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How veterans can prepare for a civilian career

How veterans can prepare for a civilian career

Armed Forces Day is Saturday, May 18, and many Americans will be celebrating and paying tribute to the men and women who serve the United States’ armed forces. For those who have completed their time serving, it may feel challenging to transition into a civilian job or a role outside of the military. However, there are ways to make the changeover go smoothly. Continue reading

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Job hunting after 50: Brand building and marketing

By Tony Lewis, Senior Recruiting Specialist, Insperity

My efforts to find a new career later in life led me to the career that I have now — one that I not only enjoy, but that makes a difference in the world. Continue reading

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Your 2013 job-search guide: April – June

Your New Year’s resolutions may have disappeared before you turned the calendar to February. But if your goals for the year included finding a job, there’s still plenty of time to make this resolution happen.

Earlier in January, we created Your 2013 Job-Search Guide, with a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of actions to take in your hunt for employment. Continue reading

By in Cover Letters, Find the job, Get the job, How to search, Networking, News and trends, Resume, Social media, Who's hiring

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5 ways to give your résumé a makeover

Fashion and what’s in style change over time—and so should your résumé. What may have been a trendy way to format five or 10 years ago could now be considered outdated. And with technology changing how jobs are found and applied for, being current is more crucial to your job search than ever. Continue reading

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3 ways to demonstrate your value in a job search

By Joshua Waldman, author of “Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies”

When I train career advisers and job seekers on the strategic approach to the online job search, I make sure to mention that a résumé is an obituary. Résumés do a great job telling people what you did. Continue reading

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Words that hurt: 10 overused terms to remove from your résumé

By Robert Half International 

There are certain résumé words and phrases that have become so ubiquitous they do little more than induce yawns and eye rolls from hiring managers. Employers are so accustomed to hearing from “team players” and “problem solvers,” for example, that those descriptions are now essentially meaningless. Continue reading

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