Category: Optimize Your Resume

Great customer service can make or break any business. In fact, in one survey, 80% of companies plan to increase…

We analyzed more than 10 million job descriptions and 17 million resumes to find the skills that employers are looking for the most.

Your resume is often the first and only impression employers get of you prior to the initial interview. It’s the…

When it comes to creating a resume, choosing the right format can be tricky. You must highlight your skills, experience,…

Condensing your resume to one page forces you to be concise and strategic about the details you include. This sort of thoughtfulness is essential to grabbing a recruiter’s attention. But one page resumes can be limiting, too. So, is a single-page resume right for you? Read on to find out.

Time is money, and every employer has a bottom line to watch — which is why they want to hire…

Resume margins seem like a minor detail, but they play an important role in the overall effectiveness of your resume. …

The US federal government employs over 2 million people, not even counting military service branches. Federal jobs are highly contested…

Highlighting skills on your resume is critical to illustrate your abilities to do the job well. But your proficiency level…

It’s OK to use color on your resume, but you have to make sure you’re doing it right.

As you climb the corporate ladder into senior management and the executive ranks, the hard skills on your resume (like your ability…

You probably know the resume-writing “hack” of using resume word generators to filter words to use when writing a resume. But what if we told you there’s something far more effective than word clouds to help you write your strongest resume yet?

Don’t fall into this trap that’s far too often marketed as a savvy job seeker “hack”. We’ll show you a better way.

It used to be common practice to include a couple of references on your resume or add a line stating…

When writing a resume, most of us assume that employees only care about the hard skills. What software can we…

A report by Deloitte Access Economics says that by 2030, two-thirds of all jobs will be soft-skill intensive. So developing…

According to a report by McKinsey & Company, one in three workers increased their salaries by learning the right high-income…

When employers are asked which resume skills are the most important, the majority answer “critical thinking skills”. This is according…

There are two types of skills recruiters look for on resumes: soft skills vs hard skills. When used correctly, they…