Tailor your resume format to highlight your best experience and skills, says Maritza De La Cruz, a Senior Staff Recruiter for Combined Insurance. This may mean foregoing the usual chronological order.

As a new graduate or a professional changing careers or industries, the most difficult aspect of finding that new job is showing that you have the skills to perform without the experience that is ...

However, if you have a lot of experience and your internship doesn’t correlate to the job you’re applying for, leave it off. It could detract from your overall resume.

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Include keywords from the original job posting. One of the best ways to make your resume stand out is to use the job posting as a guide. Schweikert says that she often tells people that is the ...

2. This resume focuses on the skills, achievements, and qualifications that are most relevant to the job seeker's new career track. "While HR and sales may not seem like similar career tracks ...

COVID-19 has brought out resume writers in full force. Some lack hiring experience. Many know very little about the ATS. Others know nothing at all.

Titles and years of experience are no longer a person’s number-one currency.” Traditional resumes have four issues that can make it difficult to win a new job: 1. They Focus On Experience Over ...

Other HR leaders say a 'growth mindset' is key to success. The term "growth mindset" was coined by psychologist Carol Dweck to describe the belief that your talents can be developed.(The opposite ...