Artisan Blog

If you’re like me, you spent some time this weekend putting winter clothes away and checking to see if last year’s shorts still fit. Maybe you’re going through the things you put in the garage to deal with later or pulling out last year’s tomato plants. 

Spring is also a great time to refresh your resume, whether you are on a job search or not. Here are some housekeeping tips: Read more

We hope that you re-read your resume every time you send it out, especially since you should be tweaking and updating it often. But any time you make changes, you can also make mistakes.  Read more

When I began a complete overhaul of my resume not long ago, under the tutelage of a wonderful career coach, the first thing she taught me was to quantify everything possible.

Her first instruction for my resume rewrites was always to add numbers wherever we could: How many? How quickly? For how many people? Made of how many pieces? To raise how much? To sell how many?

But then she made us ask a question about every resume bullet point that seemed, at first, quite difficult to answer: Read more

It happens all the time.  

You hit "Send" and just as the button goes click you see it--a mistake.  It's so frustrating, but since it happens to all of us occasionally, even if we are careful proofreaders, it might help to know why we don't see errors on the first--or second--or even third reading. Read more

 

I used to think that a one page resume is always the goal. Fit it all on there, and if you can’t, cut something or use a smaller font. 

In the business world, however, there are times for a one page resume and times for a two pager.  Most recruiters generally like one better than the other, but since you don’t know who is reading your resume, here are a few general guidelines: Read more

In recent days, the internet has been a buzz about recruiters taking only 6 seconds to look at a resumes before deciding whether to toss it or read more.  Read more

 

A friend of mine recently heard that she had not landed a job because she is “overqualified.” She was gobsmacked!

What does that mean? How could that be a bad thing? She wanted to know, and I'm sure there are many out there wondering the same thing - "How can anyone be overqualified for an empty position?" Read more