow up, don’t. 4. The job has been posted for weeks, and you are just now applying. Sometimes you can be way too late to apply. Stay on top of job boards and postings to apply right away. 5. Your resume is in a format that is hard to read and scan quickly. If they can’t tell if you are qualified right away, or can’t quickly review and identify your qualifications, it goes into the trash. Remember, there are many possible reasons you’re not getting calls back. There’s no way to know exactly why. You have to try to get it right as often as possible, so that your chances are increased. Ideal Career Coach P.S. Are you frustrated with your job search? Check out our  FREE REPORT:  â€Take Control of Your Career Transition: Uncover Hidden Opportunities”.

Emailing Resume and Cover Letter - The Right Steps to Make Sure You Get Through Quickly

Emailing Resume and Cover Letter - The Right Steps to Make Sure You Get Through QuicklyThe process of emailing resume and cover letter is a rather simple one. If you've been involved in job hunting for any amount of time, then you'll understand how this can be one of the most important steps in your job search. There are plenty of things to consider when it comes to job searches, but having a strong resume is often one of the top ones. What makes a strong resume more effective than a weak one?One thing that's necessary is to make sure you're prepared with a list of job listings you would like to work for. If you're an employee who has been on the market for quite some time, then you're probably tired of trying to hunt down new jobs. It's best to spend a few days or a week going through and making sure you have a list of companies that can hire you.In addition to job listings, you also need to make sure that you're fully aware of the industry you're looking to enter. This means knowin g about the job opening and what it is you should be looking for in a career. Also, make sure you do research on the company to find out if they have awards you can bring to the table.When it comes to emailing resume and cover letter, one of the best ways to ensure that it gets through quickly is to include it on your company website. By emailing a copy of your resume and cover letter, you will be able to more easily send the information to potential employers on the company's behalf. The internet is a wonderful tool to use, but it takes a bit of a time investment in order to get the information to them.Before you email the resume and cover letter to people, you want to make sure that you write it with a clear purpose. Don't just send it off for someone to read and pass it along to a recruiter, as it could damage your chances of being hired. The purpose of the email should be to leave a positive impression on the employer and offer the right kind of information.When you are preparin g your resume and cover letter, keep your goals in mind as well. Are you only looking for a position at a certain company or for an employer to place you at their company? Be sure that you've done the research to determine what it is you want and the best way to get it.While your resume and cover letter may be the most important parts of your job search, it's also important to remember that your efforts will be greatly rewarded if you give it your all. This means that you need to spend time carefully preparing the information you will send out and will receive.

