Unemployed as a result of the sinking economy, you find yourself suddenly transformed from a productive member of the workforce to a statistic. The loss of your livelihood engenders fears concerning your finances, diminishes your confidence, and ships your mind off on a tide of self-pity. While you are entitled to experience these normal reactions […]
Can a Professional Resume Guarantee a Job?
Along with fees paid for the preparation of professionally written resumes, serious job seekers invest their hopes for economic survival and career advancement. Can a professional resume actually guarantee one a job? No matter how experienced or principled a resume writing service, it cannot, in all honesty, guarantee that its clients will secure employment. The […]
Addressing Gaps in Your Employment History
When confronting gaps in your employment history in an interview, don’t make the mistake that private investigator Pat Healey did in the film, “There’s Something About Mary.”  Healy, paid to locate a beautiful girl from his client’s past, commits the ultimate faux pas of falling head over heels in love with her. Because Mary is […]
Funeral Director/Mortician Resumes
The multi-faceted roles of morticians, alternately called funeral directors or undertakers, are undeniably demanding. In addition to the State licensure that is required to serve in this position, undertakers must effectively plan and organize complex logistical concerns in scheduling locations, dates, and times of viewings, memorial services, and interments or cremations. Furthermore, funeral directors must […]
A Professional Resume: Is It Worth the Price?
Beating the bushes of gainful employment to no avail, many job hopefuls turn, in wisdom and desperation, to professional resume writers. The insightful questions, golden phrases, and writing samples offered by the writers speak of professionalism as well as genuine hope to those dispossessed of their jobs. Yet, when presented with the fee for a […]
Job Hunting Tip: Use the Summer Season to Leverage Your Employment Opportunities
Summertime and the living is easy; that is, unless you happen to be unemployed and searching for a job. In that case, you are tortured and your level of anxiety grows daily. In job hunting and recruiting circles, it has long been axiomatic that the periods between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day and between Memorial […]