Write A Resume Your Recruiter Can’t Resist You need a persuasive resume, but you’re a little short on cash. Rather than keep these precious “how to write a resume” secrets to myself, I’ve decided to give you access to my secret stash of writing tips.

Explain the Employment Gaps in Your Resume

So you have a few gaps in your resume? Don't fret. Many conscientious professionals have been fired, laid off, quit or even forced to take an unplanned sabbatical from work. Fill the cracks honestly using the following strategies.

Read My Resume...Please

HR personnel are extremely selective. If their company is seeking a purple dinosaur wearing green tennis shoes,... that's the only person that gets the interview and subsequently the job. This article teaches you how to write an accomplishment-based resume.

Entrepreneurship

How to Pick the Right Business Partner

Go beyond the initial questions on business experience and passion. Use these 5 questions to observe clearly the qualifications and personality traits of your future business partner.

Become a Six-figure Freelancer Without Starving

Thinking about becoming a freelancer? How do you become a happy member of the freelance club?

Memorize these 7 secrets of six-figure freelancers, and dominate your industry as a money-making freelancing machine.

Top 3 Freelancing Mistakes You Should Avoid

You’re ready to wave goodbye to the corporate rat race, and start your dream freelancing business. But not without first learning from the costly freelancing mistakes of other freelance entrepreneurs.

Small Business Startup Revenge

Got fired or demoted? Is your desire to start a small business clouded by payback and vengeance? The knife that you are wielding to stab your old company or boss in the back could be the fatal blow to your own small business dream, before it even starts.

Money, Money, Money

Negotiate a Job or Pay Raise Without Begging I Need A New Job, But I Ain't Gonna Beg You. Can you successfully negotiate a job or pay raise without begging? Improper English aside, who wants to beg for a job, is not another jungle reality TV show on FOX. Skilled negotiators know that begging for anything kills any chance of future leverage and respect.

Interviewing & Recruiting

Interview Thank You Note

Interview Thank You Note Samples

Should you shoot a quick email to your new boss, or write a powerful piece of prose on fancy embossed letterhead? A well-written thank you note is the extra push to help get you hired. Don't neglect this essential sales and marketing tool that can give you the edge in a competitive job market.

Answer 5 Tough Interview Questions without Fear and Trembling- Answering tough interview questions is no cakewalk. It’s war. Use these 5 amazing answers to the all time toughest interview questions and Sun-Tzu yourself to job interview victory.

Looking For a New Job? Prepare to Be Googled Interviewing for a new job? Think that the recruiter or hiring manager isn't Googling your name or visiting your Facebook profile? Employers no longer use just resumes and references to screen candidates.

7 Tips to Job Interview Utopia You’ve fired off that last resume when…EUREKA! The HR gods have scheduled an impromptu interview. These 7 tips will turn you from potential interview victim to job search victor!

Working with Your Recruiter Need a recruiter to get a job? The following advice will help you work best with these job placement specialists, become the desired candidate that receives the best job offers, and keep you off the HR do not call list.

Career Advice for Women

Competition Among Women How can women develop healthy business connections, and achieve abundance when the need for catfights and sabotage abound?

Do Nice Girls or Bitches Win in Business? Should You Play the Role of June Cleaver or Miranda Priestly to Win at Work?You want to own your slice of Aretha’s R-E-S-P-E-C-T pie at work. But you don’t know whether you should unleash your inner female dog or let your nice girl run free.

The Rich & Famous: Celebrity Careers

: Become a Celebrity Personal Assistant As a superhuman administrative dynamo, celebrity personal assistants make in upwards of $150,000 a year to manage all the details of a celebrity’s life and career. If you are obsessed with the details and enjoy the glamorous life then the life of a celebrity assistant might be your dream career.

Living Lohan Launches Ali's Celebrity Career: A classic story of a parent/manager launching their child’s career via television- I wanted to dismiss this show as a warmed over Jessica and Ashlee Simpson reality project ripped from the pages of the Joe Simpson MTV playbook.