Gender Gap The Invisible Workload That Drags Women Down

Gender Gap The Invisible Workload That Drags Women Down “I am the person,” wrote Ellen Seidman, a wife and mother of three, “who notices we are running out of toilet paper.” It was the beginning of a poem she wrote for her blog, Love That Max, about a role she plays in her household â€" that of worrier, organizer, rememberer, and attention-payer. The poem was about the work she does involving thinking, a kind of mental labor that, she says, “enables our family to basically exist.” “I am the person who notices,” she writes. I am the person who notices we are running low on coffee pods… I am the person who notices we are running low on toothpaste/dental floss/mouthwash/anti-cavity rinse in bubble gum flavor. I am the person who notices we are running low on granola bars, brownie bites, dried fruit, kale chips, cheese sticks, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and other lifesaving snacks. She is the person who knows not only that coffee is essential, but also that using the wrong toothpaste is the kind of thing that can seriously ruin a child’s morningâ€"not to mention their parents. Eggs, milk, and ketchup, too, she notes. The juice her son loves, and the brand of peanut butter preferred by each family member. (“I so wish our family had consensus on p.b.,” she sighs.) Not to mention a whole myriad of soaps (body, laundry, dishwasher, etc.), gas for the car, when library books are due, when it’s time for a check-up, and when the towels start to smell. It starts with the toilet paper running out and it goes on… and on… and on. It’s exhausting to read. Sociologist Susan Walzer published a research article in 1996, called “Thinking About the Baby,” pointing to this household gender gap. Scholars had already documented that women, even those who worked full time, were doing the majority of what came to be called the “second shift”: the work that greets us when we come home from work. Walzer was interested in the invisible part of this work, the kind that occupied people’s minds. She interviewed 23 husband-wife couples, finding them through the rather quaint method of reading birth announcements in a local newspaper. All had brought a baby home in the last year. More of the Mental Work Walzer found that women do more of the intellectual, mental, and emotional work of childcare and household maintenance. They do more of the learning and information processing (like researching pediatricians). They do more worrying (like wondering if their child is hitting his developmental milestones). And they do more organizing and delegating (like deciding when the mattress needs to be flipped or what to cook for dinner). Even when their male partners “helped out” by doing their fair share of chores and errands, it was the women who noticed what needed to be done. She described, in other words, exactly the kind of work that Seidman’s poem captures so well. Seidman isn’t complaining. Her poem is funny and sweet and clearly driven by a love for her family, husband included. And, to be fair, while women who are married to or cohabiting with men do more domestic work than their partners, husbands spend proportionally more time on paid work. Today the amount of sheer hours that men and women spend in combined paid and unpaid work is pretty close to equal. But that doesn’t count the thinking. Husbands may do more housework and childcare than before, but women still delegate: Honey, I’m going to be out of town for the weekend. Remember that the pediatrician’s number is on the fridge, we’re expecting a package on Saturday and you should intercept it if you can, Susan has a sleepover at Amy’s later that night and I wrote the address in your calendar, Scotty has a piano lesson on Sunday at 10 so don’t let him sleep in, the number for Mikey’s Pizza is programmed into your phone, and the flower bed out back could really use some weeding if you’re up to it. No wonder wives have the reputations of being nags. Even a person who was perfectly happy to do household work might get tired of being wrangled by a half-frantic taskmaster. Like much of the feminized work done more often by women than men, thinking, worrying, paying attention, and delegating is work that is largely invisible, gets almost no recognition, and involves no pay or benefits. //static.apester.com/js/sdk/v2.0/apester-javascript-sdk.min.js ‘Superpower’ or No? Seidman suggested she had a “seeing superpower” that her husband and children did not. But she doesn’t, of course. It’s just that her willingness to do it allows everyone else the freedom not to. If she were gone, you bet her husband would start noticing when the fridge went empty and the diapers disappeared. Thinking isn’t a superpower; it’s work. And it all too often seems only natural that women do the hard work of running a household. We have come a long way toward giving women the freedom to build a life outside the home, but the last step may be an invisible one, happening mostly in our heads. It’s about housework, yes, but it extends to having to consider what neckline, hemline, height of heel, and lipstick shade is appropriate for that job interview, afternoon wedding, or somber funeral, instead of relying on an all-purpose suit; it’s about thinking carefully about how to ask for a raise in a way that sounds both assertive and nice; it’s about worrying whether it’s safe at night and how to get home; for some of us, it involves feeling compelled to learn feminist theory so as to understand our own lives and, then, to spend mental energy explaining to others that the revolution is unfinished. To truly be free, we need to free women’s minds. Of course, someone will always have to remember to buy toilet paper, but if that work were shared, women’s extra burdens would be lifted. Only then will women have as much lightness of mind as men. And when they do, I expect to be inspired by what they put their minds to. Lisa Wade is associate professor of sociology at Occidental College and the author of American Hookup, about campus sexual culture. Plus, a working dad responds: There’s an Invisible Workload That Drags Men Down, Too

9 Things LinkedIn Should Do Right Now - Work It Daily

9 Things LinkedIn Should Do Right Now - Work It Daily LinkedIn is a great way to network with other business professionals. But it does have some easily corrected problems. Of course, LinkedIn is not the king (or queen) of customer service or listening to customer requests. So they probably won’t do any of this. But they should. 1. Get a decent customer service department. I am a paid subscriber. But it can still take days and often at least a couple of reports of the same problem to even get a response. Even then, LinkedIn rarely fixes the problem. This is unacceptable for even the free service, much less the paid service. 2. Let people invite others they don’t know. If I’m at a regular networking event, I can go up to anyone and introduce myself. They have the freedom to respond or not respond with information. But LinkedIn operates on an absurd principle that you either have to know someone or be introduced to them to invite them. Why? 3. Install a simple text editor. Right now the only emphasis one can give in a comment or discussion is TO CAP IT. This is very old fashioned and not very much fun. Almost everyone now has a simple text editor. LinkedIn should, too. 4. Stop letting group members move discussions to jobs or promotions. This should be the duty of group owners and managers only. At this time, competitors can move any discussions to never-never land, namely, jobs or promotions. There is a notification, but getting a post moved back to discussions is a real pain, especially since most group owners don’t do a very good job of responding to requests. In this cut-throat business environment, why give my competitors the right to silence me (or me the right to silence them)? 5. Require a photo to be on LinkedIn. This would cut down on spammers and frauds on LinkedIn. LinkedIn should also enforce their terms of service regarding photos, namely, no logos or icons. I like to have a picture of the person with whom I’m connecting. 6. Make it easier to respond to members who write you through LinkedIn. Right now it is a real pain. Let someone who receives a LinkedIn message respond by simply hitting “respond” on their e-mail program, rather than having to sign into LinkedIn and use LinkedIn’s inadequate response mechanism. Hint: When you send a message via LinkedIn, always include your real e-mail address. If you are going to ping me, I should be trustworthy enough to be able to write you back directly. 7. Make it easier to contact LinkedIn. Not only is LinkedIn’s customer service worse than that of airlines (that’s pretty bad), but it is incredibly difficult to place a trouble ticket. This should be a “one click.” Instead, customers have to jump through hoops to send an e-mail. For those of us who are paying customers a phone number where we can actually talk to a real person would be a nice touch â€" so long as that real person has the information, the authority and the willingness to actually solve the problem â€" something LinkedIn is really abysmal at. 8. Give us something for our money. I haven’t decided whether my money that is going to LinkedIn each month is being well spent or not. I still get the same lousy customer service. I can do a bit of enhanced searching. But not much else. If we’re going to pay, let us get our money’s worth! 9. Stop making me sign in so much! I should be able to sign-in and stay signed in. As it is, every so often I have to re-enter my password. I understand this is for my “security,” but I should be able to sign-in and stay signed in on the same computer. LinkedIn is a great tool for business. But they aren’t very responsive to the needs and desires of their customers. This is the primary attitude at LinkedIn I’d love to see changed immediately. For more business advice, join my LinkedIn Groups, “Getting Employed,” and “Spirituality in Business.” Thanks! John Heckers has over 30 years of successfully helping people with their careers. He has consulted to executives from Fortune 500 companies, five-person companies, and everything in-between. Photo credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!

