Despite the fact that employers spend less than one minute reviewing your resume, it’s absolutely critical you perfect it. You don’t want a spelling or grammatical mistake be the reason your 60 seconds to impress gets cut short.
A recent PR Daily article, "12 dangerous resume mistakes," offers tips on how to ensure your resume makes it to the interview pile. Find out why objective statements are old-school and why listing your job duties won’t land you your dream job. Ask your mentor what he or she would add to the list. Weigh in with helpful tips you’ve received.
BONUS: The article also states that 70 to 80 percent of all resumes seen by human resource managers are “absolutely terrible.” Click here to see what they’re talking about.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
We're Live!
Yesterday marked the official start of the 2011-2012 Collegian Mentoring Program for Business staff and alumni.
Mentees: If you haven't taken the opportunity to reach out to your Mentor please make the effort to touch base this week. The success of the relationship with your Mentor depends largely on your initiative in order to achieve the goal(s) you want to work on during the program. Each of you submitted your resume to aid in matching. A great ice breaker is to send a copy to your Mentor so they can learn more about you.
Mentors: While Mentees will be proactive in connecting with you, please feel free to reach out to them if you prefer. We encourage during the first couple of conversations with your Mentee to create a schedule and discuss the goals and expectations of each other to start the program off on the right foot.
For Everyone: Should you have any questions, concerns, comments, complaints, suggestions, etc please do not hesitate to contact us at CollegianMentoring@gmail.com. Outside of this blog we are very hands off and won't help address any problems until you make us aware of one.
I'm very excited to hear some great mentoring stories over the next few months!
Greg
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