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Annoyed at Job Candidates? Look in the Mirror

by Lance Haun on August 6, 2009

One of the ways my blog has shifted over the last 18 months is that it has become less about what job candidates and employees are doing wrong and more about what HR and management are doing wrong. It has been one of those funny evolutions of a blog that you never see coming when [...]

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This HR Guy Is Over Your Spelling Mistakes

by Lance Haun on April 28, 2009

It is one of the first thing people say about composing your resume: make sure you don’t have any spelling mistakes. Or certainly, a spelling mistake means certain doom even if the rest of your resume looks great. And really, not a day goes by when I don’t see a comment on twitter about how [...]

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The “New Resume”

by Lance Haun on September 27, 2006

A question I pose to my readers is a simple one with a complicated answer:
What is next for the resume?
Is there going to be a new form of resume? Is it going to be the same for all eternity?  Something in between.  Here is the reason I ask this question.
As skills in a workforce goes [...]

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Don’t write an objective

by Lance Haun on July 13, 2006

Just don’t write one. They are rarely well done (they are typically variations of “To get a job”) which is exactly not helpful at all.
If you feel the need to explain yourself, now is the time to polish your cover letter and stop making it the generic necessity that it always ends up being.  Some [...]

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MPOJ is Right

by Lance Haun on July 7, 2006

Magic Pot of Jobs posts some good examples of ways to NOT get hired. Tiffany is right (again!). The three she addresses are:
1.) Keyword spam for applicant tracking systems. If you have a marketing background and you start inserting keywords about administration, operations, finance and human resources, you lose. Keywords should be applicable to [...]

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Announcement: Resume Workshop

by Lance Haun on June 19, 2006

I was discouraged when I saw this article posted on CNN in which I echoed frightened chills from Tiffany and GetCareer. More importantly, I asked myself what I could do to stem the tide of poor resumes coming to my colleagues desks (and hopefully my own as well). With the resume being a critical [...]

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Getting out of the stack

by Lance Haun on June 1, 2006

I promised to talk about “The Stack” and I have come through for you.  So what is the stack? Let me define:
The stack is simply where every resume goes that is not exceptional, that does not catch your interest and does not deserve special attention. It is where EVERY resume goes unless you (the applicant) [...]

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The Stack

by Lance Haun on May 31, 2006

Your resume is in here somewhere. Do you know if it will come out?
More on this later.

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