Oprah Knows: Loose Lips Sink Ships Ever heard one of Oprah's former disgruntled employees mumble a negative word about the divine Miss O? Follow Ms. Winfrey's lead and learn how to protect your business trade secrets using employee confidentiality agreements.

Halle Berry Joke Gone Wrong "Oh God, Have I just ruined my career?" Halle Berry asked. Workplace comedians beware. Humor in the office can lighten the load in a serious environment, but it can be a disaster in the hands of an unfunny or newbie comedian.

Office Politics & Networking

Use Twitter to Grow Your Personal Brand

Twitter is a cost-free method to extend the reach of your personal brand beyond blogging, link building and article marketing. Launched in March of 2006, it is a online microblogging and social media platform where users submit short, 140 character messages, called tweets to a community of online users.

Shameless Self-Promotion Techniques: How to Be Aggressive & Unforgettable Without Being Obnoxious. Who is responsible for tooting your horn? You are. With these 5 golden self-promotion techniques any career wallflower can learn how to be aggressive and unforgettable without being obnoxious.

Tame the Gossip in You Got some juicy news about your colleague's mistress or information about your boss' salary? Keep this personal information to yourself my friend. You are entering the "Gossip Zone."

Dating at Work There’s nothing like an office romance to cause you to leap out of bed before the alarm clock rings. Dating at work helps the slow workday move faster when you’ve found a little office romance hidden under the cubicle. But is it worth the risk?

Google Me Baby: Online Marketing Beyond the Business Card While you are introducing yourself to a new sales lead , know that in the wee hours of the night or first thing the next business day your name will be typed into Google for a little covert net spying and prying.

Hiring, Firing, Quitting

6 Signs that You Are About to Lose Your Job

Afraid that you are about to lose your job? You are not alone. Amid talks of layoffs in many companies, employees all around the nation are gathering around the office water cooler to see who will be the next victim of job cuts.

Bill Gates’ Hire Intellect: How to Hire Great Employees

Nike says Bo knows baseball. Microsoft says Bill knows how to hire great employees. Before you read one resume, or even post a job description, think long and hard about how to hire great employees. Here are five hiring tips inspired by Bill Gates and the behemoth called Microsoft.

How to Find the Best Job for Your Personality With a solid 15 years in the career coaching game, I've learned 3 valuable tips that can help anyone find the best job for their personality.

Online Reputation Management for Job Seekers : 4 Ways to Kick Start Your Personal PR Strategy and Successfully Clean Up any Smudges in Your Online Reputation. If negative or false information about your name appears in the search engines, here are 4 steps to kick start your online reputation management strategy and successfully clean up your online reputation.

Survive a Vacation at Layoff Island Feel like Gilligan stranded on Layoff Island? As a result of corporate downsizing many candidates are now looking for a job. Bouncing back from a career crisis can force you to develop new skills and reposition you for a comeback.

The Genius Executive and The Dumb Assistant: a Fable

There was a genius executive who wanted to hire the best administrative assistant. No HR professional could satisfy her desire for administrative perfection.

Let’s Get Fired: End Your Employment with 5 Stupid Behaviors

Explore the behaviors of 5 workplace losers: the office drunkard, jester, brown noser, equipment abuser and credit thief. Follow their workplace behavior and you will get fired.

How to Change Careers: 7 Steps for a Smooth Career Transition

There comes a point in a woman's life when she needs a fresh start. Whether young or old, a new job can serve as a breath of fresh air for a progressive self-starter ready for a career change.

Fashion, Lifestyle & Family

Can I Dress Sexy at Work?

Depending on the career, dressing sexy at work can give you a competitive edge or ruin your chance to rise to the top.

Beautiful Hire: Are Good Looks a Hiring Advantage?

Beauty is in the eye of the employer... or so it seems. Are good looks really an advantage and necessary in today's competitive job search?

Can Women Have It All?

Fresh from an unexpected tour of Bed, Bath and Bedpan, I asked myself whether today’s modern woman can have it all and successfully attain the super heroine trifecta: 7 figure salaries, perfect families and slender figures; and most importantly should we?