By David Luke If you have written or updated your resume within the past ten years, you probably arranged it in this order: White space border at the top (1.5 ") Name and address header (4/5 lines) Personal summary statement Skill set list Work Experience Education Affiliations References Well, there is a new lesson from hiring managers and recruiters about a new preferred order within the resume - and how to arrange your resume information on the real estate of the page. Recent research has revealed that on the first pass, the average resume is scanned or read between 15-30 seconds. In order to have an effective resume, we need to have the most relevant information near the top of the page so that it … [Read more...]
The Pursuit of Additional Income – Lessons from an Earlier Time
February 16, 2011 By
by Mac Byrd Back in the 80’s, my partner and I were employed full time – he was a regional VP a northeastern bank (this was before the massive bank mergers of the Nineties and Naughties) and I was a field marketing representative for a Fortune 500 chemical company. We lived in the prestigious New York suburb of Fairfield County Connecticut and enjoyed an interesting and prosperous life. With the sum of both of our salaries, we had a decent income and were able to live a pretty normal middle-class life. But, we wanted more. We wanted a bigger house and newer cars. We wanted to have the latest electronic gadgets and take bigger and more exotic vacations. We wanted a really great stereo system and to have bigger, more … [Read more...]
Whats Ahead for Our Job Training and Education
January 17, 2011 By
by Mac Byrd Corporations are no longer paying for training – they want functioning talent from day one. They are no longer willing to invest tens of thousands of dollars on the continuous advanced education of individual employees. Today, businesses are expecting candidates to already have that under their belt. From my own personal experience, DuPont used to have a nine-month training program for all newly recruited employees. Today, this is unheard of. Nine months sounds more like a gestation period than an employee training program. When was the last time you received even two weeks of formal training as you moved into a new position? Businesses will also no longer fund executive education consisting of advanced degrees. … [Read more...]
Nine (9) Job Trends Affecting Our Economy
January 12, 2011 By
by Mac Byrd Here is a question we often hear: When will the economy and the job market get back to normal? The experts have weighed in and here is the answer - Things will never get back to the way they were. That was then. This is now. It’s going to be different – very different - from now on. HR experts, staffing organizations, human capital gurus, talent management firms and recruiters overwhelmingly accept this fact – the economy and the job market will not get back to what they once were prior to 2007. So, what do we do with this information? We have two options – A, we can lament the past through a rearview mirror or B, we can embrace the future by looking ahead and finding the trends of what our lives will … [Read more...]
