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3 Keys to Success in your First 30 Days at a New Job
At RedRocketResume we focus on resumes and LinkedIn profiles to help you land a job. But what about making a strong impression once you arrive at your new job? Learn the Top 3 tips for building a foundation of success.
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Using LinkedIn’s #opentowork Feature
LinkedIn’s new #opentowork feature is intended to support users in active job search mode. Here’s how to adapt the feature to your job search and capitalize on this opportunity to reach out to your network for job search support.
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Why Hire a Resume Writer?
Top 5 reasons working with a resume writer may be the best career move you can make.
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3 Reasons You Need a LinkedIn Profile
Not long ago, LinkedIn was a fun-but-optional networking tool. Today, LinkedIn is as crucial to your professional repertoire as a good pair of slacks. Whether you’re a social networking fiend or an inveterate techno-phobe, this is one bandwagon you’ve gotta hop on. Of...
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Changing Careers? Use These 5 Tips to Prep Your Resume for a Career Transition
With the economy and job market in flux, many professionals are looking to make a career transition. But how do you catch the attention of a hiring manager when your prior experience doesn’t exactly match your current job target? Angela from RedRocketResume walks you through 5 tips for prepping your resume to make a career switch.
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How to Conduct a Successful Job Search during the Coronavirus Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every area of life—including the job market. Despite the current economic slowdown, experts from career coaches to recruiters to HR professionals agree: Now is NOT the time to abandon your job search. Angela from RedRocketResume shares expert tips on how to navigate a successful job search during coronavirus.
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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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