Career Literacy is one of the pillars of Financial Literacy. Focus on value creation and take an outcome-oriented approach to your career.
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Your Job Interview – Your Biggest Fans are in the Room
Every time I’ve ever interviewed a candidate for our company, the minutes before I step into the interview room have always been preceded by emotions of anxious anticipation, excitement and hope. By the time I’ve gotten to the interview stage with a candidate, I’ve done sufficient due diligence to give me reasonable cause for hope. Hope that this is the last interview. Hope that I can stop reviewing resumes, stop doing due diligence, and stop
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The benefit of “Cold” Job Applications
As I mentioned in a previous piece, employers who place job ads typically receive hundreds of resumes. Thus, if you only apply to posted jobs,
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Your Resume Part 5 – A Counter-Example
The major struggle of the Fintelligence project is getting in front of educators and asking them to allow me to volunteer my time to speak
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Your Resume Part 4 – Things that waste space
I don’t know how “one-page rule” for resumes ever became a thing. The (conventional?) thinking seems to be that if your resume is too long,
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Your Resume Part 3 – Outcomes Matter
If I only have 15 to 30 seconds to scan your resume to see if I want to read further, the first thing I’m going
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Your Resume Part 2 – SEO Your Resume
I own a small online marketing company. Our mission is to help our customers WIN in online local search. That is, we use SEO (Search
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Your Resume Part 1 – Assume the Reader is Lazy
People (like me) are lazy. When we were busy running (sprinting?) our company, there were so many times when we thought “it would be great