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Navigating Job Search Advice: Friends vs. Experts
I founded Top Margin in 1990, so I have had a whopping three decades to observe job seekers repeatedly making the same blunders. I've seen how resumes have evolved but how the advice friends, family, and, ahem, some job search specialists provide to job-seekers hasn't...
How to write powerful accomplishments in Resumes: Using How, Why and Who
Have you ever copied and pasted your job description in your resume? If you did, you were probably in a hurry and you did it because it was: Easy. Already written. Typo-free! Fast. None of those are bad reasons. But here is why you shouldn't do it. Job descriptions...
How to find the best resume writer to sell your accomplishments
I'm a published book author, my resumes have either won or been nominated for 51 awards, and I've been a professional resume writer for more than three decades. So I'm qualified, right? Well, there aren't many people out there who fit that description, but.. the...
How to ensure your personality shines in your resume
When your resume is reviewed by an employer or decision-maker, the reader needs to be able to tell who you are from what they read. A resume is so much more than just a deadpan list of skills, facts, numbers and experience. Your resume needs to communicate the person...
Blog Revisit—Writing for the reader
Back in 2005, I wrote this piece, and it is as relevant today as it was then. Despite all that has changed, despite the fifteen years that have passed, despite our greater knowledge of the job search and the technologies underpinning it, people still find it almost...
You can overcome the frustration of the over 50 job hunt
The news article here below brought to light some of the frustrations of securing a role in a world where the meme "Ok Boomer" is said with such contempt not just for age, but for all a baby boomer seems to represent these days—inaction on climate change, economic...