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From New Grad to Established Pro: How Your Resume Changes after Graduation
Springtime graduation season is approaching, and many forthcoming grads will be hitting the job market. Angela from RedRocketResume outlines how to structure a new-grad resume—and the transformations your resume should take as you transition from new grad to established professional.
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Top 3 Interview Tips from Career Transition Strategists
RedRocketResume is pleased to partner with the career coaches at Job Seekers' Edge. Founding partners Kathryn and Mary have worked with professionals in virtually every industry to help them land better-fit jobs. They bring a compassionate, common-sense approach to...
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The 10-Second Listening Hack That Will Revolutionize Your Professional Communications
We have a running joke in my family about phone calls with my father-in-law. He’s an action-oriented engineer who has little tolerance for pointless small talk. So when you call, you better be ready to get to the point. The conversation might start pleasantly enough:...
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What You Need to Know about Submitting Job References
Job references are one of those mysterious elements of a job search that happen behind the HR curtain. Do they really contact my references? What do they ask? This month, I talked with HR professionals and career coaches to learn more about how references are handled...
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LinkedIn by the Numbers: How to Leverage LinkedIn Character Limits to Optimize Your Profile
LinkedIn has become an essential component of a well-managed career portfolio. A strong LinkedIn profile can do a lot for your professional brand: ⇨ Communicate your professional brand to prospective employers, who will definitely check you out on LinkedIn as part of...
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How to Ace a Phone or Web Interview
Your next job search will include phone or webcam interviews. But don’t let worries about managing video conference software add to your nerves over navigating an interview. Angela from RedRocketResume shares the top dos and don’ts from an interview coach for phone/web interview etiquette.
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The Simple 1-2-3 Formula for Writing Powerful, Accomplishments-driven Bullet Points for Your Resume
Strong bullet points are the star of most any professional resume. Here’s a 1-2-3 formula to help you engineer powerful, accomplishments-driven bullet points for your resume.
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The One Powerful Question that Can Give Your Life Balance and Direction
Here’s powerful Q&A process from a women’s health and wellness coach that will help you overcome overwhelm, rebalance your priorities, and find more energy and vitality.
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How to make the most of the 6 seconds recruiters spend looking at your LinkedIn profile
How long is 6 seconds? Let’s put it another way. The average GIF you find online is anywhere from 2 to 6 seconds long. So when a recruiter starts scanning your LinkedIn profile, you’ve got the timespan of a GIF or two to entice them. Here’s how to make every single millisecond count in your favor.
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How a Recruiter Reads a Resume (in 4 minutes, 37 seconds)
You submit a job application, your resume makes it past ATS, and it lands on the hiring manager’s desk.
Then what??
Here are the 5 steps every recruiter uses to quickly evaluate if a resume should be advanced to the interview phase.
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Striving for the Job You Want (and Deserve!)
RedRocketResume’s very own Abigail Marshall, a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), shares how Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can help answer critical questions about your career priorities. In 1943, psychologist Abraham...
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5 Steps to a World-Class Resume in 2019
Our goal at RedRocketResume isn’t to deliver resumes that look good. Our goal is to create resumes that work. That means resumes that give hiring managers the information they need to identify you as the person best qualified to solve their problems and make their...
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Give me the Broccoli: Using Personality Cues to Improve Professional Communication
The fact is that we’re all viewing the world from within a bubble of perceptions and preferences. Find out how to better understand personality cues to improve your professional communication.
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Professionally Written Resume to Apply for a Job
You’ve paid good money for a professionally written resume. It’s modern, clean, readable, and accomplishments-driven. It’s perfectly error-free, and it represents your unique professional brand. You’re ready to shoot that resume to the next good-fit job opening you...
read moreHow to Build a Federal Resume
There are about 3 million jobs within the federal government, from entry-level to advanced, in all functional areas. These jobs offer generous benefits, solid pay, and job security. Unfortunately, applying for a federal job is a...
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4 Steps to Make Your LinkedIn Summary Stand Out
The Summary section of your LinkedIn profile is highly keyword-optimized, which means it’s super influential in getting your profile in front of recruiters or other folks searching for people like you. And because it sits at the top of your profile page, it occupies...
read moreThe Easy Way to Take a Great LinkedIn Profile Pic
It’s a basic minimum requirement for most any professional to have a LinkedIn profile with a decent profile picture. LinkedIn research estimates that simply adding a picture makes your profile 14 times more likely to be viewed. Of course, allowing viewers to attach a...
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The Mental Hack Proven to Boost Your Professional and Personal Success
Each July, I share with you powerful mental hacks and mindset shifts that can power successful career development. We’ve explored how the happiness advantage can drive your career success, how to identify your personal brand, and how to be a better motivator by...
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How to Use LinkedIn to Connect with a Real Person When Applying for a Job
Most people know how to find jobs online and apply for the jobs they find. But one of the biggest frustrations I hear from job seekers is the difficulty of making sure your application reaches a real, live human being—and that that person will actually give your...
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Think Twice: 3 Ways Your First Idea May Be Undermining Your Career
Sometimes our first thought isn’t the brightest idea. As I work with professionals in every industry, at every career level, here are 3 pesky mistakes I see crop up again and again, strategies that at first glance seem like a smart move but that in reality can have...
read moreInsider Tips from the Job Yenta
One of the most maddening parts of career development and job search is the disconnect between the hiring side and the job seeker side. We send out resumes and hear crickets. We’re passed over for great-fit positions with no explanation why. We hear stories of...
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