What is the most successful way to get an interview? It is by having an inside source that can hand a resume directly to a hiring manager for review.

So what happens when you don’t have that inside source? You find yourself applying to job posting online which puts you in the mix of hundreds of resumes. This is where we want you to stand out at as a top 5% candidate. This is not the time for fancy gimmicks, crafty styles or graphics that catches the eye, this is all presence. A hiring manager should be able to glance at your resume while sorting through the stack and say “this candidate has their act together” and they put you in the short list for consideration.

When you have a stack of 200 resumes it is easy to be selective, you can tell who put in the time and energy for their career search vs. those that didn’t. It is a highly competitive job market right now, when you look at your resume do you feel you’re in the top 10 of 200? If not please contact us for a free evaluation.

A Thank You Letter does have its place in the hiring process and can change the outcome of a hiring decision. It is always best to send a Thank You Letter after an interview, to all parties involved especially in the case when compensation, location, position complexity or experience is in question. There is no better way to remove doubt from a hiring managers mind then to follow up with a letter thanking them for their time and reassuring them of any concerns they may have.

Mention the code FREETYL when working with a representative to receive this offer.

This applies to our Refresh, Early Career, Mid-Career and Executive Resume Services.

If you’re sending out dozens of resumes without receiving any calls back now is a great time to sign up for one of our resume services and receive the free cover letter at a value of $65!

Exciting Breaking News

EmploymentGuide.com in collaboration with AARP and WiserWorker.com is helping job seekers succeed in this challenging job market. These events will feature national and local employers. Helping Experience Work@50+ is a component of these career fairs that will provide job search assistance to older job seekers including tools and resources, career advisors and workshops that will address how to “rebrand” yourself at 50+, The Power of Promoting Yourself at 50+.

Job Fair History

Over 300 companies participated in the 5 Metro Detroit area events held throughout 2009. EmploymentGuide.com partnered with Fox 2 News to bring you free important job search information through job fair seminars, on the spot resume critiquing, dress for success guides and new behavior based interviewing techniques!Adding to the success of last years job fair series includes information from associations supporting the Metro Area.

Details of 2010 attending companies, important job search information, supporting seminars and associations will be listed as they unfold, so please check back often.  Check back everyday for new Breaking News.

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A representative from JMJ Phillip Executive Recruiters will be answering questions live from 8:30pm to 9:00pm eastern standard time.

 If you can explain what you do and have accomplished within one page that does say something about you. To many it says “communicates well, direct and to the point” while also indirectly taking into consideration the time a hiring manager spends reading resumes prior to a new hire. Short of senior level executives and those with long complicated academic accomplishments \ projects we try extremely hard to focus a resume down to one page. You are lucky if someone reads more than a 100 words total while reviewing your resume as very few read a resume word for word. Therefore, why not make it short with VERY high impact content?

 Now some will say “you cannot sum up what I do on one page!” Well certainly that can be true. But using our recruiting experience we see it from a different perspective. If you are a Controller or even a Network Administrator, for the most part recruiters and hiring managers know what you do as it’s no mystery. You can bet that they will read the Professional \ Executive Summary. This is something we dedicate a lot of time to as it is what really sells you, convincing someone to read more.  After that point it comes down to scanning a resume for a few key items: keywords, accomplishments, position title, to see if they think you’re a fit.

Now when do you use a two page resume? Naturally high level executive style CV’s will be more than one page as the people reviewing them will take more time to read them because there are fewer qualified people in the stack to bog them down. When you’re working with a retained  executive recruiter  like JMJ Phillip, a large company may only see five resumes as that entire search process is different than a company with an ad on Monster that may receive 200-300+ resumes for a position. Who has time to read that many 2-3 page resumes for a mid-level position?

Other instances where a two page resume is standard are for some tech resumes. We still prefer a one page resume to sell yourself and get the attention of a hiring manger  but you can also add a second page listing the technologies you have worked with in the past. Although, some prefer to keep this as an entirely separate document.

Then you have cases where someone had 8 jobs over 12 years doing many different things as Staff Accounting from 1998 to 2002 then worked as a Buyer from 2002 to 2003 and as a Account Manager from 2004…well, you get the point. In that case you just have to do a really strong professional summary and accomplishment presentation up top and push that resume out to two pages to cover the mixture of experience. Now in some cases we can get very creative and make a semi chrono-functional resume and make all that work in one page. But, it is very difficult and not something we recommend someone to try when doing it on their own.

The reason we say there is no right answer is because you can ask friends what they do and one person will say they have used nothing but 2 page resumes over their career as a Purchasing Manager and they always get hired and another friend will say they use a one page  resume for their entire career as a Java Programmer and had great success.  Our own preference is to write high quality, high impact resumes that are as long as they need to be, since in this economy the better you look on paper, the better chance you have of getting the interview.

 With a large pool of automotive and manufacturing workers being displaced we have decided to dedicate more time this year to assist  those in and out of work with their resumes, interviewing skills and job searching strategy.

 Our assistance will be on a first come first service basis with a limited amount of spots open for 2010 so check back with us to learn where and when we will be holding meetings as well as how you can work with us over the phone and email.

 For further questions you can reach us at mti@jmjphillip.com

The evaluation will be conducted  by a JMJ Phillip principal with more than 15 years in the Executive Recruiting Business.

A limit of 25 for the month of January 2010, 17 are still available as of January 9th.

To start the process, send your resume to resumesupport@employmentboost.com

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