Weekly Roundup: Five Steps To A Better Resume

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​How do you boil your career down into one or two concise, compelling pages? How can you craft the perfect resume? This is possibly the most confounding and tricky piece of the job search. HR or the hiring manager will likely judge your resume in seconds. Get it right and you may wind up on the top of the stack. Get it wrong and you will get nowhere. I found five great resources for resume tips and advice in a piece I did for AOL Jobs.

The Weekly Countdown: 5 Articles To Inspire All Job Seekers (Week 4)

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Check out five great pieces of career advice I found this week in Week 4 of a new column I am writing for AOL Jobs.

The Weekly Countdown: 5 Articles All Job Seekers Should Read (Week 3)

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Week 3 of a new column I am writing for AOL Jobs. Five awesome pieces of career advice I read this week.

The Weekly Countdown: 5 Articles All Job Seekers Should Read (Week 2)

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Here is week two of a new column I am writing for AOL Jobs. Five more awesome pieces of career advice I read this week.

How I Learned: Be Flexible, Adapt Or Die

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While I didn’t write the somewhat extreme headline, I did write the rest of the piece about learning to adapt and embrace change with confidence at AOL Jobs.

How I Learned: Working Well Under Pressure

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“Must work well under pressure” shows up on a lot of job descriptions, but how does one develop the skill to work under pressure? Washing dishes and breaking news taught me to handle pressure and I wrote about it here for AOL Jobs.

How I Learned: Positive Attitude Makes The Difference

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Positive energy is contagious. Catch it if you can! Here’s something I wrote for #JobsWeek at AOL Jobs. Check it out here.

The Weekly Countdown: 5 Articles All Job Seekers Should Read

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Five awesome pieces of career advice I read this week. Here’s something new I will be writing weekly for AOL Jobs. Check it out here

What’s New In What Color Is Your Parachute?

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Still Looking Good After 44 Years

Is the definitive book on job search still relevant in 2014? I wrote about Richard N. Bolles’ iconic book on job search and career change for AOL Jobs

Six Killer Newsletters To Power Your Job Search

For decades the go-to job search guide was Richard N. Bolles’ What Color is Your Parachute. Every job seeker and recent college grad had a copy. It’s packed full of information on networking, discovering what you’re good at, what you love to do and how to find your dream job. First published in 1970 and updated annually since 1975, Bolles’ book was often the only job search reference guide necessary.

Then, the internet happened.

Here’s something I wrote for AOL Jobs about awesome newsletters that deliver smart career advice  to your inbox daily.