8 Words or Phrases Never to Include in Your Resume - Jobscan Blog

8 Words or Phrases Never to Include in Your Resume - Jobscan BlogPosted on December 6, 2016November 12, 2018 by James Hu According to a CareerBuilder survey, 17% of hiring managers spendan average of 30 secondslooking at a resume before deciding iftheyre interested in a candidate. Having toolittletime to read each one in depth, obvious resume red flags, like an outdated resume format, typos, or too many unmatched resume fonts, are immediately eliminated. Even those that pass initial scrutiny can still fall prey to one of the fruchtwein abiding faux pas of resume donts poor diction. By this we mean those hackneyed termsthat are ripe for resume retirement. Here, well talk about eight of the resume words nearly every hiring manager hates.1. ObjectiveObjective is a no-no because it is part of Objective Statement, an outdated phrase on any resume. Thesestatementsfell out of favor because they talked more about what a job seeker would get out of a position, rather than focusing on what a j ob seeker would bring to a position. The company-focused term is, instead, a career summary, which describes a job seekers most relevant skills, qualities, and accomplishments that would make them a good fit for a position.A career summary (also called executive summary) is a better alternative to an objective statement.2. Highly-qualifiedIf you use the word highly-qualified on your resume, youre likely to seem anything but. Plus, youll be including one of recruiters turn offs. Rather thanbeing so bold as to list this word,let your highly-qualified status become evident to readers by virtue ofyour accomplishments, experience, and education.3. gruppe player orHard workerThese phrases are both clichd and vague they dont say much about what you did in a previous position. Instead of using language that is likely on every resume, trade out phrases like these for measurable objectives. Measurable accomplishments are quantifiable achievements you performed in a position, usually expresse din the form of numbers, percentages, and profit.4. UtilizedUtilized is just a dressed-up version of the word use. Dont try to fancy up a perfectly workable verb in reservierung to sound more accomplished. Recruiters can see right through these tactics. Skills and achievements, when properly highlighted (as through the aforementioned measurable results), need no furtherembellishments.5. Self-motivated orGo-getterYou dont want to include too much generalizing, especially about describing how great you are. Instead of including these praiseworthy adjectives, include verbs like improved or created about your measurable accomplishments to let the reader make his or her own judgments about you.6. ProactiveProactive is one of those resume buzzwords that doesnt say much. While it might sound good, it doesnt tell the recruiter how exactly youre proactive. Instead of listing words that sound good, scan the job posting and your resume through Jobscan. Jobscan pulls keywords from the job posti ng that you should match on your resume. Whiletailoring, look through those pulled keywords to find one or more that demonstrate your proactive attitude more specifically.Take the time to tailor your resume to each job.7. References available upon requestAnother ghostof resumes past, References available upon request takes up space unnecessarily all employers will require references, and they will expect that job seekers will provide them.8. Was and BecameThese verbs of being dont talk about what you did in previous positions, the most important function of your resume. Instead of writing verbs like these,include action verbsto createvisuals in your readers heads.Bottom line use words that help recruiters understand who you areand what you can bring to the table, in the quickest and most straightforward way. Ditch superfluous terms.Your language should beclear in expressing what youve done and the various ways in which youve achieved them.Facebook Commentswpdevar_comment_1 span,wpd evar_comment_1 iframewidth100% important

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