Showing posts with label Life Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Tips. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Life Tips: Changing Jobs

Lifehacker brings us: How To Jump to a New Career. Nice little piece with great advice.

Get Rich Slowly: How to Quit Your Job Gracefully. I have changed jobs many times, so I am getting pretty good at this part.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Life Tips: Updating Your Resume

Just about everybody knows someone who is looking for a job, and a resume is an important part of the job search. Here are some pages with advice for your next resume update.

6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck is a good set of advice for anybody writing a resume. In the past, I have used many of these. Luckily, the site also has suggestions for replacement words and phrases.

The 7 Deadly Sins of Resume Design is mostly geared toward people who would do crazy crap with their resumes, but one sin that hit me was a font: "Times New Roman." Oops. I've probably used it for resumes before. Time to go font shopping....

How to Write a Resume That Will Land an Interview is a good list of tips that starts with remembering that the idea of a resume is to get you an interview. One other tip that struck me: Omit your mailing address.

I am not planning a job hunt, but I should still re-write my resume now while I have these tips and ideas in mind.